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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

PTFO - Why a Soccer Super-Fan Taken Hostage by Hamas Is Still a 'Ray of Hope' in Israel

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Hersh Goldberg-Polin was devoted to an Israeli football club fighting for peace. Supporters of its rival include far-right Israeli politicians like a national-security minister hellbent on war — and a racist mob. If you want help understanding the Israel-Hamas conflict, Hersh's abduction by terrorists is a window to the world. Correspondent Amos Barshad interviews his loved ones and finds a silver lining. (Read the companion article at The Lever) Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/R0IoouIfXNc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0

I was

1:05.0

like genuinely, genuinely fascinating,

1:08.0

but because I'm always mindful of the ways in which

1:11.0

sometimes, you know sports outlets outlets they just want to shoehorn

1:14.2

sports until like the serious news story and sometimes it just feels both

1:19.3

flimsy and forced in terms of the connection that they're drawing.

1:23.0

This one though does not feel that way to me.

1:27.0

I've reported on the way the sports and the politics interact for a long time and just for me as someone trying to

1:34.8

understand the news you know I've always felt like it's a way to get closer to

1:38.9

the way people actually interact with the news yes with this, with Israel, and these soccer teams

1:44.7

that we're going to talk about.

1:46.5

It's just what was on my mind.

1:48.4

Okay, so this has been on my mind for a very long time now, this basic dilemma.

1:56.0

What are we supposed to do on our show, which is technically a sports show,

2:01.0

about the biggest story in the world.

2:04.0

We are a newsroom, I say this tongue-in-cheekly sometimes,

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