The spirit of a nation at war — with Wendy Singer
While there has been a lot of resentment inside Israel towards its political and security leadership, Israeli society has stepped up in ways sometimes impossible for me to describe. So, when I was in ...
17 Feb 20241h 2min
Jerusalem - Rafah - Washington - with Nadav Eyal
Are we witnessing a dramatic change in the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s defensive war against Hamas? Are these changes just rhetorical to mollify either US domestic political constituen...
13 Feb 20241h 3min
The cost of starting a (losing) war - with Dr. Einat Wilf
Today we look back at the history of Palestinian violence against the Jews in Israel (and in the pre-state Yishuv) -- from the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1917 through the myriad efforts to establis...
8 Feb 20241h 17min
How to build a Palestinian state - with Haviv Rettig Gur
Haviv Rettig Gur of the TIMES OF ISRAEL returns for his weekly check-in from Israel. There has been a recent flurry of statements coming out of London, Washington, Brussels and the UN about the need...
5 Feb 202450min
UNRWA & Hamas, the perfect affair - with Haviv Rettig Gur
The UN has one central agency responsible for handling all refugees globally, but Palestinian refugees have their own UN agency, UNRWA. Why? The number of Palestinian refugees has increased from 360,...
29 Jan 202446min
Can a Sunni-Israeli alliance win the war?
Al Jazeera is constantly blasting a steady stream of stories and images to the Arab world about 'tens of thousands of Palestinians dead,' according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. Condemnati...
26 Jan 20241h 1min
Israel’s escalating internal debates — with Haviv Rettig Gur
In today’s weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur from the Times of Israel, we discuss intensifying debates within Israel over the leadership of the government, how to reconcile seemingly irreconcilabl...
22 Jan 202450min
The End of a Jewish Golden Age — with John Podhoretz
Will we look back at the past few decades in America as the Jewish ‘golden age’? And is this ‘golden age’ now over? Did October 7th mark the end? Or should the signs have been obvious years ago? Jo...
20 Jan 202455min
