The Information War Against Israel

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

More false stories about how Israel is killing the very Gazans it's trying to feed are suggestive of a new turn in the information war on the Jewish state—and how the fact that Israel is not finishing up its task in Gaza is having deleterious consequences. Also, a tribute to a great and modest figure who revolutionized the right in the United States. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:08.0	Expect the worst.
0:10.0	Some drink champagne, some die of thirst.
0:15.0	The way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best, expect the worst.
0:22.4	Oh, for the best.
0:25.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.
0:27.9	Today is Monday, July 21st, 2025.
0:32.2	I'm John Potthor.
0:33.1	It's the editor of commentary with me as always.
0:35.6	Executive editor, Abe Greenwald.
0:37.3	Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Contenetti. Hi. editor of commentary with me as always executive editor aide greenwald hi abe hi jane
0:38.6	washington commentary columnist matthew cotanetti hi matt hi john and social commentary columnist
0:44.7	christine rose and hi christine so uh you know we're about a month after uh israel's and the united
0:53.6	states is extraordinarily successful strike on Iran and the
1:00.6	12-day war, which seems to have concluded, at least if you take the first month past the 12-day
1:09.5	war, with Iran very profoundly compromised at the very most that
1:16.7	you can say. And yet, we've said that America and Israel have taken out an enormous iridentist threat, not only to Israel's existence,
1:32.3	but to world stability, nuclear proliferation, and the like.
1:37.4	And yet here we are after a weekend of, or weeks now, of continuing negotiations between Israel and Hamas that seem
1:49.6	to be taking place in gutter that are frozen, sort of like the Greek army outside of the
2:00.5	walls of Troy for 10 years.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 1 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commentary Magazine, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Commentary Magazine and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.