A synopsis for Lockdown lecture, Monday 22 July
Intro and recap
The Early Years
The 6 Day War and The Yom Kippur War
The First Intifada and Oslo Accord
The Second Intifada
Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and rise of Hezbollah
Conflict with Lebanon and Hezbollah
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
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