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Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Episode 12
Qatar has just 330,000 citizens but controls vast wealth due to its plentiful natural gas. It has used that wealth to support radical and violent ter…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi
Episode 11
As the Trump administration tries to strike a deal curtailing Iran's nuclear program, I turned to Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi, an Iran expert and proud…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think?
Episode 10
Palestinian advocates like to quip that the current war "didn't begin on October 7." That's true, of course, though unhelpful. It didn't begin in any…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom
Passover is upon us, the seder is Saturday night.Freedom, the Sages teach, is not an end, it is a path; no mere escape from Pharaoh's tyranny but a b…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accords with ex-NSC expert Shiri Fein
Episode 9
The Abraham Accords have the potential to transform the Middle East. The very fact that they survived the Gaza war proves their resilience. Indeed, t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine"
Episode 8
Is Zionism colonialism? Are Jews an authentic people, or merely a religion? What about Palestinians? What are Zionism’s moral costs, and what are tho…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive?
Episode 7
What if everybody is right on judicial reform? Israel's highest court is immensely and unreasonably powerful. But if it is weakened, what other check…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres
Episode 6
Abandoning the Democrats is a losing strategy for Israel, says Rep. Ritchie Torres, perhaps the most outspoken supporter of Israel in the US House of…
1 year, 5 months ago
Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza
Warfighting has resumed in Gaza. Israel's message is clear: Gaza's future depends on Hamas releasing hostages and surrendering its control of the ter…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage
Episode 5
This is a podcast about history, but also about this moment in history.
Today's episode is a special one. Many of you asked about the hostages, about …
1 year, 5 months ago