We discuss: 1) The hostage release and “permanent cessation of hostilities” agreement with Hamas 2) How the agreement came to be signed now (and not eight months ago or eight months from now)

We discuss: 1) What Antony Blinken told the times about how it was Hamas, not Netanyahu, who scuttled the hostage negotiations 2) The Palestinian campaign to have low-level IDF soldiers arrested abroad for war crimes

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

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

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

We discuss: 1) The shocking, sudden fall of Syria’s strong-man ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad 2) PM Netanyahu’s taking-of-the-stand to testify on his own behalf in his four-years-and-running bribery, fraud and breach of trust trial

We discuss: 1) Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon’s flat assertion that Netanyahu’s Gaza policy amounts to ethnic cleansing 2) The Knesset’s declaratory motion resolving that the government no longer advertise in Ha’aretz

We discuss: 1) The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah 2) The warrants the International Criminal Court put out for PM Netanyahu and Defense-Minister-until-not-long-ago Gallant

We discuss: 1) A voice in the wilderness, calling for a two-state solution and, 2) The shockingly pro-Israel cabinet once-and-future US President Trump has nominated, and what it means for us here

We discuss: 1) Israel’s destructive and deadly latest operation in Northern Gaza, and 2) Thuggery in Amsterdam