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Chris Riback's ConversationsConversation: Dan Perry of 'Ask Questions Later' on Israel-HamasHere is a recording from my live video with Dan Perry of “Ask Questions Later”.About Dan Perry: As regular CRN readers and listeners know, among other roles, Dan led the Associated Press coverage of Israel and the Middle East — from Pakistan through north Africa — for much of the 2010s, and before that he led AP in Europe and Africa. Today Dan lives in Tel Aviv and writes the excellent Substack “Ask Questions Later”. His columns appear in Newsweek and The Forward, among other places. He appears frequently on both Al Jazeera and the Israel-based i24 global television n...
2025-01-1635 min
Chris Riback's ConversationsDan Perry: Israel, Hamas, and The Big PictureI first met Dan Perry in Romania 1990. He was the AP Bureau Chief, and I was freelancing for the summer. There’s no one I’ve met who better understands collectively Israel, the Middle East, and the U.S.So after the Hamas attack and Israel’s declaration of war, I knew whom to call.Dan was awoken on Oct. 7 “by rocket fire over central Tel Aviv, with the Iron Dome system zapping the incoming missiles out of the sky, leaving debris to rain down on nearby streets. It is now evening, and air raid...
2023-10-0824 min
Chris RibackDan Perry, AP Jerusalem Bureau Chief and Acting Middle East Editor (12-16-12)The headlines from the Middle East don't seem to stop. In Egypt, a vote on a draft constitution that many in the opposition felt would be anything but constitutional. In Israel, just weeks after violent battles in Gaza, continuing worry over instability across the region and upcoming elections where the left
and center-left struggles to find a candidate. And we haven't touched Syria, Iran or Jordan. How to make sense of all the movement? Dan Perry is AP Jerusalem
Bureau Chief and interim Middle East Editor, and he joins us now from Israel.
2012-12-2809 minChris RibackDan Perry, AP Jerusalem Bureau Chief & Interim Middle East Editor (5-12-12)As if enough wasn’t already happening in and around Israel -- internal calls for new elections, tensions with Iran, a pending Presidential vote in Egypt -- this week, a stunner: Just days after calling for early elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he had formed a new coalition government -- not with parties to the right of his, but with the centrist Kadima Party. The move has, once again, reshuffled everything in the always shifting world of Israel politics. It’s at times like these that we turn to our man on the ground, Dan Perry, AP Jerusalem Bureau Chie...
2012-12-2308 min