The issues that Dr. Leahy covered in her talk today started with the Oslo Accords and their roots for the issue of Palestine. Following the background of this, she gave her talk mostly concerning rule of law in relation to Palestine given its importance to the region and this showed us the relation to the US to the United States. The United States as she talked about is a massive supported or even some could say a puppet of Israel. No matter how peace talks come about in through our hand we will inevitably support the Isreali’s because of there massive influence here.
Some have called the Palestinian Crisis a key to peace in the middle east. noting that the issue has been a point of contention for many extremist groups and even states in the form of Iran. So if we were to find a solution to the issue of Palestine then it would be the harbinger of the peace in the region.
Dr. Leahy gave us an overview of Israel’s actions within Palestine and their propensity to break international laws, some of them being the overreaction in Lebanon or Gaza, where there was a quote from someone saying it was “an eye for an eyelash”. Which does well to summarize the actions of Isreal. All in all, I do agree with what she had to say given the sheer lack of room to argue against the actions of Isreal and the United States because of the number of facts pertaining to the issue. So yeah good talk, much appreciated.
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