Prospects for relations between the Western & Islamic Worlds’ by Stewart Eldon*CMG OBE Ambassador & Permanent Representative UKDEL NATO BRUSSELS 3rd June, 2009

Tuesday 26th May For years, the notion embodied in the phrase 'premised land' has been thrown around by supporters of the State of Israel to justify the takeover of Palestine by Zionist settlers. Biblical exegesis, anthropological evidence and theological scholarship have combined to challenge in the first place the claim of a certain piece of land within 'Canaan' being promised to the ancient Israelite tribes. Muslehuddin Ahmad has long puzzled over the various implications of the entire 'promised land' of what all three Abrahamic faiths consider the Holy Land. The author, Muslehuddin Ahmad while serving as a diplomat for his homeland, Bangladesh came to know intimately some contemporary aspects of the conflict in Palestine. He will discuss these and the notion of the Promised Land which has displaced millions of Palestinians and created a tragedy of immense proportion's that still haunts humanity today.

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