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180: Joe Walsh: "Donald Trump doesn't care for Israel. He cares for Donald Trump"
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Agree or disagree, Joe Walsh’s counter-intuition on American politics, Donald Trump and the Middle East is hard to ignore.
With one and half million followers across his social media channels, Joe, who served Illinois's 8th district in the House of Representatives returns to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State for a second time.
Because having appeared on the show before Donald Trump’s second election victory, here’s why.
A lifelong Republican with a penchant for throwing a Tea Party, Joe opposed Donald Trump so much, he voted Kamala for the White House - whatever their differences.
He said the two-party system needed a shakeup. Oh, and he also told me in his first ever response to my first ever question to him: "I want to retire and die in Israel".
Not Jewish. An American Catholic. So does he believe in Israel’s society more than America's?
So much to catchup on. Hold tight, here’s Joe Walsh.
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179: Rachel Moiselle: the huge price defending Israel and the Jewish people in Ireland
“I can’t align with Palestinian protests and they say I’m less Irish because of it”.
Rachel Moiselle is a young woman born and bred in Dublin, a PhD. student who calls herself a city girl.
She loves the place she grew up in - but the feeling among her people isn’t much reciprocated.
Raised a Roman Catholic, her father’s family were Jewish - and in standing up for Ireland’s community of around 3,000, Rachel’s found out the hard way about antisemitism since October 7th.
She’s been shunned, cancelled and lost friends.
But she wouldn’t change a thing - oh, except one, that is, she’s fully converting to Judaism.
Rachel gives her first ever interview to Jonny Gould about the life she's been thrust into since October 7th.
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178: Yoram Ettinger: how many Palestinians are REALLY in Judea & Samaria and Gaza?
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"There are two million Palestinians in Gaza!", they cry. All the time.
It's repeated as fact.
"Bringing Judea and Samaria into Israel would create an Arab majority".
Is that right?
Quite apart from being untrue, the problem with these statements is that Israel creates policy based on them. So is it time to establish real facts about population and childbirth?
Where is the population momentum? Does it lie with Jewish Israelis or their Arab neighbours?
Our guest today is Yoram Ettinger, who challenges conventional narratives about population trends in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
His extensive experience diverges from most assumptions.
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177: Shannon Seban: “Political life has become very violent, to be honest.”
The podcast which prides itself in introducing new voices to the world on the issues we all care about.
This is Shannon Seban, a young standout politician from Paris. She’s a conviction politician who believes if you behave otherwise, eventually you’ll lose trust and votes.
Shannon currently serves as a municipal councilor in Rosny-sous-Bois and president of Macron’s Renaissance party in Seine-Saint-Denis, it’s where she was born and raised, a diverse and socio-economically challenged area.
Her upbringing there has significantly shaped her politics, she challenges stereotypes about youth from underprivileged neighborhoods.
But it comes at quite cost.
From Algerian Jewish background, She filed complaints about antisemitic abuse she received during her campaign in 2023 and 2024.
She refuses to kowtow to any party line, so where does she stand on President Macron since October 7th. Is Macron becoming a liability? Is she being courted by other parties? How far can she go in French politics?
This is Shannon Seban.
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176: Tal Hartuv: "Evil never made me cry, but kindness makes me weep"
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There’s a higher consciousness and awareness about Tal Hartuv.
She's grounded but spiritual, realistic but also optimistic.
Because Tal’s very existence since 2010 is an improbable miracle.
She makes one imagine the dead returning to recount the experience of their murder.
In December of that year, she was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists while hiking the hills around Jerusalem alongside her friend, Kristine Luken, an American Christian.
Kristine was murdered next to her, but Tal survived by playing dead despite severe injuries, including 18 machete wounds and numerous broken bones.
Tal describes in disturbing detail the attack itself (don’t look away) and then reflects on how its changed her, what she was like before and after it, what she thinks of the current 🎗️deal and being labelled a victim when she’s anything but.
The attackers who harmed her and killed Kristine are supposed to serve long sentences, but one of the murderers is released in a terrorist-for-hostage-swap agreement.
But how does she manage her survivor's guilt when her friend didn’t make it?
Her multiple wounds cause pain when she moves and is a constant visceral reminder of what happened.
How does that impact her life, physically and emotionally?
And after October 7th, she unpacks what peace actually means!
This is a truly captivating interview and I hope you appreciate it listening to it as much I did making it.
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Jonny Gould is the go-to interviewer for presidents and politicians, artists and ambassadors, military commanders, rabbis and rock stars - and even Mossad agents.
This is Jonny’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
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