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 in daring and results. In 2018, it raided Iran’s nuclear archive—in Tehran. In 2024, it launched Operation Grim Beeper, detonating Hezbollah pagers and crippling thousands of terrorists. These operations revealed deep penetration of both Iran and its proxies. The U.S. is excellent at gathering and processing intelligence data. So is Israel. But when it comes to human intelligence—information from people in positions of personal knowledge—Israel has no peer. When the U.S. needs eyes on the ground, ears in the room, or insight into the minds of our adversaries, we often turn to Israel. To say that without Israel the U.S. would be blind in the Middle East would be an exaggeration—but not by much. Five: Geopolitical Consequences If the U.S. were to abandon Israel, it would trigger a cascade of disasters. ...access the full transcript here 👉 https://l.prageru.com/4lch6rq The Cult of Death | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU https://youtu.be/HJY12ikmmGc?si=qMmXD2eXhDuy8FbL PragerU 3.37M subscribers 583,690 views Premiered May 5, 2025 5-Minute Videos What happens when a movement chooses death over life, and hatred over truth? The October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks exposed more than just violence—they revealed a deeper ideological war. In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, Rawan Osman explains why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not merely about land or politics, but a global struggle between freedom and barbarism—and why the future of Western Civilization is at stake. 📲 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 ) What Is Birthright Citizenship? | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU https://youtu.be/gyMXVg_MfYo?si=VZUN46MVHyYSZQad PragerU 3.37M subscribers 992,755 views Premiered May 19, 2025 5-Minute Videos Do children born in the U.S. automatically gain citizenship? Many claim the 14th Amendment of the Constitution guarantees it. Amy Swearer, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, tackles this constitutional debate head-on. 📲 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 ) REGIME CHANGE? Dinesh D’Souza Podcast https://rumble.com/v6v9oob-regime-change-dinesh-dsouza-podcast-ep1111.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a Dinesh D'Souza 1.73M followers Jun 24 PodcastsRepublican Politics In this episode, Dinesh confronts head-on the controversial issue of “regime change,” arguing it should not be our goal in Iran, but it should be an outcome we welcome. Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy joins Dinesh to discuss Iran’s nuclear program and how effectively it has been stymied, and where the US and Iran go from here. 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How Foreign Aid Keeps Africa Poor | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU https://youtu.be/1I2-Rl7zwRw?si=CFXVEoDn6fVBFpMo PragerU 3.37M subscribers 986,816 views Premiered Jun 16, 2025 5-Minute Videos Does foreign aid help Africa—or hurt it? Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade knows that prosperity can’t be built on handouts, no matter how well-intentioned. So, what’s the real solution to African poverty? Economic freedom and policies that empower entrepreneurship. Here's why. 📲 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: How Foreign Aid Keeps Africa Poor Presented by ‪@MagatteWadeOfficial Foreign aid is not the solution to poverty in Africa. It’s one of the reasons why Africa is poor. Yes, you heard that right. For years, we've been sold the idea that aid from organizations like USAID helps "lift" Africa out of its poverty. But here’s the truth: if foreign aid worked, Africa would be the richest continent on Earth by now. Free market advocate and former US Congressman Ron Paul described it perfectly. “Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.” Walk through the streets of Dakar, Senegal where I am from, and you'll see exactly where your aid money goes. The city is filled with foreign residents working for the UN, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and embassies. They live in a parallel economy – one that most Senegalese can only observe from the outside. These aid workers enjoy lives of luxury: fine dining at expensive restaurants, driving new SUVs, occupying the best apartments in town, employing multiple household staff and hosting lavish parties. And, by the way, they receive "hardship pay" for the “sacrifice” of living in “faraway places filled with malaria, tropical diseases and tough climates.” This creates a devastating ripple effect throughout our local economy. These organizations, flush with seemingly unlimited cash, inflate the cost of everything – from housing to basic services. A local business owner like me has to compete with these inflated prices while running a real business with real constraints. But the damage goes deeper than just raising the cost of living. These organizations also poach our best and brightest talents with salaries that no local business can match. Instead of building new enterprises, innovating solutions, or creating economic value, our most capable people are diverted into bureaucratic jobs pushing papers and writing reports nobody will ever read. I've seen brilliant minds reduced to professional workshop attendees, moving from one donor-funded meeting to another, producing nothing of lasting value. When I travel across Africa, I don't see sustainable prosperity created by aid programs. Instead, I see the destruction of local markets and the creation of dependency cycles. Consider what happens in our villages: When free mosquito nets arrive, local merchants who sell them go bankrupt. The same thing happens with shoes. Donated shoes flood local markets, making it impossible for local shoe manufacturers to compete. And the “desperately needed” food aid? Much of that gets hijacked by corrupt government officials and sold at below market prices. African farmers can’t compete against this “free” food. So, they stop farming and move into the already crowded cities. Local food-producing ecosystems are destroyed, which only worsens the hunger problem. These are the real costs of “humanitarian aid.” To be clear, I’m not speaking about aid in response to an emergency like a natural disaster. But these disasters are rare. “Development aid” is an ever-flowing river of money and goods and it’s destroying a continent. Like all government sponsored efforts (this is as true within the US and Europe as it is in Africa), there is no accountability for the money spent. The budgets of these aid organizations make no sense in any real-world context. They measure success by money spent and goods distributed, not by actual economic development or the creation of profitable businesses. Even more frustrating is how this system creates a culture of dependency that diminishes Africans’ dignity. The narrative becomes one of Africa needing constant help, rather than Africa needing fair opportunities to compete and grow. When you think of Africa what comes to your mind: dynamic entrepreneurs or starving children? I thought so. I recently approached the head of a San Francisco venture fund looking for investment in a business I wanted to start in Africa. He didn’t want to give me capital. He wanted to give me charity. “Can we dig wells,” he asked? “They need fresh water, right?” That’s what got him excited. Condescension cloaked in do-goodism. That’s the typical Western attitude toward Africa. ...access the full transcript here 👉 https://l.prageru.com/460ehp1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Pragertopia https://pragertopia.com/member/signup.php The first month is 99 cents. After the first month the cost is $7.50 per month. If you can afford to pay for only one podcast, this is the one we recommend. It is the best conservative radio show out there, period. ACU strongly recommends ALL ACU students and alumni subscribe to Pragertopia. Do it today! 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