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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region

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JL;DR SUMMARY Micah Goodman discusses the geopolitical implications of Israel's recent military actions and explores the potential for regional realignment in the Middle East if Israel can navigate complex compromises, particularly related to the Gaza situation. 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 EastPeace ProcessIranU.S. Israel RelationsNetanyahuMilitary StrategyGeopoliticsRegional Alliances

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"But in 67, I mean, not 1967, but 67, when the Romans came in, in order to put down the rebellion of the Jews against the Roman empire. And they managed to put down the rebellion in the north, in the Galilee, but they still had Jerusalem."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Welcome to the Times of Israel's What Matters Now, a weekly podcast diving into one issue affecting Israel and the Jewish world."
Iran
"And we know this. Our Shin de Shabak, the Shin bet, found like we have findings that we knew that this is what he thought will happen. He'll attack Israel and everyone will join him."
Tehran, Iran
"Imagine that the war that began attacking Be'eri ended with air domination over Tehran."
Syria
"He's a part of an axis. Iran, Hezbollah, proxies in Iraq, proxies in Syria, Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank."
Damascus, Syria
"And now Israel is going, and America is going to try to build an Axis of pro-Western countries surrounding Iran, isolating Iran, completing the V'na'afochu, what they did to us, now we're trying to do to them."
Saudi Arabia
"And you ask, do Bibi supporters could say, hey, those elites that we said they were progressive, post-Zionist, so I'm not saying support the elites, but maybe you have some admiration for them. And then maybe the anti-Bibi camp, which is against Bibi, and they have so many reasons and some of them are very good."
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
"Let's go to a short break. Want to help give Israeli children a summer after this war? I'm Naomi Brownstein, co-founder and voluntary chair of TENGOV. TENGOV receives requests for help from social services departments around Israel."
Palestinian Territories
"It may work out this week. There's a lot of optimism floating through the air, but that did not happen. And so we're here 21 months into the war that began on October 7th when Hamas invaded southern Israel, murdering 1,200 and taking 251 people back to Gaza as hostages."
West Bank, Jericho, Palestinian Territories
"You have probably alive. And this is the situation as we face it today. I just want to add one more wrinkle. We are also after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"We had U.S. President Donald Trump. We had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing each other."
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