Matti Friedman and the Difficult Choices of War
On today’s episode of the Jewish Review of Books Podcast, Abe Socher was joined by journalist Matti Friedman.
Matti is the author of several excellent books about the Arab-Israeli Wars, including Pumpkinflowers, Spies of No Country, and, most recently, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. He is also a regular contributor to The Free Press.
He spoke with Abe about his latest review for the magazine of a controversial new book about the Gaza war by a reserve colonel. It’s an insightful and incisive conversation about the difficult moral and practical questions surrounding the war. You can listen with Spotify or with Apple Podcasts.
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