Decision Time In The North - with Matti Friedman

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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*** Share episode on X: https://tinyurl.com/43epx79k *** This past weekend we saw a major and brazen escalation against Israel by Hezbollah. This war front is not new, but it will now come into much sharper focus. And with the slaughter of Druze children, we have received a number of questions about Israel’s Druze community in Israel’s North, as well as questions about the options for Israeli decision-makers now. To help us unpack all of this, we are joined by Matti Friedman, who is one of the most thoughtful writers when it comes to all matters related to Israel, the broader Middle East, and also trends in the world of journalism. He is a columnist for The Free Press: https://www.thefp.com/ Matti’s most recent book is called “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.” Before that he published "Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel," and before that "Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War.” Matti’s army service included tours in Lebanon. His work as a reporter has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, and other hotspots across the Middle East and around the world. He is a former Associated Press correspondent and essayist for the New York Times opinion section. Matti Friedman's published works that are relevant to this episode: -“The Wisdom of Hamas” — The Free Press — https://www.thefp.com/p/matti-friedman-the-wisdom-of-hamas -“What if the Real War in Israel Hasn’t Even Started?” — The Free Press — https://www.thefp.com/p/matti-friedman-israel-hezbollah-war -"There Is No 'Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'" -- The New York Times -- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/16/opinion/israeli-palestinian-conflict-matti-friedman.htm -"An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth" -- Tablet Magazine -- https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/israel-insider-guide -"What The Media Gets Wrong About Israel" -- The Atlantic -- https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/ -“Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War” — https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pumpkinflowers-matti-friedman/1122279367?ean=9781616206918

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0:00.0	The decisions made by Israeli leaders now are going to decide in a very dramatic way the course of events over the next months and perhaps over the next years
0:07.6	Because if there's an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah that is going to be much worse than the war we've seen so far against Hamas
0:15.0	and we actually might remember the war against Hamas
0:18.0	as the preliminary to the real war
0:20.0	and it could quite conceivably draw in the Iranians directly which would mean
0:25.2	that this would become a regional war and if that happens then we're talking
0:29.2	about an event on a completely different scale.
0:33.0	It's 6 p.m. on the
0:40.0	on Sunday, July 28th here in New York City. It is 1 o'clock a.m. on Monday
0:46.8	July 29th in Israel. If you have been following the news over the weekend you would
0:51.5	have learned according to the BBC that
0:54.3	quote 11 dead in rocket attack on Israeli occupied Galan that was the BBC
1:01.5	headline 11 dead in a rocket attack?
1:04.0	Did the rocket just attack Israel on its own?
1:08.0	Or did some terror organization launch the rocket attack?
1:12.0	Given that that terror organization, Hezbollah,
1:15.0	trained, funded, and armed by Iran,
1:18.0	has been fighting a second front against Israel
1:21.0	is the organization that launched the rocket attack, one would think that that
1:25.0	would be an important detail in the headline, or that the victims were all children
1:30.9	playing soccer on a football pitch. Also, tragically, an important detail.
1:37.0	And Israeli occupied Golan, according to whom, the U.S. government recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the
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