Alastair Crooke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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The other thing that I think is clear is the growing crisis inside Israel.
and the questioning because you know when people are saying just to underline it when senior defense and security officials in israel are saying you know israel is in a trap
I mean, we are getting involved in these forever wars.
We're getting bogged down in Lebanon, in Gaza, in Syria, and we'd like to get bogged down in Iran.
And, you know, we don't have the means to get out of it.
We are in a trap of our own making.
And that the only thing we can do is to go back to the wisdom of Ben-Gurion, who said, you know, Israel should stay within its own borders because it wasn't big enough to take on the whole of the Middle East.
And these people, I mean, are beginning to say, and this is what is really important, they're saying...
You know, maybe we have to have a root and branch consideration of what is Zionism and what we mean by that today.
We cannot just go on simply, you know, expanding and...
and increasing and taking territory by force, which then we're obliged to hold by force and hold by force of arms, of our military.
We can't just go on in this.
We are overextended.
The chief of defense staff told the cabinet reportedly in the Hebrew press that
that to do what we're doing now would take us to have six or seven IDFs besides the one we already have.
We'd need that many more men to make our present commitments even feasible.
Now, I'm not trying to suggest this is imminent, something is happening, but I'm just saying that is another possibility of unexpected affairs taking place because the Israelis have been very disappointed.
that the whole grand plan for Iran has completely failed.
It's a strategic failure.
I mean, they won't say that in public in an English language program, but they're saying that in the Hebrew press, that this has been a complete strategic failure, which is correct.
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