Hey, Ray's.

Hello, Liz.

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

So we had here at True and on some other episodes in the can that we had scheduled to come out.

But after the events in the Middle East, it didn't seem like totally a right time for that.

So we're actually going to hold off on those.

And in the meantime, we thought we could unlock this episode we did with Noah Colwyn 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 going to 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

Finkelstein and also our recent discussion, also with Noah, about the instability of the Net and Yahoo government

and his shaky right-wing coalition.

I want to say something to real quick, if you don't mind,

which is that 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 salve for that in a lot of ways,

which funny enough, we actually talked about, we talked about that a little bit with Vincent

Bevins 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

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