Michael Shamir is a former major in the Israeli Air Force who was involved behind the scenes in Operation Opera, which involved the attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981.

Michael has used his broad political knowledge and experience to produce a lecture series : Iran - Arch "Octopus" of International Nuclear Terrorism.

We will be speaking about Israel's war with Iran, the planning that went into it, what has been achieved, Israel's objectives and what might be the outcome. (0:34-30:08)

Sivan Gobrin is a Chilean-Israeli journalist with an M.A in political science. She is an expert on antisemitism and Israel. She is the VP and spokesperson of the Chilean community in Israel. We spoke about what were serious threats recently from Chile's president Gabriel Boric to break off relations with Israel.  (34:36-56:51)

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Dina Kraft is a journalist and co-author of the best-seller My Friend Anne Frank. She is Israel Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, former opinion editor at Haaretz English, and co-hosts the podcast Groundwork about Israeli and Palestinian activists. She writes about the impact of conflict on ordinary lives and we focussed on Israel's Arab community.

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Alex J Sinclair is an educational consultant and adjunct lecturer at Hebrew University. His first book Loving the Real Israel was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and his debut novel Perfect Enemy was published in 2023. We spoke about the future of Israel and Palestine, with Alex articulating some options for the future.

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Linda Gradstein is a consummate journalist with more than 30 years experience, who is teaching journalism at NYU - Tel Aviv. She is the Israel correspondent for CBS Radio in the US and also writes restaurant reviews for the Jerusalem Post.  She speaks both Arabic and Hebrew and has won several awards for her work. We mainly spoke about her coverage of the war.

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Linda Gradstein is a consummate journalist with more than 30 years experience, who is teaching journalism at NYU - Tel Aviv. She is the Israel correspondent for CBS Radio in the US and also writes restaurant reviews for the Jerusalem Post.  She speaks both Arabic and Hebrew and has won several awards for her work. We mainly spoke about her coverage of the war. (0:45-21:27)

Alex J Sinclair is an educational consultant and adjunct lecturer at Hebrew University. His first book Loving the Real Israel was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and his debut novel Perfect Enemy was published in 2023. We spoke about the future of Israel and Palestine, with Alex articulating some options for the future. (21:27-40:34)

Dina Kraft is a journalist and co-author of the best-seller My Friend Anne Frank. She is Israel Correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, former opinion editor at Haaretz English, and co-hosts the podcast Groundwork about Israeli and Palestinian activists. She writes about the impact of conflict on ordinary lives and we focussed on Israel's Arab community. (40:34-57:35)

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Philip Dalidakis is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing Southern Metropolitan Region from 2014 until 2019. He was the Victorian Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade. Philip was born in Melbourne. His father was born in Greece and his mother is Jewish.

I was in conversation with Philip considering in particular what can we expect to see happening in Australia now that the federal Labor government has emerged after the elections with such a huge majority in the parliament.

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Dr Andrew Thomas is lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Middle East Studies, education-focused, at Deakin University. Andrew's research interests include Iranian native scholarship, Middle Eastern sanctions policy, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the intersection of International Relations (IR) theory and practice in the Middle East. We discuss much of what is happening right now in the Middle East and potential impacts. (1:22-48:53)

Take down of the Jewish Council of Australia as being an antiZionist organisation opposing the interests of the majority of the Jewish community in Australia. (49:00-56:30)

[Photo: Obviously AI image that has been spread online of nine children of Dr. Alaa al-Najjar's 10 children supposedly killed in an Israeli attack.]

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Dr Andrew Thomas is lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Middle East Studies, education-focused, at Deakin University. Andrew's research interests include Iranian native scholarship, Middle Eastern sanctions policy, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the intersection of International Relations (IR) theory and practice in the Middle East. We discuss much of what is happening right now in the Middle East and potential impacts.

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Nathan J. Diament has been the Executive Director of Public Policy for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America – the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization. In this role, he has led the Orthodox Union’s political and policy advocacy division for more than 25 years. The Orthodox Union Advocacy Centre engages leaders at all levels of government as well as the broader public to promote and protect the Orthodox Jewish community’s interests and values in the public policy arena. (0:34-30:05)

Dr Andrew Thomas is lecturer in Politics, International Relations and Middle East Studies, education-focused, at Deakin University. Andrew's research interests include Iranian native scholarship, Middle Eastern sanctions policy, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the intersection of International Relations (IR) theory and practice in the Middle East. We discuss much of what is happening right now in the Middle East and potential impacts.(31:10-57:27)

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Shaul Arieli, born in Ashkelon (1959), is a leading researcher of the Israeli-Palestinian political process, was highly involved in it, and is one of Israel’s leading experts on the demarcation of the future Israeli-Palestinian border and the route of the Separation Barrier. During his military service, he served in the paratroopers in various command positions and was wounded twice. Arieli served as commander of a brigade in the Gaza Strip as part of his military service and was responsible for the preparation of the official negotiations with the Palestinians, as head of the Interim Agreement Administration under the Rabin government, and head of the Peace Administration in the Barak Government.

Since retiring from the IDF in 2001, Arieli has dedicated himself to advancing an Israeli-Palestinian permanent status agreement. He is currently a teaching fellow at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for Peace and the American Jewish Organization the ISRAEL POLICY FORUM, a senior researcher at the Economic Cooperation Foundation, one of the initiators and leaders of the Geneva Agreement, and a member of the Steering Committee of ‘Commanders for Israel’s Security’.(0:28-32:55)

As time has passed, Nakba Day (lit. “Day of Catastrophe”) has become the most actively performed ritual of the Palestinian myth, a myth that has assured for itself the most essential support of the West, a ritual that provokes the hatred that has been aroused throughout the Muslim world.

One of the hallmarks of the Nakba is the alleged massacre at Deir Yassin in April 1948. In The Massacre That Never Was, a scholarly work of engrossing narrative and exhaustive research, Professor Eliezer Tauber proves that no massacre of Palestinians took place in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948, exploding a myth that has been the cornerstone of the Nakba and the Palestinian narrative for seven decades. (33:00-57:33)

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