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 that.

It goes to the heart of Israeli thinking.

and it goes also to, if you like, the very essence of this new thinking.

And this new thinking is increasingly under criticism.

And Netanyahu is in something of a crisis because the present polls show he's not likely to win elections as things stand.

He still hasn't got a pardon arranged by Trump.

The Likud is sort of fragmenting.

But the most important thing is that the army is disintegrating.

The head of the chief of staff went to the cabinet and said, I want to put up 10 red lights to you.

the IDF is in the point of implosion.

It just won't go on.

It cannot go on.

We are fighting these forever wars across the Middle East, and we haven't the people and we haven't the resources.

And the army is also falling apart because of poor discipline and a lack of morality.

And so there's a real structural problem.

And people are saying there are some voices.

I won't say there are a large number, but some people are saying, look, there's no alternative.

We need to go back to the Ben-Gurion original doctrine.

We can't go on pretending we're a sort of great power able to wield military force across the whole Middle East and across Iran as well.

I would actually put it more specifically that I'm not sure that Netanyahu will be able to remain in power if he does not continue to attack Lebanon.

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