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Then israel fired rockets into iran, not doing significant damage, but nonetheless, and get this. Israel and iran are now overly targeting each others homelands. Directly. It prove that the rules of the game in the middle east are changing, especially after israel responded to a rons response. And with the failure of the worlds big powers, especially the United States, to achieve a ceasefire and gaza is further escalation, inevitable. Today were talking with some of my dc professor of history at the university of california and author of faith misplaced the broken promise of us error relations. And ality via is iran project director at the International Crisis group. Thank you both for joining us today. Let me just start with you. Allie. You wrote a week ago, oppression articles, thing in the middle east could still explode. This was before israel had launched a rock into the run. I might call that, you know, strike given the little damage is one sort of a polite strike after this. But what his change now in the not only in the gaza is real crisis, but in the regional dynamics, particularly between iran and israel. Its good to be with you, steve. Look in any geostrategic competition. The most dangerous moment is when the party start changing the rules of the game is or across the line by attacking your arms console it in damascus. And then iran cross the line for the 1st time in the past 45 years by directly attacking israel from its own territory. So as a now israel has of course responded, but it has responded still in a limited and stealthy fashion, which i think still falls within the previous rules of the game of combat thing, iran and the great zone of their competition. So one can conclude that this chapter is closed, but im not sure if the parties have the same understanding of what are the new red lines. What are the new rules of the game and in that be great to you. I think there is plenty of space for miscalculation and of course the approximate cause for these tensions which was the war and gaza is ongoing and there is currently no end and side. And so there is still plenty of risk for expansion of that complex and regional conflagration. I know youve just said that this chapter is probably close, but what is the next chapter looked like potentially in the region given the fact that the underlying instability with cause it continues. There are plenty of risk. First of all, we still dont know for sure. If the attack that is ro, as conducted on iran firing 3, midsize into a ministry base and its behind it is a one off or is it previewed for more attacks to com. That is still not clear. Second, at some point, israel would enter into rasa. I think that seems inevitable. And when that happens, given the humanitarian situation in gaza, it is quite possible that we would see increase tensions iranian back to groups in iraq in syria. My resume attacks on us forces that they have now stop since late february. And theres also the possibility that at certain point we would see a complex ration between israel and his butler. I mean, they are now so at a low level of complex. But i think these raise are extremely uncomfortable living right next door to his boss capabilities, given the trauma of october 7th. And if it ends up in a confrontation with his will again, given the unclear new rules of the game, there is a risk of another round of escalation with iran. And now that both parties have done unprecedented things targeting you try to directly, i think the risks are much higher and both they run an israel by the way, have demonstrated in the past few weeks that they dont have a clear understanding of one another. I think its now clear that israel target it runs consulate, expecting that iran would just absorb the attack and would not respond. And iran targeted israel, thinking that is ro is not going to respond, which in both cases have turned out to be an accurate for professor my dc. I really just a couple of months before october 7th, there was this active period of diplomacy around expanding potentially the abraham accords, perhaps greeting and normalization between saudi arabia and israel. Tell us about how normally october 7th, but the ron is real exchange. Tell us what the middle east looks like now at this moment compared to 9 months ago as well. I mean obviously it depends where you are in the middle east, but the starting and gaza, i mean its ground 0 for a catastrophe. A genocide that the United States has funded equipped apologize for enabled, continued essentially. So you were asked at the beginning of the forever war is quite clear that this war has been going on on the palestinians for decades and decades since the next above 1948. And arguably, since the creation of the british mandate in palestine, and as long as that sort of that core issue, the issue of the injustice of the palestinians, the issue of their oppression, the issue of their state looseness, the total abandonment by the United States. Of course, by israel, but also by the arab states of the palestinians. If not, continues, were going to see more and more of this conflict. So i think thats a situation thats the, thats the, thats the, the tinderbox that, that leads to the kinds of continual flareups