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The Bulwark Podcast

David French: Israel's Humanitarian Obligations

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Gaza is strewn with rubble, the war's end is nowhere in sight, and an entirely predictable humanitarian disaster is unfolding. With daily reports of starvation and malnutrition, Israel must provide a systematic and orderly distribution of large amounts of aid to stem the crisis—and stave off a Mad Max situation. Meanwhile, our abdication on USAID has led to human suffering elsewhere in the world, and Trump's supporters still seem more preoccupied with trans people in women's sports and a swimmer who came in 5th place. Plus, Trump's betrayal of the voters who fervently believed he would expose a global pedophile ring, how being gay has evolved into a 'super sin' among evangelicals, and reading the tea leaves on whether Trump is really getting tougher on Putin or if it's just a mood swing.

David French joins Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

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0:23.6

For the rest of time. Yes. Okay, good. Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast.

0:44.2

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

0:45.4

I'm delighted to welcome back, one of the faves and opinion columnist from New York Times.

0:49.6

He's also co-host of the legal podcast, Advisory Opinions, served in the Iraq War where he was Ward of the Bronze Star. It's David French. How you doing, man? Kim, so good to be with you. You also have the Bullwark Bronze Star. You know, I can't give you the Gold Star. You know, it's a competitive category for the Bullwark Cup. Well, you know, you can't aim too high. We had a little sad news last night. I want to

1:12.4

start with and I want to talk a little bit about that happened to New York and Gaza and then we'll kind

1:15.9

to get into some political stuff. Four people were killed in a mass shooting in Manhattan last night,

1:20.2

including an immigrant police officer. The gunman in the note claims to have CTE and was targeting

1:26.5

the NFL HQ.

1:31.3

You know, sometimes you don't know what more you can say about these sort of things.

1:33.1

I did feel it merited mentioning.

1:40.0

And the CTE thing, which, you know, was kind of like a moral panic in the country 10 years ago,

1:45.6

has sort of dissipated and as a football fan that I understand why, right?

1:48.8

You don't want to think about the moral implications about what's happening to the brain to everybody that you're watching for entertainment.

1:51.5

But, you know, I'm not to alibi this horrible crime, obviously,

1:55.0

but I had a friend from Colorado who was a really good football player.

2:00.1

I actually did like making a training camp

2:02.1

in the pros and dealt with CTE and has, it's really been a lifeowner for him, just to be blunt

2:08.6

about it. So I don't know. There's something there in addition to kind of all the other stuff

2:13.0

we always talk about about mental health and gun safety, et cetera. Do you have any thoughts

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