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True East
by JNS
Get ready to go beyond the headlines to learn what makes Israel tick! Join IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman along with experts in the fields of military, economy, AI and government for a deep dive into the inner workings of Israel. Learn what’s happening behind the scenes in Startup Nation and what’s in the works as Israel catapults its transformation into a global superpower.
Episodes
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Beyond the Lebanon Ceasefire: A New Era for Israeli Security?
In this episode of True East, IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman argues that the newly announced Israel-Lebanon framework is far more than a ceasefire and it may represent a historic shift in Israel's entire security doctrine. Learn why decades of Western assumptions about diplomacy and…
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The Iran Deal: What It Means for Israel?
President Trump says the war is over. Many Israelis aren't so sure. In this episode, IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman and political analyst Gil Hoffman breaks down the controversial Iran deal, the growing tensions between Washington and Jerusalem, PM Netanyahu's political future and what...
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Wounded Enemy: When Victory Isn't the End
What happens when a wounded enemy isn't defeated but simply waiting for its next opportunity? In this provocative episode of the True East podcast, IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman explores one of history's most dangerous military mistakes: stopping a war too soon. Drawing powerful parallels...
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Section 224: The New Foundation of U.S.-Israel Relations and Future Warfare
The biggest shift in U.S.-Israel relations in decades may be happening right now and almost nobody is talking about it. In this eye-opening conversation, IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman and strategic analyst Nitzan David Fuchs break down Section 224, a little-known congressional initiative…
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Lebanon as Leverage: Iran’s Strategy Against Israel and America
Israel may be on the verge of permanently reshaping its northern border and Hezbollah’s terrifying new drone warfare is only the beginning of the story. IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman sits down with Amiad Cohen (Founder and CEO of Herut Center) to discuss why the war in Lebanon is far more...
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Weaponization of Narrative: The New York Times and Israel
Did the New York Times just cross a line it can never come back from? IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman learn how one controversial article triggered accusations of propaganda laundering and modern-day blood libels against Israel. This episode dissects the reporting chain behind shocking claims...
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The Battle for Global Power: America, China and the Middle East
President Trump’s trip to China may be one of the most consequential geopolitical moments of the decade because the real battle isn’t just about trade anymore, it’s about who will control the future world order. IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman breaks down the hidden strategic war unfolding...
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The Next Phase: Israel, Iran and What Comes Next
Is the war with Iran really over or are we just entering the most dangerous phase yet? IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman sits down with former IDF spokesman and FDD senior fellow Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus for a look into the hidden realities behind President Trump’s Iran strategy, the...
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The Hidden Power Behind Modern War: Rare Earth Minerals
This episode flips everything you thought you knew about modern warfare on its head, revealing that the real power behind today’s conflicts isn’t oil, but the invisible battle over rare earth minerals and the countries racing to control them. You’ll learn how these obscure elements quietly power...
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Intelligence and Purpose: AI, Morality, and Israel’s True Strength
This episode pulls you straight into a high-stakes collision between geopolitics, faith and the future of technology, and it will challenge everything you think you know about AI and Israel's place in the world. Hosted by Doron Spielman (IDF Spokesman (Res.)) in conversation with David Magerman,...
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Iran’s Endurance Strategy: Oil, Leverage and the Test of Will
This episode isn’t just another geopolitical update, it’s a masterclass in how power, patience and strategy collide on the global stage. Doron Spielman (IDF Spokesman (Res.)) explains how Iran weaponizes time and chaos, why oil is far more than just energy (it’s leverage) and how the U.S. may…
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The Iran Turning Point: Israel’s Multi-Front War Strategy
Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi pulls back the curtain on a multi-front war that’s not just about survival, but about reshaping the Middle East and possibly the world order itself. You’ll learn how Israel shifted from reactive defense to bold, proactive dominance, why Iran’s nuclear race triggered a...
