Now, with Iraq weakened and with elements of its political class as supporters of Iran, Iran is in situation just strategically and I think we see that playing out through its expansionism and kind of adventurism occurring Syria, Yemen and other locations... ..…

'It doesn’t create awareness among the people about how dire the situation is,' he said, while acknowledging that many are unfamiliar with Yemen. . “Syria is well known to people, Iraq is well known to people, and both have been in the news a lot in the last generation,” he noted. ..…

He warns about being led astray by misconstruing context: “A state of all of its citizens, a single democratic state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River…sounds good – particularly if you are sitting in café in Paris or London, but we live in the jungle of the Middle East, surrounded by such..…