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Avraham Burg, longtime fixture of Israeli left, meets Tucker Carlson on his own turf

JL;DR SUMMARY Avraham Burg, a prominent figure of the Israeli left and former interim president, recently engaged in a surprising conversation with Tucker Carlson, a right-wing American pundit. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli PoliticsLeft WingTucker CarlsonAmerican RightPost ZionismNorman FinkelsteinAvraham BurgPalestinian Right Of ReturnMedia DiscourseIsraeli Mindset

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Jerusalem, Israel
"A former speaker of the Knesset, interim Israeli president and onetime chair of the Jewish Agency for Israel and World Zionist Organization, Burg today remains an outspoken member of Israels dwindling left."
United States
"Tucker Carlson has set off alarm bells among many Jewish groups and even some conservative allies by hosting conspiracy theorists, grilling the U.S. ambassador to Israel and dabbling in sinister-sounding theories about Benjamin Netanyahu and Chabad."
Israel
"Burgs willingness to find common cause with Carlson was the latest sign of how some on the Jewish left, finding little appetite among institutional Jewish groups and Israeli society for sustained pushback against Israels actions in Gaza and Iran, may be looking instead to fringe voices on the right, where anti-Israel sentiment is also growing."

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