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This is Jonny Gould’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

These are conversations for everyone, with top guests and their most essential thoughts and perspectives. Presidents and politicians, commanders, artists, ambassadors, rabbis and rock stars - even Mossad agents.

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This is Jonny Gould’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

These are conversations for everyone, with top guests and their most essential thoughts and perspectives. Presidents and politicians, commanders, artists, ambassadors, rabbis and rock stars - even Mossad agents.

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    141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"

    141: Col. Richard Kemp: "The UN, US and UK just threw the Israeli hostages under the bus"

    The war started by the October 7th massacres is the longest in Israel's history.
    But with rockets still being fired from Gaza into Israel’s southernmost city of Sderot and a first Houthi rocket landing further south, what next steps are open to Israel - and what of the deteriorating relationship with the United States?
    Our esteemed guest today is Col. Richard Kemp, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan and Chair of the COBRA Intelligence Group, coordinating MI5 and MI6 during the London bombings of 2005 and the Bali and Madrid terror attacks.
    Richard joined the Army the day after he left school and spent thirty distinguished years in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia, as well as Afghanistan. 
    He always delivers new insight into war commentary and this discussion is no different.
    Col. Kemp hails the success of the Shifa Hospital campaign in northern Gaza as “the single largest and most successful operations in the war so far".
    The IDF killed around 140 terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as well as arresting around 650 additional terrorists.
    He describes the evacuation of a million or more civilians sheltering in Rafah as possible - and explains how instead of moving Gazans north into cities like Khan Yunis, why Egypt could so easily solve the refugee issue - but won’t.
    Not forgetting our hostages? Where are they? How can they be rescued? Israel has never been more on its own. 
    Richard says Hamas has only been emboldened by the UN Security Council resolution, which called for a ceasefire and for the freeing of hostages, but to Israel’s fury did not hinge the ceasefire demand on freeing them. 
    But there is a military alternative to going into Rafah. With world opinion led by the UN and the Biden Administration squarely against Israel finishing off Hamas on their terms, Richard explains the options open to Israel which you're not hearing about in the media. You’ll hear it here.
    Plus the unreported cooperation between Israel and Egypt, who also share a border with Gaza beyond Rafah. 
    This episode is presented with the cooperation and support of ELNET UK, a bipartisan, cross-party international organisation working to advance UK-Israel relations based on shared democratic values and strategic interests.
    Our discussion is led by ELNET UK's CEO, the Rt. Hon. Joan Ryan.

    • 56 min
    140: Avi Issacharoff: "October 7th has restored pride and understanding that antisemitism won't win this time. We're the good guys"

    140: Avi Issacharoff: "October 7th has restored pride and understanding that antisemitism won't win this time. We're the good guys"

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    For 20 years, Avi Issacharoff has been an accomplished Israeli author and journalist and now he's emerged as the internationally renowned television drama producer, the co-creator of hit TV series of Fauda.
    How has October 7th changed Israel? Every family has been affected and Israel has become one big family. Avi’s Fauda family too. 
    Do we have the stomach for another series, isn’t it just too close to home? 
    And while the world from the White House down to the United Nations and the depths of the BBC is seemingly waged against the Hamas endgame, Avi restates Israel’s position: the war could be over now. 
    Fauda’s cut through about Israel’s plight to a watching world more strongly than any factual news report seems to.
    What does Avi put that success down to? 
    And who is Fauda’s best actor? Find out right here!
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    • 33 min
    139: Einat Wilf in London: Israel SHOULD demand the Palestinians declare, “our war with Israel is over”

    139: Einat Wilf in London: Israel SHOULD demand the Palestinians declare, “our war with Israel is over”

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    It’s always a pleasure to see Einat Wilf, here again on a whistlestop tour of London, she met with politicians of all parties at the Houses of Parliament, plus journalists and Jewish leaders and their communities. 
    And it’s her clarity which is arresting. She elevates Zionism above politics, creating unity for Jews of every stripe to coalesce around. 
    Not to mention the millions of non-Jews who  believe in the Jewish people’s right to self determination too. 
    And she’s been on a metaphoric journey too.
    Originally from the peace camp, she believed like so many right across the political spectrum in surrendering land for peace - but today - we all face the chilling reality of October 7 to show what Palestinianism is really about. 
    They keep telling us, she says. Let’s believe them. 
    Einat, who co-authored The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace, with Adi Schwartz, believes Israel needs to negotiate with pre conditions
    Listen up to hear what they are and if there really are Palestinian partners in peace.
    With thanks to the Anglo Israel Association.
    Jonny Gould’s Jewish State is supported by Dangoor Education

