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Dash. Com and can save. I Hanako Montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn square. Welcome to All Of You in the United States and around the world. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you live world waits to see if the middle East Crisis becomes even further inflame ill talk to a former top israeli Intelligence Official whose area of expertise is iran and a longtime Foreign Correspondent he joins us live from the bombarded City Of Beirut country at the heart of this conflict. Israel will bring you two very different views on it from two important Thinkers Bernard Henri Levy And Tallahassee coats israels recent campaign against hezbollah will go down as one of the most brilliant tactical successes in warfare, or triumph of great intelligence and military execution but it also highlights a trend that the Surprise Attack of October 7 might have obscured israel is now the most powerful Military Actor in The Middle East, the Regions Superpower 12 years ago, i pointed out that the decades old Balance Of Power in The Middle East had been upended the Jewish State used to be david up against the regions goliaths syria, iraq, and egypt but all those three countries are now shadows of their former selves. Bashar Al Assad rules over a battered rump, syria, iraq is dysfunctional, internally divided and mired and Corruption Egypt doesnt Slow Motion economic collapse under the tight control of a dictator who jails islamic militants. And its probably delighted to see israel take the battle to them. In 2010 in a comprehensive examination, the arab Israeli Military Balance Anthony Court Isman And Aram know lucian detail how israel had leaped ahead of its neighbors on virtually every dimension of effective Military Strength in 2014, Business Insider asked experts to help rank the regions Military Powers and concluded that tiny israel was the clear Number One over the last decade, the gap has enlarged as israel has continued to boom economically. And as americas billions of dollars of Military Aid have added up consider the difference between israel and iran. Iran has almost ten times the population of israel or larger active Duty Army and more Battle Tanks and other equipment but israels Military Budget Last Year was more than double that of iran. That doesnt take into account israels huge qualitative edge. While iran has almost 40,000 soldiers in its Air Force, reuters reports that it has just a few dozen working strike aircraft. Many of them aging american in planes or russian equipment that is decidedly second rate meanwhile, israel has hundreds of the most Advanced Western fighter jets manned by a highly trained and wellequipped Air Force a few months ago, Irans President and Foreign Minister died in an accident while riding an old Vietnam War Era american bell helicopter. A model for which they lacked spare parts and proper maintenance if thats the state of Military Hardware being used for the countrys precedent. Imagine what the average iranian soldier is using Israel Strategic Environment has also been transformed. Were once the most powerful arab states where its Enemies Today theyre its friends, Business Insider ranks as number three and number four on its list of Military Powers. Saudi arabia and the uae, De Facto allies of israel and of course, israel is the only country in The Middle East with a powerful nuclear force some weapons reportedly housed in submarines, which gives it maximum effectiveness as a deterrent you might not have been as aware of these realities because for the last two decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has been on a campaign to portray iran as 20 feet tall which of course then requires israel to adopt hardline policies on all fronts in speeches, press conferences, and interviews, he has been relentless on the mortal threat that iran poses to israel one that has in his view been growing every year in fact, his obsession with iran might have lulled israel into taking its eye off the threat posed by hamas beyond netanyahu, many in the israeli government believed that hezbollah was a fearsome adversary one they tangled with for years. And that could claim to have driven israel out of lebanon in the past but the reality is that like iran, hezbollah has also been weakened by decades of sanctions. And some members have surely fallen prey to corruption. While we dont know the details in this case usually a foreign Intelligence Service can penetrate an organization only when its members have lost faith in their mission and can be he easily bribed the lesson here is one that americans have also needed to learn over the decades the enemy is rarely as strong as you fear as with the soviet Union And Saddam Husseins Iraq and alqaeda americas adversaries had significant weaknesses that Washington Mist iran is a country that has lived for more than four decades under crippling sanctions. And a dysfunctional regime. And while it could lash out if it felt it had no option of face regime and isolation it is no match for israel. The danger for israel is the same as for the United States in recent decades. Its Military Superiority can lead to stunning tactical victories america topple the taliban in mere months in 2001 and it took just three weeks to get to baghdad and take the iraqi capital. But those brilliant tactical winds ended up becoming strategic losses because the United States got mired and slow grinding occupations its a parallel that israel should be thinking about as it enters its second year in gaza and begins to invade lebanon and lets get started iran retaliated against israel for high level assassinations. On tuesday, the Islamic Republic launched around 200 ballistic missiles at targets across israel, is were shot down. Most of them with the help of the