Chas Freeman thinks Israel will eventually go the way of the crusader kingdoms and that Iran could get the bomb in 2 weeks

Former US Ambassador to the KSA Chas Freeman is exceptionally incisive and intelligent. I recommend his latest podcast and all his podcasts.

He thinks it will take Iran only 2 weeks to have weapons grain uranium with which to make an atom bomb underground.

Let's see.

I think if it happens it will be good news for everyone.

<So what we're looking at potentially is the repeat of the history of the two Christian kingdoms in the middle ages
just before the Renaissance in the 11th 12th centuries in Palestine which also depended on external support and
when that external support was removed they collapsed. So the question is where are the Israelis going to go?

I think there are Israelis who are prepared to live in a democracy that includes non-Jews and clearly a single state in Palestine, whether it's called Israel or Palestine, which embraced both Arabs and Arab Muslims and Christian and Arab Jews, as well as European Jews, would be a society in which the Jewish component could continue to play a leading role just by virtue of its capabilities, level of education, energy and commitment.

But something like that happening is going to be very hard because Israelis instead of taking October 7th and the Hamas breakout from the concentration camp of Gaza as a caution and a reason to reconsider a purely military strategy for survival and ethnic cleansing as a means of consolidating Jewish control, they see this as cause for vengeance at the level of genocide.

And the polls show that the problem is not Mr. Netanyahu so much as the entire Israeli citizenry.

About 80% support the war with Iran. Notwithstanding the damage they've taken the punishment they've earned and they mostly support the genocide in Gaza there's no effort being made to curtail the settlers. On the contrary the government is supporting them and the war in Lebanon is seen as a great opportunity for it to expand its borders to the north.

So this is a society that is essentially, in clinical terms, sociopathic and that's not going to change if Mr. Netanyahu falls from power. That will not solve anything.>