Middle East Crisis: Palestinian Statehood Posturing, Gaza War, and New Syrian Leadership Jonathan SchanzerJonathan Schanzer analyzes the proposal for a Palestinian state as counterproductive posturing. He details the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, the
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🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:23.6 | I'm Tom Bettsworth, Jonathan Shanzer, the Foundation for Defensive Democracies. |
| 0:28.2 | He's the executive director. A man named Al-Shara in a new suit is due to speak to the United |
| 0:34.7 | Nations General Assembly. Who is he? He is a cutthroat. Straight up. |
| 0:40.3 | Al-Qaeda even dappled with ISIS once upon a time. Iraq remembers him as a killer. I'm sure |
| 0:47.3 | Idlib remembers him as a killer. His organization is made up of junior cutthroats. He now is installed |
| 0:54.0 | himself as the president of Syria. |
| 0:57.6 | Is this a fiction? |
| 0:59.0 | Is this a ploy? |
| 1:00.7 | Is this Fidel Castro of the Middle East? |
| 1:03.1 | What is this, Jonathan? |
| 1:04.7 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:05.7 | I'm actually reminded of Yasser Arafat in the early 1990s, as I see this unfold. This is a man with a very |
| 1:14.7 | clear track record of terrorism. He ran the Nusra Front, which was an al-Qaeda affiliate group. |
| 1:21.2 | He went on to rename the organization Hayatah Khair al-Sham, but everybody knows exactly |
| 1:26.5 | who he was and what he was doing. |
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