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TJS S6E7 Boundary Issues part III

Violence often has an arc, and in this episode we trace how the intifada progresses together with the Israeli policies of suppression and separation. Along the way we outline the birth of the Hamas terror organization and end on a childhood note from yours truly.

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TJS S6E5 Boundary Issues part I

Almost two thousand years ago the Sages determined that Am Yisrael was bound in exile by an oath not to go up to the land “like a wall.” Now two millennia later there is a wall built by the Israeli government running through the heart of our biblical homeland. Here is the introductory episode to…

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TJS S5E7 Yitzhak Rabin’s first term – part II

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the 1970s faced conflicts on all three fronts of Jewish history – within Am Yisrael, between Israel and the nations, and as a people in their land. This episode focuses on the third, as the Arab/Israeli war shifts into the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. This new phase of struggle will see the…

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TJS S4E12 The 1972 Munich Massacre

The whole world watched in horror as the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by the Black September terrorist group raised the bar on international terror to previously inconceivable heights. The events cannot be forgotten, and their consequences are with us down to this day.

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TJS S4E11 Black September

There is a narrative battle which has been raging for decades between Arab and Jew in the land of Israel, and sometimes it breaks out into open warfare. This is the story of the abortive attempt by Palestinian Arabs to overthrown the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the role it plays in giving an international…

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