This week on the Lectures and History podcast from the 1967 Six-Day War to the 1973 Yom Kippur War and the 2023-Hum-Kippur War, and the 23-Humaz conflict.

The United States has played a central role in efforts to end hostilities and negotiate peace in the Middle East.

Trinity College professor James Stoker examines the history of American diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli peace process.

More after this.

All right, class.

So today we are going to be talking about the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict from

1967 to 1976.

And I thought I'd open today's class by talking about some events that are going on today,

which you can see here in these pictures.

Does anyone recognize what this is?

It says Peace 2025. What might that be? Megan?

The events that happened over the weekend with the Middle East Peace Conference in Egypt.

Okay. That's right. So just over the last week, a ceasefire has been reached.

And what is actually the longest running Arab-Israeli conflict of all time, like over two years of war in the Gaza Strip,

and they've just now reached a ceasefire, which was brokered, of course, with American mediation

and the involvement of a lot of other different actors.

People feel a lot of different ways about this.

Most observers are very excited to see that there will finally be peace in the region

and a conflict that killed so many people, at least for the time being, we'll see how long it lasts.

Others felt that the same result could have been reached much earlier. But what most people are not

asking about the situation is something that maybe seems pretty obvious

when you look at the pictures.

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