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WARNING: This episode contains nuance in the discussion of subjects usually left to screaming and violence!

This week we get into a bunch of stuff around Israel that we normally avoid. Settlements. Blame versus responsibility. The definition of colonialism. The social media posts of IDF soldiers. It’s a calm, nuanced conversation with Shaiel Ben-Ephraim. No, really.

• Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace
• Why no one talks about what comes next
• Israel loses Matthew
• America and Israel’s “special relationship”
• When Bush (senior) stood up to Israel
• Going down the colonialism rabbit hole
• The social media output of IDF soldiers on the ground in Gaza and Lebanon
• “There’s terrible things they’re not taping.”
• Explaining Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
• How right wingers paralyze the Israeli government
• Israel is eyeing settlements in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon which is, in fact, colonialism
• The difference between blame and responsibility
• The episode is not anti-Israel, so save your letters and phone calls.

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim Explains Israel

The History Of The Land Of Israel Podcast

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How’s that sanctions regime working out for the U.S. and Russia? This week on the show, we have Stephanie Baker, a senior writer at Bloomberg, to try to answer the question. She just published Punishing Putin, a book all about it.

• What’s a Russian oligarch like in person?
• How America’s sanction regime against Russia works
• The nuclear warfare of it all
• Do Putin’s “red lines” mean anything?
• The complex nature of the world’s oil economy
• What are the limits of economic power?
• Where are the semiconductors coming from?
• What western technology tell us about Russia’s war machines
• RT
• Worshiping World War II
• This is the end of globalization
• The war doesn’t end without the end of Putin
• What to do with Russia’s bank reserves?
• Hungary?

He Had 5 Followers on YouTube. It Landed Him in Jail, Where He Died.

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Do you ever feel you’re living in a world where all the good stuff happened to the previous generation? Does it seem like America’s best days are behind it? Were you born into an empire just as it began to collapse?

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We’d like to tell you about King Arthur.

The story of Arthur has been told hundreds of times in everything from song to story to movie. That makes it a pretty big deal when someone can tell the story of the ancient British king with freshness and originality.

Lev Grossman, author of the well-known The Magicians series, has done just that with The Bright Sword. While the characters may be familiar in large part, Sword will still keep you guessing all the way through.

Angry Planet got a chance to speak with Grossman who shared insights into the book, how it was written and Arthur himself. Take a listen.

• “These stories about a lost golden age are a way of processing grief…grief, not over an apocalypse, but over massive change…I think that’s what stories like King Arthur are about.”
• We can’t stop talking about Station 11 for some reason
• Yes, Excalibur is the best Arthur adaptation
• Why the fay are important
• Radical social change and the apocalypse

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