Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show.
Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’
The political scientists Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss Israel’s continued expansion into the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.
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Congrats! I was glad to be able to listen to you & @stelhami.bsky.social on @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social's podcast. While everyone in Mid-East studies & Political Science knew about you & your work, I imagine a much wider audience does now as well. Thanks also for the book recommendations!
Israel’s Road to Nowhere - on my new article on the failure of Israel’s post October 7 regional strategy, plus our podcast with Ezra.
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"Hundreds of members of the Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian people fell victim to these repressive policies and were buried in mass graves, many of which remain undiscovered to this day, stated the parties."
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"Current pLEO constellations have already demonstrated their usefulness to warfighting. The Starlink constellation has enabled Ukraine—a nation with no space-based assets of its own—to use on-orbit capabilities for a wide range of tasks." -Jake Alleman
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“This project is about more than preserving history — it’s about helping people understand why the Cold War still matters today,” said Christian Ostermann, executive director of the National Cold War Center."
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"Waleed Zuaiter will play Saddam Hussein in High Value Target, the series adaptation of John Nixon's nonfiction book Debriefing the President." @variety.com
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"Every April, Kurdish leaders publicly mourn the victims of the Anfal genocide. Yet, behind closed doors, Erbil has become a sanctuary for the very figures who orchestrated or cheered on Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime." @theamargi.bsky.social
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"In other words, Iran has already destroyed or damaged more US aircraft in the span of a month than Saddam Hussein’s forces could in all of 2003, or the insurgent groups in the decades that followed." @petersuciu.bsky.social
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“With passage of time, more than a year after coming to power, the Syrian authorities have gained increasing access to structures, witnesses, actors, documents, & it is expected that they can start proposing to the Secretariat specific elements to declare."
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"The French diplomat Talleyrand noted, when the Bourbon dynasty returned to power after the revolutionary wars, that the French royal family had 'learned nothing & forgotten nothing'. Exactly the same can be said of the US & its allies...."
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To avoid repeating the mistakes it made in Iraq in the 1990s, the United States “should offer Iran a path to diplomatic and economic normalization in exchange for compliance with a clear set of demands,” argue Daniel Chardell and @samuelhelfont.bsky.social.
I am happy to have written this piece of applied history with Daniel Chardell on what we can learn from the Gulf War ceasefire about today’s war with Iran. www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-cea...
✨ 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 — 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟖
Join us for an afternoon of poetry with 𝐇𝐚𝐣𝐣𝐚𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧, 𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫.
She will present, 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢: 𝙉𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙄𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙆𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨.
📅 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟖
🕛 𝟏𝟐 𝐏𝐌 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 / 𝟏 𝐏𝐌 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧
🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫:
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"They stood firm against Hussein, so why should they yield to Trump? The late Iraqi dictator & the American president have resorted to almost identical threats." -David Blair @telegraph.co.uk
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"Iraq eventually provided arms & finances, enabling the KDP-I to take over some territory & hold it for months,but internal fighting & the brutal campaign Tehran launched through its Revolutionary Guards managed to suppress the rebellion." @ibrahimpasha.bsky.social
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"The unheeded lesson of that war is that Iran is a dangerous foe when cornered." -Greg Wallance @thehill.com
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Issue 3 of the Red Sea Futures Brief covers week 6 of the Iran War. My contributions were highlighting @wsj.com reporting on US bases & @samuelhelfont.bsky.social's recent piece on sea vs. naval power & current US deficits.
A Deadline That Could Change Everything
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Missed our recent lecture with Alp Eren Topal?
The full recording of “The Limits of Modern Islamic Political Thought: The Radical Ideas of Hoca Mehmed Sadik Efendi” — moderated by Mucahit Bilici — is now live.
Watch the full lecture here 👇
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"Since the 2003 American invasion and the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Iraq has not enjoyed the kind of extended period of stability that might allow the state to move beyond the turmoil that has plagued it since that moment." @jadaliyya.bsky.social
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"The cruelty of the worn-out logic of piling misery onto people’s lives – through bombs, sanctions & assassinations – in the hope of forcing them to topple their government is evident. It did not work for Saddam Hussein; it will not work for Trump & Netanyahu."
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I am honored to be part of this new weekly project with Ethan Chorin and several others for Red Sea Futures. The Iran war has understandably been at the forefront of the first two reports.
The Toll Booth and The Trigger
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A regional war is now reshaping global energy markets. The system behind it is starting to show its limits.
Thanks, Michael!
"He does not speak Arabic, but clearly understands the enormity of what could happen for Iraq if they can qualify for their first World Cup since 1986." @espn.com
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"Sığırcıkoğlu is a Turkish officer accused of delivering two defected Syrian officers to the former regime, Harmoush & Mustafa Qassem, & was sentenced to 20 years in prison."
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