How has the October 7th massacre challenged Israeli public opinion on the conflict with the Palestinians?

What about 'day after' planning? Has it seriously begun? 

And does peace lie with the Gulf states? Just how much do the Saudis and the UAE want Israel to win? Who in Palestinian society is there to deal peace with? Is there anyone? 

Has the Israeli left anywhere left to go? 

Is war from Lebanon inevitable? While the Houthis, another Iranian proxy, bomb western ships in the Suez Canal, how many fronts could this war open? 

Is the escalation so inevitable that Iran joins the fray directly? Russia in Syria, Iran’s land bridge there. Let’s update that too.

Why is it imperative that Israelis from both the north and south return to their towns and kibbutzim? 

Two of Israel’s leading journalists and analysts join me here in London thanks to Elnet UK, a bipartisan, cross-party international organisation, who stand above politics, working to advance UK-Israel relations. 

We go deeper into the conflict, wading through the hardship, to try to find a route to a better day. 

Haviv Rettig Gur is a senior analyst for The Times of Israel. He’s covered the politics, foreign policy, education and relationship Israel has with the Jewish diaspora for 20 years, he served as Director of Communications for the Jewish Agency and taught at the best pre-military academies in Israel. 

He was a correspondent at the Jerusalem Post.

Jonathan Spyer is Director of Research at the Middle East Forum and edits the Forum’s journal, the Middle East Quarterly. He has reported from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Ukraine and back home including in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.

LISTEN NOW for a in-depth analysis of today’s Middle East and hopes for a better tomorrow.

133: 🇮🇱 Haviv Rettig Gur and Jonathan Spyer: “Deathblow” to Hamas would aid Gulf vision for stability

Elon Musk returns fresh from visiting Auschwitz and here are his initial reflections. He’s interviewed by Ben Shapiro.

I’m with him and other delegates in Krakow at the European Jewish Association symposium.

The episode starts with a stirring Holocaust Kadesh, recited by EJA Founder and Chairman, Rabbi Menachem Margolin.

It was called "NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment?"

Among the world leaders I managed to speak to are former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who pushes back on Polish Holocaust denial, former French prime minister Manuel Valls, who conducts our discussion on in French, and Israel’s minister of the diaspora, Amichai Chikli. 

This is my recording of Elon Musk’s interview.

📱EXTRA: Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro return from Auschwitz with their first impressions

In this exclusive interview, Reuven Rivlin, the tenth president of Israel pushes back on Polish law on remembering the Holocaust in Krakow. 

President Rivlin was among world leaders in politics and industry at the European Jewish Association’s delegation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and taking part in a symposium on the growing threat of antisemitism in Europe, entitled NEVER AGAIN: Lip Service or Deep Commitment? 

Also with us, former French prime minister Manuel Valls, a strong voice against antisemitism and Israel’s minister of the diaspora, Amichai Chikli.

In 2018, Poland amended their domestic laws on National Remembrance to penalise speech in public laying responsibility for the Holocaust to Poland or the Polish nation.

There was international outcry, relations between Israel and Poland were frozen. Israeli school trips to Poland’s death camps were suspended. 

The tours are back now - although the law still applies. 

Poland was the first country invaded and occupied by Adolf Hitler.

Members of Poland’s resistance and government-in-exile did try to warn the world of the mass killing of Jews, thousands of Poles risked their lives to do so.

However, Holocaust researchers have collected overwhelming evidence of Poles who murdered Jews fleeing the Nazis, or Polish blackmailers who preyed on helpless Jews for financial gain.

Nearly all of Poland’s roughly 3 million Jews, were killed by the Nazis and their collaborators, and the major Nazi death camps were in Poland.

And in telling the truth with me in Krakow, the president challenges Polish law directly. 

President Rivlin’s a Jerusalemite and says it gives him a unique skill in dealing with allcomers in Israeli society, Arabs, Muslims, Christians, Armenians, Druse, you name them. 

As a new Polish government contemplates overturning the laws of a previous administration, Reuven Rivlin tells it like it is. 

Enjoy this conversation with Israel’s tenth president.

Jonny Gould’s Jewish State is proudly supported by Dangoor Education.

134: 🇮🇱 Reuven Rivlin, Israel’s tenth president, “we were butchered here also by the Polish people”

Itamar Marcus is the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, started in 1996 to monitor the consensus of the Palestinian world.

They started reading the papers for the views of their leaders and found school books and television programmes indoctrinating children in Jew hate. 

But with 75% of Palestinians supporting Hamas’ October 7 massacres with 60% “extremely supportive” and 98% “feeling a sense of pride as a Palestinian”, what future peace for Israel? 

This episode discusses the damage UNRWA has done to peace in the Middle East and also includes Hillel Neuer’s stunning testimony to the US Congress about the UN agency’s complicity in Hamas terror.

Jonny Gould’s Jewish State is proudly supported by Dangoor Education.

135: 🇮🇱 Itamar Marcus: UNRWA, the worst thing that ever happened to the Palestinians

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