Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Tuesday September 15th 2020.

I am John Bouthord. It's the editor of commentary magazine. Happy to tell you that we have just closed our October issue yesterday.

We talked about the lead article in that issue. You will be reeducated by Christine Rosen, which is available for your perusal.

If you did not do so, yes, or you should do so today and tomorrow and for the rest of the weekend for the rest of the month at

commentary magazine.com where we give you a food free reads and ask you to subscribe. There are a lot of great things in this issue.

Joseph Epstein on fame Andy Ferguson on stupidity. A fantastic article about the con man head of the American Communist Party Gus Hall and how he

started how he basically defrauded the Soviet government out of millions of dollars to use for like to buy a horse farm and stuff like that.

Really a lot of really great stuff at commentary magazine.com where we give you food free reads, ask you to subscribe.

Another very important article by Josh Morovczyk is about how Israel keeps saving the world and we will get to that as our central topic of the show.

We being executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyab.

Hyjom.

Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyjom.

And associate editor Noah Rothman, Hyjom.

So Josh Morovczyk's piece Israel keeps saving the world focuses on Iran and Israel's history of preventing nuclear

proliferation in the Middle East starting of course with the Osirak reactor destruction in 1981.

Moving on to the destruction of the emerging Syrian reactor in 2007 and then this amazingly mysterious series of explosions this summer that seemed to be

designed to degrade and retard the unrushing Iran nuclear program at Natanz and Fardo in Iran this summer.

But another article that we have in this package by Hussein Abu Bakr deals with the change in the reality of the Middle East that is represented by today's remarkable event.

At the White House where President Trump will welcome Prime Minister Netanyahu and the heads of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to sign this normalization deal.

Three countries, Israel's first peace treaty with an Arab nation since Jordan 27 years ago.

And this rush apparently to among the Sunni Arab states in the Gulf of Nelswar to acknowledge reality say Israel is here to stay and recognize that Israel is actually an ally but somebody with whom to have a commonality of interest when it comes to dealing with the irredentist,

military and regime in Tehran which is Israel's greatest enemy but is also a great enemy to the Sunni Arab countries because it wishes to establish its form of Islam over the Sunni form of Islam.

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