Middle Eastern Law Student Association present
Professor John MearsheimerGreater Israel’s Bleak Future
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
3650 Humanities, UW-Madison
7:00-9:00 PM
University of Chicago Political Science Professor John Mearsheimer is the author of numerous books and articles, including most famously, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy with Stephen Walt. His latest book, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics, is set for release in early 2011.
Mearsheimer argues that there is not going to be a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and instead Israel will control of all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, it already does. He maintains that Greater Israel, as former Israeli prime ministers Ehud Barack and Ehud Olmert have argued, will be an apartheid state.
However, Mearsheimer says that it will be impossible for Israel to maintain itself over the long term as an apartheid state, because apartheid is antithetical to mainstream Western values as well as core Jewish values. In the long run, Greater Israel will become a democratic bi-national state dominated by its Palestinian citizens, who will outnumber the Jews in the entirety of the land.
Co-Sponsors Include: The Havens Center, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, National Lawyers Guild of UW-Madison, Rainbow Book Store Co-Operative, and Young Americans for Liberty.
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