The Israel war is a "global terror risk"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
"We're in a very dangerous and unstable situation"
Bruce Hoffman has been observing and studying global terrorism for over 50 years. In this episode he speaks to the New Statesman's Katie Stallard about how the war between Israel and Hamas places the world in danger.
They discuss the threat from Hezbollah in Lebanon and the risk of escalation within the Middle East, as well as why terror organisations like ISIS and Islamic Jihad could be motivated to launch attacks on the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom.
Read on the New Statesman: Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict could become a genocide should be heeded https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2023/10/deadly-logic-existential-war-israel-hamas
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| 0:50.0 | As we're recording this, Israeli troops are masked on the edge of Gaza ahead of an expected ground assault. |
| 1:00.0 | Meanwhile, Israel has carried out an air strike on a mosque in the West Bank claiming it was targeting an underground terror compound. |
| 1:07.0 | The cover of this week's New Statesman magazine asks if Israel is about to face a war on three fronts in Gaza, the West Bank and southern |
| 1:15.8 | Lebanon, and what that would mean for the region and beyond. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm Katie Stalard and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:30.9 | With me to discuss all this is Bruce Hoffman, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism |
| 1:35.0 | and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at |
| 1:39.0 | Georgetown University where he was until recently director of the Center for Jewish Civilization. |
| 1:44.3 | Bruce, thanks so much for joining me. Of course. Let me start with acknowledging how |
| 1:49.8 | fast events here have been developing and that they may have developed |
| 1:54.8 | further by the time you hear this podcast. So as we're recording this now on |
| 1:58.0 | Monday the 23rd of October, can you give us a sense of where we are now, what are the key developments that you're paying attention to and |
| 2:07.8 | what are you particularly focused on right now? |
| 2:09.8 | The main focus I think for everyone are the 360,000 reservists that Israel is called up, which is only 40,000 fewer than were called up for the 1973 Yom Kupor War, that have been masked at the border with northern Gaza for now just about two weeks. |
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