The View From Israel One Year After October 7

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  I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.

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  You cannot win a war,

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  and you cannot survive when you are an intimidated nation like Israel without a national strategy,

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  and we don't have a national strategy.

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  A year has passed since Hamas's October 7th assault on Israel sparked a brutal war in Gaza,

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  one that is now spreading north into Lebanon,

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  and threatening to reel in bigger powers, including the United States.

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  But the war has always been bigger than Israel and Hamas,

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  writes Ari Shavit in a new essay for Foreign Affairs.

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  In his view, and in the view of many Israelis, the main threat,

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  not only to Israel but also to the free world, is Iran, backed by Russia and China.

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  Shavit, a leading Israeli writer, has spent decades trying to make sense of his country's identity,

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  its democracy, and its role in the Middle East.

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  I spoke with him on October 4th about how Israelis are thinking about the conflict

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  as it enters its second year and what it will take to bring about peace.

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  Ari,

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  thank you for being here and thank you for the powerful piece that you just published in Foreign Affairs on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks.

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  Thank you so much, Dan.

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  It's a pleasure to be with you.

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  I actually want to start not by...

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