Tag: Refugees

The episode features Dr. Tzamarat Levy-Daphny, a researcher from the Deborah Forum and Forum 1325, for a conversation about Turkey's foreign policy. The conversation covers Ankara's position on the conflict between Israel and Iran, its complex relations with Tehran, and its role as a regional power trying to navigate between conflicting alliances and interests. At the beginning of the conversation, Dr. Levy-Daphny explains that Forum 1325, of which she is a member, works to include women in political negotiation processes, in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

The episode's guest is Middle East scholar, former Knesset member, and research fellow at Chatham House, Dr. Ksenia Svetlova. The conversation deals with reports of an Egyptian military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, and examines the question of whether Israel is indeed facing a threat of war from its southern neighbor. Svetlova argues that there is no real evidence of Egyptian preparations for war, and that the reports on the subject are part of a political campaign.

In this episode of This Week in the Middle East, the guest is Dr. Haim Koren, a lecturer at Reichman University, former Israeli ambassador to South Sudan and Egypt, and a Middle East scholar. The conversation covers the bloody civil war raging in Sudan, the severe humanitarian crisis it has created, and the tangle of interests of regional and global powers involved in the conflict.

In this follow-up episode, Dr. Adi Schwartz, co-author of the book "October Seventh" (with Dr. Einat Wilf), returns to present his vision for resolving the conflict. After diagnosing the roots of the conflict in the previous episode, Schwartz this time focuses on the question of what to do and what practical alternative Israel should promote.

The episode features Dr. Adi Schwartz, a research fellow at the Misgav Institute and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute, and the co-author of the books "The War of Return" and the new sequel, "The October 7th War". According to Schwartz, the October 7th attack is not a new event in its essence, but rather another manifestation, a particularly cruel and tragic one, of the Palestinian idea of return, which has been at the heart of the conflict for a hundred years.

The episode features Mor from the MEMRI institute for a conversation about the reactions in the Arab world to a proposal attributed to Donald Trump, which suggests evacuating the residents of Gaza, either temporarily or permanently. Mor analyzes how the Arab media views the idea, Trump himself, and the implications for the Palestinian issue.