The country is spiraling out of control, and now think of it.

We don't have a constitution, we don't have the tradition, and we are at war.

And in my mind, it's an existential war.

Think of how crazy it is that a month before we thought we may be attacking Iran,

and taking the most dramatic action in our history since 1948,

we got bogged down into this internal crisis. That shows you a country that lost its way. It's 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23rd here in New York City.

It's 11 p.m. in Israel as Israelis prepare for Yom Hashoa, Holocaust Remembrance Day. By the time you listen to this podcast,

Israelis will have already stood for two minutes in silence as an air raid siren blasts across

the country, and, it seems at least for Israelis, the world stops. Every year Yom Ha Shoa is

excruciating, but following October 7th, 2023, all the more so for all the

obvious reasons. This is the second Yomashoa in which Israelis are still being held captive in Gaza

by Hamas. I was reflecting on all of this last night as I participated in a screening of the

documentary film, The Children of October 7th, which reminds us all that Jewish children were

slaughtered or taken hostage or made to watch the slaughtering of their parents in a systematic

way, not only in 1943, but in 2023.

There's a reason why anti-Semitism is called the oldest hatred.

This is a difficult film to watch.

But I'm thankful to Montana Tucker and Aitton Schwartz and their team for making it and to

Sherry Redstone for finding it a home. That home is Paramount Plus. It is streaming now on Paramount

Plus and we'll post a link to the film in the show notes and strongly encourage you to watch it.

Now on to today's conversation.

On Tuesday of this week, Shinbet Chief Ronan Barr submitted a newsmaking, to say the

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