Yaron Brook: Israel War Strategy & The History of Conflict
A Palestinian Explains Hamas
How do we make life better for those who live in Gaza? According to Palestinian political analyst Bassem Eid, we start by recognizing who is really responsible for the suffering that happens there.
The Hamas War on Israel
ARI’s Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo respond to the war in Israel.
The Perpetual War on Israel: 1948-2023
Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the movements and regimes which have sought to destroy Israel since its founding seventy-five years ago.
Topics covered:
- How to study history objectively;
- How the conflict started, and the motives of the Arab countries that invaded Israel in 1948;
- The rise of Pan-Arabism and the Six-Day War;
- The rise of the Palestinian movement, including its debt to communist ideology and its terroristic tactics;
- Why the Palestinian movement gained international sympathy;
- The rise of the Islamist movement;
- How a hostility to human life and freedom animated all these movements;
- Why we should support Israel.
Journo & Ghate: Lessons of the Iraq War
Twenty years since the U.S. invasion began, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo explore the moral and political lessons of the Iraq War.
Issues covered:
● Why Americans need to examine the lessons of the Iraq War;
● The 9/11 terrorist attacks and the context leading up to the war;
● The focus on weapons of mass destruction and intelligence weaknesses while evading the threat of Islamic totalitarianism;
● Why Russia’s attack on Ukraine is not analogous to America’s war in Iraq;
● David Frum’s analysis of the Iraq War in The Atlantic;
● John Bolton’s and Bret Stephens’ analysis of the war and the failure to question whether Iraq was the right target;
● The disastrous results of the war, including increased reluctance to defend American interests militarily;
● How America’s response to 9/11 set the stage for the rise of populism and widespread distrust of institutions;
● The erosion of American exceptionalism in the wake of the Iraq War.