TBE: Gaza and the Hundred Years War

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A talk by Prof. Victor Lieberman

This talk will set the current Gaza war against the background of a century of Palestinian-Jewish competition. It will examine three frequently heard critiques of Israel, namely that Israel is an illegitimate imposition on the Arab world, that Palestinian hostility responds primarily to Israeli oppression, and that Israel routinely flouts international norms. This talk will then dissect those critiques and explain why, despite their historical inaccuracy, they remain deeply rooted among sectors of Western opinion and throughout much of Asia and Africa. Finally, it will consider what the future of Arab-Israeli relations may look like.

Victor Lieberman is the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan. After graduating first in his class from Yale University, he received his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. The leading journal of history described his most recent prize-winning book as “the most important work of history produced so far this century.”  In 2014 he won the Golden Apple Award as best teacher at the University of Michigan, where he teaches a large course on the Arab-Israeli conflict.