We Have to Talk About Biden

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Taking the measure of Biden's decision to impose a kind of arms embargo on Israel when he sought the arms in the first place is our task today. Our answers are not complimentary. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hope for the best.
0:09.0	Expect the worst.
0:11.0	Some bring champagne, some die of furs.
0:14.0	No way of knowing which way it's going.
0:19.0	Hope for the best expect the worst.
0:22.0	Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.
0:27.0	Today is Thursday, May 9, 2024.
0:30.0	I'm John Potth, the editor editor of Commentary magazine with me as always
0:34.0	executive editor Abe Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi, John. Media commentary
0:38.5	columnist Christine. Hi, Christine. Hi John. And Washington Commentary columnist Matthew Connetty.
0:44.6	Hi Matt.
0:45.3	Hi John.
0:46.3	Hey Abe, is this the turn against Israel?
0:51.0	You know I think the turn might be coming?
0:53.0	You think, you think, because as people who listen to the podcast know,
0:58.0	we have on occasion taking the temperature of Joe Biden's relationship to Israel and its conduct in the war against
1:07.7	Hamas have had disagreements about whether or not this or that or the other moment constituted that special period of time in every American presidency when support for an israeli, a justified Israeli action of self-defense against a
1:27.2	terrorist entity becomes too much for the presidency to bear and that the president or his people then inform
1:36.3	Israel that time is up and it's really past the moment when Israel needs to retrench and leave things as they are.
1:46.9	But this thing that happened yesterday in the interview with Aaron Burnett on CNN,
1:54.0	President of the United States,
1:57.0	16 minutes with Aaron Burnett.
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