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The call of Hamas for à third intifada is "mostly semantics," according to Asaf Romirowsky, an adjunct scholar at the Foundation for Defense for Democracies and the Middle East Forum.
"We're already there," Romirowsky said. "It's already the status quo."
Hamas' kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenage boys is just one indication that the terrorists are already well into a third uprising, according to Romirowsky, who has spent decades immersed in Middle East policy and who will be speaking at Congregation Poale Zedeck on Thursday, July 17 on "Israel and the Changing Dynamics in the Middle East." The evening is co-sponsored by Poale Zedeck and AIPAC.
Given the fluidity of the current political situation in the Jewish state, the topic of Romirowsky's upcoming talk "was left broad enough to discuss things on the spot," he told The Chronicle in a phone interview prior to his arrival in Pittsburgh.
But he intends to focus on the latest events in and affecting Israel, including the rise of ISIS and the threats posed by Iran, Islamic...