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My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Nathaniel George.

On the 2nd of March, in the early stages of the ongoing attack on

Iran by Israel and the United States, and following the assassination of Iran's supreme leader,

Ali Hamenei, the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah launched missile strikes on northern Israel.

Hezbollah described the attack as a defensive act after more than a year of near-daily

Israeli strikes, despite the agreement of a truce between the two parties in the winter of

2024. Israel has since launched major attacks on Lebanese territory, including in central

Beirut, that have killed hundreds, and its evacuation orders have caused a massive displacement

of Lebanese civilians.

In today's episode I spoke with Nathaniel George about the background to the latest round of

conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the current situation in the country, and about the

history of Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

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forward slash poll theory other to sign up. Nathaniel George teaches politics of the Middle

East at Soas, part of the University of London. He is a global political historian of the modern

Arab world and of the foreign relations of the United States.

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