Following the recent release of the Turkish edition of my book, The Palestine Laboratory, I was interviewed by the Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency (here’s the Turkish and English versions):
“None of these activities, the killings, the assassinations, the destruction, none of that is making Israel safer,” Loewenstein said, noting that many countries, some of them supporters of Israel, saw Oct. 7 as a disaster for Tel Aviv, and that watching the events in Gaza and Lebanon might lead them to believe that ”its deterrence has strengthened.”
“There are still 5 million Palestinians under occupation. Their lives have gotten much worse in the last year. Their lives are not going to get any better in the near future because of the Israeli government, because of the ideology, because of the occupation, all these reasons,” he said. “Israel might think that it has defeated or is defeating a key enemy in the region, but none of it is making Israeli Jews particularly any safer. Their position in the Middle East has not become more secure in the last 12 months.”