Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin and go to Israel to speak with Ori Goldberg, an Israeli author, academic and political commentator,

a former university professor who has written extensively on Iran, Israel, and the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East.

He is currently an independent Israeli political analyst.

He writes regularly for New Lines Magazine,

where his latest articles include Laronjani shows Israel is addicted to pointless, flashy assassinations,

and Israel can't maintain a long war with Iran and the US isn't

interested we'll discuss what life is like in Tel Aviv having to repeatedly

retreat to bomb shelters while scrambling for food at supermarkets but according to

Auri 90% of Israelis support this misbegotten war and their long-serving corrupt and eagomaniacal leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

Then, with Trump's war on Iran seen by many as a way to distract detention from the Epstein files, we'll examine the FBI DOJ cover-up underway,

protecting Trump from whatever is in the 3 million files

that Patel and Bondi are hiding or perhaps have already shredded.

Joining us for an update is Nina Burley,

a senior editor at the New Republic, best-selling author,

documentary producer and publisher of the Substack American Freak Show, a professor at New York University's

Arthur Jay Carter Journalism Institute. She's written seven books, the latest of which include

Golden Handcuffs, The secret history of Trump's women,

and she has a new novel, Turnaround Don't Drown. She's the producer of a documentary series

on Apple TV, Epstein Shadow, and we will discuss her article at American Freak Show, The Epstein

Accords Part 1, The Road to Riyadh.

And before we begin with Trump having bombed seven countries and started a war against Iran,

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