Middle East: Is there a path to peace?

  • Café des idées

With the Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme

The French-Israelis Eva Illouz and Ofer Bronchtein attempt to define what the steps and conditions for peace in the Middle East could be.

Le Masque et la Plume, France Inter, Café des idées, Cloître Saint-Louis, 2023 © Alexandre Quentin / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

The hope sparked a little over thirty years ago by the Oslo Accords seems to have vanished, and the ‘two-state solution’, Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace within ‘secure and recognized’ borders, has never seemed more distant. After the horrors committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, and the uncontrolled brutality shown in response by the most right-wing government in the young state’s history, the future appears grim.

French-Israelis Eva Illouz and Ofer Bronchtein are, each in their own way, firmly committed to the cause of peace. Does a path toward it still exist, despite everything? Are there still reasons to hope? We will ask them to try to outline what the steps and conditions for peace in the Middle East might be.

Distribution

With Eva Illouz sociologue, Ofer Bronchtein president of the International Forum for Peace

Hosted by Alain Blum, member of the Executive Bureau of the Licra and Abraham Bengio president of the Culture Commission of the Licra

In partnership with Licra

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