I'm Aiton Weinstein.

And I'm Naor Menninger.

And you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.

This podcast is made in collaboration with the Jewish Journal.

This morning, the sun rose.

Birds were chirping and the Middle East was still turbulent.

Yes, even when Israel is not making headlines on CNN, things still tend to get pretty messy down here.

Or up here. We may not always feel it in our rose-colored bubble of Tel Aviv, but the wheels of evil forces keep spinning, enemies are conspiring against us,

and we're always prepared for the next war, which might be the last.

It's in times like these that it's good to have someone around who can actually understand the Middle East,

someone who's devoted his life to explain Israel's complexities, someone who can provide

us a little bit of context, someone like Neil Lazarus. Neal Lazarus is one of the most popular

Israeli public speakers out there. He's traveling the world talking about Israel, BDS, and Middle

Eastern politics. His YouTube videos are all over the internet and his seminars are

packed. We're so glad to have him here on the show with us today to talk about Israel's

current situation in the Middle East. Thank you for having me. That was quite an introduction.

I feel important there. That's the, that's the idea. So tell us a little bit about what's going on right now as in terms of

we've all seen the i mean we heard about tunnels in gaza right and and and we were used to that

and we're we're used to terrorists popping up like prairie dogs in the south and then all of a sudden

or butchers all of a sudden out of nowhere

there's tunnels up north absolutely look we've known that it's been going on now for about three

or four years the reality is we've been keeping quiet uh i think chisbola was taken a little bit

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