Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with Bret Stephens, a New York Times columnist and the editor-in-chief of Sapir magazine.

Recent polling indicates that only roughly half of Americans support the US-Israel war against Iran’s Islamist regime. Stephens weighs in on why the current conflict can be both “Trump’s war” and a just war.

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