How Israel Broke Pan-Arabism

Back when radical Islam was still a movement on the sidelines, and long before the rise of its vicious Shiite variant, pan-Arabism was the organizing Middle Eastern ideology that gave hope to idealists, motivated ordinary people, and directed hatred at the Jewish state. It is also an ideology that has vanished, in large part because Israel managed to defeat it—first through force of arms and then through sound diplomatic judgment, in cooperation with one of modern Arab history’s savviest statesmen. This is the interpretation of events that Dan Schueftan sets forth in conversation with Haviv Rettig Gur. (Video, 76 minutes. Audio also available on podcast platforms.)