u. S. And others. But some got through israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed that iran will pay. So how might israel retaliate against iran . Joining me is danny to turn oh, its he served in israels Military Intelligence as head of the iranian strategic brunch hes now fellow at the atlantic council. Danny, welcome. Tell us, explain to us iran did this once before April 14th. And the israeli response was quite measured in response to irans hundreds of Rockets Israeli basically took out a crucial, but i think a single radar why is, why it is Robinson Netanyahu has seemed to be signaling this one is going to be this israeli response is going to be much bigger sunny Tel Aviv well, when youre looking at 14 April attack, we need to remember the constraints that israel had when he wanted to retaliate against iran. We had the american administration that pushing hard on israel to contain its retaliation but also we have hezbollah as a tool, as a measure that iran could use in order to threaten israel before what happened the last couple of weeks, hezbollah was a fearsome enemy to the set of israel which capabilities would actually inflict a severe damage to this strategic sites of israel so in that regard, those constraints where in the April 14 attacks that led to very symbolic response by israel. But unfortunately, right now, and possibly for the iranians, there are no constraints anymore. And i think thats really raising the chances that israel will retaliate. We tally it hard with dramatically significantly against iran so you said there the two constraints were the fear of hezbollah as the kind of loaded gun of iran in the second was pressure from the american administration not to escalate. Why do you feel the pressure from the american administration has has either died out or become ineffective time it was easy to say to them israeli Government Responsibility and nothing else will happen. And then we got struck again by the iranians. So obviously second time israel has to do something differently. But i think also it also connected to the american politics and its the fact that the administration, couple of weeks before the election cannot proceed. Someone that perceived as some of that pressuring israel not to defend itself. I think what the administration trying to do now is pressuring israel not. Of course, its not able to pressure, not retaliate, but he make a tried to make some sort of adjustment to a target the record because ministration is wary, afraid the things will escalate into a regional war. This is why the pressuring israel to pick targets that will enable them in the future to contain the iranian retaliation and vast preventing a regional escalation and no whether theyre going to succeed in doing so, but for sure, they are debates, discussion between israel and the us in that regard. And you have to win to be seen what will happen next couple of days and what israel will choose eventually if you had to guess danny theres been talk about nuclear Sites Oil refineries, and installations and other military targets. What do you think the attack will be focused on what israel wants to achieve before were thinking about the targets. What a thing, what israel wants to achieve im sure that israel doesnt want to find itself in a War Of Attrition with iran. And we have the lebanese arena and we have the Gaza Rina to focus on. And i dont think that we want to open another arena with iran, but we have to retaliate. This is why i think we have to pick targets that will enable the iranians to contain the response so obviously going for the Oil Refineries or even go for the nucleoside. This is something that will pressure the iranian regime to retaliate, but also they would think to cross the rubicon in terms of the nuclear capabilities. So i think in that regard, maybe the military sites, the many targets, targets will enable iran to continue in the future. But again, its all connected what the israeli government want to achieve from the future attack against iran and any, this will have to result in an iranian retaliation, right . Youre in iran expert. They presumably have to, particularly because now they dont have the option of asking hezbollah to respond they are going to have to increasingly get involved directly a thing that the chances are they going to retaliate. This is why we are standing in front of real Escalation Region one between israel and iran. Thats for sure. I liked 14 April, i think. Now the chances are higher in that regard and i think its also connected to the fight for like you said, the iranians feel the need to retaliate because of the situation of hezbollah. Remember that hezbollah was the cushion. What the real protector of iran the element that really deterred israel not to attack iran. Now, without hezbollah or with hezbollah diminishing in way because of the israeli attack against iran has to take a step forward using its Minutes Missile capabilities, but also a suspect, they will have to do something in terms of the Nucleus Strategy because they really want to fortify the deterrence with other proxies and of course it remains to be seen, but im afraid that if israel retaliates significantly higher chances that iran really tired as well to balance the equation between eight and israel insightful. Thank you so much for helping us think. I think this through next on gps. Israel bombarded beirut again last night. 