Welcome to Beg to B

Differ. The Bullworks Weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum.

We range from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by our regulars

Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal

Damon Linker who writes the sub-stack newsletter

notes from the middle ground

and Linda Chavez of the Niskanin Center.

Our special guest this week is Professor Gil Troy.

Gil's a professor of history and a leading Zionist thinker. He is the author of many books most recently. Well not actually most recently the second to most recent book was one he co-authored with Nathan Sharonski. I was called Never Alone and he lives in Jerusalem

with his family so I am thrilled, Gill, that you could join us.

Before we get into the politics and the geopolitical implications of what has happened this week,

I wonder if you could just tell us from your end what life has been like for you personally since Saturday.

Thank you. It's an honor to be with you and I feel very lucky to be alive.

Yeah. The truth is that in Jerusalem we're quite lucky. We have four kids.

One of them was in Sri Lanka on Saturday morning and he was praying in a very small

haabad with four other people and an Israeli woman came in bursting with tears

saying they've overrun Israel Jerusalem is being overrun and being

ravaged as we speak.

And you can imagine that my 23 year old how terrified he was,

for she scrambled eventually got in touch with us and the news wasn't that much better because our cousins and

our friends down south were indeed enduring a just unspeakable explosion and

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