Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests
Published date: 8 October 2024 11:50 BST
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It's been one year since Israel launched its war on Gaza, where at least 41,000 Palestinians have been killed, equal to 1 out of every 55 people living there.
The conflict escalated hours after fighters led by Hamas stormed the barrier fence separating Gaza from Israel in response to provocations by far-right Israelis at the al-Aqsa Mosque complex.
In the attacks, some 1,140 Israelis died and around 240 were taken as captives.
A year after the events of 7 October, Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University and author of several books, discusses Israel's response and what it has meant for the region.
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Massad also speaks about how Israel acts as an extension of US imperial policy and how it is an "absurd argument" that Washington is being dragged into wars it does not want.
Massad also speaks about the prospects of a regional war and how Arab countries, which support Israel, will react.
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
The conflict escalated hours after fighters led by Hamas stormed the barrier fence separating Gaza from Israel in response to provocations by far-right Israelis at the al-Aqsa Mosque complex.
In the attacks, some 1,140 Israelis died and around 240 were taken as captives.
A year after the events of 7 October, Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University and author of several books, discusses Israel's response and what it has meant for the region.
In this episode of UNAPOLOGETIC, Massad also speaks about how Israel acts as an extension of US imperial policy and how it is an "absurd argument" that Washington is being dragged into wars it does not want.
Massad also speaks about the prospects of a regional war and how Arab countries, which support Israel, will react.
UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim
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