Gary O'Donoghue
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1,144 appearances
20 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
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So he doesn't mind sort of really getting stuck into that kind of religious rhetoric and taking on religious figures.
Israel has always seen this war or seemed to see this war as about its existence.
This is an existential threat that it's talked about for a long time in the region and has wanted help from the Americans to have this threat dealt with over years.
And, of course, Donald Trump has talked about Iran repeatedly over the years, but stopped short in his first term of taking that action.
He's crossed that line, if you like, with the attacks last year and now again.
This war this year, but we are starting to see, I think, some differences.
And in particular, we're starting to see some differences over the kinds of targets that are being chosen.
And this extraordinary post that the president made in the last few hours where he's drawn attention to the targeting of a gas field by Israel, an Iranian gas field.
He says the Americans knew nothing about this strike and he said it won't happen again.
And I think that's where you're starting to see some of the differences between what the Americans want and what Israel wants out of this conflict.
But the president is also, I think, indicating here that he wants to maintain control over the nature of this war and its direction because he has his own domestic concerns, particularly about things like the price of gasoline, which has risen hugely.
He's also facing some criticisms from part of his own support base over this war, who never wanted a conflict with Iran in the first place.
So the pressures on him are also from home, as well as from the international community.
I think you'll see a huge attempt, public attempt, to remain in some kind of lockstep over their war aims.
America is Israel's most important partner, of course, and America regards itself as being Israel's greatest partner in the region.
So you will, I think, see some sort of emphasis on trying to make that work in the longer run.
They may want different things.
And that could create huge tensions, I think, with the way this war is conducted, in particular, how it ends and when it ends.
And that's a question that's repeatedly being asked here.
What is the end game here?
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