Munk Dialogue with Matti Friedman
Munk Dialogue with Matti Friedman
Israel’s new political coalition and the return of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel – a country founded on secular, European principles – just voted into power the most right wing, religious government in its history. How does Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister, keep getting elected?
Will this new right-wing religious coalition affect Israeli pluralism and uphold its commitment to democratic principles? And how might this incoming government change the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Canadian-Israeli journalist, author, and op-ed contributor for the New York Times Matti Friedman joins us for an in-depth discussion about the Middle East’s only democracy – and why western assumptions about Israel are nearly always wrong.
“The old European lens that we’ve always used to understand Israel is less and less useful…this country needs to be understood as a country in the middle east, responding to pressures in the region”
-MATTI FRIEDMAN
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