The Game of Camps: A Strategic Overview of the Middle East - Eran Lerman

[@cherylt-sun1528]

Brilliant lecturer who is highly interesting! And all without notes!

[@Yvette-p9q]

Excellent lecture thank you! God bless Israel! Greetings from polish lady in Australia

[@paulheydarian1281]

So what was your takeaway from watching this lecture? 🤔

[@spartacusche]

so you support the new nazi?

[@maria-simoneschmutzler3472]

Haven't we met elsewhere in the Internet? A German grandmother living near Hamburg.

[@anibrown5374]

Brilliant overview of a time we've lived through but never quite managed to put together the pieces.

[@MauriceClingempeel]

Oct 7th 2023 never forget

[@augen8819]

Back to eastern Europe Israhrlli

[@evamurray2564]

​@@augen8819what about the 2 million Arab muslims living in Israel, the Druze, Bedouins, middle eastern Mizrahi jews, who also live in Israel. Polish jews are not the majority, numpty.

[@lisaschuster686]

In the Gazan rubble we have a vivid picture of what “never again” looks like. Israelis are born into living history, one hand holding his chariot of fire.

[@runnerfromjupiter]

🇮🇱

[@acfatemi]

Fantastic , comprehensive yet thourough exposé of recent history in the MENA region! THANKS

[@SeverusAlexanderAugustus]

What a tour de force by Dr. Lerman.

[@changedNameSorry]

Is there any good lecture online on Qatar's curious foreign policy?

[@paulheydarian1281]

Good Question. 😅 Let know if you find something decent. 😉

[@serpentines6356]

That would be interesting. He doesn't talk about Qatar specifically, but I like Ben-Dor Yemini, and there is a pro-Israel group that investigates where Qatar money goes into Western educational institutions. It's interesting to hear how these institutions will hide where all that (Qatar) money is coming from.

[@sj6986]

I am also very curious about Qatar’s policy play here. Is it Qatar choosing to play both sides or is Qatar being the middleman at behest of US and Israel? Hard to tell without any credible expert insight. Remember, Qatar transferred dollars to Hamas with Israel’s assent (specifically Netanyahu). Similarly, the US has repeatedly praised Qatar’s mediation for both Hamas and Taliban. Now Qatar does want to rival Saudi influence in the region in both - politics and energy spheres but I find it hard to believe they would stick their neck out especially on something as sensitive as Afghanistan of their own volition.

[@runnerfromjupiter]

Ah yes! Qatar : The nation with a usa base 😉

[@DanielArnolf]

With such a resume I would think the lecturer is at least 500 years old.

[@jodysanders6445]

I was just thinking the same thing…is our world still making these types of stunningly intelligent and accomplished people?

[@LeoBenderski]

Extraordinary lecture handling a complex conflict with outstanding brilliance! Looking forward to similar content in the near future!

[@schyllic]

Thanks, I am enjoying the lecture

[@RomanGolubev_A]

Thanks heaps for sharing your thoughts

[@ShalomYal]

Wow Amazing Why is he not on the news?

[@maria-simoneschmutzler3472]

Very interesting!

[@user-wi9nn6dz8w]

Having lived in the Middle East, I have even heard statements from Sunni calling Shia non-Muslim.

[@liteenergy4843]

There is a difference between a country being governed by a dynasty/heredity, by power/who's the biggest and most powerful, and a country being governed by principles/laws. For the latter to work, these need to be good principles and laws, or at least fairly good ones. Whoever leads the government is still expected to follow and uphold these principles and laws. If the leadership changes these principles and laws remain in place. This is what Israel seems to have in common with Western governments and the US. Principles can sometimes be equated with a Higher Power/God. They are part of God's identity or something like that. At the same time, principles can stand alone as something in themselves, and can light the way for the secular as well as people of faith.

[@serpentines6356]

It's interesting though that the more secular our society is getting the more unhappy, and nutty it's getting too.

[@liteenergy4843]

@@serpentines6356 I myself went through a change from just believing in principles and ideas to seeing them as part of God's Spirit and inner nature. This took me like 20 years or something. From my own experience, I can say that secularism can be a route and a road to something good.

[@pertengroth6570]

👍 Very good

[@jackson76724]

I wish I could be as clever as this man.

[@ordro107]

Islamism is not a bug in Islam. It’s the real face of Islam

[@catherinejudd7993]

When the many new nations were constructed from the crumbling Ottoman Empire between 1918-1948 to create independent nation states in the Near & Middle East , have today’s disintegrating and fractions split along the ancient Ottoman Empire lines?

[@Randy-lg1qo]

Brilliant

[@lamoitte1]

"Sphere of Influence" and "Clash of Civilizations" struggle, wars, are as ancient as mankind's civilizations. Iran's contemporary regional designs could be viewed as similar to the Persian-Greeks wars of the early 480 B.C., when an empire ruled by an absolute king, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, tried to subjugate the Greeks, nominally Democratic. Then, it was Authoritarianism V. Democracy. Today is Islam's Totalitarianism V. Western Democratic Liberalism. In the 'vernacular', Israel's is, geographically, the metaphorical "bone stuck in the throat" of Iran's regional ambitions.

[@LilacPledge]

Thank you. ❤️🇮🇱❤️

[@manueldiskenstein28]

Related issues on football world Cup. Argentina won the Cup despite the qataries and France and other shed.

