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Dan Shiftan

Dan Shiftan

Israeli academic; Head of International Graduate Program in National Security Studies at University of Haifa; former advisor to Israeli prime ministers Rabin and Sharon.

Jun 30, 2026

20:26
democracies, though, Dan, are democracies built in a sturdy enough way to implement this policy according to historical
20:35
experience? When they're not, then they get October 7th.
20:40
We were not, so we got October 7th.
20:43
The difference between us and the rest of Western civilization is that the threat to us is much more immediate than it is to others.
20:53
But also in Europe, When you strengthen Putin by, for instance, making Germany completely dependent on his oil and his gas, and when you transmit to Putin, whatever happens, we will not fight, the inevitable result is what we've seen in the Ukraine.
21:12
So in Israel, or we haven't seen the last of the North Koreans yet with nuclear weapons.
21:20
But again, if you don't stop things, at a high cost, when you can still stop them, then the barbarians become unstoppable.

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45:14
Dan, my last question is, what do you think Israel should be doing vis-à-vis the United States, vis-à-vis Iran, vis-à-vis Hezbollah and Lebanon at this stage?

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