The writer Etgar Keret was our Open Source witness in Israel two years ago to a general (local, global, existential) disbelief and alienation from the war on Lebanon. And now...| More

Our many shows about a possible showdown with Iran — most recently with Seymour Hersh last week, but also here, here, here, and here, just to name a few —...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visits Washington next week, he’ll find a radically different political climate: There’s a new Democratic...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) What war does, what violence does, is that it somehow sucks life out of people. It turns them into… one-dimensional, flat...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Thinking back, trying to recreate my conversations with worried friends about this war with Lebanon, about the Iranian missiles, the Syrian...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Israel occupied Southern Lebanon for 18 years, it was Israel’s Vietnam… It is commonly regarded as a huge mistake, and it’s...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) We’re dealing with a very difficult moment in the Arab world. These explosions and disruptions that happen periodically here in Iraq,...| More

Today the Supreme Court has blocked Guantanamo military tribunals, condemning the Bush Administration’s detention policy. We discussed the future of the prison in March on A Guantanamo Exit Strategy, and...| More

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt recently wrote a piece in the London Review of Books about the “Israel Lobby” that’s been...| More

This is a very difficult dilemma. Do you support corrupt, unpopular, oppressive dictators? Or do you find yourself with fundamentalists who are democratically elected? The trick must be to create...| More