For the latest episode of The Scroll podcast, Scroll Senior Writer Park MacDougald speaks with Tablet News Editor and Levant Analyst Tony Badran about Lebanon. Questions addressed in this episode include: Is Lebanon a real country? Why should I care about it? And why do you people at Tablet keep talking about this 2022 maritime deal? And stick around to the end for a discussion on the Third Worldification of American politics.

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Articles mentioned in this episode:

In Lebanon, Israel and America Are on Opposite Sides, by Tony Badran

The New Herodians, by Tony Badran

Blinken Builds a Palestinian Hezbollah in the West Bank, by Tony Badran

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