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Is a peaceful Palestinian State even possible? - with Haviv Rettig Gur

On Sunday, Israel’s cabinet unanimously issued a statement rejecting efforts by the international community to force immediate recognition of a Palestinian State, especially so soon after 10/07. This…

00:45:58 | Mon 19 Feb 2024

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…

01:02:26 | Sat 17 Feb 2024

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 constitue…

01:03:59 | Tue 13 Feb 2024

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 establi…

01:17:22 | Thu 08 Feb 2024

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 nee…

00:50:04 | Mon 05 Feb 2024

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…

00:46:10 | Mon 29 Jan 2024

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. Condemnat…

01:01:10 | Fri 26 Jan 2024

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 irreconcilab…

00:50:46 | Mon 22 Jan 2024

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? J…

00:55:19 | Sat 20 Jan 2024

On Sexual violence and… Silence - with Shari Mendes

Having recently passed the 100 day-mark of Hamas’s massacre against Israel, two events in recent weeks occurred that should have occurred some time ago. The New York Times published a major investiga…

00:50:46 | Thu 18 Jan 2024

Haviv Rettig Gur (Part 2) - 100 Days into Israel's 'Forever War'

This past weekend, Israelis marked 100 days since the Hamas massacre -- and 100 days that 136 hostages, of all ages, still remain captive in unimaginable conditions. We resume our weekly conversati…

00:34:33 | Mon 15 Jan 2024

Haviv Rettig Gur (Part 1) - 100 Days into Israel's 'Forever War'

This past weekend, Israelis marked 100 days since the Hamas massacre -- and 100 days that 136 hostages, of all ages, still remain captive in unimaginable conditions. We resume our weekly conversatio…

00:45:25 | Mon 15 Jan 2024

The Houthis and The Hague - with Nadav Eyal

In recent days, two big stories have gotten a lot bigger. The U.S. and U.K. have launched air and missile strikes against Houthi targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Thursday and today, m…

01:02:06 | Sat 13 Jan 2024

Growing tensions between Hamas Leaders — with Dr. Matt Levitt

What do Israelis know about the political tensions within Hamas’s leadership? About their decision-makers, their motives, their processes, and Hamas’s internal disagreements and rivalries? Matt Levit…

00:45:06 | Tue 09 Jan 2024

Gaza’s “Operating System” - with Nadav Eyal

Gaza runs like no sovereign entity. On the one hand, Hamas rules Gaza like any government does — it has a health system, an education system, a security, force, and a finance system. Hamas works with…

00:58:58 | Thu 04 Jan 2024

Haviv Rettig Gur on Palestinian radicalism - was 10/7 just another turn of the dial?

In recent days, we have been shocked to read the details in the New York Times investigative piece titled: “Hamas weaponized sexual violence on October 7.”For those of us following events on and afte…

01:05:48 | Sun 31 Dec 2023

From Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houtis & beyond — with Bret Stephens

Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation analyzing how the October 7 War is expanding beyond just the Hamas-Israel. Bret came to The New York…

00:33:55 | Thu 28 Dec 2023

A Shift in the War - with Haviv Rettig Gur

The Hamas-Israel War, nearing its three month mark, is now the longest war in Israel’s history since Israel’s War of Independence (1948/49). The first phase of this war, which took place over the th…

01:05:22 | Sun 24 Dec 2023

An insider’s account of the Harvard Antisemitism Committee — with Rabbi David Wolpe

Understanding where and how antisemitism has come to exist at an institution like Harvard is the focus of today’s conversation. We will hear the perspective of Rabbi David Wolpe — visiting scholar at…

00:57:17 | Fri 22 Dec 2023

The Two-State Solution - with Haviv Rettig Gur

We are increasingly hearing from policymakers in the U.S. and around the world about re-starting the path to a two-state solution after the war. That is our focus today in our weekly check-in with Ha…

01:26:22 | Mon 18 Dec 2023

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