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Strategic Leverage: U.S., Iran, and the Battle for Global Chokepoints
The real story isn’t just the Strait of Hormuz, but something much larger. IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman explores whether President Trump is turning global chokepoints into leverage against Iran, China and the entire balance of power? Viewers will learn how the Iran negotiations may be less...
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The Hidden Strategy of the Iran War: Energy and Global Power
While headlines focus on strikes and leadership eliminations, a far bigger story is unfolding beneath the surface. From the Strait of Hormuz to China’s energy dependence, from Iran’s terror network to shifting global power, this conflict is not just about the Middle East, it’s about the future of...
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Beyond Iran: China and the Real Stakes of the Conflict
Why is the biggest geopolitical story behind the Iran conflict largely ignored? In this episode, viewers learn how global alliances are quietly shifting as Israel explores deeper ties with powers like India while carefully managing relationships with China and Russia. The conversation reveals a...
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The Kurdish Factor: The Hidden Force That Could Topple Tehran
A hidden force could decide the future of Iran and most people barely understand who they are. Former Pentagon Middle East expert Dr. Harold Rhode breaks down the mysterious “Kurdish factor” and why millions of armed Kurds across Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey could become the decisive ground…
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Trump’s Two Minutes on Iran, And What They Signal for Israel’s Strategic Future
One speech, two minutes on Iran and a brutal wake-up call for Israel. In this episode, you’ll learn why President Trump’s State of the Union revealed a hard strategic truth: Israel may dominate its own headlines, but it is not the center of America’s political universe. We break down how Trump...
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Trump's “Handshake” Doctrine (And Why Khamenei Misreads It)
What happens when a “peace offer” is actually a trap and the other side is betting you don’t understand their rules? In this episode, a senior fellow at Israel’s Herut Institute breaks down why Iran’s threats (including talk of sinking a U.S. aircraft carrier) may not be posturing at all, and why...
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Why Netanyahu Met in Washington: U.S.–Israel Strategy Explained
The media keeps predicting a Trump–Netanyahu showdown and every single time, they’re spectacularly wrong. IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman breaks down why pundits obsess over “daylight” between Washington and Jerusalem and why they fundamentally misunderstand how real alliances work. This...
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How Israel uses cyber warfare to undermine Iran’s military power
The most decisive battlefield between Israel and Iran isn’t in the skies or on the ground, it’s hidden inside servers, code and silent rooms where keystrokes can cripple entire regimes. In this episode, viewers learn how Israel’s “digital Iron Dome” quietly intercepts threats long before missiles...
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James Lindsay on the Radical Left, Woke Right and the "Israel Question"
James Lindsay issues a warning: the war on Jews is now being laundered through the “Israel question,” with the radical left, the woke right and radical Islam syncing up like an unholy alliance. In this episode, you’ll learn how that pipeline works: why “criticizing Israel” is often the socially...
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Trump Missed One Dangerous Detail in Davos
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman argues that President Trump’s new “Gaza Board of Peace” plan is a glossy rebrand that ignores street-level reality and risks putting Israel’s enemies in the driver’s seat. You’ll learn the strategic difference between separating Gaza’s civilians from Hamas...
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Iran's Revolution or Retreat? What You're Not Hearing Changes the Equation
Is the Islamic Regime about to tip or are the reports just hype? Three weeks into Iran’s uprising, this episode cuts through the viral “regime collapse is imminent” hype and forces a harder question: what does it actually take to topple a government that is organized, armed and fighting for its...
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“The Regime Is Cracking”: A Resistance Insider on Iran’s Moment of Reckoning
The streets of Iran are burning and this time, something feels different. IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman goes inside the uprising with Hejar Berenji, a former Kurdish Peshmerga who joined the resistance at 14, survived prison under the Islamic Republic and now risks everything to speak out....
