Intractable

Intractable is a podcast about a well-covered, but often misunderstood, topic: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each episode takes on one subject—national identity, military culture, political extremism, historical memory, psychology, religion, and media coverage, among others—and investigates it through personal narratives and news stories. Through historical research and present-day interviews with people from myriad backgrounds, Intractable seeks to tell a complete and complicated story—one that gets closer to the truth than any one-sided narrative ever could; one that may, in its telling, evoke more questions than answers.

In our seventh episode, we explore the cyclical nature of the conflict—from a human perspective. What can we discover about the next generation, and about the future of Israelis and Palestinians, by looking at the way young people within this conflict communicate with one another—or don’t?

In Tel Aviv and Jaffa, Skyler interviews an Israeli professor with a revolutionary idea, and sits in on an event that brings young women from Israel and the West Bank together for the teeny tiny task of finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

In Jerusalem, we talk to parents and children at Hand in Hand, a groundbreaking school that envisions generational change through mixed Jewish-Arab education—in Arabic and Hebrew.

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