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The Katie Halper Show

John Mearsheimer on if Israel Is Rational ft. Rahma Zein

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Katie talks to Professor John Mearsheimer about the state of the world, Israel, Iran, Russia, China and more. But first Katie talks to Rahma Zein, an Egyptian podcaster and speaker who now works at Tech for Palestine. John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago and the author of "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics," "The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities," and co-author of the controversial and ground-breaking "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on social media! Twitter: @kthalps Instagram: @kthalps TikTok: @kthalps_

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you tonight. We have joining great show for you tonight.

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We have joining the show back on the show.

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Two guests actually are rejoining the show.

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You know and love Professor John Meersheimer, who will talk to us about the latest in all things, international relations, foreign policy, real politic, political realism, soft power,

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hard power, all that stuff. And we're going to get into the state of the world, the new world order, and whether or not we should be waiting for World War III. But before we do that,

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we have a special surprise guest, also coming back onto the show,

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Rahma Zain, who is an Egyptian-based speaker, podcaster, and consultant at Tech for Palestine.

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