Rational Security: The ”Israel and Hamas at War” Special Edition
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes for a serious conversation about Hamas’s attacks in Israel, Israel’s military response, and what it might mean for the rest of the world. Given the gravity of this topic, we chose to forego our usual format and commit the entire episode to this extended conversation. We will be back to our usual format next week. In the meantime, we hope you find our struggle to make sense of these tragic recent events useful as you try to do the same.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
| 0:07.2 | podcast become a material supporter of LawFair at patreon.com slash LawFair, that's patreon.com slash |
| 0:16.8 | LawFair. Also check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | or no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Keila Benjamin, Internet LawFair with an episode of Rational Security for October 15, |
| 0:40.6 | 2023. For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross-post this week's episode of Rational |
| 0:46.3 | Security. A podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurassic, Alan Rosenstein, in which they |
| 0:51.7 | cover the week's big national security news stories. Today's episode is entitled The Israel |
| 0:56.7 | and Hamas at War Edition. In this episode, Alan Quintan Scott sat down with Benjamin |
| 1:01.8 | Wittes for a serious conversation about Hamas' attacks in Israel. Israel's military response |
| 1:06.8 | and what it might mean for the rest of the world. This is Rational Security. |
| 1:13.8 | Hey folks, welcome to Rational Security. This is as folks who listen to us regularly |
| 1:19.8 | know, usually a pretty light-hearted podcast, even though we talk about fairly serious topics. |
| 1:24.1 | But this week, we are talking about a particularly serious topic, and that is the horrible set |
| 1:28.8 | of terrorist attacks that has happened in Israel and what is coming in their aftermath. |
| 1:34.4 | And for kind of that reason, we didn't feel comfortable doing our usual bantery opening. |
| 1:39.0 | We're going to get right into what is going to be a much more substantive and serious conversation. |
| 1:43.8 | We will be back to the levity next week. But until then, we have a lot to say and a lot |
| 1:48.6 | of thoughts about this topic and what creates and events may mean for the National Security |
| 1:54.0 | Realm more broadly. So, I hope you'll join us for that conversation. Thanks. |
| 2:04.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Rational Security. I am one of your co-hosts, Scott R. Anderson. |
| 2:10.6 | Here, back in the studio with one of my other co-hosts, Linda Duresick. |
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