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Professor Tarek Masoud joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the Middle East. What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine? What are the most significant moments leading to the current geopolitical climate of the Middle East? What makes the Houthis of Yemen such a difficult adversary? Why is Islam unfairly associated with terrorism? Answers to these questions and more await on Middle East support.
0:00 Middle East Support
0:15 What was the reaction to bombing Iranian nuclear sites?
1:00 The timeline
3:41 Syria, currently.
5:00 Turkey
6:56 Houthis
7:43 Democracy in the Middle East
9:16 Gaza and Genocide
11:57 Oil
12:49 UAE
14:11 What's the origin of the conflict between Israel and Palestine?
16:54 Dubai Dudes
18:16 Two state solution
20:08 War
21:08 Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims
22:43 Terrorism
24:40 2003 Iraq Invasion
26:11 Iran of the 1960s
28:04 Why there are American bases in Qatar?
28:35 The U.S. and Israel in the 1960s
30:12 What is Israel's main goal with invading other countries?
33:17 Futuristic Saudi Cities of the Desert
34:32 The Taliban and women
35:41 The difference between Kosher and Halal
*EXPERT'S NOTE:* My edited response to the question about the roots of the Sunni-Shia divide seems to suggest that a civil war broke out immediately upon the death of Muhammad. In fact, the prophet Muhammad’s cousin, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, was passed over for leadership three times, before finally becoming Calip
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2025/09/02
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