The Mirage of Normalization

For years, normalization with Israel was presented as the region’s most credible route to peace, security and economic opportunity. Yet recent events reveal a very different reality: normalization did not resolve the underlying conflict; it merely postponed it.

This episode explores how the promise of an oasis of peace turned into a strategic mirage—and why agreements that ignore unresolved questions of power, occupation and security cannot produce a durable regional order.