20 Dec

A Year of Tragedy, Triumph, and Transition

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode provides a comprehensive analysis of the complex geopolitical developments in Israel and the broader Middle East at the end of 2024, focusing on the ongoing conflicts involving Israel, the fall of the Assad regime, and the potential impact of a Trump presidency on these dynamics. 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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Israel

"But we had over a year of a war with Hezbollah, which shattered the north of Israel and made our lives pretty miserable."

Yemen

"...because there was a siren of a ballistic missile coming from Yemen."

Lebanon

"It could have been done a week earlier. But to capitalize on the military achievements in Lebanon to reach a ceasefire..."

Syria

"Let's get to Syria, because you both have not been on since, well, the big news transpired."

Iran

"Iran, Russia, they're the experts. They're the experts in filling the vacuums and capitalizing on our military achievements."

Russian Federation

"Iran, Russia, they're the experts. They're the experts in filling the vacuums and capitalizing on our military achievements."

Turkey

"So I think that, you know, Israel's got to be got to be careful and just keep an eye on things on that front and do everything it can to shore up Jordan and to shore up the Palestinian authority in the West Bank to prevent something like that from happening the other thing that I've got my eye on is turkey because turkey is so far the you know in a conventional sense the biggest winner of what happened in syria not only has turkey supported the two most successful rebel groups here they almost certainly influence the timing of of the charge against assad you know they're in many ways in the driver's seat and this this goes back to an old argu..."

Jordan

"...running Syria. And that poses two big risks. One is, particularly if fighting continues and with different groups including the united states and turkey and israel and iran backing all sorts of different players in syria there is a risk that that you do have continued fighting if you get a failed state on israel's border so is that better than having an iranian proxy maybe but you know it's it's not great for israeli stability or a safe and secure border and the bigger risk i think is that you've got some real bad sunni jihadis in jordan."

Saudi Arabia

"...Israel in the Levant after his big victory in in Syria I'll let you fight it out with shira about erdogan's ultimate ultimate calculations that'll be a special bonus episode for uh for for people who want to pay extra for israel policy pod exactly we'll look into that in into in the exactly okay we'll be right back after this brief message during this period of upheaval in the israeli palestinian arena israeli politics u.s israel relations and regional affairs israel policy forum experts are shedding light on complex policy issues and breaking news developments impacting israel's future as secure jewish..."

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A Year of Tragedy, Triumph, and Transition

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