“This week, ahead of the one-year mark of the October 7 massacre, we check in with philosopher and public intellectual Dr. Micah Goodman.
Best-selling author Goodman revisits a theory he discussed with Borschel-Dan on October 9, mere days after Hamas infiltrated Israel’s south and slaughtered 1,200 and abducted 251 hostages back to Gaza. We hear about Goodman’s idea of the ‘zero-sum game’ that Israel must play to restore deterrence and maintain legitimacy and its results so far.
Now, a year into this ongoing war, we learn how the Israeli narrative of the war is shifting from perceiving it through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Today, two other narratives are increasingly gaining steam: One states that October 7 was an opening salvo to a regional war and the other zooms out even further and places it in the context of a realignment of the global axis.
We hear how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ‘right’ in warning against Iran, but his coalition just may obstruct efforts to solve the conflict once and for all.
‘We need new politics in order to defeat Iran,’ said Goodman.
So this week, we ask Dr. Micah Goodman, what matters now.”
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