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The video’s thumbnail looks like something ripped from the nightmare of an Onion editor: Benjamin Netanyahu—the leader at the center of one of the world’s deadliest conflicts—sits flanked by “The Nelk Boys.” But it’s real. The prime minister of Israel, one of the most sought-after interviews on the planet, gave an hour-plus exclusive to a pair of YouTube pranksters.

The video’s opening line is perhaps its most honest: “We are so not qualified to do this,” Kyle Forgeard says to his co-host, Aaron “Steiny” Steinberg. They weren’t wrong. Over the course of the 73-minute video, Netanyahu grins his way through breezy questions about “bromances” with Trump and whether h

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