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Decision Time In The North - with Matti Friedman — Call Me Back - with Dan Senor from overcast.fm
This past weekend we saw a major and brazen escalation against Israel by Hezbollah. This war front is not new, but it will now come into much sharper focus. And with the slaughter of Druze children, we have received a number of questions about Israel’s Druze community in Israel’s North, as well as questions about the options for Israeli decision-makers now. To help us unpack all of this, we are joined by Matti Friedman, who is one of the most thoughtful writers when it comes to all matters related to Israel, the broader Middle East, and also trends in the world of journalism. He is a columnist for The Free Press: https://www.thefp.com/ Matti’s most recent book is called “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai.” Before that he published “Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel,” and before that “Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War.” Matti’s army service included tours in Lebanon. His work as a reporter has taken him from Israel to Lebanon, and other hotspots across the…
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Dear websites: Stop asking me to sign in with Google, especially when I have no reason to sign into your site. I thought we already learned our lesson on centralized authentication and it was supposed to be "Don't outsource authentication unless you have no other choice". I guess I should interpret the ubiquity of Google sign-in as confirmation that we as a society have learned absolutely nothing from the various centralization of authentication failures we've experienced over the last decade.

No love,

Me

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