Palestine and the Iran War
Yousef Munayyer on the divergence between the US and Israel.
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Palestine and the Iran War w/ Yousef Munayyer | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
As negotiations proceed in ending the Iran War, the question of the relationship between the US
and Israel becomes more salient. I spoke with Middle East expert Yousef Munayyer on the
agenda of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose interest in a securing his country’s
hegemony in the region is now in conflict with efforts to end the war.
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Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu visits an Israeli military unit stationed in the occupied territory of southern Lebanon on April 12, 2026.
(Kobi Gideon – GPO / Anadolu via Getty Images)As negotiations proceed in ending the Iran War, the question of the relationship between the US and Israel becomes more salient. I spoke with Middle East expert Yousef Munayyer about the agenda of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose interest in securing his country’s hegemony in the region is now in conflict with efforts to end the war.
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The UK Government’s AI Obsession Is a Big Risk w/ Will Dunn / Tech Won’t Save Us
What happens when a government goes all in on AI? It creates some huge vulnerabilities. Will Dunn joins Paris Marx to dig into how the UK government is using chatbots to write laws without public consultation and why it isn’t asking the hard questions about the risks of that growing reliance on US technology.
Will Dunn is the business editor at the New Statesman.
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