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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

James M. Dorsey

Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sands,

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00:11:41

Netanyahu’s reshaped Middle East aligns neatly with...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/09

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s effort to reshape the Middle East aligns neatly with US President Donald J. Trump’s notion of big power geopolitics. In 2023, Mr. Netanyahu outlined elements of his vision in an address to the United Nations General Assembly. The prime minister held up a map that erased Palestine and showed the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, as part of Israel. Mr. Trump’s plan to resettle Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians elsewhere and turn

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00:10:57

With his right hand not knowing what his left hand is...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/07

US President Donald J. Trump may be a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.Mr. Trump’s dealings this week with the Palestinians tell the story.

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00:10:57

The logic in Trump’s madness

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/05

There is logic to Donald J. Trump’s madness. Irrespective of the merits of the US president’s ethics, policies, and style, Mr. Trump’s grenade-throwing shock-and-awe approach has galvanised Arab states into action over Gaza, much like it did with the Europeans regarding their defense and Ukraine policies. “Love him or hate him, Trump has shaken things up… Before him, Gaza had no real roadmap. Now, the Arab world is singing a new tune: No Hamas, No Arms,” said journalist Amjad Taha.

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00:10:48

Israel joins Russia in laughing its way to the bank...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/01

Russia is not the only country laughing all the way to the bank after US President Donald J. Trump’s war of words with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.So is Israel. Mr. Trump’s willingness to accommodate Russian President Vladimir Putin serves Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s purpose as he seeks to redraw the Middle East map in his mould.

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00:08:55

Israeli security demands threaten to upset Syria’s...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/26

Israeli security demands threaten to upset Syria’s apple cart by James M. Dorsey

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00:12:51

US President Trump’s Gaza shock therapy rocks Arab boats

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/22

US President Donald J. Trump’s shock-and-awe Gaza therapy appears to be working.Infuriated by Mr. Trump’s assertion that the United States will take ownership of the Strip, resettle its 2.3 million inhabitants in Egypt, Jordan, and elsewhere, and turn it into a high-end beachfront real estate development has forced Arab leaders to come up with an alternative plan. Mr. Trump has acknowledged as much.

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00:12:22

Trump can only play both sides against the middle so...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/20

Second-guessing US President Donald J. Trump is a tricky business.

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00:08:51

Israel and Hamas adopt hard line as they enter...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/17

An Israeli refusal to allow mobile homes and heavy construction equipment into Gaza bodes ill for this week’s second-phase indirect Gaza ceasefire talks with Israel and Hamas hardening their negotiating positions.

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00:12:45

UAE emerges as the United States and Israel’s best...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/16

With Arab leaders gathering in Cairo later this month for an emergency summit on Gaza, the United Arab Emirates has emerged as the United States and Israel’s best Arab friend.

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00:13:15

Trump puts ‘might is right’ principle on steroids in...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/15

Might is right.That sums up US President Donald J. Trump’s vision of a 21st-century world order. Barely a month in office, Mr. Trump has not wasted time creating building blocks for his worldview. Mr. Trump’s efforts to end fighting in Ukraine, coupled with his territorial ambitions in Gaza, Greenland, Panama, and Canada, have put the ‘might is right’ principle on steroids. So has the president’s unilateral renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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00:15:40

Saudi Arabia’s Future-Palestine or Zion

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/12

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may have opened a Pandorra’s Box when he suggested creating a Palestinian state on Saudi territory.Mr. Netanyahu wasn’t just throwing a hand grenade into US efforts to engineer Saudi recognition of Israel when he told Israeli television, “The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia; they have a lot of land over there.” A quick Saudi retort hinted at the Pandorra’s Box, a decades-old assertion, as fantastical as it may sound, that Judaism’s

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00:08:48

Marco Rubio treats himself to a Middle East reality...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/11

Marco Rubio is likely in for a reality check when he visits the Middle East for the first time this week as US Secretary of State.

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00:13:33

Trump plays with fire in Gaza

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/09

US President Donald J. Trump’s Gaza plan could change the nature of the Gaza war and prolong rather than end the hostilities.Amid calls for a unified Arab response to Mr. Trump’s plan to resettle or ethnically cleanse Gazan Palestinians, according to many Middle Easterners, officials, journalists, analysts, and social media activists are mulling options. The options under discussion range from approaches that would give US companies a significant stake in Gaza’s reconstruction to the fuelling of a

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00:05:33

Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrive in...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/08

Hamas has released the fifth batch of hostages to the Red Cross. In exchange, Israel will release 183 Palestinian prisoners, some convicted of involvement in attacks that killed dozens of people, including 18 serving life sentences, and 111 detained in Gaza during the war, according to Hamas. James M. Dorsey, an adjunct Senior Fellow, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies give us more analysis on the story.

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00:10:52

Trump focuses Middle Eastern minds with potentially...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/08

US President Donald J. Trump’s call for the permanent resettlement of Gazan Palestinians has focused regional minds, even if the White House and senior officials have walked back key elements of the president’s proposal

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00:10:49

Trump’s Gaza plan turns the Middle East on its head

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/05

US President Donald J. Trump’s plan to expel Palestinians and take control of Gaza threatens to render second phase ceasefire negotiations to the dustbin of history and kill prospects for Saudi recognition of Israel.So has Mr. Trump’s suggestion that he would decide in the next month whether to endorse Israeli annexation of the West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967. Mr. Trump’s propositions take Palestinian aspirations off the table. They fulfill visiting Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin

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00:09:36

Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu could decide the Gaza...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/03

Donald Trump’s Oval Office could be Binyamin Netanyahu’s brick wall. That is if the president uses Tuesday’s meeting with Mr. Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Washington since Mr. Trump returned to office, to ensure a successful Israeli-Hamas negotiation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement’s second phase.

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00:11:27

Trump’s Middle East plan may have legs

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/02/01

US President Donald J. Trump’s approach to managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may have legs, even if Arabs and Muslims reject his call for the resettlement of Gazan Palestinians.Egypt, Jordan, and Palestinians have rejected resettlement in no uncertain terms. So have non-Arab Muslim countries like Indonesia and Albania, who the United States reportedly approached with a request to take in Palestinians. Palestinians say they voted with their feet with hundreds of thousands of Gazans returning

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00:08:50

Netanyahu flaunts his ties to the global far-right

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/29

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s ultra-nationalists and ultra-conservatives have turned Israel into a ‘haven’ for some Jews rather than all Jews.Not only by encouraging an intolerant, supremacist domestic environment hostile to vigorous public debate and equality for all but also by endorsing the far-right’s flirt with language and imagery that risks stoking ant-Semitism, and efforts to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, Jews’ worst calamity in modern history.

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00:12:02

Trump’s support for expelling Palestinians fans...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/01/26

US President Donald J. Trump risks putting relations with Saudi Arabia and other US partners in the region on a knife’s edge, sending the Middle East into a tailspin, and complicating, if not undermining, negotiations to make the three-phase Gaza ceasefire permanent rather than temporary by advocating the removal to Egypt and Jordan of 1.5 million Gazan Palestinians.

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