WARS & INTIFADAS

A synopsis for Lockdown lecture, Monday 22 July

1. Intro and recap

2. The Early Years

3. The 6 Day War and The Yom Kippur War

4. The First Intifada and Oslo Accord

5. The Second Intifada

6. Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and rise of Hezbollah

7. Conflict with Lebanon and Hezbollah

8. Gaza and Hamas - conflict continues with little resolution in sight

We shall look at these events, and others, largely from the viewpoint of Israel as a besieged nation.

For Western countries, the rise of Islamic extremism and terrorism across Europe and the geopolitical importance of Iran, increasingly means that the conflict in The Middle East is very much our problem too.

Just three main books I shall refer to:

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Martin Bunton in the Oxford Short Introduction series

The World in Conflict by John Andrews pp 50-72

Histories of Nations ed by Peter Furtado pp 249-257