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Welcome to Beg to

Beg to Differ, the Bulwerks 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

Bruckings Institution in 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 Johns Hopkins professor and Atlantic contributor,

Yasha Monk. Yasha's new book is titled The Identity Trap,

and its arguments are incredibly timely. But before we turn to Yasha's book,

we're going to first address the big news of the week, which is the Israel-Gaza war.

President Biden is planning to address the nation Thursday evening.

You listeners will already be aware of what he said.

We are taping before that event.

Apparently though he is going to ask Congress to appropriate 100 billion dollars in aid for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and our southern border. Now, before the Israel-Gaza War has really gotten

going, that is before the planned or at least expected ground invasion by Israeli forces,

we have seen an incredible example of the information war taking place. Just as President Biden was preparing to jet off to Israel and he was also

scheduled to stop in Jordan and meet with King Abdullah and Egypt's Al-C-C to discuss matters after his stop in Israel,

that was cancelled because of a story that appeared regarding what was called an Israeli

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