Today’s podcast guest is Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Previously, he worked as senior Gulf analyst at the Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and as codirector of the Kuwait Program on Development, Governance and Globalization in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics.
In this episode, we discuss the still-ongoing war on Iran, the impact the war has had on the Gulf States, Trump’s ability or failure to negotiate an end to the conflict, and whether or not we may see further escalation of the conflict.
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In my latest podcast episode, I speak with Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public and International Affairs, about the impacts on women that this current Taliban regime has had in Afghanistan. Listen to this and more in my latest episode; link in bio.
Today’s podcast guest is Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a Professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public and International Affairs. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a Distinguished Fellow of Peace and International Cooperation at the Institute for Humane Studies.
In this episode, we discuss the situation in Afghanistan under the Taliban, particularly the difference between the Taliban 1.0 that ruled in the 1990s prior to the US invasion, and the current Taliban 2.0, the Taliban’s relations with Afghanistan’s neighboring countries, women’s rights in Afghanistan currently, and the prospective for insurgency against the Taliban.
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Today’s podcast guest is Mordechai Kedar, an Orientalist and lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, and a Research Fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
In this episode, we discuss the Palestinian Emirates Plan, which Dr. Kedar has presented as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, delving into the intricacies of the plan and discussing what merits this plan may have.
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Dr. Mordechai Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arab culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, and the vice president of NEWSRAEL.
He is an Orientalist and lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, a Research Fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, and Vice President of “NEWSRAEL – Pro-Israeli Dynamic Feed”. He specialized, among other things, in researching the Hafez al-Assad administration in Syria.
He completed all his academic studies at Bar-Ilan University. In 1981–1983 he studied for a bachelor’s degree in the Department of Arabic and the Department of Political Science, and in 1991–1997 he completed a doctorate in the Department of Arabic. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was “The Public Political Language of the Assad Regime in Syria: Messages and Ways of Expressing Them.” In 2000, he was appointed a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.
In 1970 he enlisted in the IDF, served in the Armed Forces and completed his service, after 25 years, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Today’s podcast guest is Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Previously, he worked as senior Gulf analyst at the Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and as codirector of the Kuwait Program on Development, Governance and Globalization in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics.
In this episode, we discuss the still-ongoing war on Iran, the impact the war has had on the Gulf States, Trump’s ability or failure to negotiate an end to the conflict, and whether or not we may see further escalation of the conflict.
Listen now: soundcloud.com/alon-ben-meir/on-the-issues-episode-165
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Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Working across the disciplines of political science, international relations and international political economy, his research examines the changing position of Persian Gulf states in the global order, as well as the emergence of longer-term, nonmilitary challenges to regional security. Previously, he worked as senior Gulf analyst at the Gulf Center for Strategic Studies and as codirector of the Kuwait Program on Development, Governance and Globalization in the Gulf States at the London School of Economics.
Coates Ulrichsen has published extensively on the Gulf. His most recent books include The Gulf States in International Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking (Routledge, 2016). His articles have appeared in numerous academic journals, including Global Policy and the Journal of Arabian Studies, and he consults regularly on Gulf issues for Oxford Analytica and the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center. He also writes regularly for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Open Democracy, and Foreign Policy, and authors a monthly column for Gulf Business News and Analysis.
He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.
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The Netanyahu government has employed, and continues to employ, the most ruthless means not only to subjugate the Palestinians in the West Bank but to make their lives as miserable as can be inflicted on any human being. This fascist government does not merely tolerate settler violence — it commissioned it. It arms the settlers to intimidate and kill innocent Palestinians, and their violence knows no bounds. They torch olive groves, sever electrical lines, steal livestock, poison wells, and burn cars, often under the watchful protection of Israeli soldiers. This is not the work of rogue individuals; it is state policy designed to accelerate annexation. The purpose is exhaustion. To that end, the government conducts routine night raids, routine house demolitions, routine incarceration, driving families from their homes without a single expulsion order ever being signed. More than 190 water and sanitation structures were damaged or destroyed this year, and the loss of safe, clean water has spread skin disease and infection among a population already stripped of every protection. Let it be said plainly: a government that starves a people of water, arms the mobs that burn their fields, and calls the ruin it engineers security has forfeited any claim to moral standing. History will not record this as self-defense. It will record it as a deliberate campaign to break a people — and it will name the criminals who ordered it, those who carried it out, and those who watched in silence.
