6/20/24 Jason Ditz on All the Bad News Coming Out of the Middle East

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Scott interviews Antiwar.com’s Jason Ditz about various developments in the Middle East. They discuss recent escalations on the Israel-Lebanon border, the power breakdown in Syria, the latest concern over the Iranian nuclear program and more. Discussed on the show: “As Israel Talks Lebanon War, Officials Evacuate a Border Town” (Antiwar.com) “Israeli Drone Strike Slays Military Officer in South Syria” (Antiwar.com) “US Threatens to ‘Increase Pressure’ on Iran Over Nuclear Program” (Antiwar.com) Jason Ditz is senior editor of Antiwar.com. Read all of his work at news.antiwar.com and follow him on Twitter @jasonditz. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; 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
0:38.6	interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. your news editor, editor, the great Jason Ditz. Hi, Jason, how are you?
0:55.4	I'm doing good, Scott.
0:56.2	How are you?
0:57.2	I'm real good, man.
0:58.1	Thanks for joining me.
0:59.4	Hey, um, I just read a bunch of things that you wrote about Lebanon and I learned a lot and now I'm terrified
1:07.1	Well not personally but seems like things could get really bad there So can we start with the all important question of what exactly is the difference between a catapult and a trebushe?
1:22.0	Well, a trebushe uses, the Trebushe uses a weighted sort of a log kind of slinging things where the
1:38.2	the catapult's more about, God I don't really have a good explanation for this.
1:45.0	Well, I think in your...
1:47.0	I'm sorry to do that to you.
1:50.0	I think in your piece you say that,
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