Hope for the best.

Expect the words.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

The way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Tuesday, December 12,

2023. I'm John Puthorts, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always executive editor,

A Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth. Hi,

Hi, John.

Christine Rosen is out today, but with us her colleague at the American Enterprise Institute and our Washington commentary column

This is Matthew Con Nettie.

Hi Matt, hi John.

We are going to have an extensive discussion of Matt's January Washington commentary column, which will be out as you

listen to this, I hope, along with our entire January issue online at

commentary dot org where we give you a few free reads and ask you to subscribe let me

just tell you about some of the riches in this issue. We have an

extraordinary piece by Richard Goldberg of the Foundation for the Defense of democracies on the day after Israel wins in Hamas.

Everyone's talking about what needs to happen in Gaza. What is Israel going to do in

Gaza politically?

And Goldware flips this on his head and says,

here are the five things that must not happen in Gaza after an Israeli victory. And it's an eye-opening and enlightening piece.

Jonathan Foreman, my old friend, polymathic, journalist, movie movie critic Iraq war correspondent expert on the

Indian subcontinent has a piece from London on what it's been like to live in London

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