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Yes absolutely agree
It's about time! Thank you Mr. Prime minister
#EndGenocide
And here in the united state
Ya, and I don't care anymore. When you harbor terrorists, rape children, suicide bomb your own, and refused every peace offering made. You ever left them only the option to become the villain.
So is the USA.
After October 2023, Israel owes nothing to the Gazan Arabs who made that possible.
Evilest low life’s in the world
It's Genocide
In 2005, Israel gave Gaza Arab settlers exactly what the world demanded: “Land for Peace.” They unilaterally withdrew from the entire Gaza Strip, but got no peace. The IDF forcibly removed every last Jew — even digging up Jewish graves. Gaza was made completely Jew-free, exactly as Palestinian Arab settlers demanded. Israel handed over thriving communities, farms, and hundreds of millions in infrastructure — including productive greenhouses that could have become an economic engine for a Arab settler state. What did the Arab settlers do with this gift? They destroyed it. Mobs looted and burned the greenhouses. They ransacked and demolished synagogues. They celebrated with Hamas flags and gunfire. Then, in January 2006, Arab settlers voted Hamas — a genocidal terrorist organization whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews — into power. By 2007, Hamas completed a bloody coup, threw Fatah members off rooftops, and seized total control of Gaza. The result? - Tens of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli civilians - each rocket was a war crime. - More than 500 miles of underground terror tunnels - Billions in international aid stolen to buy weapons, not food - Gaza transformed into a fortified Islamonazi terror enclave Land for peace was tried — and violently rejected. Everything Israel gave away in 2005 became the launchpad for the October 7 Massacre. This is the ultimate proof: the Arab settler Palestinian movement has never wanted a state living next to Israel. Its goal has always been the destruction of the Jewish state. Important note: The Israeli blockade only came after Hamas seized power in 2007 and Gaza Arab settlers attacked both Israel and Egypt. And when that happened, Arab Republic of Egypt joined it too. Disengagement didn’t bring peace. It brought the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
He’s evil 👿
And Trump gives him more money to kill innocent
and the POTUS is committing crimes against the American people in broad daylight. They are quite a pair. 😡
Absolutely! Israel is the worst country on Earth!
Don't blame the symptom for the disease.
SO, who poked the bear to start all this…. you know, about 47 years ago …. yep.
Iran should finish the job 👏
War criminal
Cuba shows cruelty pursued as strategy. Since January, the Trump administration has blocked oil tankers bound for the island, imposing what reporting calls the most effective blockade since the Missile Crisis, and has followed up with rolling sanctions designations through the spring and summer. The result is not democracy but darkness: hospitals without generators, water pumps without power, insulin spoiling, the elderly climbing unlit stairwells, and families fleeing by sea. Six decades of embargo produced no political opening; starving a population of fuel will not produce one now. It merely hands Havana's rulers an alibi for their own repression and hands Washington the moral posture of a besieger. Collective punishment of civilians to topple a government is condemned when others do it. The United States cannot claim the language of human rights while turning off the lights.
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In Ethiopia, journalists and reporters are being arbitrarily arrested and detained as national elections draw nearer. According to the BBC, three journalists from Sheer FM, a private radio station, were taken into police custody in early September – part of a larger crackdown on independent journalists which began in August, with the intention of stifling public discourse, dissent, and free expression in the face of upcoming elections. The escalation of repressive measures against journalists, human rights groups, and other organizations that advocate for freedom of association and civil society is undermining the ability of the public to hold the government accountable – especially with regard to its actions in the Amhara and Oromia regions, where violent conflict persists, and atrocities continue to occur.
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