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you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelors, with Jonathan Schanser, Senior Vice President, Foundation for

the Defense of Democracy's just back from the region. The capital to investigate is Washington. There is

the White House and the National Security apparatus. There is Congress.

Congress in the House of Representatives having approved a package that includes Israeli resupply.

At the same time, the White House is now so confused, my scorecards are all marked up. We can say there's been opposition to Mr.

Latin Yahoo over these six months and sometimes it's taken to include opposition

to the IDDF's conduct.

Right now, Jonathan, how would you characterize the relationship between

the White House and Jerusalem?

Are they numb with complaints or are they still caviling at each other?

It's utterly confusing John. I mean we saw this

this national security package that was passed by the house over the weekend and that included

$26 billion for Israel as well as $61 billion for Ukraine and more money for the

Indo-Pacific and that Tik-Tok bill and some fentanyl provisions as well.

So this is all really good news and then at the same time we get notice from journalist Barakra Vied at Axios who reports that the US was preparing to impose

sanctions on a division of the IDF called the Netzak Brigades. This is bizarre theater right now. The idea that the

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