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Podcast by The Washington Institute
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Middle East PolicyCast makes regional strategy legible by pressing officials and specialists on the institutions, incentives and tradeoffs behind public policy.
Middle East PolicyCast turns regional politics into questions that policymakers must answer. Scott Rogers introduces the stakes, then gives an extended interview or recorded Washington Institute discussion room to develop.
Kushner gets asked whose money funds peace; you may want the invoice too.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A focused case for a practical Israeli-Palestinian peace framework.
Jared Kushner uses this Near East PolicyCast conversation to make a case for a practical framework for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. He keeps circling back to the same point: the dispute has been stuck for a long time, and any serious plan has to deal with final-status…
A careful election preview that treats Israeli politics as strategy, coalition math, and timing.
This episode treats Israeli politics as a contest shaped by the centrist merger, the attorney general ruling, and the April 9 parliamentary election.
A steady policy conversation about Iran, Syria, the peace process, and strategic prioritizing.
Ambassador Dennis Ross is framed as a guide for connecting immediate crises with longer strategic aims, moving through Syria, Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the Europe-JCPOA dispute.
A detailed look at the security arm that supports West Bank stability while politics keep eroding the wider horizon.
The piece frames the Palestinian Authority's security services as a system that must keep daily order while the horizon for a negotiated settlement keeps narrowing.
Jerusalem-based strategy for a volatile region.
Israel news with biblical voltage.
Jewish public affairs with context and consequence.
Jewish thought under present pressure.
Israelis argue Zionism live, and callers get a say.
Middle East Policycast episode 82 examines democratic backsliding in Tunisia and Sudan through a November 30 Washington Institute forum moderated by Sarah Foyer.
The episode centers on Jared Kushner's account of the Trump administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
This episode looks at Israeli politics ahead of the April 9 parliamentary elections.
An interview with an expert discussing Iran's new missile capabilities and implications for regional security.
Near East PolicyCast host Scott Rogers interviews Catherine Bauer about the November 5, 2018 return of U.S.
Scott Rogers opens by describing the Middle East as a cluster of urgent brush fires that can drag U.S.
This episode looks at the Palestinian Authority security forces and the role they play in the West Bank.
Analysis of the Kuwait reconstruction conference for Iraq and the challenges of rebuilding post-ISIS territories.
A discussion with former Israeli ambassadors about Israel's relationship with the United Nations and challenges of multilateral diplomacy.