"We cannot negotiate without national consensus" w/ Michael Young
Makdisi Street
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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The brothers welcome to the show Michael Young, journalist and editor of the Carnegie Middle East Center's Diwan blog, to discuss the vexed and controversial question of Lebanese-Israeli negotiations against the background of the continued Israeli bombardment and occupation of Lebanese territory and the deliberate destruction of entire towns along Lebanon's southern border.
Date of recording: April 28, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So, I mean, for me, the way to resolve this is diplomacy. |
| 0:04.9 | But let me hasten to add something. |
| 0:07.1 | Don't think for one second that what I'm saying here is that we've got to negotiate with Israel under the current circumstances. |
| 0:13.5 | I've been arguing precisely the contrary. |
| 0:17.1 | We cannot negotiate with Israel if the society in Lebanon is divided, if there isn't some form of domestic consensus or at least a clear majority in favor of negotiations. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of the Magdis History podcast. I'm joined with my brothers, of course, Osama in California, and special edition, Sari, who's with me here in Beirut for a few days. |
| 0:45.3 | Hi, guys. I thought, you know, today, Specialist in SETI is here in Beirut that we would have this conversation about Beirut. |
| 0:53.3 | And this is for our Patreon, |
| 0:55.7 | especially for those that have been contributing |
| 0:57.3 | to our Patreon, who we really appreciate. |
| 1:00.0 | And we're looking at the comments, |
| 1:02.0 | and we hear that you also want to hear |
| 1:04.3 | a little bit more from the brothers before we have guests |
| 1:08.1 | and after the guests. |
| 1:09.4 | So we thought we would start this new format |
| 1:11.8 | where we spend a few minutes before a guest joins us, |
| 1:15.3 | just to kind of set up the conversation |
| 1:17.6 | and just lay it out a little bit before the guest joins. |
| 1:20.5 | So today I thought Sincetti was here |
| 1:22.9 | and given what's going on in the region |
| 1:25.3 | and in Lebanon that we would try to figure out what exactly is going on in the region and in Lebanon, that we would try to figure out what |
| 1:28.2 | exactly is going on in Lebanon, with the negotiations that are, the direct negotiations that are |
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