Hey, I'm Ryan Grimm and in today's episode we're going to be talking about the dramatic

rightward shift in the Israeli government and I'm joined from Tel Aviv by Avner Gavar

Yahu, whose co-director of breaking the silence, which is an organization that gives voice

to Israelis who've served in the military or as part of the occupation and want to share

what they've witnessed and participated in with the rest of the public.

Avner, thanks for joining me and welcome to Deconstructed.

Great to be here.

And for folks who don't know, this podcast was founded back in 2018 by my former colleague

Mehdi Hassan and I wanted to start by playing pieces of a monologue he did for his program

on MSNBC, which is cleverly named the Mehdi Hassan Show.

And I want to get you, Avner, to elaborate on what Mehdi's talking about here at Zach.

Can you play the first little bit?

But while everyone is focusing on America's governing shenanigans, Israel just swore

in what many are calling the country's most right-wing government ever led once again by

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

And if you think BB is right-wing or extreme, some of his new coalition colleagues, some

of those new Israeli government ministers, make our own House GOP caucus look like a UC

Berkeley acapella group.

Case in point, it's Ma Ben Givir, who we've told you about before.

He was appointed National Security Minister.

Ben Givir is a student of the late anti-Arab rabbi Meerkahana, who once called free ban on

Jewish Arab intermarriage and founded a political party that the United States wants designated

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