Israel Under Attack—from Hamas and Liberals

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On today’s podcast, I read my exchanges yesterday with my sister from her bomb shelter in Tel Aviv to give listeners a real-time sense of what it’s like to be under rocket attack. And then we express our outrage at the liberal effort to blame Israel for the assault upon it before we take up the ouster of Liz Cheney from House leadership and what it portends about the Republican future and Donald... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast for Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
0:28.5	I am John Popport, the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor,
0:32.3	a brainwalled high-ape,
0:33.5	Hedgehog, associate editor, Noah Rothman, Hinoa,
0:36.5	Hedgehog, and senior writer Christine Rose and high-Christine.
0:39.5	Hedgehog.
0:40.5	I wanted to have my sister, Ruthie Bloom,
0:43.5	who has been on this podcast before on today.
0:45.5	She lives in Tel Aviv.
0:47.5	She is a veteran American Israeli journalist.
0:51.5	She's lived in Israel for more than 40 years.
0:55.5	She couldn't join us,
0:56.5	but I thought maybe what I would do is read you guys some of the things she was sending me
1:02.5	in real time yesterday on WhatsApp.
1:04.5	She lives in an apartment in Tel Aviv,
1:06.5	and her version of a bomb shelter is her stairwell right outside her apartment,
1:12.5	because largely what you're doing when you go into a bomb shelter under these circumstances
1:17.5	is avoiding the windows in case a bomb blows the glass out of the window.
1:21.5	So here's what she says.
1:24.5	Siren in Tel Aviv, I'm in my staircase.
1:28.5	Boom.
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