204: We Didn't Cease The Fire, with Rania Khalek
Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast
Matt Lieb
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
Matt and Daniel are joined from Beirut by BreakThrough News journalist Rania Khalek to discuss hasbara hits of the 80s, the matryoshka doll of nested Israeli missile defense systems, and whether AOC’s tireless working is working, or just making us tired.
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| 0:00.0 | Mashwam hot bitch, |
| 0:03.6 | Aribe and coconut |
| 0:05.1 | We invented the cherry tomato |
| 0:08.0 | And weighs USG drives and the ironed |
| 0:10.8 | Oh Israeli salad, oozy stents and jopas orange rose |
| 0:14.4 | Micro chips is us |
| 0:16.0 | iPhone cameras us |
| 0:17.4 | Taco salads us |
| 0:18.8 | Podangamos us |
| 0:20.6 | Olive Garden us White foster us both our homoos us all the garden us white foster us zabra hamas hasvara |
| 0:26.6 | us hello everyone and welcome to bad hasbara still the world's most moral podcast after all these years |
| 0:36.0 | my name is matt lebe i will be your most moral co-host for this podcast. I'm Daniel Matte, and I'm still your other most moral co-host. You would think that something might have changed in two and a half years, but... Yeah, you could have gotten less moral. I could have gotten less moral. Someone else could have stepped up to try to take that number two spot. I mean, you're number one. You started this thing. Right. You would think that there'd at least be a competition for the silver medal. But no, I'm clearly far in away. The world's more moral. I think at this point, you've surpassed me in terms of moral. I think you are more moral. That's what I think. I think I'm slightly less moral than you. I'm not sure my head can fit that crown. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah, I think. I think I'm slightly less moral than you. |
| 1:11.9 | I'm not sure my head can fit that crown. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah, I mean, heavy as the head. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, heavy is the crown that wears the head. |
| 1:18.3 | You know what I mean? |
| 1:20.2 | If you love this podcast, give us five stars. |
| 1:24.3 | If you love opening banter as polished as this. |
| 1:27.6 | If you love the way we just start and the way we just start going and we don't even know |
| 1:33.5 | where we're going to go, we just start going. |
| 1:36.2 | Then give us five stars in a review on all of the podcast apps in which you listen to |
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