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Welcome to the Commentary magazine daily podcast. Today's

Thursday March 7th, 2024. I am John Puthort's the editor of

Commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A Breenwald hi Abe hi John media commentary columnist Christine

Christine hi Christine and joining us today fresh from a year working with the Israeli government

to get its message out to the world particularly after October 7th but since has rejoined the world of the

Scribbler the working journalist the producer of fish wrap at the bottom of your fish wrap or the bottom of your bird cage,

columns and columns a week.

Ruthie Bloom, also known as my sister Ruthie.

Ruthie, in Tel Aviv, welcome back to the podcast.

Thank you for having me, John.

You are welcome, and as I said on Twitter, for having Ruthie

this podcast. If you had been in our apartment in 1974 on 105th Street and West End and

seen our relationship as it unfolded you would be amazed that we were even speaking to each other now 50 years later and yet

here we are having convivial conversation I thought we'd have you on to give us an action on the ground on the ground report on how things are going so let me just

set the table for you here so the table for you here.

So the table for you here, of course, is that

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