PUBLIC LECTURE

’The Eagle has not landed’

Public Lecture: The Eagle has not landed: the failure of the Middle East Peace process, Ilan Pappe
When: 19 August, 5-6.30pm

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Lecture - Ilan Pappe

About Ilan Pappe

Prominent Israeli commentator and academic, Ilan Pappe, is to visit Australia in August.  Shattering the myths of Israel‘s short history, Ilan Pappe has played a key role in rethinking Israel‘s future. In 1998 Edward Said described Pappe as nothing short of ‘iconoclastic and brilliant’.

Pappe comes to Australia at a turning point. Supported by the US and Australian Governments, Israel is building a concrete wall of exclusion across Palestine. The wall stands condemned by the World Court, and by all but six countries in the United Nations. For Pappe, the 1948 creation of Israel dispossessed Palestinians, and today, this Nakba, or Castastrophe, is continuing. What now are the possibilities now for peace, and for justice?

Ilan Pappe addresses these issues at several public meetings in Sydney and Canberra, between the 17th and 19th August. Pappe will speak in Sydney, on the ‘Peace Process’, and in Canberra, on the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations. He will also attend a Sydney conference, at the University of Technology, comparing colonial legacies in Israel and Australia, and will deliver a public lecture at
the Australian National University.

Dr Ilan Pappe is the author of The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1951 (New York, 1992), The Israel/Palestine Question (London, 1999) and A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (London, 2004).