Welcome back to Pazzy the World, I'm Ben Rhodes and today we have a three-part show for you.

That's right, triple the content.

First I'll talk a little bit about the latest news out of Israel in Gaza, but then I will be speaking with Yonis Garstota, the

Prime Minister of Norway, who took the significant decision this past week to recognize a

Palestinian state alongside Spain and Ireland. He'll talk a bit about what

that decision means, why he made it, and how he sees the future of a

potential Palestinian state. Then you will hear my conversation with Freed Zakaria, journalist and

author of the new book Age of Revolutions. Freed was my co-host to talk about

a variety of different issues. We talk about the situation in Israel we talk about Russia and Ukraine we talk about Taiwan and China

So we kind of step back and take the lay of the land on all these global hot spots that we've been talking about on the podcast.

I want to note, F freed and I pre-taped our conversation on Friday, May 24th,

so it doesn't reflect all of the things that have happened since then and things obviously move very quickly, but actually

the utility and talking to a guy like Farid is that ability to step back and he had a lot of smart things to say

about the Middle East, about Russia, China, and his new book, which is really truly extraordinary.

And then we talked to Ravi Gupta.

He is the host of a new limited series from Crookka Media

and the branch called Killing Justice.

I've been involved in this series.

I've listened to the first three episodes.

They're incredible.

You should check that out.

We'll talk about this mysterious case of a judge's murder

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