On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Omar Baddar, a member of the National Policy Council of the Arab-American Institute. He discusses the current knife-edge crisis in the Middle East following Israel’s assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, which risk all out war with Hezbollah and Iran, the prospect of Israel using nuclear weapons in a regional war, the Majdal Shams attack and Israel’s use of it as a pretext for escalation, the root cause of the current unprecedented regional tension being the genocide in Gaza, the motives behind the US political establishment’s support for Israel as it perpetrates genocide, the pro-Palestinian shift in US public opinion, the US violent crackdown against Palestinian student protesters and how the US doesn’t learn from shameful chapters in its history, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s escalations toward regional war made possible by the Biden administration’s rhetoric, why the US won’t realize its mistake for a long time if it goes to war with Iran, and much more.
