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Sami Hamdi has been at the fore of the conversation about how Muslims should respond to the unparalleled attack upon Gaza. The brutality with which the Israelis now act with impunity is clear for the majority of the world to see, but the West remains immune to its crimes. That’s partly because the West does not and cannot see Israel as anything but a benevolent project in a region that requires a Western presence. A colony. An imperial parasite whose crimes are erased by those funding its campaign of annihilation. Israel is not, as the conventional wisdom suggests, out of control. It is a project of the West. The West is Israel and Israel is the West. The two are symbiotically linked. Their destiny is one.
This past week, we have seen the latest escalation, the systematic use of communications pagers and walk-in talkies to kill and maim indiscriminately across Lebanon and parts of Syria. The response in much of the Western press has been to praise the action as creative and daring. But what lay behind this escalation, what is Israel’s game plan, and where do the Muslim rulers now sit, almost a year after this act of mass murder?
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0:00 – Introduction
2:20 – Why did Israel do this?
10:25 – Netanyahu’s calculation with Iran
15:14 – Role of the US in this crisis
19:47 – US involvement
22:07 – Iranian restraint
28:05 – How do we view what happened
31:38 – Was Syria US inspired?
38:00 – Did Iran help the Syrians?
46:09 – Saudi Arabia and Normalisation
53:19 – Erdoğan and Türkiye
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