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Israel Update

What Israel Should Do

michael_doran
michael_doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Michael Doran
doran israel update may 2026
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On Israel Update, Michael Doran urges the public to calibrate expectations to reality, not to what he calls the media frenzy. He notes that things in the Middle East are never as bad as the alarmists say, and they are never as good as we would like. The conversation explores the various pros and cons of the emerging deal between the United States and Iran, while examining how Israel should conduct itself vis-à-vis the American interests.