    • 26 min
    138: Loay Alshareef takes your calls on TalkTV and urges Hamas terrorists to lay down their arms and free the hostages

    138: Loay Alshareef takes your calls on TalkTV and urges Hamas terrorists to lay down their arms and free the hostages

    Loay Alshareef came on my TalkTV show to talk about the peace which remains between Arabs and Jews despite the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists in Israel. 
    And it’s good news. 
    The Abraham Accords which bound the UAE, together with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan with Israel in September 2020, remains steadfast and though the pogrom exacted on Israel is a “setback”, the opportunities for peace are still there. 
    Loay has become a good friend since he invited me to Abu Dhabi in 2022 and it’s always a privilege to spend quality time with him discussing pragmatic ideas for peace in a world consumed by hostilities.

    • 41 min
    137: Loay Alshareef in London: "The Israel-Hamas War is a war Israel didn't ask for or want. Hamas, release the hostages, lay down your arms. End the war"

    137: Loay Alshareef in London: "The Israel-Hamas War is a war Israel didn't ask for or want. Hamas, release the hostages, lay down your arms. End the war"

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    Loay Alshareef has been on quite a journey. Growing up in Saudi Arabia and brought up a religious Moslem, he was exposed to antisemitic schooling about Israel and the Jews.
    “Jews are the fierce enemies of the Arabs and you shouldn’t have them as friends. Christians too. But first, Jews.” 
    Loay was part of a generation of young Saudis who stood no chance. Isolated from the world, taught to hate. It still goes on - although less so. 
    But the poisoning of his young mind was challenged when he visited France with the Accord school, a homestay program in Paris so he could learn French.
    He was housed with a Jewish family. 
    Initially he refused, preferring to be with a Tunisian Arab family. But in the end, he stayed with the Jewish family. 
    His host Rachelle of Yemeni tradition said, “stay with us a couple more days”, and so began a journey to conciliation. But it started with confusion. 
    These people are nothing like what he’d been told. Rachelle was a good person, so were the Koranic texts about Jews wrong? 
    Loay was introduced to “The Protocols of the elders of Zion” at 15 and was told it was a book brought in from Egypt as a text “the Jews don’t want you to read”. 
    Two weeks and two Shabbats later, Rachelle took him Kosher shopping.
    He was included in Pesach and Chanukah celebrations, a first hand education in Judaism. 
    He went home, told his mum. Mum said” I’ll give you two months, you’ll come to your senses!”. 14 years on, it was the catalyst to a new world and mum supports his stance on social media.
    Loay travels the world as an ambassador for his country of residence, the UAE and for Muslims. 
    He tweets in Ivrit as a fluent speaker, quotes the Torah and Tanach and wants to pursue a PHD in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
    It’s a pleasure to have spent hours and hours in Loay’s company. We talk candidly with the tape on and off.
    I try to get my head round the tribal differences between the Arabs, it gives me a headache, especially when he says even the Qataris want Israel to win the War in Gaza and I ask him about the UAE’s support for the South African case against Israel in the International Court of Justice.
    It’s a frank and fascinating discussion with one of the Gulf’s most important voices.
    Jonny Gould's Jewish State is proudly supported by Dangoor Education.

    • 32 min
    136: Nicole Lampert: What happened when I confronted Gary Lineker about his Palestinian tweets

    136: Nicole Lampert: What happened when I confronted Gary Lineker about his Palestinian tweets

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    If I'd been asked which journalist might one day confront Gary Lineker face-to-face about his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, I might well have said, "it's going to be Nicole Lampert!", such is her journalistic courage.
    And so it was, as Nicole and a small handful of other journalists were invited to a Broadcasting Press Guild Lunch to hear from Lineker about his burgeoning podcast business.
    The Press all introduced themselves and Lineker admitted to feeling scared. He was right!
    He'd retweeted a BDS demand to ban Israel from international football. He took it down later amid a brou-ha-ha.
    Nicole asked him why he'd broken the BBC's social media rules. The usually polite and deferential event suddenly took a turn. There was clapping at the end of Gary's presentation, but Nicole didn't join in the applause, so Gary went to look for her.
    We take up the story in this fascinating episode

    • 27 min

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