Is Hamas Brilliant?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Noam Blum joins the podcast today to discuss the strategy Hamas is pursuing to stave off the Israeli action in Rafah—the use of a hostage video to freeze Israeli society in place and turn the conversation away from victory and toward rescue. What are the consequences? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:15.0	The way of knowing, which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome. Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, April 26,
0:29.2	2024. I'm John Pothortz, the editor of Commentary magazine with me,
0:33.0	as always the executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:35.0	Hi, Abe, Abe, Abe, Abe.
0:35.8	Hi, Abe, Ab. Hi, John.
0:36.8	Senior editor Seth Mandel.
0:38.1	Hi Seth, Seth Mandel.
0:39.3	Hi Seth, John.
0:41.0	And joining us today, Chief Technology Officer for tablet, tablet bag.com, known to the world
0:49.6	as Neon Taster on Twitter with his 200 billion followers who are either interested in
0:59.1	Israel, leftist politics, good jokes, or anime.
1:04.5	My nephew, No, I'm Bloom.
1:05.8	I know I'm.
1:06.8	Hey John, thanks for having me again.
1:08.9	So No, I'm, you born and raised in Israel now living in the United States have a brother
1:18.1	currently on reserve duty in Rafa 38 years old divorced two kids back for his second tour.
1:29.4	You have a brother-in-law who is due to go back in the reserves and everybody is waiting for Gaza for the final move and the move was complicated this week by let's face it Hamas is brilliant
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