This is an emergency edition of the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

We are recording this on Sunday afternoon, September 1st.

It's about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, eastern time here on the East Coast. I'm John Boudhorts the editor of

Commentary here with me as always executive editor Abe Wingwald. Hi Abe

Abe. Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

Hi, John.

And joining us, our friend, uh, host of the Call Me Back,

podcast Commentary Inc. Board member co-author of startup nation and the

genius of Israel Dan Cinor hi Dan hi John so we're obviously here to talk

about the horrifying

nightmarish news out of Israel last night

that six of the hostages were slaughtered in a tunnel in Raffa.

Those are of course Hirsch Goldberg, Poland,

Ori Danino, Edanier-Shalmi,

al-Mogsarousi, Sasha Labanov, and Carmel Gat.

Hirsch Goldberg, Colin, of course, an American citizen, the son of Rachel Goldberg and John Poland who spoke at the Democratic

Convention a couple of weeks ago known to many people in my community of friends and people who were attendees of

Camp Rama in Wisconsin where I believe they met and friends I believe

of Dan Seymour's sister Wendy who is on the podcast that he just recorded for Call Me Back with

Haviv Redigoor that will be coming to you in your

in your feeds later, whenever you're listening to this,

there will either be upcoming or available to you

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