{"id":1478,"date":"2018-07-23T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2018-07-31T15:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:45:02","slug":"capitol-hill-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Hill Seminar | &#8216;The potential of American recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The &#8216;Coalition for the Israeli Golan&#8217; and &#8216;EMET &#8211; Endowment for Middle East Truth&#8217; held a staffers Seminar in congress regarding: &#8216;The potential of American recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights&#8217;.<\/h2>\n<p>The event was attended by: Sarah Stern, founder and president of EMET; Zvi Hauser, Chairman of the Coalition for the Israeli Golan; Dr. Ofir Haivry, Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Michael Doran, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1481 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123434-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123434-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123434-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123434-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123434.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Participants received a detailed briefing regards the Israeli-American interests in recognizing Israel&#8217;s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as well as an overview of what the current situation in the Middle East. The panel addressed the changing Middle East and discussed the need of a rethinking process in US foreign policy to the region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1480\" src=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_121041-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_121041-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_121041-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_121041-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_121041.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1482 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123556-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123556-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123556-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegolan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180723_123556.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the event, participants received a policy paper and\u00a0 special update memo, both were written by the specialists of the &#8216;Coalition for the Israeli Golan&#8217;. The second part of the seminar was devoted to the questions and a fruitful discussion was held between\u00a0participants and the members of the panel on practical steps that could be taken in Congress to promote recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Watch\u00a0Michael Doran &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHngQM8SYHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Watch Ofir Haivry &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKD1H5hyhmM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Watch the Q&amp;A &gt;&gt;<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bGM7QEIkpgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Coalition for the Israeli Golan&#8217; and &#8216;EMET &#8211; Endowment for Middle East Truth&#8217; held a staffers Seminar in congress regarding: &#8216;The potential of American &#8230; <a title=\"Capitol Hill Seminar | &#8216;The potential of American recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/?p=1478\"><br \/>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-developments_en","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}