i think it represents a colossal failure of us middle east policy. call when biden came into power, he wanted to "reduce the american foot print in the middle east". he pulled out of afghanistan, he wanted to focus on china and other more important global challenges, but as a direct result of the failure of us middle east policy, specifically the refusal or inability of the united states to put constraints on israel to rein it in, to establish redlines, it's being dragged back into the middle east and of course it's going to be american troops and perhaps even american citizens that are going to pay the price so this makes no sense from american national security perspective. and so it remains to be seen exactly how this is going to play out but i think the redeployment of forces by the united states into the region is essentially there to protect israel, does not bode well for stated american policy in the region and it recalls other moments — and i'm thinking of course about the iraq war when the united states entered this region hoping that it woul

us and the middle _ place. obviously you know both the us and the middle east _ place. oth the us and the middle east region - us and the middle east region extremely well. is it possible to say whether the date of the us election and an outcome that could be favourable potentially more favourable as the israelis might see it for them is something that is a factor here in any decision—making? yeah, i think it certainly is for the israelis. and others are watching that very closely. i think if you are benjamin netanyahu looking at november the 5th and the likelihood of a democratic district administration continuing or if it is president trunk, that is a big difference potentially on the approach to the war in gaza. there are very strong reasons, you'd argue for the israeli leadership perhaps to weigh that has been particularly among critics inside israel of benjamin netanyahu who have suggested, and this is extended not to some of the hostage families who have argued that their belief is that benjamin netanyahu has been playing for time, that he's not interested in a cea

in the end, it is not clear from the nomination. for the current election campaign in the us middle east. democrats are trying to win the laurels of peacemakers by reconciling israel and palestine. today in a diplomatic attack us secretary of state antony blinken went. he arrived in israel and said that tel aviv and hamas have one last chance to reach an agreement. blinken called on the parties to stop looking for excuses to disrupt the dialogue. the white house is running out of time, the conflict in the middle east is dividing the democrats in the midst of the election campaign. blinken met with prime minister of israel netanyahu, president herzog and defense minister gallant. netanyahu described the talks with hamas as positive the day before, however the palestinian movement has announced its rejection of the deal because of the new conditions. israel wants to retain control of the gaza border with egypt. last night , an explosion rocked tel aviv, a parked truck exploded. at least one person was killed. several others were seriously injured. israeli authorities declared it a terroris

us troops to the region to operate these assets. well, the announcement from the pentagon comes out is off the dignitaries from across the middle east bay, the final farewells, one of the regions, most significant political figures. the funeral home us politically. the smile on a husband held in capsule after he was assassinated into her on, on wednesday, bows him, us on the wrong accuse is row of carrying out the attack. following the assassination of this my and had a, a lots of onset since he looms over. the goal is the strip and the future of see spot negotiations and told that he has moved from data by law. in central garza, the people are very tired, they're waiting for the days where they are going to read night with their families that are separated. they're waiting to dig for the bodies of the missing aside. many members are waiting for the minute they could go outside the cause group and receive their medical treatment. there's a lot of, of, of misery and the loss of depression among the palestinians and the cleaning up some aid hmo me the suffering worse, especially that there's no holes or anything related to the negotia

iran has vowed to retalitate against israel, and the us has sent more aircraft and warships to the region. let's speak to our middle eastdent biden discussing steps to protect us forces in the middle east. —— us president biden. do we have an idea who might be behind this suspected rocket attack in iraq? behind this suspected rocket attack in ira: ? , behind this suspected rocket attack inlra.? , , behind this suspected rocket attack iniraa? , , , ., in iraq? this bases in western iraq, which has been _ in iraq? this bases in western iraq, which has been repeatedly - in iraq? this bases in western iraq, | which has been repeatedly targeted by iranian—backed militia in iraq, especially after the hamas attacks of the 7th of october. it seems that the two rocket spell inside this base. at least five years personnel, soldiers and contractors, were injured. obviously, this happened as this region is waiting for this iranian retaliation, after the assassination of the hamas political chief that happened last week in tehran. western officials believe that iran might be planning an attack that is bigger than the one that it car

let's return to the middle east — and ongoing efforts to bring an end to the war in gaza. the usire deal. following a meeting with benjamin netanyahu on monday, mr blinken said israel had agreed to what he called

is there any piece negotiate a present of us middle east peace projects, piano. i'm interested in hearing what you have about the genocide. then we started the show to what i've done is i bet anybody out of it because it's absurd. there's many definitions. you're in the way, what do you make of the funny is exactly what i expect him to be, which is a genocide deny or an a genocide apologist. every human rights organization has been defining this as a, as a genocide, we have the i c j that has come out and said that there is plausible case for genocide and yet worship. believe he is rarely is the only people who say that it isn't a genocide. israel is allowed to be a colonizer, is there, i was allowed to do with it, please is. and that house to me is just have to sit by idly and take it. and this is the fundamental problem with design as a, but we tell us citizens are the ones who feel zionism on our bodies. we've paid for it with our lives. we paid for it with our land. this attempt to redefine zion as a, we'll go nowhere because, you know, and the united states.

