When President Obama arrives in Israel on the first leg
of his Middle East trip on March 20, he will face a region that is increasingly unstable.
Iran is dangerously close to developing nuclear weapons. Syria remains engulfed in a
bloody civil war. Israeli-Palestinian peace talks remain comatose. Egypt’s new Islamist
regime has sought to monopolize power in the face of growing opposition. And AlQaeda, though scattered, has exploited the power vacuums generated by the Arab Spring
political upheavals to find new sanctuaries and expand its own power. To learn more and
RSVP, please visit http://www.heritage.org/events/2013/03/president-in-middle-east.