# US-ISRAELI WAR ON IRAN: Can Israel Survive Full-Scale Iranian Retaliation? (Prof. Uri Bar-Joseph)

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Published: 2026-02-28T02:22:41+00:00
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Uri Bar-Joseph, Prof. Emeritus of International Relations at the University of Haifa. Can Israel survive an all-out Iranian retaliation as Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu prepare a second US-Israeli war on Iran? What are Trump’s and Netanyahu’s real motivations behind a war on Iran? Will Hezbollah join the war? How much damage could Israel suffer? All this and much more on this episode.

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