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No war in living memory has stirred up such anger, fear and loathing as the long-running Israel–Palestine conflict, and peace in the region has never seemed further away. The 7th October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel had far-reaching and potentially devastating consequences for the Middle East and for the world. As the war has expanded to take in other players in the area, the future of Israel as a regional superpower is now in doubt and the chances of all-out war between Israel and its neighbours is becoming a reality.
This talk explains the background to the Hamas–Israel war and asks whether the international system can contain two simultaneous wars in Europe and the Levant. It examines the wars that preceded this one, the rise of Hamas and the roles Hezbollah, Iran and Syria play in the conflict. Paul Moorcraft considers the war’s impact on Israeli society, the economy and the Israel Defense Forces, while also looking at how media and propaganda shape our view of the war and how the conflict affects the whole region’s relationships with the West.
Paul Moorcraft brings all perspectives together in an expert and balanced analysis, examining the potential outcomes of the war and arguing that the two-state solution should be revived. Peace has never looked more impossible – but the alternative, a forever war, is even more impossible.
Professor Paul Moorcraft has written over fifty books on security issues. He was previously a senior instructor at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and later at the Defence Academy. He also worked for the Ministry of Defence both in Whitehall and in the field in the Middle East. Besides teaching full-time at ten major international universities, he has also worked as a war correspondent in thirty war zones. He is a frequent broadcaster on defence issues for the BBC and was formerly a regular pundit for Sky News Arabia.
Dr Moorcraft has lived on both the Gazan and the Lebanese borders and in the Arab quarter of Old Jerusalem when he was a student. Unusually, he worked alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan and accompanied them in close combat during the Russian occupation. He has covered many of the major events in the Middle East, from the siege of Jenin in 2002 – when he was smuggled into the refugee camp by the Palestine Liberation Organization – to joining George Galloway on his secret visit to Baghdad on the eve of the war against Saddam Hussein in 2002, before returning to Iraq to record the British occupation in Basra.
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