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Podcast: The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer
Episode: Israel deprives Central Europeans of moral cover
Description: When Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently sparked a war of words with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki he was doing more than resisting Central European attempts at rewriting the history and legacy of the Holocaust and right-wing nationalistic flirting with anti-Semitic tropes.