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It's Happening! Iranians Take To Streets, Call For End of Khamenei
Is Iran’s regime FINALLY on the brink of collapse...again? This time, it’s not students or activists leading the charge, it’s the powerful bazaar merchants, the same force that ignited the 1979 revolution. Middle East analyst Harold Rhode joins IDF Spokesman (Res.) Doron Spielman to unpack why...
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Israel FINALLY Begins Using Its Most Powerful Weapon Arsenal
It's time to face the truth: Israel is losing the PR war and the answer isn’t more data, but more identity. From TikTok propaganda to biblical truth, from archaeological proof to spiritual inheritance, Doron Spielman (IDF Spokesman (Res.) & War Analyst) explains how Israel abandoned its greatest...
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The UN Just Made a Dangerous Demand - Here's Why Israel Says No!
Is Israel sleepwalking into a second October 7th, this time from the north? Israeli strategist Amiad Cohen lays bare the high-stakes chess match unfolding between Israel, Syria and Lebanon. From drone strikes on Hezbollah commanders to secret U.S. pressure on Netanyahu, from failed Gaza war...
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Everything You Believe About Israel Is Wrong (w/James Lindsay)
What happens when one of America’s sharpest minds visits Israel for the first time and realizes everything he thought he knew was a lie? In this episode of "True East," James Lindsay uncovers the shocking disconnect between the Israel Americans argue about and the real, living nation he walked...
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Trump, Saudi Arabia and the F-35: A New Middle East Arms Race? (w/Jonathan Conricus)
Yesterday, the Middle East quietly crossed a red line: President Trump greenlit F-35 stealth jets for Saudi Arabia and pushed a UN-backed “stabilization force” into Gaza. Both are moves that could shatter Israel’s long-guarded qualitative military edge overnight. In this conversation, Lt. Col....
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Gazaland or Gaza Riviera? Doron Spielman Exposes Hamas’s Next Act
Gazaland vs. Gaza Riviera: who writes the next chapter? On this week’s "True East," IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman warns that Hamas is scripting a propaganda theme park, “Gazaland”, to turn October 7’s perpetrators into victims as global media surge back into the Strip. Spielman breaks…
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Hamas Stays in Power? What Israel May Be Trading Away
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman welcomes returning guest Amiad Cohen, CEO of the Israel Liberty Center, to break down the truth behind the fragile Gaza ceasefire, President Trump’s stunning statement blaming “rogue Hamas elements” and the diplomatic chess game now shaping the Middle East.
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Hostages are home, but the battle has just begun (w/John Spencer)
Israel’s fight against Hamas may be entering a new phase, but the war is far from over. Doron Spielman, IDF spokesperson (Res.), is joined by one of the foremost authorities on modern combat: Colonel John Spencer. Spencer is the Executive Director of the Urban Warfare Institute and host of the...
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Trump's Gaza Peace Plan Has a FATAL FLAW (And Hamas Knows it)
President Trump’s proposed Gaza peace deal is making waves but is it a path to peace or a recipe for failure? IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman breaks down the hidden dangers of Trump’s plan, revealing why Hamas’s willingness to accept parts of the deal should set off alarm bells for Israel...
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Ancient Jerusalem Road Reopened by Rubio & Netanyahu
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman takes us inside the dramatic reopening of the ancient pilgrimage road in the City of David — a discovery he says that speaks louder than any UN resolution. From the stone-carved proof of a 4,000-year Jewish connection to Jerusalem to the political theater at...
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Qatar is PANICKING! Israel just exposed its infiltration in the West
Israel just did the unthinkable, striking Hamas leadership hiding in Qatar. What does this bold move mean for Israel's deterrence, U.S. foreign policy and the global war on terror? In this episode, IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman unpacks Israel’s pinpoint operation in Doha, exposing…
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Unbelievable Heroism, Ordinary people: Unseen Stories from Oct 7 (w/Mike Feuer)
What does real heroism look like when the world is collapsing around you? IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman sits down with Mike Feuer, renowned educator, founder of the Jewish Heroism Project (https://jewishheroism.com/), and host of The Jewish Story podcast, to explore the extraordinary...
