TAU Unbound - Episode #40: Ido Aharoni and Ehud Toledano: what now? Israel’s options & Hamas War outlook

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Prof. Ehud Toledano is the former Director of TAU's Program in Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Department of Middle East and African History. In this episode of TAU Unbound, he shares with host Ido Aharoni his take on what Israel should do next, how and when. Toledano provides a comprehensive overview of the actors in the conflict: Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Syria, ISIS, PA, Turkey, KSA, USA and more. Between 2004 and 2008, Toledano served as the Director of the Graduate School of History, and from 2005 to 2009, he was a member of the University Board of Directors, representing the University Senate. He received his PhD from Princeton University and conducted extensive research in Istanbul, London, and Paris. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt between 1979 and 1981, a Senior Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1986/7), a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (1993/4), and Visiting Professor at UCLA (between 1999 and 2001). 00:00 - Intro 01:00 - Political, diplomatic and military aspects of the attack on 7.10 01:34 - The response must be the destruction of the Hamas organization 02:23 - The political move to destroy Hamas. Expulsion of the leadership 05:54 - The military move in the Gaza Strip 10:35 - "The day after the war" 16:38 - The Arab world 19:03 - Iran and its involvement in the events of 7.10 26:00 - Turkey and its involvement in the events of 7.10 29:10 - Saudi Arabia and its involvement in the events of 7.10 32:10 - Russia and its involvement in the events of 7.10 lowy International School TAU: https://international.tau.ac.il