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Featuring Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Isaac Ben-Israel, Kassem Jaafar, and Anthony Cordesman
2008 Weinberg Founders Conference
Isaac Ben-Israel, Kassem Jaafar, and Anthony Cordesman addressed The Washington Institute's 2008 Weinberg Founders Conference to explore the potential implications of various strategies of prevention and deterrence against the Iranian nuclear threat, including the costs and chances of success for each.
Isaac Ben-Israel, a retired major general in the Israel Defense Forces, is a member of the Knesset representing the Kadima Party. A physicist by training and former chairman of the Israel Space Agency, he has also served as director of research and development for the Ministry of Defense.
Kassem Jaafar is a Britain-based analysit and advisor on strategic and diplomatic affairs for the Policy Exchange of London and the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, and has been a diplomatic advisor to the government of Qatar. Previously, he worked as a Middle East and defense correspondent with the BBC, and as defense and diplomatic editor for the London-based al-Hayat newspaper and its sister weekly, al-Wasat.
Anthony Cordesman is the Arleigh A. Burke chair in strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a national security analyst for ABC News. A former national security assistant to Sen. John McCain and director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he is the author of numerous works, including Iraq's Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict (2007), Lessons of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah War (2007), and Iran's Military Forces and Warfighting Capabilities: The Threat in the Northern Gulf (2007).
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