The “What’s Changed” Edition
We discuss: 1) How we in Israel, and the lives we lead, have changed since, and because of, Oct 7th 2) How Jews around the world, and the lives they lead, have changed since, and because of, Oct 7th
Your Israeli Soundtrack for December 2024
DJ Antithesis closes out the year with more music making the airwaves here in our little corner of the Middle East
Elias Khoury: In Memoriam
Prof. Yehuda Shenhav Shaharabani discusses the life and writing of Elias Khoury, the great Lebanese novelist who died in September, aged 76. Shaharabani single-handedly translated ten of Khoury’s novels, and was a close personal friend of his.
The “Manifest Destinies” Edition
We discuss: 1) Why Israeli Jews who think it might be a good idea to set up Jewish towns in Gaza, think what they think 2) Whether an agreement that brings home some of the hostages might, in the end, be worse than no agreement at all
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The “Trauma-Rama” Edition
We discuss: 1) An expose showing that on Oct. 7, the IDF decided to double the number of civilians whose lives it was willing to risk in order to attack Hamas leaders 2) The assertion by Amalia Sa’ar that Israeli political discourse is filled with a “narrative of trauma” that keeps us from being able to have rational political discourse and make rational political and military decisions