How do we know if a country is a success? Israel at 75, with Daniel Gordis

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🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How do we know if a country is a success? It’s a question that our guest on this episode, Dr. Daniel Gordis , tried to answer in a new book, timed for the 75th anniversary of Israel’s independence. His book is called “Impossible Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled Its Founders’ Dreams?” Gordis moved to Israel in 1998, where he raised three children. He is one of the most thoughtful observers of Israeli life and Israeli history. Gordis is the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College, a liberal arts college in Israel that he co-founded. And he's the author of more than ten books, including "Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn", "Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul", and "We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel". Gordis also has his own podcast and blog, called “Israel from the Inside".

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0:00.0	It's a flawed country. The way the United States is flawed, the way Canada is flawed, the way France is flawed, the way every country is flawed.
0:07.0	We have race issues, we have poverty issues, we have conflict issues.
0:11.0	But if the goal of the country was to change the way that Jews lived in the world, not to be living on borrowed time, not to be living in a country wondering when the invitation to stay was going to run out, not to be living in
0:24.4	somebody else's language, not to be hoping that the professions would be open to
0:28.8	you. It's changed everything. Before we begin today, just a quick housekeeping note. The pundantry we hear on
0:46.7	the upcoming 2024 presidential primaries has taken a decidedly conventional turn.
0:52.0	Trump we're told is now the prohibitive favorite to win the
0:55.4	GOP nomination. Ron DeSantis is the new Scott Walker. Joe Biden has a
1:01.0	dominant hold on the Democratic nomination and so on.
1:04.8	I'm highly skeptical of all of it.
1:07.0	I don't believe Trump is as strong as he may appear right now.
1:10.0	I don't believe DeSantis is anywhere near as weak as some of the ranked
1:14.5	punditry would have us believe and we're gonna have a whole conversation
1:18.4	about these quirky weird challenges that President Biden is facing in his own primaries.
1:24.1	We're going to unpack all of this in our next episode. Not today but in our next
1:28.8	episode with Mike Murphy, but the reason I'm giving you fair warning is because
1:32.4	whenever Mike is on we get a
1:34.0	flurry of questions that we wish we had in advance to ask Mike. So if you have a
1:38.5	question for Mike Murphy about the 2024 presidential primaries, the general election or anything about American politics
1:45.8	please record a voice memo and send it to Dan at unlocked.fm that's Dan at unlocked dot fm.
1:52.5	That's Dan at unlocked dot fm
1:55.2	please keep the question to under 30 seconds
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