Israel News Talk Radio

Closing days of the Jewish new year give offer unprecedented opportunities for (re)creating a world rife with love, acceptance and miraculous adventure. Are we ready for the challenge?

Pull Up a Chair 08OCT2020 - PODCAST

Governor Andrew Cuomo has scapegoated the Jewish Community during the holidays. It is a blood libel, where is the Jewish outrage?!

Political Hitman 07OCT2020 - PODCAST

The Middle East is home to more than 35 million Kurds, whose nationalist aspirations have been thwarted for over 100 years. Now, an acclaimed battlefront reporter and analyst, British -Israeli, Jonathan Spyer has received notice from the US State Department that he is under a lifetime ban for entry to the US because of his support for the Kurds. His predicament denying his ability to travel to the US for policy forums, consultations and visits to family is truly Kafkaesque. Why is the US government carrying out the demands of Turkey’s Erdogan, a sworn enemy of Kurds against Spyer?

Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon of Israel News Talk Radio – Beyond the Matrix reached out to Jonathan Spyer to answer this question and his assessment of Turkey’s threats to normalization of relations between the Arab middle east and Israel.

Jonathan Spyer is a research fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies (JISS), a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a freelance security analyst and correspondent at IHS Janes.

Spyer is the Executive Director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis (MECRA). He is the author of Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars (Routledge, 2017) - an account of his field reporting in Syria and Iraq, and The Transforming Fire: the Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict, (Continuum, 2010).

Spyer's work is published in many journals, including the Jerusalem Post, Times of Israel, Foreign Policy and the Wall Street Journal. He consults and advises for a wide variety of bodies in the governmental, NGO and private sectors.

The following are some takeaways from this Israel News Talk Radio- Beyond the Matrix with Jonathan Spyer.

On why Erdogan’s Turkey might have been behind the ban issued by the US.

Spyer cites as leading possible reason that the US State Department may have been influenced by Erdogan to ban his entry as a foreign nation. Spyer’s believes that Erdogan’s animus against him is due to his coverage of Kurdish nationalist interests and aspirations, especially in Syria and the Turkish dictator’s handling of domestic and foreign journalists. Spyer has nothing against the Turkish people having traveled and enjoyed his time there. It is Erdogan who has stolen the liberties of his people. He earnestly believes that the US travel ban will be rectified shortly with the assistance of informal appeals of “friends”.

On why Erdogan’s Turkey is a danger to the Region.

Spyer considers Erdogan’s Turkey as a major disruption in the Middle East fostering destabilization in the region undermining countries. He considers Erdogan’s threat second only to Iran. This is reflected in Turkish invasion of Western Iraq, the ethnic cleansing of the enclave of Kurdish enclave of Afrin in Western Syria and invasion of northeaster Syria Kurdish heartland establishing a so-called safe Zone. Erdogan is organizing Sunnis in Northwest Lebanon, he has threatened the triple alliance of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean offshore energy development thwarting building of a pipeline to Europe by arbitrarily declaring an Exclusive Economic Zone from Libya to Turkey. His alliance with Hamas and Gaza and activities in Jerusalem are a threat to Israel. Through the Turkish paramilitary contracting firm of SADAT International Defense Consultancy, Erdogan is spreading his version of Political Islam by recruiting Islamist mercenaries. SADAT is headed by his former military advisor retired Brig. Gen. Turkish General Adnan Tanriverdi. SADAT is akin to ‘green men’ of Russia’s Wagner Group and Iran’s Shiite mercenaries in Syria and Iraq. However, Speyer considers Erdogan at risk of marginalizing Turkey given that his actions have exacerbated relations with Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, and the Gulf Emirates, especially the UAE, through his espousal of the Muslim Brotherhood doctrine.

Beyond the Matrix 07OCT2020 - PODCAST

Orly weighs in her thoughts about the Vice Presidential Debate.

Orly also ponders on the work that the world needs in order to set it back in line with the creation.

From Jerusalem With Love 07OCT2020 - PODCAST

It's the year 2020, and we are seeing another war. This time between Armenia & Azerbaijan ...with the involvement of Turkey & Russia. Why is this happening, and who might win this war?

Tamar Yonah speaks with Dr. Mordechai Ben-Menachem, author of the book: Muslim Winter

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The Tamar Yonah Show 06OCT2020 - PODCAST

Science of Kabbalah is joined by Rabbi Amichai Cohen of Live Kabbalah in Tzfat. He shares the connection that Sukkot has with the nations, and the role that all of us play in helping to work on ourselves in order to see both personal and global redemption.

The Science of Kabbalah 06OCT2020 - PODCAST

The wrong-headed beatification of RBG

Phantom Nation 05OCT2020 - PODCAST

Tamar speaks with grass-roots news junkie Alan Silver about the following topics:

The Israeli government here is close to teetering and could go to new elections in a few months.

The Coronavirus + Lockdowns, and PM Netanyahu's popularity chart of angering the population with a lock-down, but bringing good tidings with peace deals with Arab & Islamic countries.

Plus, a bit on the American Elections.

The Tamar Yonah Show 05OCT2020 - PODCAST

Don't miss our amazing Sukkot lineup of guests discussing all different aspects of Aliyah, including Yossi Baumol talking about the redemptive process, Avi Abelow talking about news and current events, and Sharni Brodesky talking about making Aliyah with kids!

Israel Unplugged 05OCT2020 - PODCAST

As the deadly coronavirus travels around the world infecting millions of people, how well are governments around the globe handling keeping us safe? On the one hand, the virus has killed over 1 million people. On the other hand, other viruses have killed millions more, and there weren't lock-downs or the heavy hits to the economy and people's livelihoods. Is there a BETTER way to protect the population, prevent getting the virus and curing those who do?

Tamar Yonah speaks with Prof. Pinchas Mandell, chairman and chief scientist of the Family of Israel Foundation who has over 30 years of continuous experience in advanced engineering & physics research . He was the head of research & development at Quantum Medical Center in Tel-Aviv for 15 years involving the fields of Quantum Medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine, Medical Ozone, Bio-Photonic Therapy, and Magnetic Resonance Therapy. For his full CV you may visit the website www.familyofisrael.org

Mandell says that there is Ultra-violet light therapy and Oxygen-ozone therapy, and it has been a huge success for Covid-19 patients in Italy, in which 94% of non-intubated patients and 73% of intubated patients rapidly recovered. By comparison, only 20% of NYC’s intubated patients recovered at all. Check out his website to learn more at: www.familyofisrael.org

The Tamar Yonah Show 04OCT2020 - PODCAST