US calls for ‘de-escalation’, but tensions rise in the Middle East | The Bottom Line
In this episode, host Steve Clemons speaks with Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley; and Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group.
The exchange of direct attacks between Iran and Israel is likely to subside, but the shadow war goes on, which could intensify as long as the war on Gaza continues, argues Vaez.
And as long as the wider Palestinian issue remains unresolved, there is little to no hope for long-lasting stability throughout the region, says Makdisi, especially with the US policy of rejecting equal regard for the rights of the Palestinian people.
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US: Calls for de-escalation of tension in the Middle East. US: Does everything possible to ESCALATE tension in the Middle East.
Hypocrisy. Disgrace
the US thinks it can keep the entire region just below the boiling point because it suits their geopolitical goals and they don't care about anyone caught up in it
@@abulkalammusthafa Our current administration.
We just want to make sure crude oil is pumping and transporting ok. Apart from that the Mid East ain't no Japan or South Korea or UK. Good luck and may the best win!
Lol exactly the hypocrisy yet they want to preach. Let's not forget the even more obvious play they don't mention is US vetoes at Un council.
Iran is the only country sincerely helping Palestine today
AGREE!
What are you smoking? 😮
Palestinians were made as pawns of Iran 😂
@smn2004 If you're government don't bomb you and stop you from exercising freedom.of religion,you are not oppressed,if you think wearing hijab is oppression ,then go live in a country that suits you're needs..all the best to you...
@@NathGadWho?
Calling for de-escalation while giving Israel offensive weaponry.
That's surprising by US
Disgusting double standards. US government is fkd by Zionists lol
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@kennethhammond6683 . . . & extra fund.
hypocrisy.
"US calls for de-escalation" but continue to send weapons to "Israel". Makes sense.
A Day without showing hypocrisy is a day wasted. ~The West
Yeah famously honest Iran. Which never did anything with foreign embassy.. Lol
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US calls for de-escalation but just gave Israel another $25 billion yesterday
Nice
And vetoed Palistine becoming a member of the UN. The only nation to do so. Appalling hypocrisy.
Iran had a right to respond!!!...
finally come to front up instead of hiding behind their proxy, gutless wonders
Hypocrisy of West is on top these days
@scpython1 You're right but the US-GB tandem kills so many innocent people it's on another level and noteworthy.
@scpython1 It also means that there is no [moral] difference between USA, China, Russia. China does not pretend to be a moral lighthouse leader, though
@@natty55555 Russia does it though
@scpython1 hypocrisy exists to protect everyone's own interest. Every country care about human rights whenever it suits them. Be it US, EU, Russia or China all are pathetic in their own right.
@scpython1 Don't be naive. The US and UK have conducted a genocide and pretend nothing is happening.
U.S. calls for de-escalation my foot!
It is
While they arm the serial killer,you and US are a joke...
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I could care less about Hamas, before this year I never heard of them. But they want me to believe as they say, or Die? Hardly
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Iran never crossed the line they defended their line
“Operation Iraqi freedom” was the saintly title for the brutal invasion of Iraq. “Operation unified protector” was the angelic name for the destruction of Libya. “Operation enduring freedom” was the virtuous name given to the unjust invasion of Afghanistan. All in the name of democracy
You know - 8% of the Amrkkkan population are clinically ps-paths - not the entire explanation but a good start.
Actually though short term it was a smart decision to outright pay the ex-Iraqi military not to fight. ISIS took advantage of it but for like a 4 weeks things were going well in Iraq
So.....not good in other words !@@Aalliiiq
"“Operation Iraqi freedom” was the saintly title for the brutal invasion of Iraq." Was Bibi convincing Congress that Iraq had wmd's. "“Operation enduring freedom” was the virtuous name given to the unjust invasion of Afghanistan. " Was where isrl told America that Bin Laden was in Afghanistan. He was in Pakistan. "All in the name of democracy" which like Russia. Israel doesn't really have.
Yes, the Biggest TERRORIST entity of the last 2 centuries...
The voices against this war are becoming louder and louder ✊
But the power brokers are censoring critics of Israel’s war machine.
but they're not pro-peace and anti-war. Just don't like it when the Islamists are losing
It should take but a whisper All men know in their hearts the difference between right and wrong This is not a war but a culling
On innocent humans
@@gitarman666 Poetry .
Thank you Al Jazeera, for spreading the truth and for bringing great guests. Greetings from Serbia.
Free,free Palestine NOW.
