The fallacies of Israel’s 'Octopus Doctrine'
The Take
Al Jazeera
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The monikers attracted by Iran’s network of allies in the Middle East are snapshots of a geopolitical alliance that shapes the region. As Israel seeks to shore up its own side of the chessboard and tensions rise, we take a deep dive. Who are the groups? And why did Iran back them in the first place?
In this episode:
- Imran Khan (@ajimran), Al Jazeera English Senior Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Marcos Bartolomé and Veronique Eshaya with Shraddha Joshi, Tamara Khandaker, Manahil Naveed, Hagir Saleh and me, Natasha Del Toro, in for Malika Bilal.
The Take production team is Amy Walters, Ashish Malhotra, Catherine Nouhan, Chloe K. Li, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Khaled Soltan, Manahil Naveed, Marcos Bartolomé, Sarí el-Khalili, Shraddha Joshi, Sonia Bhagat, Tamara Khandaker, and Veronique Eshaya.
I’m your host, Natasha del Toro. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s Executive Producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, as hostilities across the Middle East intensify. |
| 0:16.0 | Israel conducted what it called preemptive strikes on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:22.6 | The military says it attacked thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers. |
| 0:27.6 | Hezbollah says that it's targeted a number of enemy sites and barracks in Iron Dome platforms. |
| 0:33.6 | We look at the risk of further escalation, tensions between Israel and Iran, and ask, |
| 0:41.0 | how did we end up here? I'm Natasha Del Toro, and this is the take. |
| 1:05.0 | Early Sunday morning, 100 Israeli jets launched attacks across southern Lebanon, killing at least eight people, including one child. |
| 1:13.1 | The Israeli military called the attack preemptive to protect Israelis from a planned attack by Hezbollah. |
| 1:22.6 | Hezbollah, meanwhile, says it fired more than 300 rockets at 11 Israeli military bases in barracks. |
| 1:25.9 | One Israeli soldier was killed by falling shrapnel. |
| 1:29.8 | Al Jazeera's Zayna Hader is in southern Lebanon. |
| 1:34.8 | There was an intense exchange of fire overnight across this border. |
| 1:39.1 | Hezbollah is saying it carried out its much-awaited and promised retaliation for the killing of its top commander for At Shukur |
| 1:41.4 | and a strike in Beirut that also killed civilians. |
| 1:45.1 | So Hezbollah is saying the first phase of its retaliation is over. |
| 1:48.3 | What it is saying, it was a successful strike. |
| 1:52.3 | The first phase of this attack is now over, according to Hezbollah. |
| 1:59.3 | In a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said time will tell if deterrence has been restored. |
| 2:07.2 | Israel remains in a state of emergency, and Prime Minister Netanyahu also implied, there's more to come. |
| 2:15.5 | What happened today is not the end of the story. |
| 2:19.3 | Hezbollah tried to attack the state of Israel with rockets and drones early in the morning. |
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