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Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday November 2nd, 2022

6 days until election day I am John Puphart the editor of commentary magazine with me as always

executive editor A. Greenwald hi A. Hi John media commentary columnist and American enterprise

in suit fellow Christine Rosen high Christine hi John associate editor and author of the rise

of the New Puritans no Rothman high Noah hi John and joining us today Christine's A.E.I. colleague

and as we all know director executive director head of the Boyd and Gray in suit for Boyd and a

Boyd nism at George Mason Adam White hi Adam hi John so Adam joins us whenever we have constitutional

law issues to discuss and we have a huge one the hearing on Monday on the

two affirmative action cases brought by the students for I can't remember what the whole the whole

things SF students for fair admissions students for fair admissions one case against Harvard one case

against UNC very very important moment arguably more important in some ways than the dobs decision

but we will we will get to that in a minute I wanted to do just a quick update on everything we

talked about yesterday in the Israeli election the Israeli election took place yesterday

and it appears that Benjamin Netanyahu has won an unexpected or the sort of the coalition that he

the right coalition the BB coalition that he would represent won an unexpectedly large

victory he needs you need 61 seats to control the Kinesa and be prime minister it looks like his

coalition 165 which nobody was predicting and not only that but several of the smaller left

wing and Arab parties failed to make the threshold of 3.25% and are now out of Israeli politics at

least until the next election which gives him a much broader feel to play on and so that was

actually to there that what's happened is scenario number one yesterday of the five or six scenarios

that we laid out and it's a staggering come back for BB who you know not only could not get

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