Free Palestine from the terror of Islamic Hamas because Hamas in power means forever wars, as Hamas' goal is theologically based, eternal, calling for the eradication of an unislamic dhimmi state, and they use civilians as a war tactic. Please find the Palestinians willing to work toward co-existence and peace!
from their evil thoughts, an ideology of hating jews
If there isrealis feels so uncomfortable living next to these countries, then leave.
Ameen I agree 👍
To where please, your father's house???
To where they belong eastern Europe 💯 💯 @@ojoolaniyistephen2376
@@ojoolaniyistephen2376 to wherever they want the Palestinians to go so they can steal their lands. Most of these people are binational and have many other places to go, contrary to those they're killing and displacing.
@@ojoolaniyistephen2376 move in with your dady usa 😅😅😅😅
Did Iran cross the line or were they defending their sovereignty. Language is important. Peace
Exactly... Iran didn't cross any line
Absolutely 💪✊🇵🇸🔻🇾🇪🔻🇱🇧🔻🇮🇷🔻🇮🇶🔻
There is only one solution to ME issue is giving Palestinians what they own, their mother land be given back to them
@azimshaikh8772... Abolish V E T O , then.
They should also stop backing "revolutionaries" that cause instability and destruction. Libya, Iraq and Syria
I agreed with the professor more. The Palestinian question is the key issue and until that's solved justly nothing will work in the region.
Ali Vaez is a Likudnik in disguise. Actually all "Iran experts" are or they would hold such a title in the msm
We must not be silent while witnessing injustice. Israel is committing war crimes and US is complicit in those crimes.
All sides commit war crimes. All humanity is guilty we should all be punished.
Everything that is going on in the Middle East is orchestrated by the United States
The Palestinians are being represented at the negotiating table by kidnappers and extortionists. The Arab Street seems ok with that. Yay Justice. .
And both have been calling Iran evil for at leasy 40 years. Im starting to realize they were lying, and they were the evil ones.
Amen 😪 Free Palestine ✌️
Calls for de-escalation but vetoes everything
that last veto by US was basically a war crime in itself.
Freedom is not a bargain and it is birth right of people .
is privacy freedom?
Iran has the right to defend itself.
I agree and Israel has the right to defend itself too. The most capable military power will prevail not the one the whines the most.
@@Duda4711Oh, please! No one whines louder than Israel!
@@Duda4711 same way Israel has the right to defend her freedom and existence
@@ojoolaniyistephen2376Occupiers have no right to self-defense.
All countries are OCCUPIED PRESENTLY FOR THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS WERE KILLED DO THE ARAB IN EGYPT BE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE OR OCCUPIERS FOR THE ARABS DONT KNOW HOW THOSE PYRAMIDS WERE CONSTRUCTED AS ORIGINAL PEOPLE
The professor from California University was amazing.
12:13 "In theory, the US claims to be for a 2 state solution yet US policy is characterised by... extreme anti-Palestinian racism and on the other hand... it's contempt for it's own statements... everything the US seems to do is to pretend that somehow you can build a stable Middle East without resolving the Palestinian question..." - Wow, incredibly well put, Ussama Makdisi. He looks and sounds like an Arabic-American Stanley Tucci, just with curly hair. Very eloquent.
Just as all empires, even civilizations, have risen and have fallen, so must the US and Western uni-polar world that have kept many Global South countries under their contol and oppression. End the war! End the arms race! Peace, justice and prosperity for all nations.
Professor Makdisi rocks with knowledge wisdom and vision. Bring him back again.
Providing and selling weapons while calling for de-escalation?? What a hypocrisy!!!!
Very logical argument by the professor.
Follow the money. They (US, UK, France, Germany, Israel) want uninteruppted access to the oil and gas off the coast of Israel. For this, Gaza has to go. Europe needs the oil after the Ukrainian failure.
The professor has the point, he knows and understands the middle East very well
Of course he does not. He doesn’t live here in the middle east. He is missing the point of radical islamist ideology rooted in the cause.
AGREE! That's why he is a professor. That does research! And makes conclusions based on facts not based on backpacking or living in that country.
Paradigm shift, By destroying the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Israel broke international law and endangered world peace. Iran responded in a very balanced way by using its old drones and missiles to do little damage. If Israel once again celebrates aggression, it will definitely be excluded from the world community. Iran will be a far more attractive partner for the US in the Persian Arab region than Israel. Israel will have to accept this, unless it wants to risk an Iran-Israel war, which would also mean the end of Israel. A paradigm shift is currently taking place and that is encouraging. What we need now, however, is the UN's irrevocable recognition of the Palestinian state so that the Palestinian population can live in security, self-determination and freedom
'M sooo glad if u ( us ) could put A.I.P A.C. in that perspective. 😊.
