Iran war short interviews
(Promise they are short this time...)
Sharing in this post five short clips from recent interviews, mostly emphasising where the US and Israel are pulling in different directions in the war against Iran.
On Al Jazeera English, we discussed how this war serves Netanyahu and his attempt to achieve “Pax Greater Israel” and how Trump is upending America’s relationships with its closest allies.
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This Owen Jones clip looks at how Israel is squeezing what it can from American power while it is still able to do so, even at the cost of hastening its decline.
In a Novara Media interview with Michael Walker, the theme expanded to Israel capitalising on American imperial power in its twilight to establish itself as the dominant hegemon in a post-America order in the Middle East.
Speaking with Sakhr Al-Makhadhi on AJ+, we explicitly unpack how Israel and America’s war aims are not only divergent but contradictory—Israel seeking to smash Iran to smithereens, America seeking to install a stable supplicant, Venezuela style.
And finally, a longer segment from Joy Reid’s show, where we reflect on whether this war marks a defining moment in American imperial collapse — and what that looks like both for US domestic politics and for Israel’s standing in America and beyond.