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#364 - Dr. Dan Schueftan: Middle East Break Down 2025

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JL;DR SUMMARY Dr. Dan Schueftan provides an analysis of Israel's contemporary security challenges, focusing on its military and geopolitical strategies following recent developments in the Middle East. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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HamasMiddle EastHezbollahIranNational SecurityProgressivismGeopoliticsArab Israeli RelationsMiddle Eastern Politics

Places mentioned

Israel
"Gaza is in ruins, Assad is gone, and Hezbollah has taken a serious blow."
Syria
"Hamas continued to entrench itself in Gaza, and Assad's regime in Syria was as ruthless as ever."
Yemen
"The Houthis are firing missiles almost daily, and so many Israelis are still held captive in Gaza."
Iraq
"The militias in Iraq are not even trying anymore to fight against Israel because they realize what the consequences will be."
Iran
"Iran, the puppet master of this whole scene, pulled the strings behind it all, funding and arming its proxies to encircle Israel."
Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
"In Gaza, he can suffer bodily damage and in Harvard, he may come back analytically underdeveloped and moral illiterate."
Egypt
"And the combination of improving the relations with the United States and ignoring what the Americans are saying is exactly what the countries in the Gulf want to do."
Jordan
"These Arabs in Egypt, in Jordan, in Morocco, in Saudi Arabia."
Morocco
"These Arabs in Egypt, in Jordan, in Morocco, in Saudi Arabia."
Saudi Arabia
"These Arabs in Egypt, in Jordan, in Morocco, in Saudi Arabia."
Turkey
"Pardon? No, the Iranian society, yes. But not in this regime. I mean, this is like saying the Boston Strangler is a moderate compared to Jack the Ripper."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"You have the people who shout in Kaplan and you have the people who shout in the government and you have the radicals and you have the journalists who no longer know what journalism is and they basically either work for one or work for the other and you can't take them seriously anymore."
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