There's a lot of noise and very little signal out of Israel. There's a lot of propaganda,

a lot of misinformation, disinformation, and bad media reports.

What's actually happening on the ground and where does it head?

I'm Eric Erikson.

I'll explain to you the state of play in Israel. To hear the special

episode, subscribe to the Eric Eric Eric Erickson podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your

podcasts. As we're preparing to publish this show we got

breaking news FDX founder Sam Bankman Freed has been found guilty on all charges

including multiple counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

It's kind of funny, he's a big Democrat donor.

And there's also talk about, wasn't he the guy who was like offering Trump,

hypothetically, billions of dollars not to run for president was at him hypothetically yeah it was that was that was that was what was going it was never confirmed but people were saying hey he might have offered like how much would you like it to not run for president I think there's a bunch of people that were close to him

that actually said that he was offering that something.

Okay, so this is breaking news right now.

The other story we were planning on leading off with

is that a judge in, I'm sorry in Connecticut, overturned a Democrat

primary after a video emerged of ballot stuffing and the interesting thing about this is that

it's not a victory.

The general election is still happening and it is presumed that the

candidate who should not be the candidate on the ballot is still going to win.

So this is a really really interesting story.

We'll talk about that. Plus the

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