Dispatch Live: Iran’s Retaliation and Israel’s Response

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Declan Garvey is hosting tonight’s Dispatch Live and will be joined by David Daoud, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The two will discuss Iran’s strikes and Israel’s expected response. Will Rinehart will then discuss his latest newsletter topics: net neutrality and the majority illusion. David Drucker and Charles will round out the conversation with the latest in Dispatch Politics.

On the Agenda:

  • Assessing Iran’s strikes;
  • The state of Hezbollah;
  • Net neutrality and regulating internet traffic;
  • Online trolls and popular opinion; 
  • Michigan’s Arab voting block; and
  • Running against MAGA candidates

Show Notes:

Grab a drink, prepare your questions, and join us on YouTube at 8 p.m. ET.

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    Rev Snow

    It looks like a middle school principal walked in on a basement gamers club.

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  2. Imlerta

    I could see The Dispatch podcast on YouTube including the participants and comments BUT could not get the sound? How do I fix this?

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      JohnM.

      It must be on your end because I hear them fine on YouTube.

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  3. Meggymish

    @dispatch
    Please add Spotify or iHeartRadio as an alternative to Google Podcast? Google Podcast is no longer available. I don't have an Apple, and I don't use Overcast. I'd rather not add an app just to listen to one show.
    Please and thank you!

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      Ehoop

      I switched to castbox when Google pods went away, it's not bad. I pay a few bucks a year, not very much at all.

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  4. Neelthakrebew

    I wrote this yesterday in response to Bill Kristol's assertion that Iran's attack on Israel provided an opportunity to strike a decisive blow. A decisive blow in the Middle East to resolve conflicts that have been going on for centuries? Please!

    Iran's attack upon Israel yesterday was the military equivalent of a squirt gun. They sent an attack they knew was likely to cause hardly any damage. This isn't the time for anyone to escalate!

    It is true that a simmering war has been going on in the Middle East for decades now, but a simmer is better than a boil. When you turn the heat to maximum that's when the kitchen is set on fire. When you start something with Iran, you'd better be determined to finish it. Bombing isn't going to do it and invading a large Middle Eastern country turned out so well when we tried it in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Bill Kristol is a well-known neocon who thinks way too highly of the usefulness of warfare.

    The Middle East has been simmering for centuries, due to many disagreements, fundamental among them the Sunni Shia split. There are no military means of settling these permanent conflicts.

    BTW, I think we should take every defensive means to discourage China in the Pacific, and we should also arm Ukraine. But the Middle East is a hellhole best left to its own devices. We don't need to attack Iran to defend Israel. And, by the way, Iran's nuclear facilities are buried too deep for us to destroy. We'd have to have someone on the inside or a cyberattack to take them out.

    What is absolutely wonderful is that we no longer need Middle Eastern oil—we've got plenty of our own.

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      JohnM.

      "Iran's attack upon Israel yesterday was the military equivalent of a squirt gun."

      That's the wrong way to look at it. They meant to inflict maximum damage and to kill as many Jews as possible. Sure, it didn't turn out that way, but that was their intent. It's time for Israel to establish some real deterrence.

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      1. Neelthakrebew

        If Iran thought this attack was going to inflict a lot of damage, they are way more stupid than anyone thinks they are.
        For an effective attack, they should have used hypersonic missiles alone, but these missiles were not used at all. Iran totally tipped Israel off by sending a fleet of slow flying drones which were so easy to detect.
        The reason Iram made this big splashy attack was to claim a big win to their misinformed citizens.
        btw, JohnM, Do you self like your own comments?

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          JohnM.

          And if one or even just a few had escaped detection and destruction? What then?
          Oh, and a commenter named 'Meggymish' liked that comment. I have receipts.

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    Todd T

    Who is Charles?

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      JohnM.

      https://thedispatch.com/author/charles-hilu/

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        Todd T

        Haha eponymous

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