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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Tuesday, March

19th, 2024. I am John Butler. It's the editor of Commentary magazine with me

as always

executive editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe

hi John

senior editor Seth Mandel hi Seth

hi Seth hi John and media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow, Christine

Christine, hi Christine.

Hi, John.

Christine, we are today going to talk about not one but two articles of yours in the April issue of commentary that will be

take up the bulk of our time today but before we get to that

I want to ask you guys whether you think that the Biden administration and the

U.S. government are starting to go slowly mad as the Israelis stand poised to enter

Rafach and make the final push in there so far very successful on the ground military engagement

with Hamas with the purpose of destroying Hamas ending its governance of the West Bank and

eliminating it as a threat and as a player on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict map.

I say this because once again yesterday there was a kind of weird gaslighting moment where Jake Sullivan, the National Skeer

advisor, complained that Israel interferes a lot more in our politics than we interfere

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