Podcast Episodes

Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story

Episode 43

On September 9, Israel tried but failed to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar. The regional blowback surprised the Israelis. Emirati and Saudi leaders, who have long seen Qatar as a foe in the region, visit…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba

Season 42 Episode 42

Events move fast in the Middle East. This episode was recorded before the Israeli strike in Qatar. We believed this episode was an important one because the world should be paying more attention to t…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

Episode 41

The first Jews to become subjects of the Ottoman Empire lived in Greek-speaking western Anatolia during the Ottoman conquests of the region in the early 1300s. The next seven centuries of Turkish-Jew…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen

Episode 40

Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen joins the podcast to talk about the war with Iran (spoiler: It isn’t over), the ayatollahs' regime (which won’t be easily felled), and his assurance that there are …

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen.

During an August speaking tour in Norway, Haviv was interviewed at an event hosted by the remarkable Jewish organization Kos & Kaos - The Nordic Jewish Network. It's a unique group founded in 2016 th…

Published on 3 months, 4 weeks ago

Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer

Episode 38

Twenty-three months after the October 7 attack, Hamas is massively degraded in Gaza. At a terrible cost to Gaza itself, and after losing hundreds of IDF soldiers on the battlefield, Israel has manage…

Published on 4 months ago

Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein

Many of our Patreon subscribers have asked us to address the campaign against Israel that accuses it of genocide, colonialism and so on. This episode is the beginning of our deep dive into examining …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies

Episode 36

Long before the operational successes of the Mossad would become the stuff of legend in the espionage world, before the Twelve Day War, before Eli Cohen, before the Mossad itself had even come into b…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer

Episode 35

Professor Yannay Spitzer is an economic historian who has studied food and hunger. His efforts over the past month to get real reliable data on hunger out of Gaza and publicize it to Israelis, data t…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean

Episode 34

Aimen Dean was once a fervent young jihadi fighter, a passionate believer in radical Sunni Islam who had memorized the Quran by 12 and was fighting in the Bosnian jihad by 16.

Haviv talked to Aimen ab…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago