Palestine and Israel: Can there be Justice and Peace in the Middle East?

This video is of a debate that was held at San Francisco State University on April 23rd, 2009.

The debate was hosted by Students Against War, a student group at SFSU, and the SFSU Middle Eastern Studies Dept.



Dr. Jess Ghannam- an accomplished Palestinian-American doctor and professor who is active in numerous non-governmental organizations and in carrying out humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza Strip. He is a clinical professor and the Chief of Medical Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, and also practices at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Ghannam received his A.B. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1979, before going on to earn an M.A. in Psychology, an M.S. in Medical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Psychology at Stanford University in California. Ghannam is also an Adjunct Professor of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.

Since the early 1990s, Ghannam has worked extensively in the field of medical development in the occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He is a board member of the Gaza Community Health Clinic, and has established medical clinics in towns and cities across the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, Khan Younis, Jabalia and Deir el-Balah.

Ghannam is also the former president of the San Francisco chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and a member of the international executive committee of Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right to Return Coalition. He is also the co-host of "Arab Talk with Jess and Jamal", a San Francisco Bay Area radio talk-show about Middle Eastern Affairs with fellow Palestinian-American commentator Jamal Dajani.



Dr. Uri Bar-Joseph- a visiting professor in the Israeli Studies department at San Francisco State University from Haifa University, Israel. He is a "fourth generation Israeli" and an expert on Israeli Intelligence and Security.

He is the author of 'The Best of Enemies: Israel and Transjordan in the War of 1948', 'Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The United States, Israel, and Britain', and 'The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources'.

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[steute2011]

This gentleman speaking for the Israel position gives me great hope, as he says he believes in the two-state solution, based on the 1967 borders with mutual land swaps and the removal of settlements. If only the right wing government in Israel thought this way, it would be over.

[LampPlaceThing]

0:56:20 "irrespective of their religion, irrespective of their ethnicity, irrespective of those issues." .....bloody secularist. Religion is a MAJOR part of this conflict. Get your secular ass out of that area. Quran mentions about jewish ethnic cleansing and I might add that the old testament speaks to more than just Jews in the international community.

0:56:30 "that one people are special, more special than other people, that doesn't work, the Israeli project says we are special" .........

[LampPlaceThing]

@prsnjonathan People hate pro-israelis It's just the way it is man : ( So your comment received too many negative votes.

[formula8888]

@123Palestinian lmao...

[prsnjonathan]

...typical palestinian propaganda

[oceanbound222]

Zionism is evil

[dizzaxter]

Lets go Israel!!!!!