Interview · moment 21 of 31
Turkey as Israel's Next Target and the 'Religious War' Framing
from Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486 · #486
4 min
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Tim raises reports that Israel views Turkey as its next existential threat, and Scahill argues a generation across the Middle East is being taught this is a religious war, warning of severe long-term blowback against Gulf monarchies complicit with the US and Israel.
- Israel signals Turkey is its biggest threat outside Iran, despite Turkey being a NATO country
- Tim compares Israel's preemptive war doctrine to the Bush doctrine's biggest foreign policy failures
- Israeli officials publicly claiming Turkey is an existential threat in the middle of regional conflict
- A generation of young people across the Middle East is being conditioned to believe this is a religious war
- US ambassador Mike Huckabee endorses a greater Israel from Mediterranean to Tigris-Euphrates rivers on theological grounds
- Gulf monarchies propped up by American military presence have no democracy, their populations bribed into silence
- Gaza genocide, West Bank annexation, Lebanon displacement clearing hundreds of thousands from Beirut suburbs
- Tim warns the region is set on fire and repeating the 9/11 cycle: stepping on the same rake in the yard every few cycles
- Israel appears to be winning but events are being set in motion with unknowable consequences
- Millions told this is a religious war against them, which will create blowback against the United States in a major way
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