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Haviv Rettig Gur

"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things,…

164 episodes tracked

Ask Haviv Anything

159: How bad were the midterms for Israel? With Michael Moynihan

158: How do you defeat Iran's proxy armies? With Elizabeth Tsurkov

157: Netanyahu was beatable. What happened?

156: Go vote. It isn't optional

155: American and Israeli Jews don’t understand each other, with Ed Rettig

154: How Israel broke pan-Arabism, and what that means for Iran, with Dan Schueftan

153: Where was Netanyahu on 7/10? With Elliot Kaufman

152: Is Israeli society tearing itself apart? With Micah Goodman

151: Could the hostages have come home sooner? With Brett McGurk

150: The case for Netanyahu, with Gadi Taub

149: Patriotism is too important to leave to extremists, with Prof. Alex Yakobson

148: What can you do for Palestinians? Stop supporting Hamas

147: Are the allegations in NAZA true?

146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor

145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber

144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer

143: How to win the Israeli election

142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore

140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations

139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question

138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse

137: What does Qatar want?

136: Why not two states from the start?

135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN?

134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?

133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam

132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron

131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek

130: Here's to the next 250 years

129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi

128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari

127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak

126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman

125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat

124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti

123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews

122: When will the war with Iran end?

121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg

120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us

119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy

118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson

117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi

116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews

115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?

114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?

113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour

112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse

111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi

110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance

109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb

108: How personal grief built a nation

107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?

106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf

105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan?

104: The Iran war isn’t over

103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve?

102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav

101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan

100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman

Episode 99: Are we winning?

Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce Hoffman

Episode 97: Can America and Israel finish the job? A conversation with John Spencer.

Episode 96: The first war Israel fought in English, with Yaakov Katz

Episode 95: The idea that broke the Middle East, with Dr. Micah Goodman

Episode 94: America's war, not Israel's

Episode 93: How to win Iran's forever war

Episode 92: Why does Israel hate UNRWA?

Episode 91: Is the Iran war about China? A conversation with Melissa Chen

Episode 90: Is it "fascist" to believe a state can belong to a specific people?

Episode 89: Who benefits from continuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Episode 88: America's "24% problem" with young antisemitism, with Jonah Platt

Episode 87: How can you support a better Palestinian future?

Episode 86: Alliances and rivalries in a new Middle East, with Dan Schueftan

Episode 85: How knowing your story makes you invincible, with Noam Weissman

Episode 84: Why soldiers wept when Ran came home, lessons from Tu Bishvat

Episode 83: From ideology to narcotics, Hezbollah's business model, with Matt Levitt

Episode 82: 'From the River to the Sea' - Lost in Translation?

Episode 81: Israel's future and the ticking Gaza clock, with Andrew Fox