If You Can't Stand The Heat - with Walter Russell Mead

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Israelis usually flee to Europe during hot summers to experience European weather - but this week’s heatwave made the blistering temperatures here seem normal. But whether or not the countries are well equipped with air conditioning, it seems none are particularly ready with a plan for the effects of climate change. And to another hot topic- the U.S involvement in the Middle East and Israel, in particular, we speak to historian and foreign policy luminary Walter Russell Mead on his new book, which inquires into the historical roots of America’s support for Israel, and the misconceptions about the strength of the Jewish state that led to him writing it. Plus - a story involving a cat and an Israeli MK gets mentioned in both our award categories. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	A podcast by Hussut, cyber attacks can be prevented.
0:04.3	Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:19.1	Hello, I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:22.3	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:25.7	And we are unholy, two Jews on the News from Keshet podcasts.
0:29.8	Everything's in its right place, Jonathan.
0:31.5	I'm in Tel Aviv. You're in London.
0:33.5	How bizarre is it that we had this conversation this week
0:36.3	when I asked you if you're surviving the weather?
0:39.6	You did. You sent very sweet little texts about air conditioning and drinking and taking on fluids and everything.
0:45.3	And don't do it. And don't exercise in the sun. You know, I was very Jewish mother mode full on.
0:51.1	And I was saying, look, you know, for you, this is just kind of Wednesday.
1:01.0	You know, this is just 41 degrees thermometer breaching the 40 degree centigrade mark.
1:04.0	That's just routine, I wondered, for Israel.
1:08.1	But you, I mean, you rightly said, yeah, sure, but we're kind of equipped for it. And we're not, and my God, is that true?
1:10.7	I mean, just two days
1:12.7	where the temperature was, you know, just through the roof and the lack of preparedness
1:18.2	really came through because basically British people couldn't go outdoors. There was just,
1:22.7	you had to, you know, there was advice about closing the curtains and remaining, you know,
1:27.4	even closing windows,
1:28.5	actually, because hot air would get in and finding just the one cool corner of the house.
1:33.7	And it was quite sort of scary, really, in a kind of apocalyptic way.
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