TALK: Dismantling the Settlements: Road Map
to Peace?
Yossi Klein Halevi (Israel Correspondent for The
New Republic)
Wednesday, November 9 / 8:00 PM / Free
Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla
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As proven by Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from
Gaza, a new centrist majority has emerged in Israel
that is ready for far-reaching territorial concessions.
But are the Palestinians and the Arab world generally
ready to offer real peace in return? Most Israelis,
including many on the left, now doubt whether the Palestinian
leadership will accept a Jewish state in any borders.
Does that pessimism signal the end of prospects for
peace? Or is Israel preparing for an additional uniltateral
withdrawal on the West Bank?
Jossi Klein Halevi, contributing editor and Israel correspondent
of The New Republic, worked as a senior writer
for The Jerusalem Report from 1990 until 2002.
He is the author of At the Entrance to the Garden
of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians
and Muslims in the Holy Land and the critically
acclaimed book, Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist,
which chronicles his teenage years as a right-wing Zionist
militant and his eventual repudiation of extremism.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed
Symposia in Jewish Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures,
Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai
B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara
and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored
by American Students for Israel.
For assistance in accommodating a disability, please
call 893-2317.
