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Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’
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Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’

Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reveals the “original sin” and decades-long miscalculation that led to this moment — and what comes next.

Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren joins me on the WhoWhatWhy podcast to decode this historical inflection point. A historian, former Knesset member, and veteran of Israeli government service, Oren offers a unique perspective from someone who has spent his life at the intersection of scholarship and statecraft. Hours before Israel’s first strike, he published a prescient piece asking whether this was Israel’s “Dirty Harry moment” — the confrontation that would finally call Iran’s bluff.

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