I'm doing a substack live on Wednesday. I enjoy doing these, especially when you could get a person

on top of the news and you could hash it out, chop it up. I'm struggling to come up with a third

piece of diner lingo, Adam and Eve on a raft. Anyway, my guest is Sam Stein. He's the managing

editor of the bulwark, and I watch a lot of his videos where he talks to people in the bulwark, and now I'm taking him out of his bulwark zone, his MSNBC zone.

And I'm inviting him and you to Substack live.

If you don't follow me on Substack already, please do.

I also have the gist list every day.

And it's a way to join me as I join with some of the more interesting people in the news today, Sam Stein, who's a long-time friend

of mine. I haven't talked to him in many years, though I've been hearing from him as has,

as he's been covering, oh, some of the let us say excesses of the Trump administration.

3 p.m. All times Eastern Standard Wednesday.

It's Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's The Gist. I'm Mike Peska.

I'm going to do a short segment here at the top of the show because we have a long show today

and it's with one of the best thinkers and talkers on the subject of Israel. He's

Haviv Rettigur, and he's a Zionist, he's Israeli, he's also an American, he also knows

a hell of a lot. This interview will displease the many anti-Zionists that I hear from frequently

in the audience, But that's okay,

because he says things that are true, and when they're not true, he tells you this is his

opinion and lays out his thinking. I think it's all very, very useful. And I need something

useful because there are so many stories in and around Israel and Gaza that confuse me. And you'll see we'll get to one

the story of Israelis firing on people, desperate people trying to get food. Ger tackles this

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