Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast.

Today is Thursday March 30th, 2023. I'm John Puthhord's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor A Greenwald Hyab.

Uh, John. And the American Enterprise Institute twins. That is media commentary columnist Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi, can you say wonder twins? Just say,

wonder twins, wonder twins activates. And of course, Washington commentary columnist Matthew Kuntney, hi Matt. Hi, John. And joining us today, uh,

longtime friend commentary contributor, uh, national review stalwart head of the Bonson group David Bonson. Hi, David.

Well, hello, John.

Pleasure to have you and we are going to talk to you about the ongoing banking crisis and what it, what its origins were and what it portends for the future.

But before we do that, we have a couple of other things we have to get to earlier this week, Dan Seenor and I teamed up ganged up on on one Matthew Kuntney, who dared

to criticize Joe Biden for his, uh, the way he was handling the crisis in Israel. And, uh, I am here to issue a hearty maghulpa to Matthew Kuntney because what he saw in Biden's behavior, uh, over the weekend.

Okay, what he saw and that we felt it necessary to say, look, you know, this is not a return to Obama's hostility to Israel and all of that.

Well, he appears to be galloping in the Obama's hostility to Israel direction, uh, because he, uh, is now, this has now become a spat between, uh, between Biden and Netanyahu, which is, of course, how.

All disagreements between Israel and the United States during the Obama administration were characterized as spat between Obama, who really didn't like bebe, it's, it's, it was offended. He was offended by him and he said he walked out, wouldn't invite him up to meet Michelle and he was blah blah blah blah and all of that and this kind of like just, just like oozing, exuding hostility toward the elected leader of a close American ally.

Biden, of course, has a 40 year relationship with bebe and he says he likes bebe and they have the lot in common and they're, and, uh, but very quickly.

Matt, you have sort of, you have pointed out repeated when we have talked about this that there's a political crisis brewing in France, there's.

Uh, politicians all over the world, uh, who represent, uh, who, who are democratically elected and represent allies of ours.

Uh, even not that ally, but that Narendra Modi or various other people and generally speaking, the United States government does not call into question the behavior and conduct of democratically elected leaders who are fulfilling mandates that they were elected on.

Biden has been given running room for this because the American Jewish community that voted for him probably wants him to go after bebe's jugular because they are probably siding with most of the, um, the protesters in Israel.

Uh, nonetheless, it's a pretty startling example of American interferer expressions of American interference with.

Internal policies, this is not.

Israel and its relation with the Palestinians who are not part of the Israeli body politic, except for the, you know, is Arab citizens of Israel, let's say.

That is it, that is an international issue. It's an issue that's adjudicated at the United Nations and things like that, whether or not Israel changes its own rules and regulations regarding how would a points judges.

And how court decisions are made that is reaching very deep inside the, the innards of another country's political setup and we actually don't do that.

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