Wednesday, January 10, 7:00 PM EDT

Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury on the Gaza War, Short & Long Term Diplomatic Imperatives, Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics

Sponsored by Who We Are – Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security (cpdcs.org)

While the massacres of October 7 must be absolutely condemned, in no way do they justify the Israeli devastation of Gaza. The civilian death toll there is approaching 20,000 innocent lives, with hundreds of thousands more at risk from lack of water, food and shelter. 85% of all Gazans have been displaced with estimates of a third to a half of all homes in Gaza having been destroyed.

What must be done to end the war? To prevent escalation to a still more catastrophic regional war? To begin the difficult diplomacy to ensure that the rights, dignity and security of both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples? To create U.S. policies that defuse rather than exacerbate militarism, divisions and tensions across the Middle East? To restore essential services and begin reconstruction for more than two million people?

Join our panel discussion with three extraordinarily experienced and well informed Middle East scholars who have long been devoted to creating a just Israeli-Palestinian and Middle East peace.

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine and is currently Co-Convener of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth.)

Irene L. Gendzier, Professor Emerita at Boston University, Dept. of History and Political Science, and member of the African Studies Center.

Assaf Kfoury is a Lebanese-Palestinian mathematician and professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University and a long-time associate of Noam Chomsky.

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