Will Flaring Tensions In The Middle East Boil Over?

Dr James Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies

31-Jan-23 07:30

Will Flaring Tensions In The Middle East Boil Over?

Pause
Embed

Tensions are flaring between Palestine and Israel following a raid by the Israeli military last Thursday in the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. In the aftermath of the Jenin raid, the Palestinian National Authority withdrew its security cooperation with Israel. Meanwhile Israel’s security cabinet signalled plans to relax gun laws and withdraw Palestinian social security rights. Will this latest surge of violence become a prelude to another uprising in Palestine? Middle East expert Dr. James Dorsey weighs in.

Image credit: Shutterstock

Produced by: Shazana Mokhtar

Presented by: Shazana Mokhtar, Philip See, Wong Shou Ning

This and more than 60,000 other podcasts in your hand. Download the all new BFM mobile app.

Categories: politics, international

Tags: israel, west bank, middle east tensions,

Today’s Shows

11:00 AM

Best of Enterprise

(REPEAT) Co-founders of NanoSkunkWorkX, Dr. Amani Salim and Iqbal Shamsul join us to share their incredible journey of building a deep tech company that manipulates atoms without a multi-million-dollar clean room.

12:00 PM

Just For Kicks

(REPEAT) Our pundits look ahead to Matchweek 8 of the English Premier League, including the big one - Liverpool vs Manchester United.

1:00 PM

A Bit of Culture

(REPEAT) Matt Armitage and Zan Azlee join Kam Raslan to talk about British India curry, five star ratings and children's sports day.

2:00 PM

Ringgit & Sense

(REPEAT) Thanneermalai Somasundaram, Managing Director of Thannees Tax Consulting Services discusses tax reliefs and goodies from Budget 2026.

2:30 PM

The Property Show

(REPEAT) Siva Shanker of Rahim & Co International explains Budget 2026’s measures for the property sector.

3:00 PM

Best of The Bigger Picture

(REPEAT) What's next for Myanmar's revolution and has Malaysia made a difference? Join Dashran as he speaks to Lilianne Fan, the Head of Secretariat of the Malaysian Advisory Group on Myanmar to find the answers.

4:00 PM

Best of Evening Edition

(REPEAT) We sit down with retired professor of occupational health Dr Krishna Gopal Rampal, who now owns the largest collection of Hindu temple art in Malaysia.

5:00 PM

BBC World Service

This episode of The Life Scientific features a conversation with an astrophysicist called Brian Schmidt, discussing his achievements in the field.

PROGRAMMES