that we see in other parts of the middle east. There are other conflicts, obviously that are not tied necessarily to pablos time, but the core issue has to be resolved. And were seeing a massive, extraordinary failure of leadership, of imagination and frankly, of racism on the part of the United States towards the palestinians. So thats where we are right now and the wrong and israel and their sort of shadow or, and their direct whereas your other guests are, they just mentioned. Thats just another element of escalation in an already intolerable situation. Now we know that there had been findings within the state department that indicate that certain is really military units have engaged, potentially, and extra judicial killings and other human rights violations, into specific individuals and Companies Inside the israeli forces. I guess my question to you is, given the fact that there had been so such a little moving and such little success by the president of the United States even in trying to retain his well even trying to restrain is real on this issue of attacking iran what is the us hand in this anymore . It from your perspective. I mean the us hand is direct and total complicity. Its not that the us cant restrain, as well as the us doesnt restrict israel after all. I mean, and you could say there are domestic reasons. For that, there is a lobby, there is ideology, there is, there is whatever. There are many Different Reasons why the us doesnt strain israel, but its not that the us cant restraint as well. I think the bottom line of all this is that there is been a consistent us policy of marginalizing the palestinians, ignoring palest, sending oppression, ignoring publicity and suffering, trying to build a regional sort of architecture of domination that ignores the people of the region. All the peoples of the region, frankly, their democratic aspirations, their desires to be free, and instead to sort of cement the relationship between arab despotism on the one hand. And israel, which oppresses and colonize as the palestinians on the other. And the issue really goes back to decades of u. S. Foreign policy in the sense that the us feels and is felt for decades. That it can get away with, with the basic form in that which is extracting petroleum and, and dominating the middle east, strategic geographic areas at the same time, forcing israel, as it is, as it reveals itself to the entire world today. On the hour of populations, irrespective of their wishes, irrespective of their desires, irrespective of the desires of freedom. And so far, they feel theyre able to maintain this, this policy. And until that changes, were not going to see any kind of peace or any kind of security or any kind of stability, frankly, in the middle east, you cannot build stability on the basis of profoundly immoral, unstable foundations alley. Um, so is that something that caught my eye ear and very important, i think that even arab states had been somewhat on the sidelines of this conflict, have not taken actions that would necessarily lead to a resolution of justice. And at the end, some potential statewood for palestine. I guess my question is were writing now potentially making the mistake of completing the is really wrong conflict with the as rare is real guys a conflict. Theyre both happening at the same time. I look at the minute as an escalation from israels perspective, but how high on the priority map for iran is the palestinian crisis . A. Unfortunately, i think the palestinian cause is a tool for iran. Iran in the early 19 eighties in the midst of the run, iraq war realize that its a strategic, sorry to it is, is basically disastrous for the regime. But it really didnt have a lot of options through games for teaching the depth and to be able to project our beyond as borders as a persian nation, surrounded by arabs and turks. And as a she a nation surrounded by sunny the one thing that allow that steve to project power and transcend all of these inherent limitations, was the palestinian cause, which was left on the ground by the arabs, but by ron has instrumental lives. And it doesnt necessarily mean that iranians are too concerned about the palestinians. Well being. And i think in fact, the one thing that is real could do that would undermine iran for within the region. Was to do exactly what osama was talking about to try to actually come to a Sustainable Settlement with the policy. And that will be a nightmare scenario. I remember steve, when the Trump Administration was putting the dean of the century on the table to to resolve those really patterson and crisis the sooner the official told me. After looking at the package. This is great for iran because there is nothing in it for the palestinians, meaning that the opposite would actually we can iran position in the region. And i also want to Say Something about the us as role, at least on the strategic level. Its very interesting that in the past few weeks, sense is really attack on iran and concert of in damascus. The us, in fact, has tried to prevent the expansion of this complex. It has been now we know in direct and indirect contact with the ryans, there was literally a hotline established through oman, so that iran under us could coordinate when iran was going to strike israel