Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday that falls on the first day of the lunar month - that begins in darkness. It is also the holiday most associated in Jewish tradition with great turning-points ...
22 Syys 202540min
Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story
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, visite...
14 Syys 202550min
Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba
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 th...
12 Syys 202556min
Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak
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-Jewi...
7 Syys 20251h 18min
Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen
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 s...
4 Syys 20251h 1min
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 tha...
31 Elo 20251h 59min
Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer
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 managed...
27 Elo 20251h 13min
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 t...
22 Elo 202558min