not only that they'll have to defend us assets in the middle east, us personnel in the middle east, but also that they might have to step in and help israel as an ally. of course, you heard ben describing the potential for you us warships to block ballistic missiles, to block rockets that is very key. there is also, as you're hearing of these flight cancellations, as you're hearing of people struggling to get out of lebanon, could us assets there be available to evacuate people if necessary? that's one of the potential scenarios on the table. you also have to consider the possibility of us personnel that could be caught in the crossfire and then there is very important trade routes in this area to consider as well. you mentioned the yemen, you mentioned yemen and the houthi militia. well, that red sea route is absolutely crucial to the global economy. could the united states need to step in there and clear those shipping routes that's enough other scenario that's on the table. but what us forces need most and i'm sure you can understand this is for the temperature to cool down, is for p

policy on cause since the obama administration and the london daniel levy is president of the us middle east project. and a member of these right need delegation to peace talks with the palestine in the late 1990. so we have 2 of you who are full of mediators and negotiators, and a journalist in chicago, where that convention is taking place to give us the us electro, a dimension to all of this done. you'll let me start with you us secretary of state, and to me blinking noise trip to the region since october the 7th. we'll look at all the possible details of a deal in a moment, but perhaps let's sum up how things feel at the moment. are you optimistic that that can be a deal a day? so i think on this night's busy the secretary of state lincoln, he is developing a talent. so mediating between the, the components in caps inside use right. exist, lincoln is not quite that you still have the prime minister's office and possibly the defense establishment frank to keep racing against each other in terms of nothing yahoos mandate not allowing to deal. similarly with the prime minister's office and

get us middle east. i'm going. thank you so much. to great, now we're a top commander, alexander sir skis, says keith has set up a military office in russia's kursk region while it's forces are continuing to advance the claims ukraine is in control of dozens of settlements, spanning more than 1100 square kilometers of russian territory. gives us its plans to use the occupied area as a strategic buffer zone to protect its border region from russian attacks. in the past 10 days, a crane has carried out the biggest attack on russian soil. since the 2nd world war . the green launched its incursion into russia from the border region, assuming which says directly across from the curse region, are responded and economy sent us this update from their to this is way ukraine's incursion to rush up again, just over with you as why i'm standing here is still ukraine territory behind me, you can see the destroyed border post and 10 kilometers down the road is the russian town a subject. where if social media videos and to be believed, the great n

that's the most difficult part with the negotiators. cautiously optimistic, daniel, get us middle east and thank you so much. and we can now take a look at some other stories making news around the world. thousands of people in calcutta talk to the streets condemning the rape and murder of a female training doctor. under the slogan reclaimed, the nights demonstrators called for an end to violence against women in india. smaller protests also took place in other cities around the country place and germany's cologne bon airport have resumed after being disrupted by climate activists from the group. last generation to people blew themselves to a section a runway after entering the airport through a hole in the fence. lights were also briefly stopped after similar protests at other german airports. hollywood actor gena rowlands has died. she was 94 years old. award winning star was known for for train, strong troubled women and film such as gloria and the women under the influence, both of which are in her nominations for best actress. oscar to the world health organization has declared a

it's also going to have written the guard he is the us middle east envoy. he's going to be involved as well. you're also going to have a delegation from israel to be headed by david barnett. he's the head of them side . also, the egyptian intelligence chief as well, of course, as the company prime minister, how much money assignment now with regards to how much that's the big question in the coming hours. because how much had stated that they did not want to enter into new negotiations. that what they want to see if they want to see a response from israel to the framework agreement that had been laid out by us president joe biden in late may. and then how about us had agreed to infer early july. so the question is, are they going to be involved? how much are they going to be involved? you've had officials from call 3rd tells us that how much is going to be involved in some way as far as who's going to be here, how much you're going to be involved in discussions. we don't know yet at this hour, but we should stress that these negotiations have never been dir

these have included support from the us-based middle east foundation, asignist think tank at the forefront of encouraging islamophobia. but in addition, a co-founder of the edl was a person using the pseudonym, paul ray. ray has previously been a covert spy inside the pro palestine group, the international solidarity movement on behalf of front page. magazine a hardline us zionist entity. according to accounts at the time, the products of the spying was shared with the intelligence agencies, including in israel. in 2011, the bbc reported that the edl was in receipt of intelligence on islam from israel. in 2010, the edl was registered by member of the uk branch of the jewish defense league. the jewish defense league was designated terrorist group. in the us and appears to be reemerging there in recent months. the director, roberta moore is a former occupation forces member seen here toating a weapon in a jdl t-shirt. after three years, she changed the name of the company to the jewish defense league, uk limited. moore was the head of the so-called jewish division of the edl until her involv

these have included support from the us-based middle east foundation, a zionist think tank at the forefront of encouraging islamophobia. but in addition, a co-founder of the edl was a person using the pseudonym, paul ray. ray has previously been a covert spy inside the pro palestine group, the international solidarity movement, on behalf of front page magazine, a hardline us zionist entity. according to accounts at the time, the products of this spying was shared with the intelligence agencies, including in israel. in 2011, the bb. reported that the edl was in receipt of intelligence on islam from israel. in 2010, the edl was registered by member of the uk branch of the jewish defense league. the jewish defense league was designated terrorist group in the us and appears to be reemerging there in recent months. the director, roberta moore is a former occupation forces member seen here toating a weapon in a jdl t-shirt after three years. she changed the name of the company to the jewish defense league, uk limited. moore was the head of the so-called jewish division of the edl until her involv

possible retaliation, but we have also heard from the us ambassador to the un saying the us goal in the middle eastature down. what are the conversations going on in the us government at the moment about how that can be done? the temperature on the ground has already been rising pretty fast and the diplomacy has been around trying to call things. it is hard to try and predict what the iranians will do in any situation. they have a tendency in the past to act in what is sometimes an asymmetric way, not a direct attack into israel but perhaps attacking some of its interests overseas or, for example, us assets or us personnel in the middle east, something the us so desperately wants to try to avoid, but it gives you a flavour of the wide range of scenarios that could take place, that everyone is trying to stand down. i think when it comes to the iranians, they have a new president in place, described by some as more moderate. i think any decision about military action, the driving force would always be the supreme leader and the revolutionary guards and it is not clear where things are on that. a lot

expects the gaza ceasefire talks to "move forward as planned" with cia director william burns and us middle eastid the talks were critical to de—escalate tensions in the region. the resumption of talks on thursday is an important step. an important step to continue that. we need to release the hostages, as you will know some of those hostages are american hostages. we need to make sure that lasting relief delivered to the palestinian civilians in gaza and lower the tension in the region and we have said this many times before. the hostage deal come the ceasefire deal will help to lower tensions in the region. mohamed taha from bbc arabic is with me in the studio. good morning. a push they are from the white house to see success today but thomas is not sending anyone to these talks. what is the hope? there is not much hope, to be honest. hamas is insisting that there are only proposals from president biden that was endorsed by the un resolution 207 — 8275. and there is nothing else, that we have to dear to the resolution council also endorsed by the g7 but israel apparently wants additional reque

meanwhile, us secretary of state, antony blinken, is reportedly postponing his visit to the middle eastd to be in the region ahead of thursday's ceasefire talks between israel and hamas. the us has been pushing for both parties to return to the negotiating table. it is unclear whether hamas has agreed to take part. america's ambassador to the un, told a security council meeting the goal was to "turn the temperature down" in the region. our state department correspondent, tom bateman, shared his analysis a bit earlier. my my sense about all this is he still probably wants to do a visit to the middle east to put pressure on the ceasefire framework and on the talks actually going ahead once again. this is a question all about timing because you have all these uncertainties, still the concerns about a possible iranian retaliation or strikes by hezbollah into israel. that has not gone away with and also a lot of uncertainty about the ceasefire talks themselves and thatis ceasefire talks themselves and that is because after the americans have finally cajoled the israelis to send a delegation

history at georgetown university here in cats, out in the specialist on history of the us policy towards the middle east. thanks again for being with us. first of all, what do you, what do you think that we haven't seen another 65 do? what does it come down to essentially? yeah, i mean it's a, it's an excellent question because i do think that we've been having the same discussion for months now about the teen or the failure to reach this agreement. we know what the parameters would look like. we know exactly what the outcome is supposed to be. the problem i think is that we, we have this false framing of this being a conflict between 2 equal, warring parties. and in fact, what we're really witnessing is a genocide, being committed, one by one side against a defenseless, essentially besieged population. and historically, we've never seen genocides come through these kinds of negotiated settlement. so what really needs to be there is a political will from international actors that would essentially stop israel from what it's doing. and we haven't seen that the united states continues to, to say it's conc

