Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of hers.

The way of knowing, which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst of God. Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Monday

November 6th 2023. I am John Puthort's the editor of Commentary magazine with me as always executive

editor Abe Greenwald hi Abe

uh... jon media commentary columnist Christine rosen hi christine

i jon senior editor seth mandel hi seth i jon Christine. Hi, John. Senior editor Seth Mandel, Hi Seth. Hi, John.

Nat Connelly is out today with us. Commentary Inc. Board member, Commentary magazine

contributor and the co-author of the newly released or about to be released, the genius of

Israel, the follow-up to his landmark best-selling worldwide sensation

book Start Up Nation, Dan Sinor. Hi Dan. Hey John, thanks for having me.

So Dan, you also among your many accomplishments have a podcast called Call Me Back, originally

called Post Corona.

And as the war has ramped up in Israel, you have gone from once to twice a week having conversations

with some of the most insightful and enlightening voices in Israel and in the world of understanding war and this morning you put out your

weekly conversation with the Times of Israel's brilliant analysts, philosopher, student reporter,

Havive Reddig Gore, and I got to listen to half of it before we started this podcast and I was struck by the tone of I wouldn't call it optimism, but I would call it

determinate like non-grim determination that based on everything that he is

seeing and hearing and he has a wife in the reserves and everybody that

he himself he himself is getting called in I mean he's now he's over 40 so

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