Enemies On All Sides

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Today we discuss the antisemitic shooting in Montreal, and the controversy involving Dan Goldman and a Brooklyn coffee shop. Plus, Dan Schueftan, chairman of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa, speaks on the current regional and international state of Israel, and the struggle to ensure the continuity of the Jewish way of life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the best.
0:08.0	Expect the words.
0:10.0	Some drink champagne.
0:12.0	Some die of birds.
0:14.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:17.0	Hope for the best.
0:19.0	Expect the worst. Welcome to the Comment and Expect the worst.
0:20.9	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily
0:24.6	podcast. Today's Tuesday, June
0:26.7	23rd, 2026. I'm John Poudhortz,
0:29.1	the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:31.0	With me as always, senior editor
0:32.7	Seth Mendel. Hi, Seth.
0:35.0	Hi, John. Washington Free Beacon
0:37.0	editor Eliana. Johnson, hi, Eliana. Hi, John. Washington Free Beacon editor Eliana.
0:38.0	Johnson, hi, Eliana.
0:39.4	Hi, John.
0:40.3	And I'm delighted to have joining us today,
0:42.2	the head of the International Graduate Program
0:44.2	and National Security at the University of Haifa,
0:47.4	Dan Shaftan, advisor to many Israeli prime ministers,
0:52.9	a person involved in negotiations on Israel's behalf for many decades
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