Israel/Iran: Can America Stop A Regional War?

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A year since Hamas’s attacks on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s devastation of Gaza, the conflict spills over to Lebanon – and brings Tel Aviv and Tehran into direct military confrontation. Gavin Esler explores hopes for a ceasefire and political resolution in the Middle East with diplomacy expert Randa Slim, and Dr H A Hellyer – scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and senior associate fellow of Britain’s Royal United Services Institute, RUSI. • Support This Is Not Drill on Patreon to continue by backing us on Patreon. You’ll get early, ad-free editions, merchandise and more. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.0	Lebanon Peace is a beautiful country in Beirut, a wonderful Mediterranean city, a land with an extraordinary history and a
1:05.0	Lebanese diaspora successful all over the world.
1:08.0	But for years Lebanon has been best known for conflict and uncertainty. And now Lebanon once again is a battleground.
1:17.1	Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government wants as he puts it to neutralize the
1:22.2	threat from Hezbollah to Israel's northern settlements.
1:26.4	Now after heavy bombing of southern Lebanon and the suburbs of Beirut, along with a ground
1:32.2	invasion by Israeli defense forces.
1:35.0	Many among Hezbollah's leadership have been killed, including its Secretary General Hassan
1:39.6	Nasrallah.
1:40.9	The number of civilian deaths is for now very difficult to verify but reports suggest
1:45.6	more than a million people a fifth of the country's population have been displaced
1:50.4	by conflict. A year on from the Hamas attacks on Israel and the
1:54.6	devastation of Gaza in Israel's continuing response, the conflict that spilled
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