Understanding the Israel-Hamas Conflict: Insights from Dr. Mukesh Kapila

The fact that we have conflicts in many countries in the world, we have people blocking roads because of climate change, because governments are not doing enough for it, or somebody else agitating because they're not getting their COVID vaccination against all these disputes that are taking place all over the world on all sorts of topics. They have forms of conflict. It's not necessarily always armed conflict, hopefully, or not always armed conflict. The only place where you maybe don't have such conflicts openly is probably totalitarian regimes like Eritrea and China. And for the life of me, I don't want to live in countries like that. It's almost like a third world war. It's not a third world war of warfare in that sense, but it's a war for freedom. It's a war for freedoms, if you wish. It's a muddled war. It's a confused war. Some are wars of self-determination. Some are wars against marginalization. Others are wars of equal treatment, and all sorts of things are there. Ultimately, there are wars about forms of freedom. So in that sense, maybe this is the Third World War. But the nature of that war is very different. I think that is the one thing that I take away from our discussion today.