“The future starts yesterday. If you don’t know the past, you are bound to repeat the mistakes of the past.”
This was how H.E. Ephraim Ben Matityau, the Israel Ambassador to the Philippines, began his lecture “Root Origins of the Middle East Conflict - Challenges and Hopes, Looking into the root origins of the Middle East Conflict since its inception in the early 20th Century” on April 22, 2016 at the Ateneo Law School in Makati City.
The conflict, or what Matityau referred to as the “Muddle East” is entrenched in issues on citizenship, subject, freedom, independence, and human rights. What is important, he stressed, is to not judge the past but learn from it.
The Academic Lecture Series was organized by the Embassy of Israel in Manila in cooperation with the Ateneo Law School.
