Barak Swarttz

None of that is seen in this conversation about Israel-Palestine.

By the way, I'm not trying to paint a perfect picture of Israel.

Israel has...

a very long list of imperfections and i actually talk about them on my platform a lot um so i don't come on to the podcasts and make it seem like this is a very black and white conversation because nothing no conflict in the world is black and white i really believe in basketball creating the dialogue to be able to speak to people that don't necessarily agree with me yeah so but i can only share my experience like what i'm living for sure yeah well respect for acknowledging the imperfections too because a ton of them

They won't.

And you know, I... Sean, I've actually called some of this out the past couple years on my platform.

Internally in the Jewish prosel community.

I'll be the bad guy.

Like, I'm really fine with that because I'm going to live and die on my own sword.

And when people play the game of like...

Everything is a clean slate on one side and everything is a dirty slate on the other.

I don't think that that builds authority.

I think that that creates dissonance.

I think that you've already lost a lot of people when that's your angle.

I have my own opinions, but my opinions come from my objective living in Israel.

It's not my subjective opinion observing what's going on in the Middle East from Idaho.

I live there.

I was in Israel on October 7th.

My friend got killed at the Nova Festival.

I'm in it.