Can Peace ever be Achieved?

The final lecture in the present series asks this profound, and to some, unanswerable question

a. 7 December 1941. Why?

b. A changed World

c. Difficulties in reaching the goal of peace

d. Consequences of failing to reach this goal

2. The Road to Peace over last 20 years

a. The Road Map of 2003

b. Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Rise of Hamas 2005/6

c. Annapolis Peace Conference 2007

d. 'One Palestine' divides 2007

3. The War

a. 7/10/2

b. Invasion of Gaza

c. How can/will it end?

4. Peace Settlement?

a. Emergence of further threats to Israel: Hezbollah and Iran

b. The Two Nation solutions and its flaws

c. The One Nation solution and its flaws

d. Consequences of failure - too awful to contemplate?

Principal Sources referred to in preparation of this lecture

The Israel Palestine Conflict Salvatore

Gaza and Israel ed. J Stern-Weiner

Palestinians and Israelis M. Scott-Baumann

Gaza J-P Filiu

Enemies and Neighbours Ian Black

Geopolitics Today Dan Power

The Brink of War Dexter Filkins (New Yorker 29/7/24)

War Unbound Oona Hathaway (Foreign Affairs

May/June 24)

Israel Alone The Economist 23/3/24

Can Chaos be turned into a Cataclysm? The Economist 22/6/24

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