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In addition to its strikes from the air, israel also invaded Southern Lebanon on monday israeli official say the move into lebanon will be limited and there will be no longterm occupation joining me now from beirut to discuss all of this is the longtime Foreign Correspondent came goddess shes a Contributing Writer at the atlantic. Welcome game. First tell us what is it like you live In Beirut, but not in a Park Area considered a Hezbollah Stronghold. Are you safe i have to say it was a very heavy night of shelling. It was quite hellish. I live just a fiveminute drive away from the southern suburbs. Which is actually a quite diverse neighborhood as well. I know its often referred to as a Hezbollah Stronghold and it does have a lot of hezbollah infrastructure in offices, but it also has a variety of people living there who also are now in the crossfire. And you can hear these very loud explosions almost across beirut. The ground shook at one Point And Israel is framing this as a war against hezbollah. But i must say that the lebanese feel targeted themselves as well and they feel that theyre being punished for choices that hezbollah made which they did not approve of. And so these are very difficult. Ten days for the lebanese because although hezbollah has many opponents, i would say a solid majority of lebanese opposed hezbollah the lebanese are also very worried about what israels intentions are in lebonon because theyve watched gaza for the last 11 months you wrote something kim that i thought was very fascinating and help helping us understand the israeli success against hezbollah. You pointed out that hezbollah used to be this very tight secretive organization but when it got involved in the syrian civil war, all that changed. Explain what you mean want to start by pointing out also fareed that what israel is trying to do today is destroy a problem that it helped create when it invaded in 1982. It wasnt the wake of that invasion that hezbollah was born. And even though that invasion at the time was seen as a tactical success, as you pointed out yourself in your introduction, in your take of the week, it turned out into a strategic failure because precisely it lead to the rise of hezbollah, which used to be a guerrilla movement. Seen by many as a Resistance Movement against Israeli Occupation of Southern Lebanon. But over time, the group grew corrupt, grew fat, grew bigger, grew into a more traditional part of the lebanese establishment and got involved on the side of president Bashar Al Assad in his war in syria. And so they were gone from the underground and into a much more regular army style operation, which expose them to surveillance, expose them to corruption, and expose them to the hatred of many sudanese, but others also in lebanon, in syria, and in the rest of the Arab World for the terrible role that they played in this very bloody civil war. And i think that has been their downfall and thats what led to such penetration by intelligence, signal intelligence, but also human intelligence kim, what about what happens now . Israel seems to be saying they havent clearly said, but theyre saying their goal is to defeat hezbollah. But hezbollah is not just a militant organization know terrorist organization. It also has a political and social organization within lebanon. And it represents the sheer who are the majority in lebanon can you really defeat hezbollah in that Sense History has shown that you cannot defeat guerrilla groups, armed movements without presenting a better idea political id. Similarly for hamas. And the same in lebanon, it may be, it may be possible to put them on the backfoot to decapitate them the great time im worried. That they will go underground as they did during the 80s to fight israel as it tries to take some territory or some incursions into Southern Lebanon as for the lebanese political scene, as i said, they have many political opponents. There is a sense here that this is a moment to come together and well have to see whether the lebanese political establishment and the opposition can manage that to show National Unity, which is not necessarily to the exclusion of hezbollah and certainly not to the exclusion of the Shia Community with which is a large minority, not to, not a majority, but a large minority. And they feel whatever we think of hezbollah or nasrallah, they feel many of them feel now leaderless and defenseless, and they have to be made to be included into lebanons future and protected by the state. So weve heard many statements from washington about whether this is an opportunity to strengthen the lebanese state at the expense of hasnt but i think we really need to frame it as positively that this is a moment to strengthen the state for the sake of lebanon and just to emphasize also that none of this political discussion, none of these political movements diplomacy, National Unity can really develop under what is a very heavy Israeli Military campaign, not only because that does not lead to conducive, but is not conducive to real political discussions and progress. But also because nobody in lebanon or in the region wants to be seen as too seize the opportunity of an israeli invasion or an Israeli Military campaign. Nobody wants to be seen to be profiting from that even though, as i said, people have very mixed feelings about about hezbollah, but they are also very worried about israels intentions in lebanon. I want to quote the israeli Author And Peace activist, almost ours, who in 1982 wrote after that invasion, we can never atone for what we did In Beirut. And im really worried that were seeing that film of 1982 to repeat, as you said, fareed tactical successes. But strategic failures and for the sake of lebanon, we need National Unity. We need deescalation, if not a ceasefire, and we need to give the ability for the lebanese to come together. And for this country to come out of this intact thank you. Kim ghattas really terrific insights. Next, Bernard Henri Levy on one year after October 7 stake yes. Hes coming out. Episode says to the world, its okay to be gay. 