The Middle East and World Politics
in the Aftermath of Israel’s War against Lebanon

Monday, Oct. 2, 6:30 pm

speaker: Peter Hudis
co-editor, The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (Monthly Review Press, 2004)

The aftermath of Israel’s murderous war against Lebanon has not only transformed the Middle East but also world politics. Israel’s defeat in Lebanon has put the final nail in the coffin of Bush’s illusion that he could remake the Middle East by taking down Saddam Hussein’s hated regime in Iraq. Yet the crisis facing us today is told in the fact that even when U.S. and Israeli imperialism suffers a major defeat, it still is no cause for celebration since thoroughly reactionary forces are being empowered by it, like Lebanon's Hezbollah and its sponsor, Iran.

The battle between capitalism-imperialism and capitalism- fundamentalism leaves little room for independent thought, as many on the Left line up to support the latter in opposing the former. Is there a way out of this predicament? Discuss these and other issues at a forum on the world after the Lebanon war.

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