About this episode
The episode discusses Israel's strategic decisions in relation to American interests and features a cultural commentary on a controversial skit.
Calibrate your expectations to reality not to the media frenzy. This is the Middle East. Things are never as bad as the alarmists say and they are never as good as we would like. Mike, Gadi and guest analyst, Channel 14’s Tamir Morag, look at the pros and cons of the emerging deal, and ask how Israel should conduct itself vis-à-vis the American interests. Also in this episode: the skit about “Bibists” that created a cultural storm in Israel, and how the deep state operatives tried (and probably failed) to block Netanyahu’s candidate for Head of the Mossad.
People in this episode
Hosts: Mike, Gadi
Guest: Tamir Morag
Topics covered
- Israel
- American interests
- Middle East
- political analysis
- cultural commentary
Keywords
- Israel
- Middle East
- American interests
- politics
- Netanyahu
- Mossad
- cultural storm
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Channel 14, Mossad
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