Can I say Ussama Makdisi is one of the most articulate commentators ever to appear only your program? More please. Shared, cited and bookmarked for future reference..
"US calls for de-escalation" while sending billions of $$ in military aid to the aggressor. Watch what they do, not what they say
Any one think we are in the biggening stages of WW3?
We have been at beginning stages since 911 2001. Its been slowly brewing since then.
@al jazeera, kindly be factually accurate and call it "Israel's attack on Palestine" instead of Israel's war on ghaza
A really---REALLY fine, professional and informative show! Thank you, Al Jazzera!
Very sensible discussion...and informative . Unfortunately everyday innocent Palestine people are being killed, and going through unbearable suffering.
Iran is not crossing the line. Israel has been crossing the red line since 1948.
Calling for de-escalation while at the same time continuing to supply Israel with munitions and armaments is insane and shows the insincerity of the US government.
Tired of my tax dollars going to ISRAEL! I WANT MY MONEY GOING TO PALESTINE to give the people who are living through a Genocide food , medicine, shelter water, ect. Unbelievable what is happening to Palestine and NOBODY IS STOPPING THIS!!!
Thank you professor Makdisi!
Excellent guests, Ali Vaez and Professor Ussama Makdisi, with impressive, heartfilled clarity. Thank you
Ali Vaezi is an anti iranian regime in exile and he has not been in iran he doesn't know anything abt iran and their policy just regurgitating some fancy western oriented analysis. he is lying to his teeth . all he uttered was against iran to diminish iranian role in resistance axis
An excellent discussion, thank you.
Greetings from Ireland .. BDS apartheid Israel .. Free Palestine!
Frankly speaking, unless & unless root cause is not address you won't hope for sustainable stability in the region...
arab leaders all know who imports terror and trauma in that region they have to stop sugar coating facts.
This US says this then sends weapons🤷🏾♂️
calling for de escalataion and on other providing 25 billion dollars to apartheid state.
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America is become a nightmare
We’re doing a lot better then we were in 2020
@@Allfaxnocaps : 3 hiroshimas worth of ordnance on women and children. People are pointing fingers and talking.
"Hey, stop that!" -America
"Take some more money" - America
😅@@nic_cage
America and its allies can't stop it, it's only Arabs can stop it if they team up together
“Don’t” -Sleepy Joe
How does Iran, Lebanon, Iraq and other Arab Countries heed the calls from US to "deescalate" after they (US) have just bombed illegally into another country? And you listen to them?
We need peace!
Thank you for the excellent program! I like Al Jazeera's Bottom-line program very much. I am a refugee from Iran. I fled from the Islamic Republic. But Ali Vaez is an enemy of Iran and Iranians. He is not in the interest of the region. It's only for the US and Israel. And they are both not for the region. I didn't expect such an expert from Al Jazeera. He gave me the feeling that at least his subject of research is reliable. Very disappointing. Very nice… Incredibly well put, Ussama Makdisi. He looks and sounds like an Arabic-American... Very eloquent.
Isreal has the power to shoot down 300 projectiles but not the ability to stop paragliders? 🤔
Very insightful and vocal guest
Thank you so much Mr. Steve Clemons for great discussion. ❤❤❤❤❤
Why Ali Vaez is on this kinda conversation? He is proven to be no expert in this matter at all. He usually is wrong on any matter,don’t take my word for it check his previous opinions on any matter previously.
So true...he sounds like an anti-Iranian..pro western mouthpiece!!
He’s just a kid bad mouthing Iran, may be they give him something!
@@davidbrown7841 for Sure he is on a CIA payroll
Free Palestine. Then there will be peace in the Middle East.
there will never be peace because of the ideology that palistians are brought up on, hate of israel an its ppl who have contributed good things to the world
Wants a 2 state solution BUT VOTES NO!! As an American im sickened to the Core what my government is doing !!!
High quality - thankyou Aljazeera
Love Prof Ussama. Much better guest than the other guy
Excellent analysis
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Actions Speak louder Than Words!
Truthful analysis!
