{"id":251819,"date":"2024-01-08T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251819"},"modified":"2024-01-06T06:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T06:58:39","slug":"gaza-webinar-is-israel-cornered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/gaza-webinar-is-israel-cornered\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2 Jan 2024<\/em> &#8211; Israel, despite a transparent genocidal onslaught in Gaza that has gone on for more than three months, may find itself cornered: unable to prevail, unable to accept defeat. What then?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>T<\/strong><strong>he Gaza War, Short &amp; Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists <\/strong><strong>Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Discussing:\u00a0What must be done to end the war? To prevent escalation to a still more catastrophic regional war? To begin the difficult diplomacy to ensure the rights, dignity, and security of both the Palestinian and Israeli peoples? To create U.S. policies that defuse rather than exacerbate militarism, divisions, and tensions across the Middle East?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsored by:\u00a0<\/strong>Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Richard Falk<\/strong>\u00a0is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Irene L. Gendzier\u00a0<\/strong>isProfessor Emerita at Boston University, Dept. of History and Political Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Assaf Kfoury<\/strong> is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To register, click:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_3bx1nQUoQrGAV__F9ZqEkw#\/registration\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_3bx1nQUoQrGAV__F9ZqEkw#\/registration<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>__________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richard-falk.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-241678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/richard-falk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Richard Falk is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><strong><em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0<em>(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War<em>\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament<em>\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political &amp; Ethical Imperative<em>, ed. with Victor Faessel &amp; Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance<em>\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time<em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order<em>\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons<em> (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds<em>\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0<em>(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim<em>\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018<strong>the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/richardfalk.org\/2024\/01\/02\/gaza-webinar-is-israel-cornered\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern:\u00a0The Gaza War, Short &#038; Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":241678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1559,1854,101,100,2898,1199,87,865,1643,1029,1049,1644,88,2416,715,427,1218,880,99,124,70,965,481,1025,886],"class_list":["post-251819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-collective-punishment","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-inhuman-punishment","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-south-africa","tag-state-terrorism","tag-structural-violence","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-warfare","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251820,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251819\/revisions\/251820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}