Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins

of the Arab/Israeli Conflict

Where
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.338.1290
Map
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When
Jun 05 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

"Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict"
with

John Judis
Author and Journalist

Thursday, 5 June 2014

12:30 - 2:00 p.m. EST
The Palestine Center
There has been more than half a century of raging conflict between Jews and Arabs - a violent, costly
struggle that has had catastrophic repercussions in a critical region of the world. John Judis's Genesis
reveals the fatal flaw in American policy, which can be traced back to the Truman years. What happened
between 1945 and 1949 sealed the fate of the Middle East for the remainder of the century. As a result,
understanding that period holds the key to explaining almost everything that follows - right down to George
W. Bushs unsuccessful and ill-conceived effort to win peace through holding elections among the
Palestinians, and Barack Obamas failed attempt to bring both parties to the negotiating table.
John Judis will offer a fresh look at these critical postwar years, arguing that if we can understand how this
stalemate originated, we will be better positioned to help end it.

John B. Judis is an American journalist. Born in Chicago he attended Amherst College and received B.A.
and M.A. degrees in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a senior editor at The
New Republic and a contributing editor to The American Prospect.A founding editor of Socialist Revolution
(now Socialist Review) in 1969 and of the East Bay Voice in the 1970s, Judis started reporting from
Washington in 1982, when he became a founding editor and Washington correspondent for In These Times,
a democratic-socialist weekly magazine. He has also written for GQ, Foreign Affairs, Mother Jones, The New
York Times Magazine, and The Washington Post.
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