Iran did not cross the line ❗ 🇵🇸🔻🇾🇪🔻🇱🇧🔻🇮🇷🔻🇮🇶🔻
This Iranian dude( Ali Vaez) is working with CIA, he is Iranian by name, however, we as Iranian knew he is not in line with our country policy and I was surprised when I have saw him in aljazeera? He is working against his own country and in Iran he is considered as an enemy and wondered why aljazeera invited him to the show?
US: De-escalate! Also US: Missiles are now on 50% sale
Me Maqdissi had every point well analyzed. Whereas M. Veaz seems to lack some deep understanding about the US policy in that region.
I’m a Jewish woman married to an Arab woman. I wish people can share a balanced and equal relationship like we do. We don’t fight fiercely, we kiss fiercely.
That's just nasty!
@@theamirbarismillworks2253 Hopefully... and a pleasure ;)
Shame on the supporters of Genocide
Prayers for all people, Peace for all people, Amen 🙏🏻
Ussma is 100% correct 👍
Thank you Mr. Makdisi for telling the truth. I am sorry to see this US gov’s mouthpiece and think-tank boy Ali Vaez being invited on al Jazeera. He has nothing Iranian left in him other than his name.
Thank you . It is evident he is an Iran dissident who has fully embraced western values.
Thank you, thank you, now I know that I wasn’t the only one thinking the same. Some one should tell this boy go get a real job!
Exactly ✊💪 Totally
🙏🙏🙏Ussama Makdisi❤
US is like " Telks criminals to kill & steal, and tells the police to apprehend the criminals".. 😂
Israel lunched a stealth missile from stealth airplane to a stealth target in a stealth airbase. Iran pays $1000 to anyone, who find the place that were hit by stealth missile.
I don't think Iran was ever under the impression that Israel wouldn't respond. Iran had to respond in order to maintain the respect of its people. They tried to respond in such a way that Israel could dial it down without completely losing face, but I'm pretty sure that they never assumed that to be end result. After all, Israel hasn't dialed anything down for a very long time.
Excellent journalists! Thank you for being brave enough not to censor yourself. The world needs to listen to the other side of the story!
Sad, Sad, Sad. STOP THE WAR NOW??? PLEASSSEEE. 😢 😭 😢 😭.
Great job by both commentators. Congratulations to the host.
lol , Israel WERE expecting an Iranian response and looking for escalation when they strike the generals in the building next to the embassy. Iran WERE NOT expecting a retaliation after their retaliation.
Professor ALI needs to educate himself about Iran Israel relationship and Palestine. Iran under SHAH did not recognize Israel as a country and supported Palestine. Iran backing Palestine did not start from early 80s.
Great points from Makdisi
USA UK Germany Agent of the Jews👇👇👇
Western colonizers
You mean Zionists
German's are prisoners
@@durranaik Obviously, . . . with multiple shackles.
Agents of the Zionists. Their is a difference
I forgot to mention that Professor Ussama Makdisi seems to have a respectable degree of knowledge regarding the issues in Israel, IRAN, and West Asia in general.
I’m not sure why Al Jazeera invited this lost boy Ali Vaez to discuss such a complex issue, partially wasted time!
Nobody realizes that, since irans retaliatory act, the Ayatollah and netinyahu spoke and agreed to keep the reports of damage in-house, otherwise theyd never be free to finally out their differences to bed.
When is the US going to understand that Iran has been there a long time before the US existed and it's not going away soon, nor is it going to kowtow to the US or Isreal. War is not going to change that so why not just save your military hardward and your people's lives.
Wine is a scorner, an intoxicating drink is a shouter, whoever devotes himself to them shows no wisdom.
It is strange this guy Ali thinks Iran regime is thinking of Palestine as a tool. Iran regime and all of the religious people's in Iran have a sense of responsibility for their brothers an sisters in Palestine.
One of the phrases that doesn’t help the Palestinian cause is pan Arabism. The idea that the Near East excluding Turkey and Iran is just full of “Arabs” does help reveal the immense diversity of the region in terms of ethnicity, religion, history and nationality.
Novara media and owen jones have been covering these issues in detail.
Nice interviews both are obviously inteligent af
Iran is follower of mowla Ali ❤
Calling for de-escalation by continuing to fund one proponent? Funny
Iran has the right to defend itself
Well, these political analyses should look at the individuals who are in the position to shape the policies of the USA concerning the middle-east.
shame on usa
Calls for de-escalation but continues to hand over bombs to 1 side
Right. It's like oxygen telling a fire to calm down.
Let’s not be distracted from what Israel is doing to Palestine