4/22/22 Mitchell Plitnick on Israel, Iran and a Cold War in the Middle East

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Scott interviews Mitchel Plitnick about Israeli politics and the Iran Nuclear Deal. Plitnick begins by filling us in on the political situation in Israel, where a new coalition government is working to agree upon a budget by the Fall of 2023. If they are unable to do so, the government will fall apart and new elections will take place. Next, they discuss the news about Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch labeling Israel an apartheid state due to their treatment of Palestinians. Plitnick and Scott give their theories for the abrupt change in tone. They then talk about the JCPOA, which is at risk of falling apart thanks to the Biden Administration’s reluctance to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp from the terrorist list Trump placed them on. Scott and Plitnick observe that actually, the destruction of the deal will leave Iran’s nuclear activity unmonitored. Plitnick worries that we are on the road to a Cold War in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. Discussed on the show: “How the Israeli government shake-up will affect US-relations” (Responsible Statecraft) Manufactured Crises by Gareth Porter Mitchell Plitnick is president of ReThinking Foreign Policy. His writing has appeared in Ha’aretz, the New Republic, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets, and he has regularly offered commentary in a wide range of radio and television outlets including PBS News Hour and the O’Reilly Factor. Follow him on Twitter @MJPlitnick. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	All right, you guys, introducing Mitchell Plitnik,
0:48.0	president of rethinking foreign policy.
0:51.0	He used to be at the Foundation for Middle East Peace and with
0:55.3	Bet Salem and was co-director of Jewish Voice for Peace and here he is writing at
1:00.4	responsible state craft, that's the Quincy Institute for International
1:05.6	Responsible Foreign Policy. And yeah, Responsible Statecraft.org is the
1:11.0	website there. It's a fancy highfaluting name for Jim Loeb's blog.
1:15.0	Welcome back to the show, how you doing Mitchell?
1:17.0	I'm doing well, how are you, Scott?
1:20.0	I'm doing great. And it really is awesome to see the low blog raised up to such
1:25.3	prominence all of my best guys well my best liberals anyway writing at the Quincy
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