The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition: Revisiting 1967

Friday, February 24, 2012
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Bunche Hall - Room 1209B

Free and open to the public.

Contact
Near Eastern Studies-Von Grunebaum Center
(310) 825-1181
hpetro@international.ucla.edu

A lecture by Ilan Pappé, University of Exeter
The talk will focus on Israeli policy before and after the June 1967 war. Two theses will be argued by revisiting the 1967 events: first, Israeli policies of 1967 can only be understood within the context of the overall Israeli strategy in 1948 and after. This… Show more means that the war of 1967 was a direct continuation of the 1948 Nakbah and not a separate event. The second argument will be that Israeli strategy, including the device of what was later named as the "peace process," was already formulated in 1967 and has not changed since that year and even until today. This strategy, it will be argued in the talk, is the main obstacle to peace in Israel and Palestine.

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