Israel's War Against Hamas in Gaza

Critical Factors Being Overlooked

Note: I’ve enhanced and updated my views to some extent on October 7th and the context around it. See my more recent posts and my long article:

October 7th: The Fog Begins to Clear

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Earlier today I had a conversation with

Franklin O'Kanu

, author of the Unorthodoxy Substack, to discuss the current situation in the Middle East regarding Israel, Hamas, and the Gaza Strip.

The discussion starts with a consideration of the immediate elements at play in  Hamas's original terrorist attack on Israel and Israel's subsequent carpet bombing and ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza.  Then we zoom out and I offer my take on the larger geopolitical circumstances going on behind the conflict and what it says about the shifting circumstances of US empire.

This is a topic I plan on revisiting and probing further into in future episodes. For more background context, see my series on the "Secret History of the 20th Century", in particular the episodes/articles concerning oil geopolitics and the petrodollar.

- Alex
www.alexsachon.com