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24 clips from 6 MEF episodes, grouped by speaker, as of October 17, 2026. Each clip plays here with captions and a timed transcript.

Eran Lerman, video still from Middle East Forum Podcast
Video still: Middle East Forum, Middle East Forum Podcast, Oct 5, at 15:00

Eran Lerman

Guest, Middle East Forum Podcast

5 clips from 1 episode

Middle East Forum Podcast / October 5, 2026 / 5 clips

Israel and the Hashemites: A Complex Story with Eran Lerman

  1. 2:05Eran Lerman on His Father's Captivity in Jordan0:44

    My father was a POW in Jordan for a prolonged period of time.

  2. 18:33Eran Lerman on Israel and Jordan as Partners0:37

    He used to say to his Israeli interlocutors, You know, you are lucky you have enemies. I am surrounded by friends.

  3. 19:54Eran Lerman on the Jordanian War Memorial0:43

    An Israeli put up a sign that said, Here lie fifty-three brave Jordanian soldiers.

Show 2 more clips from this episode (5 in all)
  1. 23:28Eran Lerman on King Hussein's 1973 Warning0:30

    In 1973, it was King Hussein who came to warn Golda Meir that the Syrians are up to no good.

  2. 35:44Eran Lerman on Jordan and the Jordan Valley0:32

    Security control must remain Israeli for Jordan to be safe.

Ashley Perry, video still from Israel Insider
Video still: Middle East Forum, Israel Insider, Sep 30, at 10:00

Ashley Perry

Host, Israel Insider

10 clips from 3 episodes

Israel Insider / September 30, 2026 / 4 clips

Israel Insider with Ashley Perry

  1. 7:59Ashley Perry on Security as an Election Issue0:24

    The more security is the focus of the elections, the better Netanyahu and his bloc will do.

  2. 10:07Ashley Perry on the UN Walkout0:21

    There was an attempt at orchestration by the Palestinian delegation to the UN.

  3. 14:26Ashley Perry on Campaign Strategy in Israel0:31

    When you're reacting, you're usually losing in politics, and at the moment, the opposition is just reacting.

Show 1 more clip from this episode (4 in all)
  1. 25:07Ashley Perry on Why You Never Bet against Netanyahu0:41

    I have one rule in Israeli politics: you never bet against Bibi.

Israel Insider / September 23, 2026 / 3 clips

Israel Insider with Ashley Perry

  1. 0:21Ashley Perry on Israel at the UN General Assembly0:21

    It's actually become something closer to the Theater of the Obsessed.

  2. 1:33Ashley Perry on Macron, Hamas and the West Bank1:23

    Hamas have basically been active in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, for decades.

  3. 7:00Ashley Perry on Netanyahu's UN Visit1:47

    This is where Netanyahu excels. He's an excellent speaker, we know that.

Israel Insider / September 16, 2026 / 3 clips

Israel Insider with Ashley Perry

  1. 7:03Ashley Perry on Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and Israel0:57

    Saudi Arabia learned that, to its own detriment, this week when it called on Turkey and Pakistan to live up to the letter of the agreement.

  2. 18:01Ashley Perry on the Film about the IDF and Free Speech1:13

    It's a libel, it's disgraceful, it's disgusting, but it is free speech.

  3. 19:22Ashley Perry on the Houthis and Bab el-Mandab1:13

    It is a play by Iran to basically put more and more pressure on international shipping lanes, on trade.

Gad Saad, video still from Middle East Forum Podcast
Video still: Middle East Forum, Middle East Forum Podcast, Sep 28, at 5:00

Gad Saad

Evolutionary behavioral scientist; author, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind

8 clips from 1 episode

Middle East Forum Podcast / September 28, 2026 / 8 clips

Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and the West’s Survival

  1. 2:32Gad Saad on Empathy without a Stopping Point1:34

    Well-modulated empathy is a perfectly rational virtue for humans to possess.

  2. 3:40Gad Saad on Empathy and Psychopathy0:26

    No empathy renders me a psychopath. Too much empathy towards the wrong targets makes me suicidally empathetic.

  3. 9:27Gad Saad on Ideas and Academic Status0:31

    I don't get punished for espousing nonsense. I go upward the more insane my ideas are, right?

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  1. 16:12Gad Saad on Jewish Critics of Israel0:27

    A wood cricket is an insect that abhors water. It wants nothing to do with water.

  2. 22:31Gad Saad on Three Means of Conquest1:08

    The third way we're gonna conquer the West is by using your miserable freedoms against you.

  3. 23:41Gad Saad on Stated Islamist Aims0:19

    They have been standing on top of the mountain and screaming their plan for all of us to hear for decades.

  4. 35:19Gad Saad on Empathy as Signalling0:55

    Recognize that life is not a first-order world, but has a domino effect.

  5. 37:46Gad Saad on Empathy and Its Limits0:28

    So empathy, good. Suicidal empathy will bring the end of us.

Tim Orr in conversation, video still from Focus on Western Islamism
Video still: Middle East Forum, Focus on Western Islamism, Sep 14, at 13:15

Tim Orr

Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

1 clip from 1 episode

Focus on Western Islamism / September 14, 2026 / 1 clip

October 7th, Interfaith Dialogue, and the Theology behind Islamist Antisemitism | Tim Orr on FWI

  1. 12:21Tim Orr on the Red-Green Alliance1:24

    The progressives provide the moral vocabulary, but the Muslims provide oftentimes the narrative, the Palestinian cause and so on.