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When you americans did retaliate against September 11 there was a great coalition around you when We French did retaliate after bataclan, after Shalip Go in more Sue London rocca, there was a great coalition around us to support around israel. There is no coalition. There are allies like france or america, who blackmail, who was, who asked for compromise for whatever. The reason not a real coalition. There is solitude of israel. This is after one year alas, the bitter lesson, which are retain from the whole sequence you know, bernarda that people say that the reason the United States or france, how has put pressure on israel is that they feel that Israels Goal say the complete destruction of hamas or hezbollah is unrealistic and more importantly, can only be achieved at great cost to the civilian populations in gaza ists than it kills. Is that a fair way to think about it . My dear fareed, i have the privilege of age, the dark Preview Level of age i covered a lot of walz i covered a lot. I was in many battlefields in my life i was in sumeria, i was in afghanistan. I was in many places. I never saw an army doing as much trying as much as there isnt at ami in order to avoid too many because you lt. Is this is the reality of the battlefield. We french in mosul we did not take so many precautions you americans in kabul and in mazarisharif in 2001, same Today Israel takes precautions which i never saw any other army in the world involved in such a a such a war taking this through reality. Now, of course too many casualties of course it is heartbreaking. Of course, every every day when i wake up, when i look at my phone the news from gaza and from the cbn casualties i am depressed but you must know that idf those order called for evaluation for Evacuation Warnings did you see an Army Warming before striking even on the strategical or tactical, tactical point of view, its nearly absurd but then they do that. They allege the wall, they announce the strike few hours, sometimes few days before in order to permit as many civilians as possible to quit. And the hamas in the Gaza And Hezbollah in lebanon prevent who say, well, the backdrop. But in gaza is that israel has been occupying the palestinian people occupying these lands in the West Bank. And of course, gaza is more complicated but still israel has control for 56 years. And you cant, you cant forget that context one of the biggest. I heard since long. There is no context for what happened in October 7. This extent of savagery of cruelty, women raped and killed at the same time, families and tell your families hes taken like cattle, like praise, liking, untick, rahma. There is no context explaining that. No context. Number one. Number two you can see what you can think, whatever you want about what happens in the Wind Bags in the West Bank nothing to do with, nothing comparable to gaza. Gaza was not occupied since 50 years there was not even a synagogue in gaza the Blockade Either Israelis of gaza was for military devices or devices allowing to make military weapons. So no occupation all that excuse of Crime Pleasure to hear from you. The book is israel alone and i should point out that Bernard Henri Levy will be on a Campus Tour in the United States to talk to young students because of what he worries about, which is a rising tide of antisemitism does it mean the United States . S . 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But in a new book called The Message coats writes about his visit last major, israel and the West Bank and all that he saw that there china has coats. Thank you so much for joining us, thanks for having me for it. So when you get to the West Bank, when you are to israel, lets talk about it first in those terms, you sort of approached this whole book and that process as a writer, exploring but you must have had preconceptions. You must have had thoughts when you went there, where they confirmed where they disconfirmed how did that how did you feel when you got there . Yes. Thats a great question for me and its something i write about in the book a little bit. Id like a kind of vague, vague notions you know, probably where i sit on the political spectrum, there are people who are deeply, deeply skeptical of zionism has a project that was there but as a writer, i really, really try to avoid getting into a position where i am taking strong public stances on things that i have not seen firsthand confirm the skepticism. In fact, i would say deepen did and made it significantly worse i write about in the book, i amh we had when are people who are given one class of citizenship and another group of people who are not doing my travels in israel and on the West Bank. I saw a level of citizenship for jewish israelis. And then i saw as something lesser in various tiers for everybody else, i would include palestinian citizens of israel also in that and i was forced to wonder how a country that takes the civil Rights Movement so seriously, it could be implicated in such a project that was very disturbing, is very disturbed. You say that you saw more racism in israel than any way youve seen theres a line in your book that is something to that. Well, i said that i never saw it burned so strange and so hot exactly strange because i was not the subject of it. I for the first time in my life probably i will be Observer And Kind of outside of it you know, i think about a story i do not tell quite often by a visitor to the city of hebron and being with somebody whose parents and grandparents have been born into a city and yet they could not walk down the street with the freedom that, that i could. I think about being all over the West Bank. And if i had the taxi with the right color license plate, i pretty much had freedom to move and yet people whose ancestors had been here for hundreds of years did not you know, i think about the Justice System and the fact of meeting with people who