Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi

As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ceasefires, one thing has become clear: this isn’t just about Palestine. It’s about Western supremacy, empire, and the racism that underpins them both.

To discuss this, Rania Khalek is joined by Dr. Ghada Karmi — academic, physician, and Nakba survivor — who has written powerfully about how Western imperialism, Arab complicity, and Zionism’s own contradictions have led us here. Dr. Karmi is a former research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and author of many books including “One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.”

She has spent her life exposing the deeper roots of this catastrophe: the colonial mindset that made Palestine disposable, the Western guilt that turned Jewish suffering into Palestinian punishment, and the moral rot that allows genocide to be broadcast live without consequence.

Chapters:
0:00 Teaser
1:38 Intro
4:02 Reflections on this moment
6:00 Are you surprised?
9:52 War on children
12:13 Ghada’s childhood before and during the Nakba
23:00 The New York Times living on top of Ghada’s ethnically cleansed family home 31:49 Western Racism & Delusion
39:21 Western Guilt for Europe’s Crimes
45:15 Israel has no future in the Middle East

@RaniaKhalek spoke with Nakba survivor @ghadakarmi about Gaza, Western racism, Europe’s guilt, the Arab world, and why Zionism has no future in the Middle East.