Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and a prize-winning columnist for The New York Post and The Jerusalem Post, will present a lecture, "The Palestinian-Israeli War" on Monday, January 27, at 8 p.m., in the Chapel at Hamilton College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Pipes describes his lecture as follows: "It is not a 'cycle of violence' but a war, with all that that implies. I point out the war goals of each side and argue that since the Oslo disaster ended, Israel has turned things around and is now winning. I analyze what was wrong with the Oslo process and draw a number of conclusions from today's predicament. I note that the U.S. government needs to change its basic assumptions about the nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict."
Pipes received his A.B. (1971) and Ph.D. (1978) from Harvard University. He spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and Defense, including vice chairman of the Fulbright Board of Foreign Scholarships. Pipes serves on the "Special Task Force on Terrorism and Technology" at the Department of Defense.
Pipes has written 11 books, including Islam: Militant Islam Reaches America (2002), which is available on reserve at Burke Library's circulation desk, The Rushdie Affair (1990), Syria Beyond the Peace Process (1996), Damascus Courts the West (1991), and Greater Syria (1990).
He has published in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Commentary, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, National Review, New Republic, and The Weekly Standard and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
Pipes is a frequent guest on such programs as ABC World News, CBS Reports, Crossfire, Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, O'Reilly Factor, and The Today Show. He has lectured in 25 countries. The Wall Street Journal has called him "an authoritative commentator on the Middle East," while MSNBC describes him as one of the best-known "Mideast policy luminaries."
The Middle East Forum (http://www.meforum.org), an independent 501(c)3 organization founded in 1994, promotes American interests through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education.
This lecture is sponsored by the Chaplaincy, Hillel, Objectivist Club, the Levitt Center, Dean of Faculty and Government department.
