The “Crossing Lines” Edition

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Looking for the extra segment? Heights and Rights U.S. President Donald Trump declares that the Golan belongs to Israel, after three decades of Israel trying to negotiate it back into Syrian hands. Will history remember this as something that matters, like PM Netanyahu says, or is it destined to be a forgotten footnote? Scorched by the Bern Bernie Sanders speaks out against “apartheid-like conditions in Palestine.” Just after we got used to millennial democrats harshly criticizing Israel, do we need also to get used to nearly octogenarian democrats harshly criticizing Israel? The Feynman-Levy Conjecture A feminist, social-democratic party with no position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may emerge from upcoming elections as king-makers. Is that a good thing? Can AIPAC Save America From Itself? For our most extremely generous Patreon supporters, we discuss in our extra-special, special extra segment the big AIPAC cotillion, paying special attention to three remarkable essays about it, one in the Times, one in the Forward, and the third in Haaretz (by our own Allison Kaplan-Sommer). Music Post-punk, power pop by The Driers: Porchlight Contagious Delayed Sad Party