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Reporting from northern Israel, Aaron sits down with two unidentified Israeli army officers and Druze community leader Tamir Murad to explore the threats facing the country’s northern frontier. From drones changing the battlefield to the plight of Syria’s Druze, their conversations reveal how closely war touches everyday life. As one Israeli army officer puts it, “There’s no distance between the front line and home. Home is the front line.”
01:10 — Tamir Morad on Israel’s Druze
02:50 — Four generations of service
07:28 — October 7
11:02 — Hezbollah rockets and tunnels
13:55 — Majdal Shams and Druze identity
17:29 — Violence in Suwayda
25:06 — A Druze state?
36:28 — Israeli officers on the 1973 war
39:57 — Lessons from Ukraine
42:07 — Hezbollah’s drones
50:02 — AI on the battlefield
54:15 — Israel’s Syrian buffer zone
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