3/17/23 Grant F. Smith on How the Saudi-Iran Peace Initiative Is Bad for Israel

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Scott talks with Grant F. Smith about an article he recently wrote on the major blow the Saudis dealt Israel by reengaging with Iran. Scott and Smith assess the damage this has done to Israel’s plans for the region. They then discuss whether this major development makes a war against Iran more or less likely. Discussed on the show: “Israel and its US lobby Dealt Major Blow by China Saudi Iran Peace Initiative” (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy) How Israel Made AIPAC Podcast Grant F. Smith is the author of a number of books including Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America, Divert!, and most recently The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board. He is director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
0:34.3	Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full interview
0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. And guess what else? He wrote a piece and we published it at the Libertarian Institute.
0:56.4	That's Libertarian Institute.org. It's called Israel and its U.S Lobby dealt major blow
1:02.1	by China, Saudi Peace Initiative and of course the
1:08.4	ha ha ha ha is in brackets in your imagination at the end of the headline, but I'm sure you can read it in the tone of voice in which Grant wrote it.
1:18.5	Welcome back to the show Grant.
1:20.0	Hey Scott, thanks for having me back again.
1:22.0	Happy to have you here.
1:24.0	So something went wrong for Israel, huh?
1:26.0	Yeah, I mean, they were really pushing hard.
1:30.0	You had groups created by AIPAC in the region in Riyadh trying to negotiate some final
1:38.3	What needs to happen before Saudi Arabia gets into an Abraham accord with the United States, which is really an Israeli project as far as we can tell.
1:51.0	But you know, they're supposed to get in in put their head into the yoke just like
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