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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for Wednesday, September 16, 2020. We're sponsored

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I'm John Popport, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hyade. Hi John, senior writer Christine Rosen, Hyde Christine, and associate editor

Noah Rossman, Hynella. Hi John. So we are releasing various articles from our October

issue online at commentary magazine.com. Please go take a look, you get a few free reads, then we ask

you to subscribe. So I'm going to start with this fact yesterday as we talked about on yesterday's

podcast was the signing of this normalization of relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates

and Bahrain on the White House lawn, and to judge by most of the mainstream media coverage as it

was going on, the most important issue in this profound breakthrough, 21st century breakthrough in

the peace process was that the leaders were not adequately social distancing. CNN as they show

the guys on the you know as they show the foreign ministers of the U.A. and Bahrain and

and Prime Minister Nanyahu sort of standing on the portico the White House just kept complaining that

that they weren't six feet apart with with masks and I just thought maybe you guys would want a

reflect on that. I mean I think we notice how selectively they do this. Do they

do they have such self regard that they think they're getting one over on you? No I think what it

means is that they are have a modern Iical focus on this issue, the masking issue and that nothing

else on the planet matters aside from this fact. But they don't but they subordinate it when it's

convenient when the targets are politically of allied with their leadership. And most of that they

make a kind of positive recognition. So when there was that big march here in Washington a few

weeks ago they made a they made they took great pains to show you know people look everyone's

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