Welcome to the Tikva podcast on Great Jewish Essays and Ideas. I'm your host, Eric Cohen.

Our subject today is an important new essay published in the April 2016 issue Mosaic magazine

and written by Elliot Abrams on the relationship

between American Jews and Israel. The essay raises some crucial questions. Are American Jews

becoming less attached to, less interested in, and even more antagonistic toward the Jewish

state? If so, do we understand why, and are we willing to confront the real reasons?

What are the new fault lines within American jury itself?

And what does this mean for the America-Israel relationship more broadly?

And what do all these changes within American jury mean for Israel,

given the tremendous threats it faces in a radicalizing Middle East

and in a geopolitical world in which new forms of anti-Judaism and

anti-Zionism seem to be on the rise.

I'm very pleased to be joined for this discussion today by Elliot Abrams himself to explore

the important issues raised in his piece.

Mr. Abrams is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the former deputy

national security advisor to the president, and the author of Foreign Relations, the former deputy national security advisor

to the president, and the author of important books on the state of American jury in the

Israel-Palestine question.

Elliot, thanks for joining me.

Thank you.

It seems to me that an issue is hotly debated and highly politicized as a relationship

between American Jews and Israel, simply trying to see things clearly,

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