as the us ready to be involved in another middle east contact? conflict. but the support and ties that we have with israel are such that that is the nature how we are functioning today. we have the president say that the assassination has been unhelpful, a very diplomatic term, and we know that the efforts at diplomacy had been redundant. unfortunately, fortunately, u nfortu nately, fortu nately, diplomacy has unfortunately, fortunately, diplomacy has been on the front burner since october a. it is hard to say that there has been a lapse in it —— 0ctober eight. diplomats from the united states, frankly from the region and europe as well has been working on the front burners of this conflict trying to keep it from expanding. it is telling, though, the strikes between hezbollah and israel and lebanon, that operational tempo is still saying that this is not a wider war. this shows us how different the world is from october six to where we are now any tolerance for conflict in the region which we are all accepting at this point. it comes down to our

and will this kind of planning be affected by the presence of the us beating up its military post or in the middle east? thank you for the interesting things about the changing us for sponsoring the region. and this is an observable trends going back. i think a decade and a half, i'm not mistaken. which is that sometimes even at the peak of that having to us carriers, for example, in the persian gulf, these law maker, public run was still undeterred and this is the larger challenge. both is real in america faces in the region, which is that while it's essential to send a strong signal to showcase military capabilities to both intercept weapons as were be able to respond to the potential strikes these monica public is betting that the political will to respond is not there and that's why you've seen engaging a whole host of risky behaviors over this past decade and a half. that has let us precisely to the moment that we're now in, i think if some force deployments had works, they would have worked well in the past when the regime had a potentially different and less sticky and less negative perception o

so the height of all g 0 daniel, if he is the president of the us middle east, a project and an a gauche, and a former negotiator for is really governance needs advocating for washington to stop sending weapons to israel. one has to distinguish a couple of things. first of all, there has been the ongoing uh let's, let's call it correctly dishonesty and you publicity of the us administration, which has been telling us that the only problem is from us. they now beginning to fluctuate, acknowledging that these, the, the deceit that it has always been nothing. yahoo does not want to see side. then you have what, you know, what really comes across to me at least as she really a weakness is quite the subject. when john cubby, uh, the, the spokes person that all the white house tons round and says, well this guy that sells smoked rich and what he said, it's not smart. rich, it's nothing you out of these policies and then a leak to that favorite media around. that's i'm not referring to, oh, bite and got really angry. he got frustrated with nothing. yahoo, but you gave him 3500000000 in homes. w

my colleague konstantin churikov will tell us about the situation in the middle east. e has already joined me. kos, good morning. tell us, how are world markets reacting to this new round of tension. sasha, one can say that investors have already begun to take this situation seriously. world hydrocarbon markets have become nervous in anticipation of a new round of escalation in the middle east. there has been a tendency for oil and gas prices to rise. the main concerns are related to a possible iran's large-scale response to the assassination of palestinian hamas leader ismail haniyeh. additional factors emerged. the day before, after israel's strikes on lebanon, an attack by lebanese hezbollah and its leader's threats to respond powerfully to tel aviv, the hydrocarbon market could not withstand it. oil had been falling before, but then it started to rise. in just over an hour, a barrel of brand rose by more than a dollar and a half to 77. at the same time, gas prices in europe jumped from 407 dollars per 1.0 cubic meter to 414. experts say that these are still small bu

what we understand this has how much the official has survived a daniel leaders president of the us middle east project. he's a former negotiator with these really government. he's joining the stuff from london. thank you very much. indeed for being with us, i want to talk to you 1st of all about the cross border walkers attacks we've seen between israel and has of all that just in the last a 72 hours or so. i'm israel said that it carried out a pre emptive strikes on the defend for defensive purposes, which then led to the rocket attacks from has ball that others have been describing israel's action as a provocation. that was designed to bring his ball into a war and subsequently and run into a 6 regional conflict. what's your assessment of what's been happening? so these really position is the key was to cool back. some of the tyrants did it as last recalibrate some of the shift in the balance of power in the region which is going against israel. and you can do that. and it has a miracle that threatened me to pay more assets into the region. if it can do that with out a full blown bit more in

oleksiy kovalenko will tell more about the situation in the middle east. usstroyers are headed to the middle east for full-scale war deterrence and defense. israel the pentagon is moving significant forces into the region to prepare for the possible need to defend israel from attack. at the same time, we are working very hard on diplomatic de-escalation of the situation, because we do not believe that a regional war is in anyone's interests at this time. and this is what we have been trying to avoid since the events of october 7. the demonstration of military power is taking place against the backdrop of a sharp increase in tensions in the region, following the assassination of hamas leader ismail. last week and the rocket attack on the israeli-controlled dutch heights, as a result of which dozens of children died on the football field a few days before. israel blamed the attack on the lebanese militant group hezbollah and struck hezbollah targets in lebanon. one of the military commanders of hezbollah was killed. iran supports both hamas and hezbollah. the o

