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David Wemnick, editor of the New Yorker and host of the New Yorker Radio Hour, heard Saturday and Sunday on WNIC and public radio stations around the country.

He's recently backed from an intense reporting trip to Israel, which he's been covering for many years.

His article is called Israel Zones of Denial amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran and largely

ignored devastation in Gaza. A question lurks, what is the country becoming? David, thanks,

as always for coming on. I don't think it's ever been to talk about the Middle East before,

despite your long history covering it. It's usually more about domestic

U.S. politics, which is usually more of Arlene here, not international. So can you give

our listeners a bit of your background on covering this? I'd be happy to. I covered Moscow. I was

lived in Moscow for four years in the late 80s and early 90s and when I got to the New Yorker and

I started making trips to Israel and Palestine with some frequency of and so over the last

God at least 25 years I've been writing

reporting pieces from there I've never been posted there,

but I've been there many, many times, and it's a subject that's very close to me and very painful at the moment.

I see your first profile, Benjamin Netanyahu in 1998.

That's right. In fact, you know, Netanyahu obviously won't talk to me anymore after that profile.

It was, that profile was kind of big news in Israel because I spoke at length with him and with Netanyahu's father

and got a very deep sense of that family and their politics.

And I'm afraid that a lot of it has come to fruition now in the most tragic way.

So to the part of your subhead citing the the, quote, largely ignored devastation in Gaza, you write in the article, quote, the horrific scale of suffering is nearly invisible in the Israeli media.

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