Tanya Reinhart

We went to another lecture last night at Sydney University. This was in the same series as the lecture given by Bjorn Lomborg and was by an Isreali linguistics professor called Tanya Reinhart. She was speaking in her identity as an Isreali rather than a linguistics professor; she also writes for the "Yediot Aharonot" newspaper in Israel and has written two books on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

Her latest book has just been published and is called "The roadmap to nowhere". I would like to read it but forgot to buy a copy. This is just as well as I should concentrate on reading the books I have already.

The basic theory of Professor Reinhart is that Isreal is actively pursuing a strategy to drive the Palestinians out of Israel, basically by destroying their economy and way of life. She claims that this is being undertaken by a military elite, without support from the Isreali public. I'm not very good at explaining things and this lady is famous enough to have her own wikipedia page so if you're interested in her theories I suggest you read more about it here.

The audience were mainly students from the University, and as such as pro-Tanya as they were all anti-Bjorn. This meant that the questions tended to be lacking in content. It would have been more interesting to see her debate with someone with opposing views.