Alastair Crooke
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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.
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It's not going to do that.
Actually, you're going from one defeat to another to a bigger defeat.
And that we have to take stock and think again of where we go.
Well, what some of the military people in Israel are saying is
This is clearly a last gasp by the government there to present, if you like, a victory before they have to concede that they will join the ceasefire in due course, that this was a show of force, even though it was
completely ineffective show of force in military terms.
This was just simply destroying residential power blocks, many of them, many of them.
And it was of no purpose other than for, you know, the political grandees to say, oh, no, look what we've done.
We've got freedom of action in Lebanon.
We can go where we want and destroy what we want.
Well, maybe we will agree to join the ceasefire if Trump pushes us hard enough to do that.
But it has no purpose.
And the idea, no, it is actually, they are going to, I think, completely withdraw.
Except that they say, and this is what the defense minister is insisting, they have to demolish all the houses.
for a depth of seven kilometers into Lebanon.
Platinum.
They have to be like Gaza.
I mean, they don't hesitate to say it's got to be like Gaza.
And that's going to be a buffer zone.
And the military say, what is the point of that?
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