Walter Russell Mead discusses Israel’s wartime unity government, the specter of a second front in southern Lebanon, why American universities are “honoring the martyrs of Hamas,” and whether President Joe Biden has already determined to accept Israeli and American defeat on his podcast, What Really Matters.

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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)