Alastair Crooke

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The Chris Hedges Report · Why the Iran War Won’t End Soon (w/ Alastair Crooke) | TCHR · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

more and more mixed and we have

The if you like, the potential black swan.

flying.

And I do think we need to

Take it seriously.

uh which is that um the far right in Israel, uh by I hate the word far right, but the messianic right shall we say more correctly, Ben V Ben Gevir, Smartridge, but particularly Ben Gvere.

is saying that they would like to see a crisis in the West Bank, a big crisis, perhaps on Temple Mount.

abs in uh a a war in uh i in the West Bank.

Um they want to have the crisis that will fall will force an exodus of Palestinians from the West Bank and it will help win the election for them.

It's about the elections, but it's also

A double motive.

um to uh to provoke uh uh if you like another forty eight type situation with Palestinians fleeing for their lives um from the West Bank.

So they are preparing it, isn't they're making no secret of it.

The election is going to be an existential election.

This is due to take place in October.

And it's not clear what's going to happen and it's not clear that it will not end up in a in in violence um i in Israel because the two sides are really at loggerheads at at the moment.

And the the future of Netanyahu is by no means certain.

But to to set far to the West Bank.

At this time the

has been a a longstanding aim.

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