Alastair Crooke
speaker
913 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Alastair Crooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
who also want to see, if you like, a greater Israel, and that a greater Israel should come about by force of arms.
It should just simply forcefully take the territory, and by that means establish redemption and a Messiah's return.
So these two have come together in a strange alliance.
I mean, the Israeli army keeps saying, you know, we don't quite know how we're in alliance with a messianic element,
But that's the reality of what it is.
And in this way, of course, therefore, Hezbollah is a threat that they see must be eliminated at root and not allowed to exist in near proximity to the northern towns or those towns that lie south of the border and extend down into the Galilee.
And so when Iran produced this first equation, a sort of loose equation, no ceasefire for all or no ceasefire, which was supposed to include Lebanon and supposed to include the Palestinians as well.
And that had been agreed that was in...
when was it, the 6th, 8th of April ceasefire agreement, and was established, and the mediators all said, yes, this is part of the agreement.
But now the Israelis are saying, we can't allow this to stand.
We cannot have the idea that if we take action in Lebanon...
to secure our northern towns, which are half empty.
The inhabitants have largely fled.
If we can't secure our towns, then we must break the link that Iran, unfortunately, this is the Israeli perspective, Iran has linked
events in Lebanon to the main, if you like, relationship between Iran and the United States and the prospect of a deal or not.
And they don't want that linkage to take place.
So when Netanyahu was told by Trump
Look, you know, you can't bomb Beirut.
He didn't say you can't bomb Lebanon, but he said you can't stop it, turn back, you know, send them back.
When that happened...
Showing 41–60 of 913 · page 3 of 46
← Previous
Next →