Armageddon in the Middle East? (David Wolpe)

<p>Shermer and Wolpe discuss: what happened to Israel’s vaunted security apparatus, intelligence agency and military readiness? • Zionism, Judaism, and Israel • Palestine, Palestinians, and the Gaza strip • Hamas, Hezbollah, and terrorism • U.S. support for Israel • Iran, the Iran Deal, and why they support terrorists • The Biden Administrations culpability in releasing/sending $16 billion to Iran • Shia and Sunni similarities and differences • why students & student groups are pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel • The rise of anti-Semitism and proximate/ultimate causes • The Abraham Accords • Two-State Solution.</p> <p><strong>David Wolpe</strong> was named <em>The Most Influential Rabbi</em> in America by <em>Newsweek</em> and one of the <em>50 Most Influential Jews in the World</em> by <em>The Jerusalem Post</em>, and twice named one of the <em>500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles</em> by the Los Angeles Business Journal. He is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard.</p> <p>Rabbi Wolpe has engaged in widely watched public debates with Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Michael Shermer and many others about religion and its place in the world. He is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller <em>Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times</em>. His new book is titled <em>David, the Divided Heart</em>.</p> <p>LIVE EVENT THIS DECEMBER:</p> <p>Meet Jared Diamond, Michael Shellenberger, Peter Boghossian, and Michael Shermer at our December event: https://skeptic.com/event</p>