New View with Dr. Ian Lustick on Palestine / Israel

Dr. Ian Lustick (bio below) is our guest presenter in this New View with Diane Perlman and Alanna Hartzok. Ian has a lifelong commitment to engagement, involvement and analysis of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His latest book on the topic is Paradigm Lost – From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. After a long-time commitment to the two-state solution he came to see that it had been intentionally undermined. Dr. Lustick went into depth about the origins of Hamas and how Israel had supported Hamas in order to oppose the Palestinian Liberation Organization and thus impede the implementation of the two-state solution which would have given the Palestinians their own state. He also told us about heightened tensions and emotions on the University of Pennsylvania campus occurring because of the current horrific conflict and how this led to the recent resignation of the college president.
Dr. Ian S. Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches Middle Eastern politics, comparative politics, and computer modeling. He is a recipient of awards from the Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Sciences Research Council. He is a past president of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Israel Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Among his books are Arabs in the Jewish State (1980); For the Land and the Lord (1988, 1994); Unsettled States, Disputed Lands (1993); Trapped in the War on Terror (2006). His most recent book is Paradigm Lost – From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (2019).
Diane Perlman PhD is a political psychologist, the US Convener for Transcend International and Editorialist for Transcend Media Service. She created a deck of cards of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which evolved into Living Rights: Making Human Rights Come Alive Activity Book and Journal. She is co-author of Reconciliation with Joanna Santa Barbara and Johan Galtung and has a chapter in The Psychology of Terrorism. Her websites: https://www.consciouspolitics.org, https://coronawise.substack.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-perlman-4a1b699/
Alanna Hartzok is an earth rights visionary, twice US Congressional Candidate (Democrat and Green Parties), and author of The Earth Belongs to Everyone (Radical Middle Book Award). She was instrumental in the passage of tax reform legislation in Pennsylvania that gave the 1000 boroughs of the state the option to shift property taxes in the direction of a “commons rent” public finance system. She has given lectures and seminars in 38 countries and is an NGO (Non-Gov Org) Consultant for United Nations ECOSOC. https://alannahartzok.substack.com and here: https://theiu.org