The JPost Podcast

The JPost Podcast episodes:

• 08.19.2016

  Taxicab Diplomacy: Trump vs. Clinton

  After a brutal primary season, the general election is infull swing in the United States. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, of course,emerged as their party’s nominees.  Duringthe nominating conventions in July, protesters of various stripes chanted “TheWorld Is Watching.” And...

  
• 07.10.2016

  After Turkey, Africa and Egypt, is Saudi Arabia Israel’s next ally?

  Today, in a surprise visit, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry came to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s the first such meeting since 2007, and it comes on the heels of a flurry of Israeli diplomatic activity....

  
• 05.30.2016

  Briefing: King Bibi pulls it together, again

  This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put an end to a coalition crisis, finding a path to install Avigdor Liberman as his new defense chief. Though the outlines of a deal with Liberman were already in place, Bayit Yehudi leader...

  
• 05.26.2016

  The mystery of Tel Aviv’s Jane Doe alleys

  Off the crowded, boisterous sidewalks of Tel Aviv’s King George Street lie two, small dead-end alleyways with the most cryptic names: Almonit and Plonit. Almoni in Hebrew means anonymous, and the phrases Ploni Almoni and Plonit Almonit are the equivalent...

  
• 05.22.2016

  Breifing: Liberman, Trump and fascism

  This week, in a dramatic turnaround, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a coalition deal with Yisrael Beytenu, giving its leader Avigdor Liberman the defense portfolio. The serving defense minister, Moshe Ya’alon, resigned even before the deal was finalized, and said...

  
• 05.19.2016

  A stable government? Fat chance

  This week has seen a political whirlwind in Israel, with a shakeup in the cabinet and the widening of the governing coalition. After on-and-off negotiations with the Zionist Union and its leader Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin did an about...

  
• 05.15.2016

  Briefing: Eurovision and Europe’s vision for peace

  Israel celebrated its 68th birthday this week. Independence day followed the annual Remembrance Day, in which Israelis memorialized the 23,477 people who have fallen in the country's wars and terror attacks. Speaking at a Remembrance day event, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

  
• 05.05.2016

  Understanding UK anti-Semitism on Yom Hashoa

  As Jews stop to memorialize the Holocaust on Yom Hashoa this year, many are concerned with the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe and the UK. In Europe, the last few years have seen a series of horrible attacks on Jews and Jewish...

  
• 04.14.2016

  Is Bibi the worst option except all the rest?

  Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government except all the others. Among Israelis, there seems to be a similar sentiment toward Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He’s seen as a survivor, someone who puts his political...

  
• 04.10.2016

  Briefing: Bernie Sanders, Monica Lewinsky, and an uneventful cyber attack

  This past week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated an invitation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to conduct talks in Jerusalem, saying he would clear his schedule for such a meeting. The remarks came four days after Abbas said in...

  
• 04.07.2016

  In Trump Vodka’s strange, Israeli afterlife, a kashrut scandal

  Over the years, Donald Trump has made an industry of licensing his name to a variety of products, products over which he had no control. Basically, Trump would find a company that already made something and, for a fee or...

  
• 04.03.2016

  Briefing: Corruption, manslaughter, and a hug from Roseanne

  This past week, the high court of justice struck down a portion Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plan on regulating natural gas. Specifically, it objected to a stability clause that promised gas companies no changes in government policy for a...

  
• 03.31.2016

  Are closer Israel-China ties an attempt to subvert BDS?

  This week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing the opening of free trade talks with China, a huge deal for Israel economically and politically. China, of course, is the world’s most populous country, the second largest economy, and a growing giant....

  
• 03.27.2016

  Briefing: Nazi Twitter bots, IDF morality, and a secret rescue

  This past week, ISIS Terrorists killed 31 people in a shocking, triple attack in Brussels. Belgium’s Jewish community joined the chorus of critics decrying incompetence in the country’s counter-terror apparatus. The community came under attack in May, 2014 in a...

  
• 03.23.2016

  Did AIPAC tame the Donald?

  If Donald Trump has proved anything this year, it’s that the usual rules of electoral politics don’t apply to him. His uncanny ability to say outrageous things, only to be rewarded at the Republican primary polls, has embarrassed purveyors of...

  
• 03.20.2016

  Briefing: Nuclear sabotage, and Jews against Trump

  This past week, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan passed away. Dagan headed the Mossad from 2002 until 2010. He was best-known for alleged clandestine operations to thwart Iran's nuclear weapons program. The Mossad under his leadership was also said to...