The “Key West v. West Bank” Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by favorite guest Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett to talk through the week's news, including:

“Low Confidence Games.” A Department of Energy intelligence report concluded with “low confidence” that COVID-19 may have begun with a lab leak in Wuhan, China, further fracturing views within the U.S. government and giving added fuel to those seeking to put blame for the pandemic on China. What should we make of the report—and the strong reactions to it?
“It’s Coming from Inside the Cabinet.” The West Bank and Israel appear to be in the midst of another spiral of violence. Most recently, the shooting of two Israeli settlers by a Palestinian led to a riot through a number of Palestinian towns that killed one resident and damaged hundreds of homes and cars. What explains this surge in violence? And is the new Israeli government headed by Bibi Netanyahu to blame?
“Tallanasty.” At the prompting of Gov. Ron DeSantis—likely a leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination—Florida’s state legislature is enacting a wave of culture war measures, targeting everything from school libraries to Disney. What does this all mean for democratic governance in Florida? And what could it mean for the country come 2024?

For object lessons, Alan endorsed all things Alison Brie, including her newest film, Spin Me Round. Quinta celebrated her favorite carb- and dairy-based holiday, National Khachapuri Day. Scott hearkened back to object lessons of yesteryear to mark the release of two new comedies that have literally been decades in the making: Party Down and A History of the World, Part 2. And Natalie embraced her inner corporate shill to endorse Lawfare's own podcast series, The Aftermath, which is releasing the final episode of its first season soon.

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0:00.0	So I cook most of the dinners in my house and I was getting ready to cook one of our favorite
0:06.8	kind of quick easy dinner, which is a lovely shakshuka, it's like a spicy tomato sauce
0:11.1	with eggs cooked on top of you with bread.
0:13.6	So my wife very kindly offered during her lunch break to kind of help me prep by kind of
0:19.6	sous-chefing a bit and doing some dicing and cutting before I got home from the office.
0:24.5	And I had asked her to cut up a couple of hot peppers that I had sliced into like kind
0:28.2	of quarters and shoved in our freezer, neglecting the fact that there were, in fact, two
0:32.0	sacks of peppers in our freezer, one of which was bell peppers, the other of which were
0:37.3	mystery peppers I had grown in my garden that I had yet to identify.
0:40.9	No, no.
0:41.9	My wife unknowingly diced up the ladder and produced the spiciest shakshuka I have ever
0:48.8	had in my entire life, like nuclear hot that we then accidentally fed to my son, he's
0:53.2	okay, but he quickly learned how spicy it was.
0:56.4	Did he turn bright red?
0:57.8	I don't even think it touched his tongue and it was like watered down with like a ton
1:00.9	of love now.
1:01.9	We like mixed in there to make it like super mild, barely touched his tongue and he spit
1:06.1	it at us.
1:07.1	I was like, too hot, accusatorily, as if to say, you did this to me.
1:11.3	You did do this, Dave.
1:12.3	This is the thing about toddlers, right, is like there, their ability to look at you and
1:17.4	just like, you know, their eyes say like, I loved you and you let this happen to you.
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