Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu hosting the Nazi anti-Semitic-friendly Elon Musk,

whose social media platform is awash with white nationalist hate and extremism that is not just

tolerated, but is encouraged by Musk in the name of free speech.

Joining us is Dr. Gai Zib, a professor at the Department of Foreign Policy at American

University's School of International Service and Associate Director of the Meltzer-Schwarzburg

Center of Israel Studies, where he teaches courses on U.S. Israel Relations and Israeli-Palestinian

peacemaking. He has worked in the United States

Department of State on Capitol Hill and for leading non-profit organizations that promote

American involvement in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking and is the author of Why Hawks Become

Doves, Shimon Peres, and Foreign Policy Change in Israel. He has a forthcoming book out soon. Netanyahu

versus the generals, the battle for Israel's future. And we will discuss tensions inside Netanyahu's

cabinet and between the Prime Minister and the IDF leadership. Then we'll examine how Hunter

Biden is calling the bluff of the absurd House Republican Kangaroo Court,

led by the barking fool James Comer,

by agreeing to testify in public which Coma can't and won't agree to.

Joining us is Jacob Halbrun, the editor of the National Interest,

a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center,

a columnist at The Spectator,

and the author of They Knew They Were Right, The Rise of the Neocons, and his latest book available

at Amazon, America Last, The Rights Century Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.

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