Podcast: Victoria Coates on the Confusion in Natanz
December 10, 2021 | By: Victoria Coates
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. On Saturday, December 4, 2021, an explosion occurred near Iran’s nuclear facility outside the city of Natanz. Afterward, two nearby villages were evacuated. Was the explosion the result of a weapons test? An accident? Sabotage? […]
Read MorePodcast: Judah Ari Gross on Why Israel and Morocco Came to a New Defense Agreement
December 8, 2021 | By: Judah Ari Gross
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In November, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Morocco, where for the first time he was accompanied by uniformed Israeli military personnel. Gantz’s visit comes on the heels of visits in the last year by […]
Read MorePodcast: Nir Barkat on a Decade of Governing the World’s Most Spiritual City
July 23, 2021 | By: Nir Barkat
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Home to the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the city of Jerusalem has unparalleled spiritual significance for millions of people around the world. But in addition […]
Read MorePodcast: Matti Friedman How Americans Project Their Own Problems onto Israel
June 11, 2021 | By: Matti Friedman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In 1958, the American author Leon Uris published Exodus, the novel about Israel’s founding that became an international phenomenon. Its hero, though an Israeli kibbutznik, was portrayed as a blond, blue-eyed man of culture and […]
Read MorePodcast: Benjamin Haddad on Why Europe Is Becoming More Pro-Israel
June 7, 2021 | By: Benjamin Haddad
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Among European diplomats and public figures in the 1990s, it was universally believed that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was the central key to understanding the Middle East. It was their view that […]
Read MorePodcast: Seth Siegel on Israel’s Water Revolution
May 27, 2021 | By: Seth Siegel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. “Water,” said Israel’s second prime minister, Levi Eshkol, “is to the country like blood to a human being.” From the time of the Hebrew Bible and through the ages, Jews have prayed for water in […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Doran America’s Strategic Realignment in the Middle East
May 21, 2021 | By: Michael Doran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In wake of President Biden’s inauguration, experienced foreign-policy hands argued over what could be learned about his administration’s approach to Israel and the Middle East from his early statements and appointments. They faced an unresolved […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonathan Schanzer on the Palestinians’ Political Mess
April 22, 2021 | By: Jonathan Schanzer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. To understand the Palestinian people and the region, one must understand the enduring cleavages and party affiliations that make up Palestinian politics. In 2007, shortly after legislative elections that led to a surprising victory for the […]
Read MorePodcast: Richard Goldberg on How Iran Is Already Testing the Biden Administration
February 25, 2021 | By: Richard Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. President Biden has been in office for just over one month, but when it comes to his administration’s relationship with Iran, the honeymoon is already long over. Just in the past few weeks, Iran has […]
Read MorePodcast: Shany Mor on What Makes America’s Peace Processors Tick
February 17, 2021 | By: Shany Mor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has in the last several decades sucked up more American attention, time, and resources than nearly any other conflict in the world. Presidents, cabinet secretaries, national-security officials, […]
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