Michael Oren, Gaza Lecture Part 6

Michael Oren: The Gaza Crisis from an Historical and Personal Perspective

A lecture given by the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University's Michael Oren in Gaston Hall at Georgetown University on January 28th, 2009

Michael B. Oren is a professor in the Program of Jewish Civilization in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Specializing in the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East, he also comments on Middle Eastern affairs for CBS.

Dr. Oren is the author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and The Making of the Modern Middle East, published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. His most recent book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present, was eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and won a National Council of the Humanities History Book Award.

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[LadyJoyGasm]

Israel seems like the bad guy? Noooo - he's quite obviously anti-palitinian.

[tonylee1973]

It is very difficult to understand this conflict. It seems that both sides have suffered. Right now it seems Israel is the "bad guy" but then one thinks about a pizzeria in 2000 where a palastinain blew himself up to kill women and children. that we certainly have angered me.