what the Palestinians and the Arab allies are fighting for are fundamental human decency and rights.

What the Israelis are fighting for is the last vestige of Western settler colonial apartheid systems that came into our region in the 19th century and they're the last active settler colonial movement.

You know, any history students out there are interested in what was it like in the colonial period,

go and study what the Israelis are doing in the West Bank today, or in Gaza.

And this will not be ill. So, I'm really glad to introduce bad faith podcasts for the first time Mr.

Rami Kori. He is a distinguished public policy fellow at the American

University in Beirut and also a Palestinian-American

author, opinion columnist, and analysts covering the Middle East for the last half century.

Welcome to Bad Faith.

Thank you. Glad to be with you. Now obviously people have

been paying a lot more attention to the region not just because of the aftermath of October 7th

and the ongoing siege on Gaza,

because of more recent escalations, including

most recently, a drone attack on Beirut, Lebanon

that resulted in the assassination of a senior Hamas official,

Sella Al-O-Rorori. In the wake of this and some other actions, including the blockade of the

Red Sea, a lot of people are asking questions about the potential inevitability or likelihood of a broader regional conflict.

So first I want you to weigh in on what you make of this most recent drone bombing in Jovkalad Israel's defense minister saying

he does not want an escalation.

What do you think is likely to happen here?

Nobody really knows what's going to happen, but there are at least half a dozen possibilities,

and one of the complexities of the Middle East these days, especially this region of the Levant and of West Asia, is that there are so many local

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