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The Next Level

Testimony from Tel Aviv (with Blake Flayton)

The Next Level

The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Columnist Blake Flayton speaks with Tim from Tel Aviv, Israel amidst the aftermath of Hamas’ terrorist attacks. Listen to his perspective on the politics both in Israel and abroad, as well as his opinion on why thing are forever changed in the region.

Watch Tim interview Blake on The Bulwark's official YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/gUsWMImJyVI

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the next level Sunday interview. I'm your host Tim Miller. We have a good interview today from Blake Fleeton who is

0:15.4

coming at us from Israel. Blake is a activist that has written for the bulwark in the

0:20.7

past about Israel and Jewish issues.

0:23.4

He was a liberal campus activist at my alma mater, George Washington,

0:27.9

and was speaking out about anti-Semitism

0:31.0

that he saw among his peers, even among those within the progressive movement.

0:35.3

So we talked about that.

0:36.1

We talked about his experience in Tel Aviv, what he's seeing on the ground, the

0:40.8

massive fuckups of the BB Netanyahu regime, the response from Joe Biden

0:45.8

and others in America. It's a very good conversation. It was not what we were

0:48.8

planning for this week, of course. I had to change the schedule. We've kind of a funny guest that hopefully we'll get to in the weeks ahead,

0:56.0

but that to me just didn't feel appropriate given the horrors of what is happening in Israel.

1:02.0

And in the meantime, I was also called in to do the circus this week on Showtime.

1:07.0

And so we had to move around our schedule a little bit.

1:09.0

We're taping this on Wednesday morning.

1:12.0

And so obviously, there will be events that occur in the coming

1:16.1

days but I think that this is an evergreen conversation that you will enjoy if you're listening

1:21.2

to this on Sunday morning or even on Monday you can get the app

1:24.3

tune into Showtime 7 o'clock eastern I will give you a dispatch from Iowa and New Hampshire

1:31.3

we'll talk about the Republican race

1:33.9

and how that has been or has not been impacted by Israel.

1:37.3

It's a great show.

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