Raphael BenLevi, Hanin Ghaddar, and Richard Goldberg on the Looming War in Lebanon

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Judaism, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, News

4.6 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Right now, over 50,000 Israelis from the northern reaches of the country are not living in their homes. The intensity of rocket fire from Hizballah, arrayed across the Lebanese border, is too dangerous. For that reason and several others relating to Hizballah's patron, Iran, a war to Israel's north looms. In April of this year, the Israeli security analyst and IDF reserve intelligence officer Raphael BenLevi published an essay in Mosaic that explains the history of Israel’s northern border security, and what Israel can do now to restore it. To discuss that essay and its arguments, Mosaic’s editor and the podcast's host Jonathan Silver convened a conversation with the Lebanese writer Hanin Ghaddar and the Iran expert Richard Goldberg.

This week, given the intensification of concern toward Israel's north, brings the audio of that conversation in podcast form: as good a place as any to start thinking about the dangers that Hizballah poses in the larger conflict between Iran and Israel.

Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

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0:00.0	As of this recording in mid-August 2024, between 50,000 and 70,000 Israelis, hailing from over 40 communities, towns, villages, Kibbutzim, from all over the northern reaches of the country, are not living in their homes. They
0:22.1	can't. The intensity of rocket fire from Hisbalah, arrayed against the Lebanese border,
0:27.4	is too dangerous. Hisbalah has effectively redrawn the sovereign border of Israel about five
0:33.5	kilometers southwards along the entire northern border. No nation could permit that kind of
0:39.5	aggression, and whether the Israeli government authorizes large-scale action now, or sooner, or later,
0:46.5	most analysts expect Israeli citizens to demand that the Israeli government protect Israeli
0:52.3	civilians, Israeli homes, Israeli property, and the honor of the Israeli homeland.
0:57.9	No one wants war, but as war seems increasingly inescapable, we ought to try and understand everything we can about it.
1:06.2	Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver. In April of this year, the Israeli security
1:12.0	analyst and IDF Reserve Intelligence Officer Rafael Ben Levy published an essay for us in Mosaic
1:18.2	that explains the history of Israel's northern border security, and what Israel can do now to restore
1:24.7	it. That essay attracted a lot of attention, and in May I convened a conversation
1:29.9	with the Lebanese writer Hanin Gadar and the American Iran expert Rich Goldberg. Mosaic subscribers got to
1:36.8	join in and ask their questions, and if you'd like to participate in similar sorts of events,
1:42.2	please consider joining us as a subscriber at mosaicmagizine.com.
1:46.9	This week, I'm bringing you the audio of that conversation, as good a place as any,
1:51.6	to start thinking about the dangers that Hezbollah poses in the larger conflict between Iran and Israel.
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