Anshel Pfeffer Answers 18 Questions on War Crimes, Hamas' Future, and the World Zionist Organization

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Hi, I'm Anchel Feffer. I'm a journalist and writer. I live in Jerusalem. And this is 18 questions. 40 Israeli thinkers. I'm not a thinker. Thank you. You're a thinker as much as I am. I'm not going to say that. So, we'll begin where we always do. As an Israeli and as a Jew, how are you feeling at this moment in Israeli history? Well, we're obviously at a low point in the history of the state of Israel, both because of the tragedies that have happened over the last year and a half and because there is no there is no strategy. There is no real government. There's just a group of agents of chaos each looking out for their own narrow interests and for political survival. So if you go back to sephim to the book of judges there's a puk that is that appears twice towards the end of sephosim in those days there was no king in Israel each man did as he saw fit that's a situation we are now in in the state of Israel and it's uh sort of a managed chaos and that's not a good thing for a state why do you say a managed chaos? Well, because you're sitting in my house, there's it's calm. The the traffic is more or less flowing on the street outside. Obviously, there's a bit of a traffic jam. So, things are sort of working, but it's a it's a very um it's a very hollow facade of of a

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