Hey, raise. Hello, Liz. I guess what we should say is hello listeners because that's who we're addressing

So we had here at ruin on some other episodes in the can that we had scheduled to come out but

After the events in the Middle East didn't seem like totally the right time for that

So we're actually gonna hold off on those and in the meantime

We thought we could unlock this episode. We did with

Noacle when from blowback podcast a while back

There is a lot of disinformation and noise and

fog of war people love using that phrase

There's also a lot of meta discussion about the right or the wrong way to talk about the situation in Gaza

We're gonna link to some of our episodes that we've done in the past in the description here

about the I guess I would say the hurdles to having honest conversations about the blockade of Gaza and

The history of the occupation in the West Bank that includes some of our conversations with Norman Finklstein

And also our recent discussion also with Noah about the instability of the Netanyahu government and

His shaky right wing coalition. I want to say something to real quick, you know mind

Which is I sympathize with a lot of people and this is mostly Americans I'm speaking to who don't exactly know

Kind of what to do but fill an impulse to do something kind of anything

I think like social media has provided a sort of sell for that in a lot of ways which many enough we actually talked about

We talked about that a little bit with Vincent Bevin's in our last episode about his new book

But for what's happening in Gaza now and throughout Palestine and Israel and now maybe Lebanon and Egypt

I mean stuff is like unfolding very quickly

But it feels like it's only gonna get worse from here

And I think the media in particular has provided

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