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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Forecasting the war’s path ahead - with Michael Oren

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This episode will be the first of a few conversations in which we touch on the range of directions this October 7th war could go (especially when considering comparisons to Israel's previous wars, including those with Hamas and also the 1973 Yom Kippur War). Michael Oren is the author of numerous books, including: “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East” and “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present”. Micahel also served in the paratroopers in the IDF after moving to Israel. Later on, he served as Israel ambassador to the United States, and as a Member of Knesset and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office. He is a graduate of Princeton and Columbia, and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown.

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0:00.0

You don't send two carrier groups, and I've been to these carrier groups, you're talking about massive

0:04.9

military power armadas. You don't move them there unless you intend to use them in some way,

0:09.3

because if you don't use them, it's even worse. And it's like taking out the pistol you're not willing to

0:13.7

shoot it don't take out the pistol and remember America is a superpower it has a

0:19.0

global perspective the message there is not just to Iran is well, the message there is to Russia, to China,

0:24.2

it's about Ukraine, it's about Taiwan, it's about the South China Sea, it's about many things.

0:29.0

This is Joe Biden taking on the one issue in Washington which achieves bipartisan support, which is isolationism.

0:36.0

He's actually saying to the world that America is back.

0:39.0

If Hezbollah opens up with 150,000 rockets at us and many are accurate. They can take out our

0:44.7

essential facilities, our utilities, our airfields, our oil refineries, our

0:49.8

de Mona reactor, okay? Those aircraft carriers are going to launch. And it's not just planes. It's

0:56.0

tomahawk missiles, it's Aegis systems, it's, it's, it's, they're, they're an arsenal and themselves,

1:00.6

their armies. So you ask me, is there a a chance? Yeah there's a chance. I can't

1:04.8

assign a probability to it but I would actually say hi. We have woken up to a different world.

1:10.0

We are in a very different world right now. We don't know, we know how the war started.

1:13.8

We have no idea how it ends. It is

1:27.0

October 21st at 8 a.m. here in New York City. It's 5 p.m. in Israel as Chabat winds down there in a couple of hours.

1:35.4

Here are the latest developments from Israel.

1:37.6

The New York Times reports this morning that Israel's defense minister

1:40.9

Jov Galant supported a preemptive strike on Hezbollah in the north.

1:46.4

President Biden and his aides advised Israel to avoid a widening war with the Hezbollah strike.

1:52.3

This follows on a lot of reporting that occurred in the Hebrew

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