Jeremy Scahill
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6 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Yeah, I mean it's – and we've been talking about this on the show and elsewhere before, that it's been really clear over the past few years that it's not, as Bernie Sanders says, the extremist right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
This is at the core of mainstream political life now in Israel.
And in some ways, it is reminiscent of the posture of many top Democrats in the United States where they're sort of egging Trump on and they're sort of using the taco line that Trump always chickens out.
And they're trying to sort of make it more, you know, make Trump more aggressive or sort of attack him from the position of you failed to achieve these objectives and the regime is being left in power.
There are ways in which that also is kind of a common dynamic within the institutional Democratic Party who very much actually wanted a war against Iran.
And they were happy to have Trump do it because the odds of it becoming a disaster could be beneficial to the American Democratic Party's political future at the midterm elections.
But again, my understanding is that many Iranian officials, many leaders of Hezbollah do not view this as the potential end of the war.
They view it as a phase where the crossroads is going to be how much more deeply does the United States get involved with what is ultimately going to be a war on the part of Iran, Hezbollah, potentially a broader axis of resistance against Israel as the Israelis start to ratchet up their covert operations inside of Iran.
Tests are going to be all over the place in the next week or so because the Israelis clearly want to undermine this.
Trump apparently told them he's going to stop this.
I doubt it.
I think it's going to be really tough.
And then the ball is in Iran's court.
Do we say no nuclear negotiations unless the scorched earth bombing or siege of Lebanon stops?
That really, in a lot of ways, is going to be the massive question looming over this for the coming days.
Yeah, I think that's a good point.
I think we're looking also at 2028 messaging here, and clearly Lindsey Graham doesn't want J.D.
Vance to be the nominee, at least at this point, or the successor to Trump and the MAGA movement.
But a couple of interesting details, Crystal.
One is on this issue
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