#290 - German Journalist In The Middle East (Christine Kensche)

Two Nice Jewish Boys

Eytan and Naor

Society & Culture

1.7 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is not a drill: Israel is going to elections. No, you’re not listening to a rerun episode from 2021, 2020 or 2019. It’s actually happening again, after the Bennet-Lapid government - which only withheld for a single year - dissipated into the abyss. Meanwhile, in Europe, it isn’t too boring either. Russia’s war against Ukraine slowly continues, heavily funded by EU taxpayer’s money; Inflation is sky-rocketing; And the strongest country in the Union, Germany, is arming up, as Germany’s new Chancellor Shultz pledges to build the largest European army since WWII. Germany is also Israel’s most important and powerful ally in Europe, and as it intends to buy natural gas and military technology from Israel in astronomical sums - it seems like the relations between the countries are coming to a new era. To talk about all this - and much more - we’re joined today by journalist Christine Kensch. Christine is the Middle East correspondent for The Welt, one of Germany’s biggest and most important news outlets. She is also the author of the book ‘Our Law Applies on the Street’, a biographical novel about the life of Khalil, an arab-born Berlin clan member (out only in German, unfortunately!). We’re excited to have Christine with us today!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Aiton Weinstein.
0:02.0	And I'm Naor Menninger, and you're listening to Two Nice Jewish Boys.
0:24.2	This is not a drill.
0:26.2	Israel is going to elections.
0:32.2	No, you're not listening to a rerun episode from 2021, 2020, or even 2019.
0:35.3	It's actually happening again. After the Bennett-Laped government, which only withheld for a single
0:39.3	year, dissipated into the abyss. Meanwhile, in Europe, it isn't too boring either. Russia's war
0:46.0	against Ukraine slowly continues heavily funded by EU taxpayers' money. Inflation is skyrocketing,
0:52.9	and the strongest country in the Union, Germany,
0:56.4	is arming up as Germany's new Chancellor Schulz pledges to build the largest European army
1:02.3	since World War II. Germany is also Israel's most important and powerful ally in Europe. And as it
1:10.1	intends to buy natural gas and military technology
1:13.0	from Israel, in astronomical sums, it seems like the relations between the countries are coming
1:20.4	to a new era. To talk about all this and much, much more, we're joined today by journalist
1:25.7	Christine Kench. Christine is the Middle East correspondent for the Weld, one of Germany's biggest and most important
1:33.9	new outlets.
1:35.0	She is also the author of the book, Our Law Applies on the Street, a biographical novel
1:41.1	about the life of Khalil, an Arab-born Berlin clan member.
1:45.7	Out only in German, unfortunately, but hopefully soon in English or in other languages.
1:51.1	We're super, super excited and thrilled to have Christine on the show today with us.
1:55.4	Thank you so much for joining.
1:56.7	How are you?
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Eytan and Naor, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Eytan and Naor and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.