Inside Israel

Just 2 days after new years, 2024, Salah al-Aaruri, the # 2 leader of Hamas was targeted and killed. The targeted killing was attributed to Israel. What is targeted Killing? Are targeted killings moral? Is it allowed by international law? Listen to the episode

In this episode we will take a tour of Middle East Narratives in relation to the Oct. 7 horrific barbarian attack by Hamas. The Iranian and Turkish narrative, the Egyptian, Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli narratives. Will there ever be a bridging of the two narratives? We will try to answer the question. 

Israel has begun the third phase of the war, which is the most difficult and most time consuming. The IDF takes the battle underground to the tunnel system built by Hamas, thought to be  the most sophisticated military tunnel system ever built! Listen to this episode to learn of the underground war.

Let’s be blunt; America is the only real ally to Israel and Israel bases its entire foreign policy on what America thinks, what will America say and How will America act. In this episode I will give the context of the American-Israel relationship. We will hear from Dr. Kobi Barda an expert on US-Israel relations. We will also examine the impact of Oct. 7 on the relationship of the Jewish communiti...

Hamas is delusional about what the future may entail, namely that Israel will disappear. BUT - They are realistic. They fully understand that they cannot defeat Israel in a military confrontation! They cannot defeat us at war!  So, what were they thinking?   They honestly believe that over time, they can defeat  Israel using psychological terror, creating national trauma that will slowly but surel...

Qatar, a strong supporter of Hamas, is basically an enemy of Israel. Egypt has a peace agreement with Israel, although a cold one, and is basically an enemy of Hamas. Both Qatar and Egypt demand a key role as mediators in the conflict.  Listen to this episode and find out why..

Finally, After 7 weeks of war some of the hostages may be released from captivity. That is if all goes well. We know Hamas is anything but honest and so all is predicated on Hamas actually following through. What is the agreement? Who, on the Israeli side, is in opposition to the agreement? What is the legal action needed to release the terrorists from Israeli prison? Who brokered the agreement? W...

In the recent Arab summit in Riyadh, the world is took a strong stand in alliance with the Palestinains, condemning Israel, even using the word genocide.. Yet NO punitive measures were taken - hypocritical?? On the other hand, according to the Israel Institute of Democracy, 70% of Israeli Arabs polled, stand with Israel.  In this episode I interview Professor Reuven Hazan of the Political Science...

In this episode we’ll discuss the interrogation of Hamas terrorists. We will investigate the battles inside Gaza. In a more global look we will try to understand why Russian Present Putin said, “Hundreds of thousands were killed in Gaza,” Hundreds of thousands? Even Hamas, which always inflates numbers of casualties, doesn't claim that. Putin used to be supportive of Israel. Why the change? An all...

War with Hamas, episode #5 In this episode I would like to tell you about 3 issues that Isralis are preoccupied with..  One is The newest front, the Houthis in Yemen. They are over 1000 miles away, and, they have declared war on Israel The 2nd are the hostages and the extremely difficult dilemma of how to free them  And 3rd  -  A top secret report, 11 pages long, issued 7 years ago, now revealed t...

Why do they hate us?   UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said "it should be recognized that the attacks by Hamas did NOT happen in a vacuum. For 56 years the Palestinians have been under a suffocating occupation, their lands are taken, the economy is paralyzed and their homes destroyed." Really? Really Mr. Secretery? You are drawing semetery?   In this epiosde we will take a look at how the UN...

Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces are engaged, fighting on 4 fronts Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank and Syria In this episode we will discuss the events. We will continue hearing the stories of the victims and heroes.

How did Israel fail? How did one of the world’s best military intellgence and secret sevices fail so tragically? In this episode we will try and understand… I’ll also discuss how the very divisive Israeli society transformed, within hours, into a united pillar of strength. I’ll continue to tell the stories of the victims and heroes.  

Saturday morning Oct. 7, 2023 occured the worst tradgedy of the Jewish people since World War II, since the Holocaust! What maked a human being, any human being, murder children in front of their mothers? What maked a human being, any human being, decapitate a baby?  I’ve been at war in Lebanon. I’ve been inside Gaza, years ago, as a reserve soldier. None of it was even remotely this bad. None of...

Inside Israel episode –  On Saturday breaking news reported that prime minister Bennett was in Moscow. World side media outlets aired Bennet and Putin meeting. They met for no less than 3 hours and you would be correct to assume it wasn’t just negotiating a potential ceasefire. Why did Putin, who alone will decide when to fire and when to cease, agree, or even invite Bennet to the Kremlin? And why...

Hundreds of Haredi Jews gathered at the Western Wall. They didn’t come for prayer or study but rather to block an attempt of women, known as the women of the Wall, to hold their monthly prayers. For their part, the women carried empty mantles used to cover Torah scrolls to protest the prohibition on bringing the scrolls themselves into the women’s section. Will the The Western Wall, as in ancient...

The Lone Wolf Terrorist A young man walked down the main road of the Muslim Quarter in the old city of Jerusalem. He passed the security stand near the Austrian Hospice. The young man drew a knife from inside his shirt and quickly ran to the security point. He managed to stab and injure two border police security personnel before being shot dead. In the next three weeks five more attacks were carr...

Roughly 10 days ago an Israeli tourist couple, Natalie and Mordy Okneen, visited Istanbul and took many photos. One or several of the photos they took was of the house of the president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. A suspicious waiter reported it to the police and they were arrested under the suspension that they were spying on the house. A few weeks earlier 15 men were also arrested in Turkey s...

Supreme Court Part II I am not being overdramatic when I say “the struggle between the legislator (Knesset) and judicial (Supreme Court) could lead to a very different rule in Israel.. “Some say the struggle threatens Israeli democracy.”    

WMD “We will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, but we will also not be the second.” Just a week ago PM Naftali Bennet declared an extension to the nuclear secrets. This decision means that materials (documents) that should have been released for public review or historical research after 50 years will only be exposed after 90 years.  In this episode we wil...

Recently Israel’s state comptroller issued a scathing report on the lack of seriousness of the government dealings with Environmental Challenges. He said “We have no national plan,” and “Basically, Israel has not declared the environmental crisis as a strategic threat.” In this episode we will learn from David Dunetz, head of Heschel Center for Sustainability Climate division. 

Friday morning , August 22, 2019 seventeen year old Rina Shnerb went hiking with her father and brother. As they walked on a trail leading to a spring near the town of Dolev, a group of terrorists watching from afar activated a bomb causing the death of young Rina and seriously injuring her father and brother. Two employees of a Palestinian civil rights organization, named Samer Arbid and Abd a-Ra...

This week a controversial law passed in a pre- vote in the Knesset. The law is nicknamed the Netanyahu Law (or if you want the Bibi Law) Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar issued the law that will prevent a political leader under indictment from forming a government. Is this a democratic liberal law or the opposite? 

Today is the 12th of the Hebrew month of Cheshvan. On this day, twenty six years ago, a devastating societal, ideological and political earthquake shook Israel to the core. A young observant Jew, an ideological opponent of the democratically elected prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated him with three bullets shot at his back.   Has Israeli society learned its lesson or are we doomed to more...

Drama and power struggle will take place in Israel in mid November when a 9 people committee will decide on the appointments of 4 new Supreme Court Justices. Israel’s supreme court is unique. The reason is because It wears two hats, it is the highest Court of Appeals and the “Bagatz” hearing Petitions against various governmental authorities. In this episode we will deal with the court's ruling on...