Michael Doran, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at the Hudson Institute and co-host of the podcast Counterbalance, joins the show to talk about the Israel-Hamas war and the broader regional competition with Iran.

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• 02:04 Introduction

• 04:01 Is Hamas winning?

• 10:29 Fighting the clocks

• 13:10 Defeat from the jaws of victory

• 18:24 An Iranian-American conflict

• 22:44 Managing decline

• 26:40 Lessons not learned

• 33:00 The Iranian nuclear umbrella

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Ep 118: Michael Doran on Is Hamas Winning?