[@kiswindsidaguigma9261]

Who destroyed these countries? That's the question

[@paulheydarian1281]

Look to the US State Department during the first and part of the second Obama Terms. Folks like Hillary Clinton in particular. Keep in mind that Obama US Dep't was focused on the JCPOA from 2012 to 2015.

[@kiswindsidaguigma9261]

@paulheydarian1281 when Trump canceled the JCPOA, how did that work out? Iran is close to having nuclear weapons. I'm an American, and I watch the Israelis I24. Many past political, military, and intelligence leaders say interesting things over there. I learned from there that the Syrian war was set by the Isrealis intelligence services

[@SeverusAlexanderAugustus]

Their own kleptocratic rulers. That's the answer.

[@kiswindsidaguigma9261]

@@SeverusAlexanderAugustus you should watch I24 sometimes.

[@leewinslett2592]

Interesting lecture but I am always uncomfortable when so-called smart people resort to calling other people from another culture ‘flies’ or make jokes about someone as widely esteemed as Nader dying at a young age and the audience chuckles. This is your story and perhaps the Israeli/Jewish story that has lots of validity. But other people’s have their stories that have validity as well…and dehumanizing people by calling them flies and delegitimating their concerns and aspirations to me seems like part of the problem on all sides. Maybe it’s the human condition that we all suffer from…but God, no matter what we call Him/Her, I hope not!

[@lamoitte1]

It is a "clash of civilization" between the Democratic Liberalism and the Islamic Authoritarianism. YOU, yes, you, have to decide which narrative you adopt as yours.

[@ShlomoMendelssohn]

What about the current Israeli genocide in Gaza?!

[@JoJoBoOzK.O.]

what about it?

[@TheBabasaly]

Fiction tale catered to those who want to believe in fiction. Obviously, there isn't a genocide in Gaza, but a war.

[@ShlomoMendelssohn]

@@TheBabasaly Yes, as occupying power, Israel has no right to employ violence against any of the inhabitants of Gaza. The whole world sees the genocide for what it is. If the government of Israel cared about protecting its citizens, it would not have helped create Hamas and would have ended the occupation long ago. I learned all about the Zionist project when I was in Yeshiva. Eventually I realized it was contrary to Halachah and terrible for Jewish people.

[@augen8819]

​@@TheBabasalyGas xx season 2 now totally justified

[@gurbevanbelle]

@@augen8819i have no idea what you are talking about

[@hellomynameis8536]

This guy is way to apologetic towards islam. Ive read the koran, no other holy text encourages violence as much or as vociferously.

[@lignumvitaeprincess]

Interesting that there is a need to clarify he is a 3rd generation (Sabra) born in Israel/Palestine

[@kiswindsidaguigma9261]

The last time I was watching I24 and one Israelis stated that Isrealis created the conflict in Syria to distract the Iranians force. The problem is that you have human beings living there.

[@brianprager8050]

A string of contemptuous opinions/ conclusions about most every establishment of government and of all social movements among Arabs in their various states/ countries. No factual information, no historical or sociological understandings of the various societies conveyed. And so, no arguments are presented as far as I can tell, aside from the conclusions of an Israeli "security" (military) official. No doubt he knows the story from their perspective well, but he's not revealing much in the way of how or why he and his fellow Likud officials hold every Arab government largely in contempt, as if there were little or no social or political differentiations to make from one piece of geography to the next. There is no analysis here.

[@WillSavage]

Of course there is no analysis here, it is an overview. It is literally stated in the title of the talk. You've overanalysed this completely and judged it as something it isn't. This is simply a brief overview of some of the recent history and geopolitics of the middle east and north africa for young, foreign students of about 19 or 20. Your implicit scorning of him being an Israeli with contemptuous opinions says more about you and your views than it does anything else. I'd be very curious to know which conclusion he states which you judge to be contemptuous.

[@Erik-sf1iq]

You sound silly asserting that not every single conflict with direct israeli involvement offers israelis plenty of reasons to hold most arab governments in contempt. However it's less of an Arabic and more of an Islamic problem at the root. However my main point is that you sound like you're an unpatriotic green party voting German college Freshman with a major in sociology and a minor in woman studies with a syrian boyfriend and you're thinking about converting to islam because it stands for something, I can smell the glue stuck to your hand from the last traffic blockade you participated in.

[@HeatherMiddleton-p6q]

It's not your home

[@radwanabu-issa4350]

The competetion between the Zionists and the Iranians is tactical but not strategical. The existence of both depend on the other and if either fall, the other fall. Each existence depends on the other!

[@tamaritiel9909]

um.. How exactly?

[@TheBabasaly]

@@tamaritiel9909 Yeah, not at all... This guy probably does not know that Israel and Iran were at peace before the takeover by the Islamic republic party.

[@alex-7578]

As mentioned in the lecture, Iran and Israel were trading partners until the Shia revolution. Neither country need to be in antagonism - unless the Ayatollah revolution is still in command. You should have paid better attention to this lecture

[@WillSavage]

What complete drivel. How on earth would the destruction or downfall of either of them mean the other doesn’t survive? There are >190 other countries in the world the survivor would still be able to cooperate, trade and collaborate with.