The “Breaking Ranks” Edition

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon

—Boogie Unbound—

Former IDF Chief of Staff and former Defense Minister Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon’s flatly asserts that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Gaza policy amounts to ethnic cleansing.

—Putting the Press in Suppression and Depression—

A Knesset declaratory motion resolves that the government will no longer advertise in Ha’aretz, after its publisher Amos Schoken presses the world to sanction and boycott Israel on account of its “war crimes.”

—“ALL HELL TO PAY?”—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the social media post by once and future President Donald Trump calling for the return of all hostages by the time he enters the Oval Office.

Plus, Omer Neutra and an encouraging word about El Al.