Prager University 5 Min Videos- Is Israel a Liability? The Cult of Death, What Is Birthright Citizenship? and Dinesh D’Souza- Fostering Iran Regime Change

Prager University 5 Min Videos- Is Israel a Liability? The Cult of Death, What Is Birthright Citizenship? and Dinesh D’Souza- Fostering Iran Regime Change   PragerU 5 Minute Videos- Is Israel a Liability?  The Cult of Death What Is Birthright Citizenship? REGIME CHANGE? Dinesh D’Souza Podcast How Foreign Aid Keeps Africa Poor   Is Israel a Liability? | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/-YR0ix_rMcY?si=3GFN3T6SzNQfE6rw PragerU 3.37M subscribers 144,687 views Premiered Jun 23, 2025 5-Minute Videos A growing chorus of voices—from the American left and right—now calls Israel “a liability.” They say it's time to walk away. Are they right? Or is Israel an indispensable ally? Michael Doran, Director of the Middle East Center at the Hudson Institute, confronts this controversy. 📲 Watch our content ad-free on our app: https://prageru.onelink.me/3bas/vgyxvm79 Donate to PragerU: https://l.prageru.com/4jiAT85 Follow PragerU: Instagram ➡️ (  / prageru  ) X ➡️ (  / prageru  ) Facebook ➡️ (  / prageru  ) TikTok ➡️ (  / prageru  ) Transcript: Is Israel a Liability? Presented by Michael Doran A growing chorus of voices—from the American left and right—now calls Israel “a liability.” They say it's time to walk away. They call this "foreign policy realism." In fact, it's the opposite. Israel remains America’s indispensable ally. Here are five reasons why. One: The Neighborhood In geopolitics, as in real estate, three considerations are paramount: location, location, location. The Middle East holds 48% of the world’s oil reserves and produces nearly a third of its supply. Some assert that renewables are making oil irrelevant. Not in our lifetimes. Oil fuels industries. Oil fuels militaries. And oil is priced globally. Shocks in the Middle East hit the U.S. economy—directly. Others say America’s own energy boom makes the region irrelevant. That is shortsighted. What happens in the Middle East doesn’t stay in the Middle East. It moves markets, shakes alliances, and draws in hostile powers. He who controls the Middle East controls the crossroads of the global economy. Israel is America’s fortress at that crossroads. Two: Containing Iran Critics claim that Israel entangles America with Iran. This is a profound misunderstanding. Since its birth in 1979, the Islamic Republic has branded America the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Little Satan.” Everything Iran does, it does with that order in mind. To get to the U.S., Iran has to deal with Israel first. That’s why we, in the interest of our own security, must ensure that Israel has what it needs militarily. Israel is our front line of defense. If that bulwark is compromised, Iran will move on to its main targets—dominating the energy resources of the Gulf, and challenging America. They already have missiles capable of reaching Europe. Shipping those missiles to Iran’s ally Venezuela would put the Iranians in range of the U.S.—like Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, an intolerable threat. Nuclear weapons in the hands of a terrorist state is not a threat only to Israel. It’s a threat to us. Three: Projecting Force Israel might be small (about the size of New Jersey), but it’s lethal. And it fights. We can’t say that about many of our allies. All talk a good game, but few are willing to put their words into action. Israel is different. It spends at least 5% of its GDP on defense. The U.S. spends 3.4%. Many of our NATO allies are struggling to spend 2%. Canada spends 1.3%. Israel’s air force flies more combat missions annually than NATO’s Western European members combined. From generals to conscripts, its soldiers are combat-tested. And they don’t ask others to do their fighting for them. “Give us the tools, and we’ll finish the job,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. As the world has seen, that’s not an idle boast. In a crisis, we want that kind of ally on our side. Four: Intelligence Gathering Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, is unmatched