JL;DR SUMMARY Tel Aviv-based journalist Neri Zilber hosts a discussion with Michael Koplow and Shira Efron on the precarious state of Israeli politics, focusing on Prime Minister Netanyahu's strategies amid military tensions in Gaza and the looming threat of conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

• At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
• This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
• Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
• But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
• And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.