Students Debate Volatile Situation In Gaza

A group of 150 students, faculty and guest panelists gathered in the Stamp Student Union's Atrium to discuss the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

By Jon Banister, The Diamondback.

Tensions were high at Wednesday’s forum on the war in Gaza when experts on both sides of the conflict weighed in but were soon overshadowed by passionate students with direct ties to the war.

The crowd of roughly 150 people was composed almost equally of students and adults in the Atrium in Stamp Student Union. The discussion began with an overview of the facts of the war and historical context by moderator and panelist Yoram Peri, director of the university’s Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies and former advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

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