Israel’s End Game: Can Israel Survive Its Policies? w/ Miko Peled

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Israel's End Game: A Limited Podcast Series Featuring Miko Peled...................... 18 February Diana Buttu..................... 25 February Mohammed El-Kurd....... 23 February Ilan Pappe........................... 02 March Mouin Rabbani................... 04 March Noura Erakat.............................. TBA Shir Hever.................................. TBA Host: Bassam Haddad Guest Host: Adam Horowitz Produced by Jadaliyya and Gaza in Context Project, Cosponsored by Mondoweiss www.PalestineInContext.org "Israel’s End Game" is a podcast series probing whether Israel can indefinitely sustain policies of expansion, dispossession, military occupation, and apartheid, and how shifting geopolitical balances might enable or constrain those policies. We ask our guests whether or how internal divisions within Israel or Israel’s growing international isolation--particularly in the public sphere and despite furious campaigns to suppress scrutiny and criticism—could alter Israel’s strategic choices. This includes indices such as the impact of campaigns targeting lawmakers tied to pro-Israel funding. The series also examines whether recent developments—including the Gaza Genocide, the rupture of the US’s traditional alliances, domestic polarization, and economic woes—have meaningfully changed the global balance of power or merely reinforced established patterns by normalizing a more profound breakdown of an already inconsistent “rules-based order.” Finally, the series addresses whether Israeli leaders misread or deliberately discount emerging political, economic, and social shifts, domestically or internationally, that could alter Israel’s current trajectory. Miko Peled is an author, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is the author of The General’s Son, a contributor to several publications, authors this blog (mikopeled.com), and produces The Miko Peled Podcast, all of which he dedicated to advocating for the creation of one democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. Miko is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine. He has been arrested several times by the Israeli authorities for his activism. Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@Jadaliyya?sub_confirmation=1 http://instagram.com/jadaliyya http://twitter.com/jadaliyya http://jadaliyya.com #Jadaliyya