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Jan 2018
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Israel

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The Brighter Side gang is joined by Etan Bednarsh to discuss growing up Israeli, the ongoing violence and falafel. Then Seena Ghaznavi and Ed Larson go head to head on solutions to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; how hard could it be? 
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