In a conversation with Fox News, Javed Ali, professor at the Ford School, offered insights on Israel's current military strategy. Ali stated, "Now that we're almost a full month into the resumption of high-intensity IDF operations in the Gaza Strip...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, analyzed the situation in Gaza saying, “The only thing that brings back the ceasefire is Hamas relents and at least releases some of the hostages they still have in their possession or Trump, through (Middle East...
Javed Ali, Ford School Professor and former NSC Director for Counterterrorism, says "we will just have to wait and see how things play out" with Israel and Hamas interpreting the evolving situation and watch "how both sides stick to the terms of the...
"Now the really hard part is going to start with the implementation of phase one" of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas says Javed Ali, Ford School professor and Former National Security Council Senior Director for...
In an interview with ABC, Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked about why the last minute crisis with the Israel Hamas ceasefire should not be concerning. He said, "I am not that concerned that the deal somehow is going to fall apart because so...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, says that making a deal with Hamas and then making sure they don't strike Israel, "that's just going to be something that Israel is going to have to focus more on, from an intelligence perspective, to make sure...
Ford School Professor, Javed Ali talks about Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s international arrest warrants and the possibility of a ceasefire deal and the negations in Lebanon. He says for the most part the "arrest warrants are mostly...
“Hamas has got the war they wanted.” That assessment came from Middle East scholar Hussein Ibish, who believes there has been a fundamental shift in the war between Israel and Hamas over the past year: from a more conventional airstrike campaign...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, said, "Unfortunately I don't think the development in southern Lebanon is going to affect the peace talks" said Ali talking about the journalist killed. He said there have been since October 7th 2023 there have been...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC News about the death of Yahya Sinwar leader of Hamas. He said, "the issues with the hostages needs to be resolved in addition to the broader war and the fate of the Palestinians in Gaza." He said...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, said on the death of Hamas leader Sinwar, "that even with Sinwar's death and the significance of that, Hamas as an organization, still intact, they are on their back foot." He said with terror groups such as this...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with Fox news about the possible death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. He said "If the reports are true" and Israel "killed Yahya Sinwar, this would be a major development." Ali explained that Sinwar was "the...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked about how the situation in Israel appears one year after the beginning of this war. He said, "here we are on the eve of the one year anniversary of Hamas attack against Israel a year ago and I don't think...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor and former and former senior official at the National Intelligence Council, National Counterterrorism Center, and National Security Council, rapidly respond to the shifting situations in the Middle East this week....
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked about the most recent operation by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza, "multiple things competing for IDF [Israel Defense Force] attention each time they go in." He said it would not surprise him if "that a few...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, commented on the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar and his roles within the organization. He said "looking at Sinwar as a person and examining where he came from," he has served many roles and "by all acounts he is...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked about the new ceasefire talks in the Middle East, and the possibility of progress without Hamas attending the talks. Ali said "the United States is truing to exert a lot of diplomatic power to get to the end...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with CBS news about the possibility of an all-out war in the Middle East. Ali said "this has been building for months," however it "has been restrained for several months." But in light of the recent events,...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, talked with ABC Australia about the assassinations carried out by Israel, he said "The targeted killings of Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this week do not represent a new methodology for Israel...
Javed Ali, Ford School professor, described the significance of the recent strikes in the middle east following the death of one of Hamas's leaders, Fuad Shuku. Ali said, "the region is already so volatile, as we've seen, even outside the...
“Rather than a single terrorist attack, this was a complex operation that involved commando teams and rocket attacks against multiple targets. The fact that Israel appears to have lacked advance warning is surprising, given Israel’s excellence in...
In an article for The Conversation, Ford School professor John Ciorciari described how the events unfolding in Israel and Palestine will likely deepen the struggle for influence in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran. “The long-standing...
Ford School experts have been commenting on the Hamas attacks on Israel:
John Ciorciari is a professor of public policy at the Ford School of Public Policy whose research focuses on international law and politics in the Global South.
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Policy Talks @ the Ford School,
Conversations Across Differences
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
In the year since the Hamas attack on Israel, the deadly conflict has widened into crises beyond Gaza -- in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen. Two experts with long experience in Middle East policymaking return to the Ford School for a substantive policy conversation about the conflict and the broader implications for the region, and the ways in which U.S. policy and policymakers are acting and reacting to the crises. This event is open to Ford School students, faculty, and staff, and will be streamed live and on-demand.
Hussein Ibish and Aaron David Miller have a substantive policy conversation about the violence across the Middle East, its broader implications, and the ways in which U.S. policy and policymakers are acting and reacting to the crisis.