use continues here and i'll just get off to the bottom line. the a. hi, i'm steve clements. i have a question. is the war on garza and height intention across the middle east becoming the new normal? let's get to the bottom line in less than a year, events, but used to be seen as dangerous game changers are now seen as reading moments in the middle east. you have been attacking israel and shutting down global shipping lanes. has ballade talking about bombing the headquarters of b is really massage, a 100 is really war planes bombing lab and on the united nations, announcing that it can no longer operate in gaza. because israel has left no safe space for its workers. and throughout all of this, israel's foreign guys, it continues with daily death and destruction for the $2000000.00 plus the palestinians living there with the us led talks to end that we're still stuck in 1st gear is this, the new normal america says it wants to ability in the middle east and to cease fire and gaza, but neither of those things seem to be going in washington's direction. so what does this mean for us policy and diplomacy? today we're talking with daniel kurtz or professor of m

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us policy and diplomacy? today we're talking with daniel kurtz or professor of middle east policy studies at princeton university and former us ambassador to israel and egypt. dan, it's great to be with you today. um let me just start. we see a just ongoing turmoil and convulsions right now in and around israel in the broader middle east, the gaza crisis, now increasing tension with both iran and has the law. and i'm just wondering why you know, down the road. what does this look like? is this the new normal? i will see, so it's good to be with you, but this is the messages of the middle east has been in quite some time because we have seen mores uh between israel and several of its neighbors. we've seen internal problems in syria, olivia yemen, press here you have a combination of interest, savings, interest, state of tensions, and violence that presents a very valid title mix of just the other day. a prime minister netanyahu reportedly told a, uh, a group of hostage families that he thinks israel is facing of war of annihilation . led by ron, that's probably a well over stated, but it can suggest you what the

is there any piece negotiated present of us, middle east peace project, piano, i'm interested in hearing what you have about the genocide. then we started the show to what i've done is i bet anybody out of it because it's absurd. there's many definitions. you're in the way. what do you make of the funny is exactly what i expect him to be, which is a genocide deny or an a genocide apologist. every human rights organization has been defining this as a, as a genocide, we have the i c j that has come out and said that there is plausible case for genocide and yet worship. believe he is rarely is the only people who say that it isn't a genocide. israel is allowed to be a colonizer, is there, i was allowed to do with it, please is. and that house to me is just have to sit by idly and take it. and this is the fundamental problem with design as a, but we tell us citizens are the ones who feel zionism on our bodies. we've paid for it with our lives. we paid for it with our land. this attempt to re define zion as a, we'll go nowhere because, you know, and the nice of the, the am i know you're into

us. so as far as hawks aimed at ending the wall between israel and how much in garza all continuing in the middle east, the us x ray of state times ne, blinking arrived in egypt earlier on tuesday, where he met with the egyptian president of delta l. c. c, lincoln says israel has accepted a bridging proposal from us, the militant group that committed the october. the 7th terror attacks has accused israel as making changes to the proposal that go against what they will offered in early july. so it is still unclear if they will accept the concessions. lincoln says he's gotten from israel or e mail go hari in cairo, is following the story for us. he told me more about how, how mazda is responding to this latest proposal. you know, and it seems that they're not very happy with what the, until the police. because the rich richie the, they say we had an agreement in july was the bible proposal at that time. and in disagreements, there was a, a group that there was a 2 phases of exchanging is really hostages and punches to be in prison. this 1st in the 6 months and 6 weeks periods of a ceasefire, then this e

but united states of america who thoughts that's bringing us right into the middle east. what is keep, you know, dominion is divided. would keep them in the east week and would be able to pigeon one nice. you know, the whole middle east, so there for police, my, you know, is that's the city entity. so every time that they think that this ryan is endangered, the valley, you know, immediately connected to come to provide protection. support is a, this is what's a binding has that, he said, you know, we out of the, you know, us, is that it's not only to protect the american citizens anywhere in the world, but to protect israel from what, from justice, from world justice. imagine that's really the reality. you know, when the us defense a success in, uh, you know, all students comes and says that he is mobilizing, you know, on the american uh, you know, uh, forces, uh, the sub machine is the others you know, to, to, to, to, to move into the middle east to provide it with production. if israel is being to be the threat don't, of course today is the, is not strong enough to prot