The most recent podcast (as I write this) by Donniel Harman and Yossi Klein-Halevi is titled ‘Israel: Winning the Iran War, Losing the American Jews?’ and it can be found at the following link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7j8WhCABq89LeGiuE8888h?si=beee7842fbd3491e.

I am a committed listener to ‘For Heaven’s Sake’, one of the Shalom Hartman Institute (SHI) weekly podcasts. Donniel and Yossi are familiar and cherished voices as well as deep and empathic thinkers.

Although I am a Latin-American Jew (I live in Uruguay) and their audience is mostly American Zionist, liberal Jews, I always find bits and pieces that allow me to contribute in enriching our Jewish conversation in this part of the world.

However, the dilemma put forward in this podcast seemed to me nonsensical. To think of the option of either winning a war or losing the support of the largest Jewish community outside Israel seems to me too far-fetched, even absurd.

To claim that, as Israelis have their existential threat (Iran & proxis), Americans have theirs (meaning Trump), as many liberal Americans seem to claim, borders the outrageous. As I listened to this........

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