{"podcast":{"title":"Christopher Lochhead Follow Your Different™","slug":"christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792","podcast_index_feed_id":325792,"rss_url":"https://lochhead.com/feed/podcast/","website_url":"https://lochhead.com/","image_url":"https://lochhead.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/lochheadartwork.png","author":"Christopher Lochhead","episode_count":300,"summary":"Christopher Lochhead | Follow Your Different is pioneer in real dialogue podcasts. “The best business podcast” – Podcast Magazine “The worst business podcast” – Neil Pearlberg","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T18:22:21.907991+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792"},"episode":{"title":"412 Fighting In Gaza & Lebanon: Through an IDF Tank Commander’s Eyes with Benaya Cherlow","slug":"412-fighting-in-gaza-lebanon-through-an-idf-tank-commander-s-eyes-with-benaya-cherlow","published_at":"2025-10-13T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/412-fighting-in-gaza-lebanon-through-an-idf-tank-commander-s-eyes-with-benaya-cherlow","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792","url":"https://lochhead.com/fyd-benaya-cherlow-2025/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/legends_and_losers/content.blubrry.com/legends_and_losers/412_FYD-Benaya_Cherlow_2025.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different , we sit down with Captain Benaya Cherlow , an Israeli-American army officer, strategist, and veteran of both Gaza and Lebanon. In the aftermath of October 7th, when the world witnessed astounding levels of violence and heartbreak, conversations about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have often focused on the political, religious, and strategic dimensions. Yet, beneath the headlines are deeply personal stories of loss, identity, and the moral quandaries faced by those on the frontlines. This dialogue traverses the emotional aftermath of tragedy, the complexities of identity in a region at war, and the indelible lessons learned amid chaos, with the hope of peace as a guiding light. You’re listening to Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different . We are the real dialogue podcast for people with a different mind. So get your mind in a different place, and hey ho, let’s go. Bearing Witness to Evil and Wrestling with Identity Christopher opens the conversation by acknowledging his own pain in the wake of October 7th, having lost close friends to acts of violence and identifying deeply with the Jewish community through family and lifelong friendships. This sense of shared heartbreak becomes the backdrop for his discussion with Captain Cherlow, a man whose background embodies the intersection of cultures and conflict. Born to a Lebanese-Jewish mother from Beirut and an American father, himself descended from Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans, Captain Cherlow describes his upbringing as a “crisis of identity.” Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, he straddles the worlds of his ancestors, fighting on behalf of one homeland in the land of the other. The experience of entering Lebanese villages as an ID…","meta_description":"On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different , we sit down with Captain Benaya Cherlow , an Israeli-American army officer, strategist, a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6051,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/episodes/412-fighting-in-gaza-lebanon-through-an-idf-tank-commander-s-eyes-with-benaya-cherlow/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/christopher-lochhead-follow-your-different-325792/412-fighting-in-gaza-lebanon-through-an-idf-tank-commander-s-eyes-with-benaya-cherlow.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}