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Ask Haviv Anything — 152 episodes

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147: Are the allegations in NAZA true?

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146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor

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145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber

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144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer

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143: How to win the Israeli election

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142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

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141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore

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140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations

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139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question

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138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse

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137: What does Qatar want?

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136: Why not two states from the start?

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135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN?

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134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?

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133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam

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132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron

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131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek

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130: Here's to the next 250 years

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129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi

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128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari

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127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak

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126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman

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125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat

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124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti

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123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews

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122: When will the war with Iran end?

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121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg

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120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us

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119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy

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118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson

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117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi

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116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews

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115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?

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114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?

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113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour

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112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse

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111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi

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110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance

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109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb

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108: How personal grief built a nation

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107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?

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106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf

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105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan?

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104: The Iran war isn’t over

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103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve?

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102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav

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101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan

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100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman

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Episode 99: Are we winning?

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Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce Hoffman

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Episode 97: Can America and Israel finish the job? A conversation with John Spencer.

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Episode 96: The first war Israel fought in English, with Yaakov Katz

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Episode 95: The idea that broke the Middle East, with Dr. Micah Goodman

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Episode 94: America's war, not Israel's

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Episode 93: How to win Iran's forever war

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Episode 92: Why does Israel hate UNRWA?

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Episode 91: Is the Iran war about China? A conversation with Melissa Chen

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Episode 90: Is it "fascist" to believe a state can belong to a specific people?

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Episode 89: Who benefits from continuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

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Episode 88: America's "24% problem" with young antisemitism, with Jonah Platt

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Episode 87: How can you support a better Palestinian future?

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Episode 86: Alliances and rivalries in a new Middle East, with Dan Schueftan

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Episode 85: How knowing your story makes you invincible, with Noam Weissman

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Episode 84: Why soldiers wept when Ran came home, lessons from Tu Bishvat

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Episode 83: From ideology to narcotics, Hezbollah's business model, with Matt Levitt

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Episode 82: 'From the River to the Sea' - Lost in Translation?

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Episode 81: Israel's future and the ticking Gaza clock, with Andrew Fox

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Episode 80: Who is Hamas and what do they want?

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Episode 79: Breaking Iran's machinery of oppression

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Episode 78: Do you still want to globalize the intifada?

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Episode 77: Did Israel intentionally target civilians in Gaza?

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Episode 76: How elites drive Jew-hatred, with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

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Episode 75: Power, fear, and the survival of the Iranian regime, with Roya Hakakian

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Episode 74: Why the global outrage at Israel's Somaliland recognition?

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Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America?

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Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth R. Hyman

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Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel?

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Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss

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Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, with Moshe Koppel

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Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein

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Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi.

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Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians?

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Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsberg

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Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky

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Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman

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Episode 62: Hard times make strong Jews. Live in London with Daniel Schwammenthal.

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Episode 61: Is criticizing Israel antisemitic?

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Episode 60: Does it matter what the world thinks? A conversation with Dr. Tal Becker

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Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel?

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Episode 58: Rebuilding after disaster with ex-hostage Tal Shoham

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Episode 57: When human rights NGOs fail, with Daniel Balson and Danielle Haas

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Episode 56: The industrial revolution of prehistoric Israel, with Tom Levy

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Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf

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Episode 54: Can Israel be both Sparta and Athens? With Dan Schueftan

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Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller

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Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn

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Episode 51: Antisemitism and the Black experience

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Episode 50: Hostage Deal - A new day for Gaza, a bad day for Hamas

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Episode 49: Finding hope in the tunnel of Hamas, with Eli Sharabi

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Episode 48: Two years to October 7

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Episode 47: Building a new Gaza, with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

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Episode 46: The Trump Plan - Hope for Israel and Gaza

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Episode 45: 48 hours in Syria, with David Horovitz

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Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah

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Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story

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Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba

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Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak

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Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen

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Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen.

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Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer

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Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein

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Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies

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Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer

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Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean

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Episode 33: Thoughts for Tisha B’Av - We live in history

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Episode 32: Hunger and the Gaza war

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Episode 31: The century-old harbinger of October 7, a conversation with Yardena Schwartz

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Episode 30: How the Middle East broke, a conversation with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

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Episode 29: After the Druze massacre, can Israel make peace with Joulani? A conversation with Druze activist Rania Fadel Dean

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Episode 28: The Gaza Paradox

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Episode 27: Music amidst trauma - a conversation on life in a war with Aya Korem and Adam Ben Amitai

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Episode 26: How Iran’s regime subverted Shia Islam - with Hussain Abdul-Hussain

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Episode 25: What is happening in Gaza?

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Episode 24: With Iran down, Turkey steps into the breach - a conversation with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak.

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Episode 23: Iran bows out

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Episode 22: A new dawn in the Middle East?

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Episode 21: Why won’t Haredim serve in the IDF? A deep dive with Shmuel Rosner

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Episode 20: Regime change in Iran? What the 1979 revolution can teach us.

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Episode 19: Iran faces a humbler, more dangerous Israel

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Episode 18: Taking on the ayatollahs with Mark Dubowitz

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Episode 17: The Gaza war began 25 years ago, a conversation with Matti Friedman

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Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform

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Episode 15: Jerusalem Day, a modern redemption story

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Episode 14: Should Israel give up on international law ? A conversation with a former IDF lawyer

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Episode 13: John Spencer on war, morality, politics and the fight for the future.

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Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer

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Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi

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Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think?

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Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom

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Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accords with ex-NSC expert Shiri Fein

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Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine"

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Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive?

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Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres

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Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza

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Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage

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Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews

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Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza

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Comment: We will protect our own

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Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews

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Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism

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Extra: Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage

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Episode 0: History That Matters