It’s not just that the US is complicit in this genocide, the US itself is responsible for this genocide”.


A year after the events of 7 October, Joseph Massad speaks about Israel's response and what it has all meant and could mean for the region.

Massad speaks about how Israel acts as an extension of US imperial policy. His unapologetic analysis is that it’s an “absurd argument” that the US is being dragged into wars it does not want by Israel and rather the the US has “pushed Israel to be more aggressive in the region since 1967”.

We also speak about the prospect of regional war and how that will play out, the response of Arab countries which in his view have continued to support Israel, how the media have covered the last year, what has driven the devastation in Gaza, the future of the region and so much more.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
01:00 Predicting Israel's brutal response to October 7th
08:08 How long could this go on for
10:36 Israel as an imperial extension of the U.S Empire
19:37 Will there be a regional war? And, the Democrats, as the "party of war"
22:45 Low points of the US administration in the last year
24:50 The response of Arab countries to the "genocide"
29:50 Iran being "fabricated" as an enemy
34:50 The Arab street, suppression and security crackdowns?
40:35 How would Russia and China react to a regional war?
43:50 What does the last year mean for international law and legitimacy?
49:40 The future of Israel and Zionism
58:40 Why did you become a scholar and what have you learnt?
01:03:59 The US has always maintained its imperial project
01:07:20 Social media and Media framing
01:08:51 What could we see in this next year


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