Lebanon, Israel and The Question of Palestine
About this Event
The Jerusalem Fund invites you to a public discussion on Israel's genocidal war waged on Palestine and Lebanon. The discussion will be led by Ambassador Massoud Maalouf (former Lebanese ambassador to Canada, Poland, and Chile), and Dr. Edmund Ghareeb (a Senior Scholar at the Palestine Center). Said Arikat, a member of the Palestine Center Committee, will moderate the conversation and audience Q & A.
We will ground the discussion in Edward Said's The Question of Palestine, the unfinished political question of a people whose land, history, rights, and voice have been repeatedly pushed aside by the language of security, diplomacy, and "crisis management". Palestine is treated again and again as an issue to contain. The result has been continued dispossession without resolution, ceasefires without peace, and a regional “order” that keeps returning to war.
Lebanon has never been separate from this history. Since 1948, Palestinian refugees, camps, political organizing, armed resistance, Israeli invasions, and regional diplomacy have made Lebanon one of the central arenas in the Palestinian struggle. The 1978 and 1982 Israeli invasions, the siege of Beirut, the expulsion of the PLO leadership, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Israel’s occupation of south Lebanon until 2000, the 2006 war, the current northern front, and Israel’s war with Iran all show how closely the histories of Palestine and Lebanon are tied.
This discussion will examine the present crisis in light of that longer history. What are useful frameworks to analyze Israel’s agressions in Lebanon? What roles have U.S. diplomacy and military support played? How have Resolution 1701, the Blue Line, UNIFIL, and "ceasefire" arrangements shaped current realities? Why does Lebanon remain so central to the history and question of Palestine? And what happens when the Palestinian question is treated as a regional security problem instead of a question of justice and right to return?
Ambassador Maalouf will bring a Lebanese diplomatic perspective to questions of sovereignty, ceasefire diplomacy, Hizbullah, Iran, Israeli military escalation, and U.S. backed negotiations. Dr. Ghareeb will connect the discussion to the longer history of Palestine, Israel, Arab politics, Iran, U.S. policy, and media narratives.
The event will be followed by audience Q&A.
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