Name: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible
Uploaded: 2013-10-09T15:08:35Z
Duration: 10 min 31 s
Description: Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history of collaboration, even friendship. In an informative talk, Trita Parsi shows how an unlikely strategic alliance in the past could mean peace in the future for these two feuding countries.

Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history of collaboration, even friendship. In an informative talk, Trita Parsi shows how an unlikely strategic alliance in the past could mean peace in the future for these two feuding countries.

Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible

Iran and Israel: Peace is possible

Despite past alliances between Iran and Israel, geopolitical shifts post-Cold War redefined them as rivals, not enemies by nature.

In the '80s, Israel defied a U.S. arms embargo to aid Iran, hinting at complex, shifting alliances beyond ideological lines.

Yitzhak Rabin's wisdom reminds us: peace isn't made with friends but with adversaries. A call for diplomacy over conflict.