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The October issue of Commentary is now available.
This issue explores the rising influence of the DSA, Ukraine and the future of warfare, how to fight and defeat anti-Semitism in court, and much more.
With contributions from @Jesse_Leg, @ArthurLHerman, @JSchanzer, @CUNY_Prof, @IVelitskaya, @jkirchick.
Read on at commentary.org and subscribe at commentary.org/subscribe.
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We already knew that Israel wanted peace and Gaza wanted war. We just didn’t know how badly Netanyahu’s government wanted peace. Badly enough, it turns out, to risk Israel’s immediate security. @SethAMandel
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The joke in the newsroom, acceptable only because its subject’s monstrousness was unquestionable, went as follows: What were Robert Maxwell’s last words? Rose-blub.
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To be an anti-Zionist now, at this moment, is to be, by definition, the adherent of a violent ideology. It is to be an enemy of peace. To pretend otherwise is to be the defensive coordinator of a football team while claiming to be “personally anti-tackling.”
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LISTEN: It’s Friday, and after a brief opening discussion about records, we turn to discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s UNGA speech, Macron’s embarrassing flub, the ongoing efforts to find some resolution to the Iran war, the upcoming Israeli elections, the lowlife antisemitism of actor Wallace Shawn.
Plus, @SethAMandel recommends The Barman of the Ritz, and @jpodhoretz recommends The World at Night.
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According to eyewitnesses, the last thing that Rabbi Eli Schlanger did before a jihadist gunned him down at Sydney’s fabled Bondi Beach last December was to try to talk the killer down.
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"Why couldn’t he follow Mamdani’s lead here? Because, at the end of the day, Mamdani is a socialist and not an Islamist, whereas El-Sayed is an Islamist and not a socialist. And Islamists don’t care about Muslims. They care about advancing Islamism, which happens to be the Iranian regime’s chief aim."--From today's newsletter
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"The population in Gaza is now larger than it was on October 7th."
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In other words, this has nothing to do with a temporary increase in “settler violence” over the past year. Norway has merely been waiting for a good pretext to hit Israel, and now it has found one.
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Harvard professor Cass Sunstein is a liberal, not a progressive, but he has come to make a first-principles case for a robust conception of the separation of powers.
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At 8:12 a.m., Al-Muhtadi told an associate on a phone call to ‘get ready,’ that the ‘borders are open,’ and that other individuals were passing by in a Toyota pickup truck, apparently to join the invasion.
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Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif, and much of the world thought Arabs couldn't be patriotic citizens of a Jewish state. From Oct. 7 to this election, Israeli Arabs are proving them wrong. My latest: commentary.org/seth-mandel/i…
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Netanyahu’s achievements, with and without the input of the war room, are hard to deny. But the fact that the October 7 attacks occurred on his watch cannot be ignored. As the authors rightly note, “The buck must stop with the prime minister.”
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LISTEN: Today we discuss Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UNGA after the son of Israel’s ambassador to the US was seriously injured in a terrorist attack, news that the Israeli film NAZA will be released for free online, the fight over the word genocide, and Israel’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” trap.
Plus, new polling data in key senatorial races, and @jpodhoretz recommends season 6 of Slow Horses.
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Today's episode @Commentary: The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal; Trump and Iran at the UN; feckless Europe; and I make a recommendation.
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"She is interested in racial politics and using education as a battering ram to recreate American society"
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September 23, @continetti recommends Wait Till Next Year by William Goldman and Mike Lupica
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After Sheeran decolonized his tour and liberated his fans from Macklemore’s occupation, Macklemore responded exactly as expected: He and his fans and his defenders pretended he was being fired for simply supporting Palestinian rights.
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Palestinian identity is the golden ticket in the West at the moment. Palestine is the omnicause—the one issue everyone must dedicate themselves to at the expense of all others. In the Democratic Party, the Palestinian omnicause is the only litmus test for political participation. @SethAMandel
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Rather than accepting that organized violence is a permanent feature of mankind, Cohen argues that the West has embraced a Kantian vision of permanent peace.
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