The Common Denominator

The rancor on display against Israel is not criticism of its response to the atrocities of October 7th.  What we are witnessing is a complete delegitimization and dehumanization of Israel’s state and people. Accusations that Israel is an imperialist, colonialist, genocidal country did not begin October 8th. These are deliberate and targeted attacks which were developed decades ago to mask antisemi...

In this episode we are discussing the Israeli dilemma of “If?” and “How” to negotiate the release of its citizens who have been kidnapped. We will see that not only is this a current, open and gaping wound, but one with a myriad of historical precedence in Israel. On one hand, negotiating hostages in exchange for murderers does not satiate but wholly encourages this nation’s many enemies to contin...

In this episode we approach the scale of injustice that is the pseudo UN organization, UNRWA. Understanding the role of UNRWA is to understand it’s reason for being; perpetuating the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. It is not only part of the story, but at the root of it. “Living entirely on charity for generations is one way to utterly cripple a people - creating a tragic cycle of misery, infantilizi...

This is the first episode of our new weekly podcast. The Common Denominator seeks to fill in the gaps of theory and reality; to demystify not only the lived reality of the Jews and the Jewish state, but also the broader threat all we face worldwide with leaderships who continuously seek to centralize their power - and the reality of the human fallibilities that aid them. There is nothing else like...

The ceasefire has ended. Meanwhile the NYTimes confirms what has been in Israeli news from multiple testimonies of female watch soldiers for months: “Israeli officials had Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, as documents, emails and interviews have shown. “Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as “aspirational”, consider...