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Oct 2014
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Ep.53 - Why I Hate Talking About Israel

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Norman Spector is Canada's former ambassador to Israel. He was also the publisher of the Jerusalem Post. Conversations about Israel-Palestine are invariably bummers, but for Norman, Jesse makes an exception.

 

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