The West Bank and Gaza: Security Considerations

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Moderator
Will Elias, WBGC, Tufts University

Panelists:

Geographic & Territorial Security Imperatives
Boaz E. Wachtel
Assistant Army Attache at the Defense and Armed Forces Section of the Embassy of Israel, Washington D.C.

Security Implications of a Palestinian State
Professor Mark Heller
Associate Director, The Jaffe Center of Strategic Studies, The Tel-Aviv University; author, A Palestinian State: The Implications for Israeli; editor The Military Balance in the Middle East; Visiting Scholar, The Peace Studies Program, Cornell University

Israeli Occupation Strategy-Compellance or Deterrence?
Dr. Afif Safieh
Visiting Scholar, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Former deputy-representative, PLO UN Observer, Geneva(1976-1981); Researcher at the Center for European Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium; co-author of Self-Determination, published by Al-Fajr

Prospects for a Palestinian Non-violent Movement in the West Bank and Gaza
Thomas Smerling
Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow, Middle East Program, The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington D.C.

The Impact of Occupation on the Israel Defense Forces
Professor Yoram Peri
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University; Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; former political adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and European representative of the Israeli Labour Party; editorial writer for Davar; author: Between Bullets and Ballots, Israeli Civil-Military Relations; co-author of The Military-Industrial Complex in Israel-A Pilot Study

Discussant:

Nubar Hovsepian
Executive Director, The American Middle East Peace Research Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts