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"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, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.Join me on this journey.A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur
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Episode 95: The idea that broke the Middle East, with Dr. Micah Goodman
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Episode 94: America's war, not Israel's
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Episode 93: How to win Iran's forever war
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Episode 92: Why does Israel hate UNRWA?
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Episode 91: Is the Iran war about China? A conversation with Melissa Chen
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Episode 90: Is it "fascist" to believe a state can belong to a specific people?
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Episode 89: Who benefits from continuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
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Episode 88: America's "24% problem" with young antisemitism, with Jonah Platt
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Episode 87: How can you support a better Palestinian future?
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Episode 86: Alliances and rivalries in a new Middle East, with Dan Schueftan
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Episode 85: How knowing your story makes you invincible, with Noam Weissman
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Episode 84: Why soldiers wept when Ran came home, lessons from Tu Bishvat
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Episode 83: From ideology to narcotics, Hezbollah's business model, with Matt Le...
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Episode 82: 'From the River to the Sea' - Lost in Translation?
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Episode 81: Israel's future and the ticking Gaza clock, with Andrew Fox
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Episode 80: Who is Hamas and what do they want?
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Episode 79: Breaking Iran's machinery of oppression
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Episode 78: Do you still want to globalize the intifada?
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Episode 77: Did Israel intentionally target civilians in Gaza?
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Episode 76: How elites drive Jew-hatred, with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
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Episode 75: Power, fear, and the survival of the Iranian regime, with Roya Hakak...
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Episode 74: Why the global outrage at Israel's Somaliland recognition?
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Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America?
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Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth...
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Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel?
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Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss
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Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, wi...
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Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein
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Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi.
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Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians?
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Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsber...
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Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky
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Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman
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Episode 62: Hard times make strong Jews. Live in London with Daniel Schwammentha...
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Episode 61: Is criticizing Israel antisemitic?
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Episode 60: Does it matter what the world thinks? A conversation with Dr. Tal Be...
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Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel?
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Episode 58: Rebuilding after disaster with ex-hostage Tal Shoham
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Episode 57: When human rights NGOs fail, with Daniel Balson and Danielle Haas
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Episode 56: The industrial revolution of prehistoric Israel, with Tom Levy
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Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf
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Episode 54: Can Israel be both Sparta and Athens? With Dan Schueftan
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Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller
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Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn
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Episode 51: Antisemitism and the Black experience
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Episode 50: Hostage Deal - A new day for Gaza, a bad day for Hamas
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Episode 49: Finding hope in the tunnel of Hamas, with Eli Sharabi
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Episode 48: Two years to October 7
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Episode 47: Building a new Gaza, with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
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Episode 46: The Trump Plan - Hope for Israel and Gaza
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