Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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It's not just their brutality towards people within Iran, of course, but they have engaged in imperialist campaigns in Syria, most notably, but also in Iraq.
And in Lebanon, it's like a different kind of thing, but there is that...
that component of it as well, that hasn't contributed to make them like a better opponent of the Israelis or the Americans.
If anything, it's made them weaker.
One of the many problems, but I think the biggest one now is that this is, and this is completely regardless of the ethics of the Iranian regime, which I've opposed for several years as well.
This has nothing to do with supporting them or excusing their actions or anything like that.
But just understanding why the Israelis are acting, specifically the Israelis are acting the way they have been acting for years now.
There is this tendency, I mean, if you go on The Guardian, for example, now you see like crisis in the Middle East and then you can click on it and then just go back years and years and years.
as though it's the same thing.
It's just this place that has crises and you expect that this will happen.
But as I think people know a bit better now with the global component of it, this also has a global ramification.
Even the technologies that are being pioneered, if you want, by the Israelis and also by the Americans to some extent in places like Gaza, then get exported elsewhere.
Palantir AI is now going to be a core component of the US military.
These are things that are like, because that's what I mean by like Lebanon is deceptively small.
It's like it's not important geopolitically for the most part.
But because that is the case, and of course Gaza as well, then it allows, it has allowed the Israelis to get away with a lot of things.
So maybe this is, I don't know, a cliche or I don't know, it's a meaningless thing to repeat, but the problem really goes back to impunity.
The problem really goes back to the fact that nothing the Israelis have ever done, at least in the past several decades,
has had any consequences to them, to what they do, to the region and so on.
And this is absolutely a bipartisan problem in America.
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