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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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00:11:35

Netanyahu puts Trump in a bind

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/11

Israel is playing a high-stakes game of bluff poker.The problem is that the stakes are high not only for Israel but also for its foremost supporters, the United States and Europe, as well as Gulf states with which it enjoyed close relations despite differences over Gaza, Palestine, and Iran. How the US, Europe, and the Gulf respond to Israel's targeting of Hamas's leadership in exile in Qatar, one of three mediators alongside the United States and Egypt in the Gaza war, is likely to determine

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00:07:40

Israel’s attack on Qatar could be a watershed

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/10

Israel’s risky strike against Qatar was neither an unmitigated success in Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s terms nor a complete failure, even if it’s too early for a definitive cost-benefit analysis of what could prove to be a watershed.

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00:12:00

US and Israel discuss restructuring their military...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/09

With the United States and Israel discussing a follow-up to a US$38 billion ten-year Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries, which is set to expire in 2028, Israeli officials are warming to the notion of a paradigm shift in US-Israeli military relations.

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00:09:47

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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/06

Nearly two years into Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, ceasefire negotiations remain stalled, the humanitarian toll continues to mount, and international divisions are deepening. Despite mounting global pressure, Israel has resisted calls for a permanent ceasefire, insisting on unfeasible conditions. During this week’s Middle East Report, James M. Dorsey analysed the faltering ceasefire efforts. Dorsey outlined the core of the impasse: a mounting divergence between Israeli and much of the

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00:16:06

Israel ignores gathering storm winds at its peril

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/05

Israelis are enjoying their mangoes this summer at sharply reduced prices at the expense of food-deprived Gazan Palestinians. The sharp drop in mango prices is as much a result of Israel's throttling of the flow of food into Gaza and its economic blockade of the Strip as it is a byproduct of increasing consumer boycotts of Israeli products and US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Brazilian and Mexican imports of the fruit. As a result, Israel is witnessing a mango glut, with the Gaza market shut

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00:13:41

UAE’s campaign against Islamists fuels moves to ban...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/09/01

The UAE’s long-standing no holds barred campaign to persuade Western and other nations to proscribe the Muslim Brotherhood as the source of all Islamist evil, is producing results.The question is whether crackdowns on freedoms of expression and assembly, leaving Muslims and others with few, if any, release valves, coupled with anger at Western and Arab restrictions on expression of support for the Palestinians and a Western refusal to sanction Israel for its Gaza war conduct, creates a feeding

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00:08:31

Radio Islam 29 Aug 2025

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/29

James discusses on Radio Islam the dim prospects for ending the Gaza war and resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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00:16:14

Gaza mediators work at cross purposes

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/26

Pursuing diametrically opposed objectives, Gaza's ceasefire mediators are working at cross purposes.The divide among the mediators, the United States, Qatar, and Egypt, significantly diminishes the chances of the ceasefire talks succeeding and, if they do, reaching a deal that would lead to an end of the war. Hamas’s renewed acceptance by Hamas of a months-old Israeli-endorsed US proposal for a 60-day-ceasefire was as much a product of the mediators working at cross purposes as it was a

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00:10:51

Bleak Outlook for Palestinian Statehood

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/23

The prospects for a Palestinian two-state solution appear increasingly bleak as Israel presses ahead with its military campaign to seize control of Gaza City while advancing a major settlement project that would sever the West Bank from East Jerusalem. On BFM 89.9, James weighs in on how international powers are responding and what could halt this devastating war.Separately, James talks to AzNews about the equally bleak prospects

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00:12:41

Netanyahu’s far right instincts and political...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/21

Netanyahu has long used ultranationalist threats to collapse his government as a justification for his refusal to end the Gaza war, while, in fact, the far-right ministers in his Cabinet provide him a needed fig leaf to pursue policies designed to advance their shared notion of Greater Israel at the expense of Palestinian aspirations.

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00:14:20

Palestinians are pawns in shaping Gaza’s future

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/19

A Palestinian businessman is lobbying to become the post-war governor of Gaza amid a reported shifting of gears in the Trump administration’s strategy in Gaza ceasefire talks.

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00:10:00

Trump Goes After Wall Street Journal in Major Test of...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/14

Dow Jones has a stellar record of standing by its reporting. As a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, I know that firsthand.

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00:13:24

Indonesia’s writing on the wall-Gaza drives hardening...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/11

A recent opinion poll in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority state and democracy, throws a damper on Israeli and US hopes that Middle Eastern and Muslim states may recognise the Jewish state without a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.Even more concerning, the poll suggests that public opinion is turning against a compromise two-state solution that would see the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel as

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00:12:24

Pushing Saudi Arabia to be an Israeli copycat

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/08

With Saudi recognition of Israel off the table, pro-Israeli and Israeli pundits and far-right and conservative pro-Israel groups in the United States are pushing the kingdom to become an aggressive regional player in Israel's mould. The pundits and groups want Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to abandon his de-escalation policy, including the kingdom's fragile freezing of its differences with Iran, and to reignite his ill-fated 2015 military campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen

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00:12:25

Re-occupying Gaza-From the fire into the frying pan

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/07

In a reversal of repeatedly stated policy that Israel would not re-occupy Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is signalling that he is mulling Israel’s re-occupation of the Strip. Mr. Netanyahu suggested as much in a Hebrew-language statement issued by his office. Israel’s Security Cabinet this week discussed the proposition with the full Cabinet scheduled to debate it in the coming days. The statement announced that Mr. Netanyahu had decided to "occupy all of the Gaza Strip, including

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00:14:05

Trump’s focus on food for Gaza promises to be...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/08/02

US President Donald J. Trump's acknowledgement of Israel's throttling of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza is more than a rebuke of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's denials of starvation in the Strip. It also signals the president's temporary retreat from grandiose visions of reshaping the Middle East.Mr. Trump’s switching of gears to focus on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis was likely prompted by images of Palestinians, particularly babies and children, emaciated by Israel’s refusal to allow

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00:11:30

Breaking up Syria

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/07/31

A far-right pro-Israel think tank has put flesh on suspicions that Israel is seeking to weaken the government of President Ahmed al-Sharaa, if not break up Syria as a nation state. The Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum revived a years-old call for a “freedom corridor” that would link the Druze community in southern Syria with the Kurds in the north. The Forum’s call came as senior Israeli and Syrian officials negotiate security arrangements aimed at staving off further Israeli military strikes

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00:08:31

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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/07/30

James discusses on aNews mounting pressure on Israel to allow unfettered humanitarian aid into Gaza and to end the devastating war.

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00:20:07

Testing Israel’s Limits

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/07/28

US-mediated talks between Israel and Syria serve as a bellwether for the extent to which Israel can reshape the Middle East and impose its will on the region. They also are likely to indicate the degree to which US and Israeli interests diverge in Syria.Syrian Foreign Minister Assad al-Shaiibani and Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, a confidante of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, focussed this week on security arrangements in southern Syria in a round of talks in Paris chaired by

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00:10:53

Instability Spreads As Israels Military Campaigns...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/07/24

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