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Welcome to the Inkstein Wretches interview.

Chris is on vacation, and I am thrilled to be joined today by the Wall Street Journal's

Global View columnist and the author of the new book, Ark of a Covenant, the United States,

Israel, and the fate of the Jewish

people, which you can buy on Amazon or your local bookstore. Walter Russell Mead also happens to

be my former boss. I was his research assistant many years ago at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Walter, thank you for joining us. Elian, it's great to see you again and great to have you here.

Walter, I am going to get to your book, which happens to be timely.

We're taping this about a week before we're actually going to publish the podcast,

but Biden has just returned from the Middle East.

When we're taping this, what should we know about Biden's Middle East trip,

which he stopped in Israel, but the trip was really more about Saudi Arabia.

And we saw him fist bump, the crown prince over there.

After saying that he, I think it was two years ago, that he was going to make MBS a pariah.

What happened here and what should our listeners know?

Well, the first thing is in foreign policy, never call somebody a pariah just because, you know,

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