Our Middle East: An Insider's View

Why has Israel started an operation in Jenin? Is Iran spreading its tentacles deep into Israel?
On this week's Our Middle East, host Dan Diker speaks with Arab Affairs expert Yoni Ben Menachem to give an inside perspective on the current operation being conducted by the IDF in Jenin.
They talk about

• the buildup of terrorist forces connected to Iran in the West Bank and how previous governments should have already acted against it.
• Iran's goal in supporting various factions within and on the border of Israel
• What the IDF needs to do in order to be a successful operation.

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What do the Palestinians need to do in order to join the normalization happening throughout the region?
In this episode of “Our Middle East,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dan Diker has on Bahraini journalist Abdullah Junaid, Deputy Director of MENA 2050. MENA2050 is an organization led by a big cross-generational group from across the Middle East & North Africa Region working together on an agreed vision for the region in 2050.

Is the Israeli government getting in its own way by talking about normalization too much? Can more be done to welcome Arab tourists?
In this week's "Our Middle East", host Dan Diker has Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum on to discuss the art of quiet diplomacy and the steps needed to bring peace to the region
They discuss

• the key role business plays in making peace possible
• the need to make Israel more welcoming to Arab tourism.
• the harm that is done in speaking too publicly about Saudi/Israeli normalization

In this week’s episode of "Our Middle East," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs President Dan Diker hosts Suzan Quitaz, a Kurdish-Swedish journalist based in London. Because they were Kurds, Quitaz’s family was deported from Iraqi Kurdistan when it was under the control of Saddam Hussein and she grew up in Sweden.
They discuss

• the commonality of the Kurdish and Jewish story
• the want of the people of the Middle East to make peace with Israel
• the grave misunderstandings by the US about the region

Why has Syria been invited back into the Arab League by Saudi Arabia? Why has Saudi Arabia closened relations with Iran and China? Is this a real reestablishment of ties or does Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Ben Salman have a different end-game in mind?
In this episode of Our Middle East, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs president and host Dan Diker welcomes former Bahraini Journalists Association president Ahdeya Ahmed and former chief of the Israeli Broadcasting Authority and JCPA analyst Yoni Ben Menahem for an analysis of the Saudi-initiated invitation to Syria to rejoin the Arab League.