A Shift in the War - with Haviv Rettig Gur

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The Hamas-Israel War, nearing its three month mark, is now the longest war in Israel’s history since Israel’s War of Independence (1948/49). The first phase of this war, which took place over the three weeks following October 7, was largely conducted from the air. The second phase, the ground invasion, began almost two months ago (on October 27), in which the IDF took over most of Northern Gaza and a few pockets in southern Gaza. During the past week it has been reported that the IDF is preparing for a third phase in the war, expected to last many months, if not longer. What will this new phase look like? What are the many considerations shaping this new phase? How are Israeli society and Israeli politics reacting to this emerging shift? These are some of the issues we discuss in our weekly check-in with Haviv Rettig Gur of the Times of Israel.

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0:00.0	About a month ago the foreign minister Eli Cohen submitted to the UN a demand to implement
0:05.2	Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War and stipulates that Hezbollah has to move north of the Littani River away from the Israeli-Lebanese border.
0:17.1	What I know is Israelis will not live with that threat.
0:20.4	The government believes that this problem is going to be solved.
0:23.6	How do I know they believe it?
0:24.8	They're paying the hotel bills of 100,000 Israelis so that they don't have to live in their
0:29.8	towns on the northern border.
0:31.6	Israel wants to finish the Gaza War, at least the massive, you know,
0:35.2	four-division period of the Gaza War that it's planning to finish in January, free up a lot of
0:40.5	soldiers, send them home for a couple of months to rest, and then take care of that
0:44.8	northern border problem.
0:46.3	I know that that's what everybody wants, and by everybody I mean Galant down to the grocer
0:52.1	at your local grocery store. It is 1 a.m. on Saturday, December 23rd in New York City. It is 1 a.m. on Sunday, December 24th.
1:15.0	The war in Gaza is nearing its three month mark
1:18.0	and is now the longest war in Israel's history since Israel's War of Independence in 1948. That war lasted nine
1:27.4	months, three weeks and two days. We tend to think of Israel's Yom Kippur War is also a long war, but in reality it was nearly three weeks, actually just 19 days.
1:38.0	The longest IDF military operation
1:43.7	protective edge which lasted 51 days Israel's second Lebanon war in 2006
1:50.4	was 34 days so just keep all that in mind as we discuss today's topic at the
1:55.8	three-month mark. During this war in 2023 some 250,000 Israelis have been
2:01.7	internally displaced and 1,000 Israelis have been internally displaced and 1,345 Israelis to date have been killed.
2:09.5	That includes 833 civilians, 440 soldiers, 59 policemen, and 13 rescue workers. 128 Israeli
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