Episode 536 - "Greater Israel" Does Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek)
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek, from BreakThrough News, reports from Beirut on Israel's territorial expansion into Lebanon, the mass displacement of 20% of the population, & how Israelis running the Gaza playbook yet again. Hot off her viral takedown of Piers Morgan, she breaks down the "will you condemn" double standard, unpacks the diverse opinions Lebanese have about Hezbollah & normalization with Israel, and debunks all the hasbara the Ellisons see fit to print. (Note that this was recorded before AOC statement re no longer supporting Iron Dome funding, and her subsequent reframing that Israel can fund it's own Iron Dome, which she described as "critical to keep innocent civilians safe.")
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:00.0 | The question that never comes up in these shows, by the way, |
| 0:02.5 | is why we shouldn't be intervening against Israel. |
| 0:05.8 | No, there should be military intervention. |
| 0:07.6 | There should be. |
| 0:08.4 | Israel needs to be fought. |
| 0:09.6 | Like, they have so much weaponry in such a big army. |
| 0:12.0 | The only way to stop them. |
| 0:13.5 | Well, actually, I mean, the U.S. could stop them by just, like, turning off the tab. |
| 0:16.7 | But even then, I think someone would have to fight them. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah. But even then, I think someone would have to fight them. It's an enormous pleasure to have journalist Rania Collick returning to bad faith podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | You know her as a journalist at Breakthrough News and also likely from her viral incredible takedown at Pierce Morgan just last week. Welcome back, Rania. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. What a wonderful introduction. It's really good to see you, Brie. It's always such a pleasure, especially because, Ronnie, as we were just talking about a little bit before we started recording, you are actually giving us this report from Lebanon. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, yeah, I'm speaking to you from Lebanon. |
| 1:26.7 | I live in Beirut, but I also, like, I'm from the mountains, so I've kind of been between the two places because Bayruits really intense and stressful right now. |
| 1:29.6 | And so it's just been a crack. I can't believe we're a month into this. And I can talk about like the political scene of what's happening |
| 1:35.0 | here. I can talk about what it's like to be on the ground. But one thing I haven't really shared, |
| 1:39.3 | and I don't want to make this about me because there's people who are, I mean, I'm a privileged person here. |
| 1:43.5 | There's people who are suffering immensely. They've been displaced from their homes. Their homes have been destroyed. They've lost family. They've been injured themselves. There's, you know, over 1,200 people have been killed. But just on like a basic level, you know, I watched Gaza happen and I'm not, there's parts of Lebanon that are being treated like Gaza and I'm saying I'm experiencing personally the Gaza model, but just being peripheral to that has been so |
| 2:06.6 | stressful. I've never experienced this most stress in my entire life. Like, I don't know if this is too |
| 2:12.4 | much information. I don't really care at this point. I got my period like 20 days late because I was so stressed out, |
| 2:18.8 | which sounds like, oh, like that really sucks, but so did a lot of other women I'm friends with. |
| 2:24.3 | It's like the things this does to your body, you go into survival mode and stop like functioning |
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