To talk about Ariel Sharon’s life and legacy:
Rashid
Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia
University, author of a number of books, including Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East and, just reissued, Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War.
Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist and
author, Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he’s taught for more than 50 years. His 1983 book, The Fateful Triangle, is known as one of the definitive works on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Avi
Shlaim, an Emeritus Professor of International Studies at Oxford
University, the author of Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations.
He served in the Israeli army in the mid-'60s and is widely regarded as
one of the world's leading scholars on the Israeli-Arab conflict.