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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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00:14:11

Is Syria the Middle East’s next exploding powder keg

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/05/12

Syria could be the Middle East’s next exploding powder keg.

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00:10:20

US-Houthi truce triggers pro-Israel alarm bells

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/05/09

Alarm bells went off in Jerusalem and pro-Israel circles in Washington when US President Donald J. Trump this week announced a truce in America’s Red Sea tanker war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels that failed to take Israeli interests into account.Mr. Trump’s announcement of a deal that protects US assets and international shipping but leaves space for continued Houthi targeting of Israel suggested that the president and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu differed on multiple issues, including Yemen,

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00:10:51

Separately, Trump and Hamas let the cat out of the bag

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/05/08

US President Donald J. Trump and Hamas have separately opened a Pandora’s Box that could fuel Middle Eastern fires for years to come.Hamas did so when it unleashed Israel’s assault on Gaza with its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. With more than 50,000 dead and tens of thousands wounded and/or maimed for life, Palestinians have paid a stark price. Israel’s assault has devastated the Strip and opened the door to Israeli reoccupation 20 years after

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00:10:37

US-European culture war puts Israel in a bind

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/05/05

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s embrace of the global far-right faces a difficult choice.The question for Mr. Netanyahu is whether to maintain Israel’s boycott of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s second-largest political party, and Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) amid an escalating feud between the Trump administration and Germany over attitudes toward the far right.

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00:10:12

Is Algeria Next

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/05/02

Algeria may be the latest target in efforts to garner further Arab recognition of the Jewish state, despite its Gaza war conduct and rejection of Palestinian national aspirations.To that end, a Philadelphia-based far-right pro-Israeli organisation, the Middle East Forum, has put Algeria in its crosshairs in an apparent attempt to build pressure on the North African state to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Algeria would be a prize catch.

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00:09:14

Netanyahu hardens his position despite pressure to...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/30

Netanyahu hardens his position despite pressure to lift the Gaza blockade by James M. Dorsey

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00:09:42

Crunch time may be approaching for Netanyahu

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/26

The coming days will tell whether it’s crunch time for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.The litmus test will be whether US President Donald J. Trump forces Mr. Netanyahu to lift his almost two-months-long blocking of the flow of humanitarian aid into war-ravaged Gaza.

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00:22:28

Netanyahu’s allies turn Jews into potential scapegoats

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/25

Betar, the far-right youth movement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, is happy to help US President Donald J. Trump curtail pro-Palestinian speech and academic freedoms. That has mainstream American Jews fear that the Trump administration’s crackdown on democratic freedoms of speech, assembly, and academia will fuel anti-Semitism rather than enhance their security.

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00:13:34

Hamas and Netanyahu bet on each other’s unpopularity

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/21

This week’s Gazan anti-Hamas protests demanding an end to the war could prove to be a double-edged sword.There is no doubt that Gazans want to see an end to the further devastation of their already war-ravaged Strip, the killing of more than 50,000 primarily civilian Palestinians, and Israel’s blocking of the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including food and medical supplies. Similarly, there is little doubt that Hamas’s popularity in Gaza has hit rock bottom, which is not to say that Gazans

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00:11:50

Vietnam looms large in Gaza

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/17

Hamas has Israel where it wants it. The group’s insistence that ending the war be part of any ceasefire deal and refusal to disarm strengthens its position. To be sure, Israel has severely weakened Hamas militarily. To be sure, Israel has severely weakened Hamas militarily. Moreover, Hamas barely scores double digits in Gaza opinion polls. Hamas may no longer be able to organize an attack on the scale of its October 7, 2023, assault on Israel in which some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were

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00:09:26

Whither Trump’s Gaza resettlement plan

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/11

As he embarked on a Middle East tour, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto this week offered to accept an estimated 1,000 wounded Gazan Palestinians and “traumatised, orphaned children.”Mr. Prabowo, the leader of the Muslim world’s most populous country and democracy, was careful to limit those that would qualify to Palestinians in medical or psychological need and to insist that Indonesia would host the evacuees until they have fully recovered from their injuries and the situation in Gaza was

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00:12:14

Israel’s Gaza strategy is doomed to fail

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/08

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s multi-pronged strategy to crush the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation by destroying Hamas is doomed to failure with or without the potential expulsion or departure of Gazans.Eighteen months into the Gaza war, Israel has failed to dislodge Hamas, militarily free hostages held by the group, stop it from firing rockets at Israeli towns and cities, and halt Hamas’ smuggling of arms into the territory. “Hamas still maintains sovereignty in the

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00:08:14

Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/06

This week, US President Donald J. Trump put Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on a pedal stool for the second time since he returned to the Oval Office two months ago.Mr. Trump is not known for handing out goodies without extracting a price. The question is whether that is what Mr. Trump’s last-minute surprise invitation to the White House is about, and if so, what the cost will be.

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00:11:03

The Israeli-Palestinian battle of the narratives

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/04/03

Israeli journalist Zvi Yehezkeli pinpointed the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as he reflected on a post-interview conversation with Yasser Arafat, the late chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), more than two decades ago. A one-time secular security official who became a religious West Bank settler and called on air for the slaying of 100,000 Gazans in the wake of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, Mr. Yehezkeli said

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00:11:52

Gaza’s anti-Hamas protests mean different things to...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/30

The United Arab Emirates is betting that recent anti-Hamas protests in Gazan towns, supported by influential tribes and clans, will strengthen Abu Dhabi-based Mohammed Dahlan’s chances of playing a prominent role in the territory’s post-war administration.

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00:11:21

Reading tea leaves-Is the US signalling potential...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/25

A stickler for language, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu twice this month remained conspicuously silent when senior Trump administration officials chose words that signalled potential changes in US policy towards Gaza, the Palestinians, and Hamas.

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00:09:25

Gaza’s fault lines are less linear than meets the eye

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/22

Like much else in the Middle East, Gaza’s fault lines are less linear than meets the eye.

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00:09:49

Want to join the fight against anti-Semitism Check...

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/18

It’s ok to be anti-Jewish as long as you support Israel. That is Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s bottom line.Mr. Netanyahu is willing to risk losing European officialdom and prominent mainstream intellectuals and activists in the fight against anti-Semitism to garner the support of the global far-right, despite its anti-Jewish roots and sustained links to racism and neo-Nazism. Mr. Netanyahu and his de facto envoy to the global far-right, Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism

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00:12:48

Netanyahu gambles on Trump

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/16

At first glance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could not have a better friend in the White House. In his first two months in office, President Donald J. Trump authorised US$11 billion in arms sales, signed a swath of executive orders to crack down on criticism of Israel, put universities and student protesters in his crosshairs, and legitimised ethnic cleansing. Even so, Mr. Trump’s four years in office may not be honeymoon years for US-Israeli relations.

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00:15:40

Israel’s times may be ‘a-changin’

The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey ·

2025/03/15

When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu first cultivated Evangelical and far-right support for Israel, he didn’t worry about their theologically rooted associations with anti-Semitism and/or willingness to turn a blind eye to racially-motivated anti-Jewish sentiment. It was a bet that paid off for decades. It solidified Republican support for Israel and helped ensure that successive US administrations, whether Republican or Democratic, had Israel’s back. A recent Gallup poll showed 83 per cent of

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