This week marks the Thirtieth anniversary of the end of the first Iraq War. A coalition headed by the United States and including Saudi, Syrian and Egyptian forces defeated Saddam Hussein and imposed limits on his power. But twelve years later, war erupted again, and this time Saddam was captured and executed, Iraq was occupied and its fragile domestic equilibrium shattered. In almost Amtwo decades, it is yet to find the right balance between its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish components and the outside forces competing in it, primarily Iran and the United States.
Guests Dr Ronen Zeidel, Iraq analyst, The Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, Dr. Nir Boms, Research fellow, Moshe Dayan center at Tel Aviv University, and Amir Oren.