were living under a military Justice System where only a mile or so away was a settlement that was ruled by the civil Justice System of israel edges. I dont know how we as americans, with all of our emphasis on democracy freedom, i dont know how, how, how we look past a society that erects a structure like this where the segregation is so clear and so obvious i am baffled as to why we are okay with that a lot of people would say in israel would say, look where we are flawed, but we are a democracy, we do have account, we knew have quotes. We do have we have its often said its the only democracy in The Middle East when you go there, and you, whats your reaction to that kind of that that argument . Well, i will say that i am skeptical because im probably somebody who would argue that america itself did not really have a democracy until the 1960s when you have the entire solid south that is basically ruled by ignoring onethird of its population and wiping. Them. I just dont know how you call that a democracy. And so i would say the same thing about, about israel. This is a situation where israel has ruled over the West Bank and gaza since 1967 and is equal have no real say in their ultimate governance. I dont know how you call yourself a democracy in a situation like that, when you look at it, do you think to use the analogy, Jim Crow is at a apartheid . How do you think about what i saw struck me as Jim Look Jim Crow, that was the first thing that occurred that academy and i got back and i know i was writing this and i had to do the research and i read the report from amnesty international Charging Apartheid. I read the report from Human Rights watch Charging Apartheid. I read the report from our betsy lam the israeli Human Rights weve Charging Apartheid are harrak charging a part of the palestinian Human Rights . And then i read the words of ehud barak. Ehud olmert, warning of a parttime. I mean it is very hard once the evidence starts piling up to avoid the obvious includes, so i do i do use the term apartheid, but i dont just use that based On My Own impressions. The evidence is pretty clear as far as im concerned. And to those who say look, what you describe on the ground may be the reality, but its complicated the palestinians have been willing to take these deals that are offered to them. They have a Terrorist Group like hamas attacks innocent israelis. What do you say to that . Well, i dont i dont deny any of that but what i say to that is there are things in this world that we just take you know, strong moral positions on certainly the history of it is complicated certainly the systems over there are complicated, but i dont think the morality of it is but i am somebody that is antideath penalty i am antideath penalty for those that sell nickel bags of marijuana on a Corner N for serial killers to and so like the case against apartheid for me, is not a case of palestinian hyper morality but the idea that hamas is so noble. There is nothing that i could have seen over there that would have led me to conclude yes, apartheid is justified. Theres just nothing i could see that would make me feel like that was okay theres a lot more in the book, but i just heard we do a deep dive on this. One very important can actually appreciate it for reid. 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Has taken a hard line. It has refused to recognize the taliban government and maintain sanctions on the taliban and Frozen Afghanistan Central Bank reserves last week, a group of countries threatened to bring the taliban to the International Court Of Justice for violating a un treaty that protects women from discrimination. Activist want to go further and codify Gender Apartheid as a crime against humanity in order to charge the taliban theres all certainly sounds morally satisfying and write but the strategy of shaming and sanctioning hasnt really worked against us adversaries from cuba to iran, to North Korea none of those governments have collapsed or reconciled with the u. S. Or granted. And if freedom to their people an important voice is instead calling for engagement with the taliban, that of saad mohseni, who cofounded afghanistans largest Media Company most any abhors the Talibans Treatment of women among his many disagreements with the group but he wants to try to make progress. He writes in a fascinating new book are kind of memoir of his time in afghanistan radio free afghanistan, about how his company now generally cooperates with the talibans rules but often negotiates the bounds of what is possible and occasionally even defies the taliban after the group returned to power in 2021, was in his networks canceled programming. They knew would be objectionable. In other ways, they adapted hosting all female shows to avoid the mixing of genders. They complied with a new rule requiring women to cover their faces, but also mounted a protest by having men wear face masks, even asking taliban officials to wear them when the taliban closed girls schools, they produce televised education so it could reach them. Most any believes the taliban can be reasoned with, to some extent, and that there are workarounds but the taliban crave respect above all else, and often digging when challenged sometimes its outdoors have taken simple steps to mollify them dropping the Term Taliban and instead, speaking of the islamic emirate, their preferred term many in the west understandably consider the taliban beyond the pale, undeserving of any legitimacy. But the reality is they are now in control of afghanistan the world has to work with them in some way. Thats not to say that washington should abandon all pressure far from it. But it must be pragmatic sometimes progress comes in small increments and halfmeasures but its better than none at all. 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