Is the Arc of History Bending Toward Bibi

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Jonathan Schanzer joins us today to discuss Bibi's week in Washington, the prospects for region-wide change in the Middle East, and the painful choices facing Israel as it decides how to conclude the war in Gaza. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink and pain.
0:12.0	Some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best.
0:20.0	Expect the worst., for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:24.7	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.3	Today is Thursday, July 10th, 2025.
0:30.3	I'm John Pudhoritz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.
0:33.1	With me, as always, executive editor, A. Greenwald.
0:35.4	Hi, Abe.
0:36.1	Hi, John.
0:39.1	Social commentary columnist Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine. Hi, John. And joining us today, our contributing editor, Puba, podcaster,
0:47.9	Sage at the Foundation for Defensive Democracies, Jonathan Shanzer. Hi, Shanzer. How are you today?
0:56.0	Hey, Podharitz. Living the dream.
1:02.8	You are always living the dream. And in fact, we might be living some kind of a dream that's not a nightmare this week with this love fest between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Trump
1:09.4	administration. He's been and the leadership in Congress.
1:13.8	He's been traveling around Washington back and forth into the White House for dinners and
1:19.5	to Capitol Hill to have a, you know, practically makeout session with, with House Speaker
1:25.5	Mike Johnson, to the Pentagon, to Foggy Bottom.
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