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Dr. Yoel Guzansky is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) specializing in Gulf politics & security. Dr. Guzansky was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, an Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. He served on Israel's National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, coordinating the work on Iran and the Gulf under four National Security Advisers and three Prime Ministers. He is currently a consultant to several ministries. 

by Margaret Flowers / January 19th, 2021 NOTE: Margaret Flowers and Askia Muhammad will co-host an inaugural special on Pacifica Radio on Wednesday, January 20 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Eastern. It can be heard on WBAI and WPFW. The theme will be Dr. King’s triple evils and what Biden’s cabinet picks tell us about what we can expect from this administration. Guests include Dr. Greg Carr, Abby Martin and Danny Sjursen. Also, on Tuesday, January 26 at 8:00 pm Eastern, Popular Resistance will co-host a webinar, “COVID-19: How Weaponizing Disease and Vaccine Wars are Failing Us.” The webinar...

>> yes. i think donald trump and ted cruz oversimplified the problem. the root cause is a combination of factors that include isis, whose roots go back to failure to in iraq. but also this raging syrian civil war in its fifth year, 4 million refugees total. so i wanted to hedge against selling a narrative that's too simplistic here. bill: if you take out of assad, isis is still there, correct? if isis is still there, then the people are still on the run. is it that simplistic? >> that's certainly part of it. isis is still there. the isis problem, the roots of the isis problem go back to state ...

Repressive stability and now is back to a period of pure chaos? >> you no, fareed, this is not about sectarianism or tribalism, it's about state failure. it's a developmental fate, the post-colonial state, the existing state has basically delivered neither prosperity nor security, nor human security in the last 60 orals 70 years. has bled societies dry, has destroyed even the fragile institutions that existed in colonialism and replaced it with a cult of personality. i mean, people think of them at least as some of the richest regions in the world, and it is, yet out of the 320 million arabs, ...

Rippling across the region. >> farwaz, when you have written about it, would you have written that the core reason that this is happening is state failure. the failure of the governments to have built any institution, so when the dictators left, you realize there was almost nothing there. i think the syria, the place that you come from, which had -- what was it, seven or eight coups between the 1940s and 1970s, then 40 years of highly repressive stability and now is back to a period of pure chaos? >> you know, far eeed, this is t about sectarianism or tribalism, it's about state failure. it's ...