A clear guide to the Israel-Gaza crisis

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Yochi, Jenn, and Zack talk about the growing crisis on the Gaza-Israel border, where Israeli troops killed 19 Palestinians during violent clashes with protesters, sparking fears of all-out war. On Elsewhere, they turn to Malaysia, which just passed the world’s first law banning “fake news” — clearing the way for journalists to be imprisoned if they anger the government. The Malaysian law is the latest and strongest example of how President Trump’s rhetorical war on the American media is spurring other world leaders to wage a literal one. Zack sings the Law and Order theme song, Yochi recalls a trip to Gaza City, and Jenn offers a creative idea for a new CSI spin-off. References: Jenn's explainer on the violence at the Gaza-Israel border US envoy Jason Greenblatt's comments on Hamas State Department's comments on Hamas Jeff Goldberg's conversation with Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman NYT piece on Malaysia's 'fake news' ban Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dutum, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da Welcome to Worldly, Fox's Weekly Guide from the most important stories in the world,
0:19.4	part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:21.9	Israel has fought three wars inside the Gaza
0:23.9	strip in less than a decade, now maybe on the brink of the fourth. Last Friday
0:30.6	there was a huge protest along Israel's border with Gaza that got really bloody, really quickly.
0:36.0	15 Palestinians died at the time, hundreds more were wounded, at least four more Palestinians have died since.
0:42.0	Israeli and Palestinian leaders said more violence was likely. least four more Palestinians have died since.
0:42.6	Israeli and Palestinian leaders said more violence was likely,
0:45.6	and they also say there's the real possibility of another all-out war.
0:49.7	So Jen, you wrote about this for this little website, Vox.com this week. Let's start at the
0:54.0	literal beginning of what they were protesting. Right, so the protest on Friday
0:57.4	was meant to kick off this massive kind of six week long series of protests
1:02.4	and sit-ins and demonstrations.
1:04.6	There were 30,000 Palestinians roughly that took part on Friday and it was based around
1:09.9	the Atlanta Day, which is this kind of symbolic protest that is meant to
1:14.2	symbolize and kind of commemorate the loss of Palestinian land so the expulsion
1:18.5	of Palestinians from where they had been living during the creation of Israel.
1:24.4	So it's a big kind of protest that's meant to do that every year at the border.
1:28.8	It's also related to the blockade of Gaza, which we'll talk about more.
1:33.0	But basically, since 2007, Israel and Egypt
1:36.4	have imposed this really severe land, sea,
1:39.1	and air blockade on Gaza.
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