Today’s “talking head” exercise on WION: latest prognosis for denouement of the Israeli-Hamas war

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If the situation were not so dangerous as well as being utterly unpredictable, I would find it amusing to be called upon almost daily by a very respectable and worthy international broadcaster seeking guidance on what comes next in the Israeli-Hamas war.  There simply are no answers to the very good questions posed by the WION (India) presenter.

Antony Blinken is this week boosting his air miles account, flying from one Arab capital to another in pursuit of …what?  Does he seek understanding for the atrocities Israel is now committing in Gaza in advance of the still more horrible full land invasion that may come shortly? Should Arab leaders look the other way when the Arab Street is now demonstrating in the hundreds of thousands in their capitals?

The death toll resulting from the forced departure of nearly one million Palestinians from the northern portion of the enclave under orders from the Israeli military to clear out or face death takes on the character of the forced move of Armenians under orders from the Ottoman government a little more than a hundred years ago that is now known as a genocide. The cut-off of water, electricity, food is not sustainable.  Something will have to give, or there is surely going to be a full-scale regional war. The presence of the American aircraft carrier task force just offshore cannot hold this back.  The 19th century concept of gunboat diplomacy will not work now, given the military capabilities of Hezbollah as well as state actors in the region.

I firmly believe that the dullard and empty propagandist Antony Blinken will “step on a rake,” as I say in this video, following which demands from China, from Russia and other powers for international intervention to stop the bloodshed will become irresistible.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2023

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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4 thoughts on “Today’s “talking head” exercise on WION: latest prognosis for denouement of the Israeli-Hamas war”

  1. Since Blinken stepping on a rake is inevitable, concrete solutions may be at hand, particularly now that no one is listening to anything Washington has to say.

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  3. Excellent analysis. As an ol’ U.S. Marine I learned the “Know thy enemy” adage was crucial in any conflict. Living in Russia and watching the proxy war in Ukraine showed me the U.S. did not have a clue when it came to understanding enemy Russia. The Hamas strikes in Israel indicate the same kind of ignorance on the part of the U.S. closest ally. And the best D.C. can do to provide diplomatic counsel is the intellectual lightweight Blinken. Looks like there is a clear and present danger the U.S. and its allies are about to step on the same rake twice.

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