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Host good afternoon and good evening. Welcome, happy tuesday. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im executive director. Institute here has been here over three years now. Ross has been reported member of the Institute Since our founding, he has been immediate fellow and estep coordinate some of our events. Some are more contentious them into mayay have seen ross was involved in. [laughter]. We are super pleased that ross is joining us today on a date the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know him as one of the most important commentators on American Culture today. He writes the opinion page of the new york times, more than a few books at this point. They seem to all have the title would became something right. You might want to steer clear of that. Anyway, today the format is going to be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book. I actually had the pleasure of reading it and its really an interesting book. In my judgment of the started to go
And so on. You know, you dont hear a lot of that, sammy in what weve heard so far has been condemnation support for israel. You do hear some democrats in particular talking about a 2 state solution. The need for diplomacy to take place and within the state department that is a priority and has been of the biden administration. However, what weve heard in the past 24 hours, at least, is people just rallying behind israel. Now its in the wee hours right now on sunday morning. Thats the time when talk shows are are preparing to air later. So we might hear a little more from the, by the administration and from members of congress about their response to this. But so far that seems to be focus more on increasing aid to israel than it does anything else. Democrats and republicans of both talked about that despite the fact that israel already received 3300000000. 00 a year from the United States at reportedly one byte and talk to ness and yahoo. One of the things that the is really is it said