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Exposing the Truth Behind Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis: Israel’s War Against Hamas
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman uncovers the shocking lies fueling global narratives about Gaza. The truth behind claims of genocide, starvation and Israel's military operations is more complex than the headlines reveal. While the world cries foul over Israel’s actions, Doron exposes the...
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Druze/Christian GENOCIDE: What’s being HIDDEN from the West (and why!)
As the world fixates on Gaza, a real-time genocide unfolds in Syria, just 60 miles from Israel’s border. IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman is joined by Anan Kheir, Druze advocate and community activist, to expose the horrific truth that global media is ignoring. While international attention...
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Gaza BOMBSHELL! Israeli military expert drops explosive developments (Amiad Cohen)
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman sits down with Amiad Cohen, CEO of the Herut Center, for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes analysis of Israel’s boldest strategic gamble yet: building a massive humanitarian city on the southern edge of Gaza in Rafah. Could this unprecedented move finally...
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What's NEXT: Will Iran now CLOSE Straight of Hormuz? (w/Amiad Cohen)
What Happens Next? IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman is joined by Amiad Cohen, CEO of the Herut Center and one of Israel’s top military analysts, to break down one of the most consequential moments in modern Middle East history: a joint American-Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear...
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How the Israel-Iran war will end w/Mike Doran
Are we witnessing a modern-day Six-Day War? Will Israel finish the job before international pressure mounts? And how does all of this reshape the U.S.-Israel alliance going forward? IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman is joined by Dr. Mike Doran, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and…
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“RAMBO RABBIS” enter Gaza: Future or fantasy?
As the Hasmonean Brigade—Israel’s first Ultra-Orthodox combat unit—enters Gaza with side-locks flying and Torah scrolls in hand, a profound question emerges: Is this the collapse of Haredi resistance to the draft and the rebirth of Jewish identity through national service? Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer,...
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Hamas PANICS! The HIDDEN factors they didn’t see coming w/Amiad Cohen
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman is joined by Major Amiad Cohen, Senior Director of the Herut Center and a reservist who just returned from Israel’s northern border. Together, they expose how Israel’s new military and humanitarian tactics are splitting the Gazan population from Hamas,...
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Will tensions with Iran cause a USA-Israel rift? W/Ambassador Michael Oren
With Iran racing toward nuclear capability, Israel may soon face a fateful choice: act alone militarily or risk existential peril. Host Doron Spielman—IDF Spokesperson (Res.) and New York Times bestselling author of “When the Stones Speak”—is joined by former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Dr....
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The War to Erase Jewish Jerusalem: The Facts They Don’t Want You to Know
"When the Stones Speak" available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/When-Stones-Speak-Remarkable-Discovery/dp/1546009256 Is Israel’s fight for survival not just on the battlefield, but beneath the ground? IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman exposes how the war with Iran, Hamas and the...
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Eylon Levy’s brutally honest approach to fighting campus anti-Zionism
IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Major Doron Spielman (see below to purchase his new book) speaks with Eylon Levy, former international spokesperson for the Israeli government, about a battlefield far from Gaza and Iran—the frontlines of Western universities, where Jewish students are under siege. As...
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Mystery Iran explosions: What are Israel's options moving forward?
Recorded live at the JNS International Policy Summit, this special episode examines the historic moment facing Israeli leadership. With Iran accelerating its uranium enrichment and U.S. diplomacy failing to halt Tehran’s ambitions, IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman reveals exclusive...
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Get ready to go beyond the headlines to learn what makes Israel tick! Join IDF Spokesperson (Res.) Doron Spielman along with experts in the fields of military, economy, AI and government for a deep dive into the inner workings of Israel. Learn what’s happening behind the scenes in Startup Nation and what’s in the works as Israel catapults its transformation into a global superpower.
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