Israel’s war on Gaza, which extended to Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen, sent shockwaves across the Middle East and beyond. Donald Trump’s proposed plan to evacuate and take control of the Gaza Strip while pressuring Egypt and Jordan to receive two million Palestinians could severely undermine prospects for peace, setting a dangerous precedent.

Join Yazid Sayigh and Menachem Klein for an insightful discussion on the trajectory of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The event will be chaired by Dr Carmen Fulco, Lecturer in Middle East Studies Education, Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

The event will take place in Bush House Lecture Theatre 2, BH(S)4.04.

SPEAKERS

Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he works on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of authoritarian resurgence. Dr Sayigh was also an adviser, negotiator, and policy planner in the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks with Israel 1991-2002 and advised on Palestinian public institutional reform until 2006.

Menachem Klein is an Emeritus Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and was a team member of the Geneva Initiative Negotiations in 2003. He advised both the Israeli government and the Israeli delegation for peace talks with the PLO (2000). Dr Klein is also a fellow at Oxford University and a visiting professor at MIT and King’s College London. He is the author of The Shift: Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict and Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Yaffa and Hebron.