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'A Land for All': Historian discusses Israel-Hamas conflict
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On Monday evening, Lane Leckman looked at an exhibit about the Israel-Hamas war inside the University of New Mexico’s anthropology building hallway.
“It’s an excellent exhibition (that) points out good details like ecocide,” Leckman said. Ecocide is the destruction of the environment.
Leckman said he is “very distressed with what is happening in Gaza and Lebanon,” including the ecocide that is taking place.
“It’s horrible,” he said.
Leckman was one of hundreds to attend Omer Bartov’s lecture, “Speaking of Genocide: The Holocaust, Israel-Palestine, and the War in Gaza since October 7” in the anthropology building’s lecture room, where there was standing room only.
Leckman said he came to listen to what Bartov, a Brown University professor and Holocaust historian, had to say about what was going on in a war that has claimed thousands of lives.
The Associated Press reported that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has taken the lives of more than 41,500 Palestinians and wounded more than 96,000 others. citing figures released on Thursday by the Hamas-run Health Ministry. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants, but the AP report said more than half the dead have been women and children.
What is needed is an agreement calling for a cease-fire and the release of hostages, Bartov said.
While it seems impossible now, one long-term solution between the Israelis and Palestinians would be to incorporate the philosophy of “A Land for All,” which is a movement consisting of people of both sides who believe the way toward peace, security and stability for all passes through two independent states, Israel and Palestine. This would allow both sides to live together and apart, according to the A Land for All website.
This would allow for the “freedom of movement” in both states, Bartov said.
