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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The IDF saying to their leaders, say, what is the point of that?
Because actually, the Hezbollah's missiles, most of them are north of the Litani.
The Litani is the river that divides Lebanon.
It's about, I can't remember how many kilometers, but it's about the third of the way up of Lebanon.
And he says, they can still fire from north of Litani into northern Israel.
And they're causing huge damage and huge losses.
In one day, I mean, the idea of lost nearly 800 Makova tanks, main battle tanks.
Now, they did an ambush.
And they've done it on other days.
And other days, they've lost 80, maybe 50 in another day.
It's like 2006 in Lebanon when I was there, and they did the same thing that
Merkava there.
And, you know, of course, I mean, actually, I think a few of the lead tanks that could get out, but most of them, they don't get out.
So there are big casualties taking place.
I mean, the thing is a mess, a disaster.
And this is why I think that ultimately the demand for
That's a real ceasefire.
It's mostly going to come not from Trump and those associates around him that are close to Israel, but may come from Israel itself because they've experienced huge damage.
And what is the point of this?
I mean, they cannot make a political gain from the system.
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