Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
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 terrorist groups and regimes throughout the Middle Eas...
2 Maj 20251h 2min
Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi
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 Persian Jew, to try to take us past the headlines ...
28 Apr 202550min
Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think?
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 one specific place. There are no singular first ca...
22 Apr 20251h 2min
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 becoming, filled with substance and responsibility a...
11 Apr 202516min
Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accords with ex-NSC expert Shiri Fein
The Abraham Accords have the potential to transform the Middle East. The very fact that they survived the Gaza war proves their resilience. Indeed, trade between Israel and its Abraham Accords partner...
10 Apr 202548min
Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine"
Is Zionism colonialism? Are Jews an authentic people, or merely a religion? What about Palestinians? What are Zionism’s moral costs, and what are those of opposing Zionism?I asked one of my teachers, ...
3 Apr 202552min
Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive?
What if everybody is right on judicial reform? Israel's highest court is immensely and unreasonably powerful. But if it is weakened, what other checks stand in the way of the tyranny of the majority, ...
28 Mars 202557min
Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres
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 Representatives. The fight over Israel inside Amer...
25 Mars 202540min
