Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Watch Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast   To contact us, sign up for updates, and access transcripts, visit: https://arkmedia.org/   Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor   Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor   As we wait in anticipation of a hostage deal, we welcome President Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, Rep. Mike Waltz, to the podcast,...

Watch Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast   To contact us, sign up for updates , and access transcripts , visit: https://arkmedia.org/   Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor   Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor   The collapse of Assad’s regime in Syria has created a new geopolitical reality, in which Turkey has emerged as a dominant regional power, bot...

Watch Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast To contact us, sign up for updates , and access transcripts , visit: https://arkmedia.org/ Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor   Yesterday in Washington D.C., former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s funeral service was held at the National Cathedral.    The former president’s po...

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8LqOg69K8 To contact us, sign up for updates , and access transcripts , visit:   https://arkmedia.org/ Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor   A few days ago, we all learned of new details and viewed footage from one of Israel's most high-risk and complex commando operations. The operati...

🔗 Watch video episodes of Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast 🔗 Visit our website to sign up for updates, access transcripts and more: https://arkmedia.org/ 🔗 Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor 🔗 Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor The string of Israeli successes against Hezbollah — culminating in the killing of Hassan Nasrallah — last September w...

🔗 Subscribe to watch video episodes of Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast 🔗 Visit our website to sign up for updates, access transcripts and more: https://arkmedia.org/ 🔗 Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor 🔗 Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor Last Thursday, The New York Times published a long investigative piece titled “Israel Loosened Its Rules...

  🔗Subscribe to watch video episodes of Call me Back on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcast 🔗Visit our website to sign up for updates, access transcripts and more: https://arkmedia.org/ 🔗Dan on X: https://x.com/dansenor 🔗Dan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dansenor On thousands of street corners in Israel today, there are banners that read: “bring the hostages back from...

Over the past week, we have seen headline after headline, indicating that Israel and Hamas appear to be closer than ever to a ceasefire and hostage deal.  According to reports, the agreement would take place in phases, and would include a halt in fighting, an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, and a surge in aid to Gaza. The final phase would include the release of any remaini...

Was 1929 a harbinger of October 7th, 2023?   August 23rd, 1929, nearly 100 years ago, marks the day of what is referred to in history as the 1929 Arab Riots: a wave of pogroms waged against the Jews living in British Mandatory Palestine. These pogroms began in Jerusalem and quickly spread to other cities and towns, including Hebron, Safed, Jaffa, and Haifa. The riots had largely subsided by August...

Many would consider the term ‘death factory’ to be associated with another era, one that is long in the past.   But reports have emerged from inside Sednaya prison, bringing to light the horrific death camp and torture complex that was operated by the Assad regime until the regime’s collapse, just one week ago. It has been reported that 96,000 people have disappeared into Syria’s vast network of s...

Over the past few months, and especially in recent days, we have seen Iran’s decades-old proxy system and strategy collapsing.    What are Iran’s options?    To help us understand how Iran is dealing with this crisis, our guest is Raz Zimmt, one of Israel’s top experts on Iran.   Raz Zimmt is a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a research fellow at the Cen...

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE:    Please note that as of our Thursday episode this week, we will be updating Call Me Back’s cover art. This will not be a dramatic change, but as to not miss out on any new episodes due to this change, please keep an eye out.    TODAY’S EPISODE:   As we witness Iran’s proxy system unravelling, there may be an opportunity for a new hostage deal and temporary ceasefire in Gaza. ...

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE:    Please note that as of our Thursday episode this week, we will be updating Call Me Back’s cover art. This will not be a dramatic change, but as to not miss out on any new episodes due to this change, please keep an eye out.    TODAY’S EPISODE:    A lot has unfolded in the Middle East over the past 48 hours, with the fall of the Assad regime. Nadav Eyal returns to the podcast...

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE: The Jewish Food Society is a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and celebrate Jewish culinary heritage in order to deepen connections to Jewish life. As part of their annual fundraising drive, the Jewish Food Society is holding an auction to support their work. To place a bid on any of the items up for auction (including a lunch with Dan Senor), visit: https://givebutter.com...

HOUSEKEEPING NOTE:    The Jewish Food Society is a nonprofit whose mission is to preserve and celebrate Jewish culinary heritage in order to deepen connections to Jewish life. As part of their annual fundraising drive, the Jewish Food Society is holding an auction to support their work. To place a bid on any of the items up for auction (including a lunch with Dan Senor), visit: https://givebutter....

On October 8th, 2023, Hezbollah joined the war against Israel. Now, nearly fifteen months later, a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon may be imminent.  As of this evening in Israel, the Israeli security cabinet has officially approved a ceasefire deal with Lebanon. Under the proposal, Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon within 60 days, while Hezbollah forces would relocate farther north,...

This past Thursday, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The warrants were issued on charges of attempting to orchestrate starvation as a method of warfare, and crimes against humanity, of “murder and persecution”, in the ICC's terms. A warrant was also issued for Hamas lea...

On an almost daily basis, Hezbollah fires hundreds of missiles and rockets into Israel’s North. And yet there seems to be progress being made in negotiations towards a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. If we are approaching a deal, what does it look like? How will it be enforced? What are the political forces shaping the deal - in Jerusalem, in Tehran, and in Washington D.C., as the U.S. tra...

Well before October 7th 2023, we were already witnessing too many examples of the worst in higher education with a lack of diversity of ideas and debate. Numerous U.S. college campuses had become intellectual and ideological monocultures. Then, immediately following October 7th, we saw something much darker, but perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised.   Many of us lament what is happening in hig...

In recent weeks, with the IDF focusing most of its attention on the Northern front, the media has been paying less attention to what’s actually happening in Gaza. What would constitute the Gaza War being over? Is there any progress on a Day After Plan for Gaza? What is the status of hostage negotiations and other efforts to free the hostages? What would the future (medium-term/long-term) Israeli p...

Watch the full conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTiuntsCs8   Regardless of who you voted for in the U.S. presidential election, many of us are continuing to attempt to unpack what happened in this extraordinary election. There has been a lot of analysis of the various demographic shifts.    But less attention has been paid to Jewish voters and the role they played - as wel...

Last night in Amsterdam, dozens of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans suffered a pogrom in the streets of Amsterdam, following the soccer team’s match against Ajax. According to most accounts, this ambush was planned and coordinated in advance.  And according to Israeli authorities, 10 Israelis were injured throughout the night, as mobs of antisemitic rioters ambushed, chased, and attacked the Israeli soccer f...

Last night in Israel, in what came as a shock to many Israelis, Prime Minister Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.    At the same time, there was a Red Wave that swept through U.S. politics.   As Israelis and Americans simultaneously process these two 180 degree pivots in their respective political systems, we are joined by two CallMeBack regulars to discuss both stories:   Nadav Eyal i...

With two days before the US presidential election, there is increasing (and surprising) speculation from within the Israeli security establishment about whether Iran will attack Israel in the days ahead. In today’s episode, we try to unpack what’s going on with Iran-Israel and also a possible ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah. We also discuss our recent visit to an Ivy League university...

WATCH THE CONVERSATION ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/-MGg6Oe5_7A Micah Goodman is on the speed-dial of a number of Israeli political leaders – from Right to Left, but especially on the Center-Left and the Center-Right. And Micah has been synthesizing how Israelis view the war with Iran and the U.S.-Israel relationship. Micah is a polymath, a podcaster and one of Israel’s most influential public int...