ISRAELI TRAGEDY & AMERICAN FANTASY

While the Israeli opposition to Netanyahu is trying to leverage the tragedy of the escaping hostages, shot mistakenly by the IDF, the U.S. is stepping up its meddling in Israeli politics, trying to break Netanyahu's coalition on the rocks of its pie-in-the-sky postwar plans. Mike Doran and Gadi Taub explain why very serious calculations are involved on all sides. Also in this episode: why the Houthis are a bigger danger than either Washington or Jerusalem are admitting.