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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C.,

and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

Hello and welcome to Need to Know in which we sit down with a newsmaker every week.

I'm David Rothkoff, your host.

This week I am pleased to say that our newsmaker,

news interpreter friend is Alon Pinkas, noted Israeli diplomat, advisor to Israeli governments,

and now well-known commentator, a contributor to the New Republic and the many other publications

here and around the world,

who is coming to us today, not incidentally, from Tel Aviv. How are you doing a lot?

I'm fine, David. Thank you for having me. As always, I'm happy to be on your podcast in whatever iteration or version.

I do need to propose your introduction. I do need to give you a fair warning that since I'm

right in central Tel Aviv, there could be a siren any given moment. If that occurs, I say this to you and to Riley,

the producer, I will not disconnect. I will just move 10 seconds with the iPad to a secure location,

quote unquote, which is the bedroom, and we will continue there.

But I'm doing fine, even though I have to say it's big, you know, I'm not usually a

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