While the Biden administration and international community mistakenly view Israel’s current war with Hamas as one limited and simply about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, historian Gadi Taub correctly recognizes it as just the prologue to a much larger conflict between Israel and Iran with Israel on the frontlines of the battle against Western civilization. Israel’s miraculous targeted assassinations of numerous IRGC, Hezbollah and Hamas senior level officials, it’s military victories in Gaza, and successful attack on the Houthis in Yemen signal that it’s strengths can in fact defeat Iran’s proxies in the region, but Iran has built a frightening ring of fire around the tiny nation and it is unclear whether a strong U.S./Israel relationship will continue to help it prevail as Biden hands the reins of the Democrat Party to a possible Harris/Walz administration. When will war with Hezbollah break out, will Iran attack, how stable is the West Bank, will Hamas survive under the new leadership of Yahya Sinwar?
We have much to discuss with Dr. Taub and the conversation will prove to be important and insightful as his realistic and brilliant knowledge of the conflict and the region is unique, astute and penetrating.
About our speaker: Gadi Taub is a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University. Having been canceled by Haaretz, his column there closed down for supporting judicial reform, he now writes Tablet Magazine and JNS. His non-fiction books include the bestselling A Dispirited Rebellion: Essays on Contemporary Israeli Culture (Hebrew), What is Zionism (Hebrew) and The Settlers and The Struggle Over the Meaning of Zionism (Yale University Press, 2010), and more recently the Global Elites and National Citizens in Israel, the US and the West (Hebrew). His bestselling novel Allenby St. was adapted to a prime-time drama series which he created and co-wrote. He hosts Israel’s leading Hebrew conservative podcast, Gatekeeper, and co-host (with Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute) of Tablet‘s English language podcast, Israel Update.
