The US-Israel War Machine Got It So Wrong - Former Israeli Negotiator, Daniel Levy meets Ash Sarkar

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Daniel Levy is a British-Israeli analyst, commentator, and former Israeli government negotiator whose biography reads like a map of the peace process's rise and fall. He served as an official negotiator under Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak. He went into those negotiations as a believer, but came out of them with a very different view of what Israel actually intended.

Ash sat down with Daniel Levy at a pivotal moment. A new Iran deal has just been announced, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz set to reopen, and an extension of the current US-Iran ceasefire for 60 days, with a permanent end to the war the stated goal of upcoming talk. Though it leaves critical issues, including the fate of Iran's nuclear programme, unresolved.

In this conversation, recorded as the ink is barely dry on the new framework, Daniel Levy picks apart what's really been achieved, who blinked first, and why a ceasefire announced from the Oval Office is not remotely the same thing as peace.

02:33 Football, sporting and cultural boycotts
11:30 The Iran deal
16:00 Have Israel realised their objectives in the Iran & Lebanon war?
21:52 Why did the Trump administration fail to foresee the closure of the straight of Hormuz?
29:15 Inside the negotiating room
35:15 Will Israel admit to having nuclear weapons?
40:17 America's limits with Israel
44:47 Is Israel still a strategic asset to the US?
54:45 Gaza, Hamas & the Myth of Total Victory
01:02:17 Oslo's broken promise, how a peace process was structurally designed to fail
01:12:48 Zionism's failure on its own terms
01:17:50 Jewish Identity Beyond Zionism
01:27:55 Is there a space for a renewed Jewish identity?