And WAD's Person Of The Year Is...
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration is pressuring Israel to scale back its war by the end of the year. And earlier this week, President Joe Biden warned that Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza was whittling away international support. But it seems like the language shift hasn’t yet caused a meaningful development in the area.
European Union leaders decided on Thursday to open EU membership negotiations with Ukraine. This has been a longtime goal of Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky and is a boost at a time when he’s trying to bolster his country’s support from allies both in Europe and in America.
And in headlines: the House passed a $886 billion defense policy bill, New York Republicans have figured out who should replace George Santos in his old job, and we crown WAD’s first-ever Person of the Year.
Show Notes:
This is the last WAD of 2023. We’ll return with new episodes on Wednesday, January 3rd.
- Sign a petition for a ceasefire on Jewish Voice for Peace's website – https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/ceasefire/
- IfNotNow’s demand for a ceasefire – https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/ceasefire-now
- Donate to the Palestinian Youth Movement – https://goodbricks.org/campaign/palestinianyouthmovement.com/donate-2022
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, |
| 0:05.0 | Friday, December 15th. I'm Priyanka Ara Bindi. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day, |
| 0:12.0 | where none of you had better be taking out student loans for |
| 0:14.7 | Musk University. |
| 0:16.1 | Absolutely not. That is Elon Musk's university. He is reportedly trying to open up in |
| 0:20.7 | Austin, Texas. |
| 0:21.7 | Listen, you better off going to DeVry at this point, okay? |
| 0:26.0 | You're better off doing a lot of things, honestly. |
| 0:28.0 | On today's show, the European Union opened the door to Ukraine as a member. |
| 0:35.0 | Plus we open up the envelope to reveal Wads Person of the Year. |
| 0:40.0 | Yes, but first as we head into our holiday break, we want to update y'all on the latest regarding the war in Gaza, |
| 0:48.0 | where despite reports that the United States is pressuring Israel to end the war by the end of the year. |
| 0:54.0 | Prime Minister Netanyahu is digging his heels in. |
| 0:57.3 | His office released a statement Thursday saying, |
| 0:59.8 | quote, I told our American friends, our heroic fighters have not fallen in vain. |
| 1:06.1 | From the deep pain of their falling, we are more determined than ever to continue to fight |
| 1:11.3 | until Hamas is eliminated until absolute victory. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, those are two very different sentiments. |
| 1:18.7 | I mean, we spoke earlier on the show this week about the shift in language that we're starting to see with |
| 1:24.0 | President Biden from the White House on this issue. How has that been impacting |
| 1:28.3 | conversations? Earlier this week Biden said that Israel's quote |
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