Episode 15 - How Israel functions as an extension of US Imperial interests | Joseph Massad | UNAPOLOGETIC

“It’s not just that the US is complicit in this genocide, the US itself is responsible for this genocide”.

A year after the events of 7 October, Joseph Massad speaks about Israel's response and what it has all meant and could mean for the region.

Massad speaks about how Israel acts as an extension of US imperial policy. His unapologetic analysis is that it’s an “absurd argument” that the US is being dragged into wars it does not want by Israel and rather the the US has “pushed Israel to be more aggressive in the region since 1967”.

We also speak about the prospect of regional war and how that will play out, the response of Arab countries which in his view have continued to support Israel, how the media have covered the last year, what has driven the devastation in Gaza, the future of the region and so much more.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:00 Predicting Israel's brutal response to October 7th
• 8:08 How long could this go on for
• 10:36 Israel as an imperial extension of the U.S Empire
• 19:37 Will there be a regional war? And, the Democrats, as the "party of war"
• 22:45 Low points of the US administration in the last year
• 24:50 The response of Arab countries to the "genocide"
• 29:50 Iran being "fabricated" as an enemy
• 34:50 The Arab street, suppression and security crackdowns?
• 40:35 How would Russia and China react to a regional war?
• 43:50 What does the last year mean for international law and legitimacy?
• 49:40 The future of Israel and Zionism
• 58:40 Why did you become a scholar and what have you learnt?
• 1:03:59 The US has always maintained its imperial project
• 1:07:20 Social media and media framing
• 1:08:51 What could we see in this next year