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  To watch and lsten TRT World American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are allegedly using live ammunition and stun grenades against Palestinians seeking food, according to the Associated Press. James M. Dorsey, from Singapore’s S Rajaratnam School of International Studies weighs in. Transcript ANCHOR: Let's bring in James M. Dorsy now. He's a Middle East analyst and a professor at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Welcome again, James. So, just referring back to that Associated Press uh, report, they conducted interviews with people who claimed that they were US contractors guarding the aid at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. and the claim is that they have been shooting  almost indiscriminately at people who were were queuing up for aid, that they were using live ammunition, they were using grenades. reportedly several dozen people killed again today, which makes the total death toll reportedly around 500 at least people kil...

Note: There's a little bit of crackle in the audio in this episode. Attempts were made to remove crackle as much as possible, but it remains at some point. Hopefully it does not pose too much of a problem for listening. https://jamesmdorsey.substack.com/p/israel-iran-ceasefire-fragility-israels On this edition of Parallax Views, James M. Dorsey of the Turbulent World Substack blog returns to reflect of the "ceasefire" between Israel and Iran. Dorsey argues this is not so much a ceasefire as a fragile halt of hostilities for the time being, or a pause. Dorsey notes that it's unclear how much of Iran's nuclear program has been damaged or salvaged by the Islamic Republic in light of the strikes. That, he says, is a big question right now. We then discuss Trump's relationship with the Gulf States and his evangelical Christian Zionist base. That poses an issue for Trump, Dorsey argues. $3.6 trillion are on the table from the Gulf States (Saudi Arabia, Qatar,...