This is an excerpt from the Levantine Cultural Center event entitled "Israel, Palestine, Lebanon: A Levantine Conversation on the Future of the Region," which took place on October 28, 2009. The program encouraged intellectual discussion surrounding the history and present political landscape in which Palestinians, Israelis and Lebanese find themselves. It also looked into the context of the nation-state, "peace," "war," "justice" and other such terms often bandied about in the mainstream media. In a progressive yet playful spirit, professors Dr. Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Chapman University, and Gabriel Piterberg, who was taught at the University of Durham, England, Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and St. Anthony's and Balliol Colleges, Oxford, examined the region and discussed these often controversial topics.