Simon Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore · Public intellectuals, authors & commentators
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the historian of Jerusalem: The Biography, whose essay dismantling the decolonization frame for Israel went viral.
"The mayhem, the slaughter, the rapine of October 7th was too effective." Simon Sebag Montefiore talks to @AFneil @TheNeilReport about Iran's involvement with the Israel Palestine conflict.
Here the Israeli dilemma in Lebanon begins: Israel was able to create the conditions for political change in Lebanon through military force, but it will not be able to complete that change through military force alone.
Encouraging, if true. Only 13.3% of Palestinians support armed resistance (armed intifada), while 55.8% support peaceful negotiations with Israel. Another 17.8% support nonviolent resistance.
Will Turkey & Pakistan join war vs Houthis? What if Iran backs Houthis?
Shocking. Netanyahu was ‘warned about October 7 by UAE president’ https://t.co/6UeC2O3Pqi
Kemi Badenoch: ‘Labour’s anti-Israel obsession shows it hasn’t changed since Jeremy Corbyn was leader’ - The Jewish Chronicle https://t.co/1JoEBRjYZk
The Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) has reached an initial understanding with the Syrian government to integrate the all-female force into the interior ministry as a special mission unit
Iran Oil Dollars Dry Up as US Blockade Bites. What is its solution? Talks or Escalation or Both? https://t.co/Y4wvnDYOPo
Watching Yemen
We Live in ‘a New World of Counterhistory’: @tunkuv interviews @simonmontefiore on the the importance of standing up for history & how the decolonialist-antiIsrael activism resembles a religious movement. @WSJ https://t.co/hHgpVuyimc… via @WSJopinion https://t.co/akxcNeNE6w
We Live in ‘a New World of Counterhistory’: @tunkuv interviews @simonmontefiore on the danger of lies and conspiracies in our era and the importance of standing up for history. He is no fan of Netanyahu-BenGvir govt but says it will be a long time before we see a full Palestine state @WSJ https://t.co/h2EGCF4qtU via @WSJopinion
An honour to speak to the great @gideonrachman @ft on the forces shaping the MIddle East from the Ottoman to the Hormuz crisis today
Great to talk to @SAThevoz on the Middle East at The Bunker
£36m penthouses next to Kensington Gardens ‘owned’ by Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba. https://t.co/JDOmXsBpCU
By squeezing the Strait of Hormuz, both the U.S. and Iran expected to outlast their foe, making time work in their favor. Now, it looks like the trend is moving against Tehran. The always excellent @yarotrof https://t.co/Z9kFkA8prT via @WSJ
For Gaza to Recover, Hamas Must Be Expelled Hamas should have no role in Gaza’s future but, appallingly, so many in the West who consider themselves allies of the Palestinian people still see the brutal gangster group as honorable resistance fighters. Their support for, or failure to denounce, the group only helps perpetuate the degradation of Gaza and the myth that Israel can be eliminated. Yet peace is possible. But only for a peaceful Palestinian republic nxt to the Israeli one https://t.co/LPIiYpwE9t via @NYTOpinion
Nadia Murad The inspiring woman who was kidnapped by Isis, then won a Nobel prize https://t.co/y892UhuHe6
To Save Gaza, Resist Hamas: “Gaza has no future as long as Hamas holds two million Palestinians hostage to its nihilistic agenda.” @afalkhatib https://t.co/mI6Z45gNAp via @NYTOpinion
Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict really at the center of the Middle East? Part 2 of my conversation with @simonmontefiore here: https://t.co/WpGj3gOn07 @dansenor
Queen Victoria’s telegraph office had three employees. Abdul Hamid II, the leader of the Ottoman Empire, only needed one. To listen to the full episode with the brilliant @simonmontefiore , author of 'The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East', join the Declassified Club at https://t.co/Z9fnRDoVCQ 🔓
Kurdistan and Emirates. The cauldron tells the story of the new Middle east
Iran war and The Cauldron of the Middle East - pleasure to talk to the great @WilfredFrost @SkyNews https://t.co/Bf734afsHK
Hamas security chieftain captured after Israeli joint operation with Palestinian allies in Gaza https://t.co/wEaSWuWOws
We have agreed on the official name of our alliance: the Mecca Defense Alliance.
The Sunday Times review of The Cauldron: "Montefiore’s monumental history of the modern Middle East, The Cauldron, could not be more timely. Here in one volume, admittedly a weighty one, is an essential primer on a region that consists of 19 states, from Morocco with its Atlantic coast, through the Holy Land to Iran and the fringes of central Asia. To make this sprawling, multifaceted story into a page-turner he leavens it with pearls of wisdom from Arab and Persian poets and sages, while ushering extraordinary characters across the stage. It is a remarkable feat, for which his previous books on Jerusalem and Russian history have served as preparation..." https://t.co/LTkLDYyiQp