The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey
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Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands, Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa.
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This week’s US sanctioning of an Israeli-government-backed vigilante settler group constitutes a weak shot across Israel’s bow as the United States and Europe mull also sanctioning ultra-nationalist members of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.
Middle East Report 30 August 2024
A recent evolution in critics’ thinking about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s drivers suggests that he is motivated as much by ultra-nationalist ideology as by political opportunism.
James M. Dorsey tells TRT World that the escalating hostilities raise more questions than they provides answers.
Sunday’s escalation of hostilities along the Israeli-Lebanese border raises more questions than it provides answers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to continue the Gaza war extends beyond personal political survival and legal concerns, says Dr James M. Dorsey in an interview with Radio Islam.
Gaza’s desperately needed but increasingly elusive ceasefire, if achieved, is likely to be fragile, threatened by multiple ticking time bombs that could explode at any given moment unless it is embedded in a political process that culminates with the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
The time bombs are ticking with or without a ceasefire but will likely be accentuated if and when the guns fall silent.
US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators appear optimistic after two days of Gaza ceasefire talks. Even so, US officials are considering confronting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu publicly should the talks ultimately fail.
Long frustrated with Mr. Netanyahu's refusal to heed US advice, President Joe Biden is considering shelving his bear hug approach for a more assertive attitude should the US-Qatar-Egypt mediated talks fail, according to US officials.
James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies talks to TRT World about the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha and the prospects of a lasting truce in Israel’s war on Gaza.
When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif with up to 3,000 of his singing, dancing, and praying ultra-nationalist religious followers, he didn’t just target the site holy to Jews and Muslims.
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s warning in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation seemed overstated at the time. However, looking back, Mr. Brzezinski’s warning rings prophetic.
Five decades ago, Nayef Hawatmeh, an aging left-wing guerrilla leader, created a template for a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian resistance that has lessons for today’s warring parties.
Qatar, Egypt, and the US have called on Israel and Hamas to resume talks to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s assault on Gaza continues. James N. Dorsey from Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies unpacks whether there will be any breakthrough in these talks.
The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is about more than Israel’s targeting of the group’s officials whenever and wherever an opportunity arises.
Mr. Haniyeh was known as a ‘pragmatist’ and a ‘moderate’ within Hamas. His killing was as much about achieving Israel’s goal of destroying Hamas militarily and politically as it was about quashing any chance that a post-war Hamas would potentially be more accepting of a two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Intellectual honesty is a rare commodity in the divide between Israelis and Palestinians.
It is even rarer with the rise of Jewish ultra-nationalism and a generation of Israelis and Palestinians nurtured on prejudiced, biased, and often supremacist perceptions of the other.
The irony is that historically, it was far-right militants, and currently, it is fringe left-wing intellectuals who displayed intellectual honesty, even if their conclusions differ radically.
Washington sends more military hardware to the region in anticipation of retaliatory attacks against Israel. Iran's president says the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will not unpunished, with US intelligence suggesting an attack on Israel could happen within 24 to 48 hours. James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, explains on TRT.
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Friday, August 2, 2024
James M. Dorsey is a writer and journalist and author of the new book The Battle for the Soul of Islam - Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century, published by Macmillan.
Israeli forces have raided Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank following an airstrike on a car that killed at least five people, including Hamas military leader Haitham Balidi. In response, the US Pentagon announced the deployment of additional jet fighters and warships to the region, anticipating possible Iranian retaliation for the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Thousands mourned Haniyeh across the Middle East, with rallies in Lebanon, Yemen, and Jordan, and his burial in Qatar. The United Nations reports that nearly two-thirds of buildings in Gaza, over 151,000 structures, have been damaged or destroyed since October 7.
Speaking to Radio Islam, Dr. James M. Dorsey highlighted that since October 7, Israel has vowed to kill Hamas leaders whenever the opportunity arises. He noted that the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was important because Haniyeh was viewed as a pragmatist and a moderate within Hamas.
The session will open with a wrap-up of where developments stand after the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukur in Beirut and Israel’s confirmation of the killing in mid-July of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The question: is How will Iran, Hezbollah, and other non-state Iranian allies respond, is the Middle East on the brink of all out, and how do these events impact the Gaza ceasefire talks?
Lost in the Middle Eastern fog of war is a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about shaping future generations in a swath of land that stretches from the Gulf states and the Gaza battlefield to Houthi schools in Yemen and jihadist seminaries in Indonesia.
It’s a rivalry of competing worldviews in textbooks designed to shape education in the 21st century in Muslim lands. The players run the gamut from jihadists and religious militants to autocracies that propagate a socially more tolerant but politically repressive interpretation of Islam.
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