346. From Suez To The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (Part 1)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William DeRumpel. And we are launching a new series today and I want to start by telling you exactly why we are doing it right now. On February 28th of this year, the United States and Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. They called it Operation Epic Fury.
The Middle East, which has already endured the Gaza War, the Lebanon War, the Syrian Civil War, the Yemen War, the emergence of ISIS, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is on fire again, and it did not catch fire by accident. Every 21st century war in the Middle East has a 20th century ancestor, and this series on the Arab-Israeli wars is our attempt to trace those ancestors. So we're going to be exploring a 15-year period of conflict that created a domino effect that takes us to where we are today. From the Six-Day War of 1967 to the 1973 war and oil crisis to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Now, to help us understand what's going on and why, we've brought back one of our favourite friends of the show.
Listeners will know Eugene Rogan from our Gaza series. Eugene is professor of modern Middle Eastern history and a fellow of St Anthony's College, Oxford. He's director of the Middle East Centre. He's the author of The Arabs. It is
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