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American Prestige

E242 - Israel’s War Consensus and Permanent Conflict w/ Udi Greenberg

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

Politics, History, News

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more episodes. Danny and Derek welcome back to the show historian Udi Greenberg to talk about Israeli public opinion, politics, and its strategy vis-à-vis the war with Iran. They discuss the overwhelming public support for military operations, the underlying strategic consensus across Israeli politics prioritizing military dominance over negotiation, the absence of meaningful debate over a two-state solution or Palestinian sovereignty, the stability of Israeli domestic political divisions despite the war, how media and military messaging shapes public perception, and the relationship between Israeli strategy and continued U.S. support. Don't forget to mark your calendars for our series Marx Prestige, coming March 31. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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That's conversation to prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson.

1:10.4

And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast today, my old friend, Udi Greenberg. We've done a ton of episodes with Udi and he has become, I don't know, perhaps much to his chagrin, our Israel desk. But before we jump in, I did want to make an announcement. We have a series coming out called Mark's Prestige.

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2:00.9

All right, Udi, back to the topic at hand, and that is Israel, broadly speaking,

2:06.0

and particularly Israel and the war in Iran, of course.

2:10.5

So I think the first question, and this has, I think, been getting some play in the United States,

2:15.3

which is what does the ordinary Israeli citizen think about this

2:20.3

war and why do they think what they think? A broad question, feel free to take it in any direction

2:26.4

you would like. Well, thanks for having me, first of all. So broadly speaking, like any military

2:31.7

operation in the history of Israel over the last few decades,

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