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ISRAEL AT WAR: The Arab Street | Inside analysis by Arab-affairs expert

Hear how the Arab world is viewing the war and who really is behind the Hamas attack. “Our Middle East” with host Dan Diker and Arab-affairs expert Yoni Ben Menahem.

(Oct. 8, 2023 / JNS)

JCPA president Dan Diker, and veteran journalist and Arab-affairs expert Yoni Ben Menahem, discuss and analyze the unfolding events following the Hamas barrage of thousands of rockets, Israeli border infiltration and kidnapping of civilians and members of the Israel Defense Forces on the morning of Oct. 7—Shabbat and a Jewish holiday.

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