Earlier this week, we heard a Palestinian perspective on the conflict. Today, I wanted to have on an Israeli perspective.
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and the author, most recently, of “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.”
In this episode, we discuss Halevi’s unusual education as an Israeli Defense Forc ... Show More
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This Is Why People Hate the Government
In 2024, Americans spent an average of six full workdays a year filling out government forms, according to the government’s own estimates. That’s a total of 12 billion hours, or $430 billion of uncompensated labor a year. It’s easy to read something like this and say: “Oh, well, ... Show More
1h 17m
Aug 18
The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
We are living in the world we were warned about. Frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another, then broke out of their testing environment and hacked into another company, Hugging Face, to steal the answers to a test. A.I. companie ... Show More
1h 11m
Oct 2024
Israel says it will retaliate against Iran - what to expect
Today on the show, Fareed is joined by Danny Citrinowicz, former head of the Iranian Strategic Branch in the Israeli military intelligence, to discuss Iran’s attack this week and how Israel might strike back.
Then, long-time foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas speaks with Fareed ... Show More
41m 14s
Nov 2023
What Is Real? Eli Lake on Disinformation, Despair and Dead Ends in the Israel-Hamas War
<p>This week, I had a discussion with Eli Lake regarding the recent tragic attack in Israel and its repercussions. I haven't closely followed this topic over the years, so Eli's insights were invaluable and he politely tolerated some of my more goyishly clueless questions. He has ... Show More
1h 5m
Oct 2023
181. Israel, invasion, and the trap laid by Hamas
Does Hamas actually want Israel to invade Gaza? Is there a danger that this tragic situation will strengthen the hand of the ultra-nationalist Israeli right? How should the international community respond to the war between Israel and Hamas?
On today’s episode, Alastair and Ror ... Show More
46m 27s