The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prominent historian known for his works on Russia and Jerusalem. This interview reveals his leadership style as one that seeks to build trust and understanding across divides, highlighting the necessity of historical context in resolving contemporary conflicts.
“Which is why he feels he has to win now. More likely, though, given the fact that we are still withholding some high-tech weaponry from Ukraine, is that there'll be some sort of stalemate, which brings us back to the other subject, because that would be our mystice line signed, which would create a Ukraine that rather like happened with I…”
“Does look really distant. The suffering, the trauma in Israel after October the 7th, and I only start with that because that's what happened first and that's what set the whole. I'm not saying it's not a longer problem. It goes back to 1948.”
“And then I was approached again, and they said, It's been translated into Russian. A certain personage has read the book and would like to give you a present. And the present, well, I'm slightly alarmed about taking a present from Vladimir Putin. But the present was access to. In case it was NovaChock.”
“Promising a Jewish homeland. It started with in 1915 with the negotiations with Hussein of Mecca, a Hashemite prince descended from the Prophet Muhammad and who they had ruled Mecca on and off since the times of Saladin. They and the British were discussing the Hashemite family wanted to rule the entire Arab world, one family.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 48. Simon Sebag Montefiore: The impact of conflicting histories in the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars
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