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The Bill of Rights is a classical liberal document.

Once you reject that and you embrace illiberalism, then the differences between the far right

and the far left kind of disappear.

The illiberal left and the illiberal right, they all believe in speech codes, they all believe

in punishing your enemies, they all believe in identity politics.

So there are a lot of things where it's really about power.

And so like Zora Mondami represents a kind of left-wing, identitarian statism.

And so do a lot of these Tucker Carlson want to be guys

who just basically want to use the government to reward our team and punish your enemies. And so there,

the horseshoe theory stuff actually holds. Once you let go of the classically liberal dogma,

that our rights come from God, not from government, we are

citizens, not subjects, that the fruits of our labors belong to us. Once you give up that stuff,

it's really just two different teams of illiberals. It's 2 p.m. on Friday, November 7th here in New York City. It's 9 p.m. on Friday, November 7th in Israel, whether you are here or there, Shabbat Shalom. On Monday, Hamas returned three deceased hostages to Israel.

They are Asaf Hamami, Oz Daniel, and Omer Nutra, who Omer also is an American citizen.

On Wednesday, deceased hostage Itai Chen was also returned to Israel, and on Thursday,

deceased hostage Joseph Loitou-Molell, a Tanzanian

National, was also returned. As of now, there are six deceased hostages still in Gaza.

One of these hostages is Hadar Golden, who was killed and abducted by Hamas in 2014.

Israel has assessed that the body of Hidar is trapped in an area of Rafa that is now on the Israeli-controlled side of the yellow line that was established by the recent ceasefire deal.

In that same area, there are believed to be 150 Hamas operatives trapped in a tunnel and unable to access

the Hamas-controlled part of the Gaza Strip. There is also an internal scandal unfolding in

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