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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.

In this bit10 moments
  • 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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IsraelMike HuckabeeIranGazaWest BankUnited StatesTurkeyLebanon

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