SPECIAL REPORT!!! What’s Next for Israel + A Conversation with Malcolm Nance

Mea Culpa welcomes Nathan Thrall, a Jerusalem-based journalist and the author of “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.” The former director of the Arab-Israeli project, Thrall spent over a decade with the International Crisis Group. His reported features, analyses, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He has been described as “one of the best-informed and most trenchant observers of the conflict” (Financial Times), “an American analyst with a severe allergy to conventional wisdom” (Time), and the author of a series of articles “that have defined the new intellectual and political parameters for what is increasingly recognized as Israel-Palestine’s one-state (or post-two-state) reality” (The New York Review of Books). Thrall has been on a book tour outside of Israel while his wife and daughter remain in Jerusalem and in many ways, he must internalize what’s happening in a state of exile as he Zooms in from one interview to the next. In the days immediately preceding the attacks, Thrall spoke to the New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Forward, and Time Magazine. By the time he joined us on Mea Culpa, Thrall it seems had enough. So, I must warn you that the conversation you are about to hear is extremely emotional. It's impossible not to feel this passionate when you are witnessing your country and the people who live inside it come apart at the seams. What you are about to hear is the sound of two people coming to terms with heartbreak, loss, and the end of a dream. What comes next is the operative question.