to try to limit the casualties and the damage. So that it doesnt spiral out of control and clearly what is or it has done in response, if its a one off, is all also limited, which i dont think would have been achieved without us pressure. So although i agree with a lot of auto salma said, but i think the binding ministration deserves a bit of credit for trying to maintain, can contain these tension or somebody want to respond to that. Yeah, sure, of course, i mean, i mean the bodily ministration deserves credit for allowing the genocide to continue for now. As you said at the outset of your show for 7 months. So im not sure what kind of credit one gives the button in this direction. Clearly the United States does not want a regional war and the sense of expanding their, their fund with having the palestinians be slaughtered before our eyes. The west just be towards yesterday or the day before. The Security Council resolution sort of advancing Palestinian Statehood as nominal, and thats the radical and its conceptual as that is in theory, the was claims to be for a 2 state solution. Yet us policy is characterized by essentially on the one hand and that extraordinary degree of anti palestinian racism. And on the other hand, a ludicrousness in terms of its contempt for its own statements to state solution peace in the middle east ability and everything. The west seems to do is to pretend that somehow you can build the stable middle east without resolving the palestinian question. And then to at least point to about the business of even using the palestinian cause as a tool. I think the word he uses tool. Now, i dont doubt that the iran, like the irish states previously, instrumental lies all states instrumental as all sorts of issues. So i dont doubt that whatsoever. On the other hand, i think the more salient question that one should answer is why is the tool there to begin with . Why is there a palestinian cause to begin with . Whats the history, why other palestinians left it in, in the extraordinarily unacceptable situation that they are . Why does it run . And before iran, iraq, and before iraq, egypt and before, you know, all these other states, syria, all these states have used the power, the new question precisely because there is something extraordinarily immoral and on ethical that everybody in the region. And i, i would argue today, everybody in the world honestly can see is unacceptable and want to end. And so, of course, states use every piece of leverage. They can every tool so to speak, they use, but they use it because these tools exist and we should focus, rather than on trying to is to say that theyre just using the tools, understand why the tool is there and why people, why, why it creates such and such a sense of injustice in the middle east among arabs for sure. But also i suspect amount your rent, many iranians as well. Im almost certain of that. Or summit. Take me for one further step, you know, in the abraham accords, it was an effort. We saw in our, in the lab essentially of trying to find normalization strategies in the region without resolving the palestine conflict. Has that palestine conflict now resonated with the so called error st. So much and created distance within those governments. Those monarchies and those government arrangements within each of these arrows states. You know, im thinking of jordan, which has a, a normalization peace treaty with, with a israel. And youre seeing on the street major protest demanding that the government suspend its relationship with israel. What is the distance now . The dynamic within each of these governments that this guy is a crisis, has caused, is causing the abraham record, is an insult to, to, to the common revere tradition of all the spiritual of all the ecumenical and the history of co existence. In our part of the world, its really a relationship between an expansionist as well that doesnt pretend nothing. It was very clear. They dont want to give the palestinians freedom or the state. And arab states that are based on despotism. Based on the fact that there is a huge gap between our populations as much as towards the palestinians. Its also domestically, theres no democracy, theres no freedom and most of the arab world, if i can go across the interim world. And its that absolute ism and despotism, that is the us requirement for a so called Peace Process that is based on marginalizing that allison and so i agree with all the us was genuinely concerned with the ability weve actually making the middle east a prosperous place where they would certainly have pushed for a Peace Process that actually solves once and for all right. The palestinian question nally. I want to ask about President Biden and americas brand and American Power is perceived in the region. You know, im, i had this frame that america is perceived as an all powerful player, very powerful player in this, but seemingly impotent when it comes to really influencing the course of israel. How does the ron, you watch it one more than anyone else . I know how does the ron look at American Leadership at this moment . Does it look at it, added is as if its floundering, does it look at it as if its being directed . Is this, is this hugging of israel during this crisis after october 7th enhancing america