Another Take: The days before October 7
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on October 2, 2023. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Leaders from both Saudi Arabia and Israel have been working toward normalizing relations. The Saudi Kingdom, which supports Palestinian statehood, says it hopes normalization would ease Palestinians' lives. But during an address at the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said peace can only prevail in the Middle East when Palestinians have full, legitimate, and national rights. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition has been adamant in making no concessions to the Palestinians. So, where do Palestinians fit as Arab-Israeli relationships change?
In this episode:
- Mustafa Barghouti (@MustafaBarghoti), Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Tamara Khandaker and Amy Walters. The original production team was Sarí el-Khalili, Sonia Bhagat, David Enders, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, I'm Amy Walters, a senior producer with a take, back with another take, where we resurface an episode from the archives. |
| 0:19.3 | A year ago, Monday, on October 7, |
| 0:21.6 | 2023, Hamas launched an attack inside Israel. |
| 0:26.6 | A day later, Israel launched what became an unprecedented war on Gaza. |
| 0:33.6 | But days before, it seemed like the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East was changing, |
| 0:40.3 | in a different way. Saudi Arabia and Israel seemed to be inching towards normalizing relations, |
| 0:46.3 | and the U.S. was pushing for it. There was even talk that this normalization could improve lives for Palestinians, but many in the region were skeptical, |
| 0:57.2 | especially Palestinians. They wanted to see the occupation end. |
| 1:04.7 | We talked about these tensions with Palestinian political leader Mustafa Barguti in an episode on October 2, 2023. |
| 1:14.4 | It's a conversation that offers context |
| 1:16.7 | for how we got here. |
| 1:19.3 | All dates and references are from that time. It's been a week of rarely seen visits in the Middle East. |
| 1:38.3 | Israel's tourism minister is in Saudi Arabia to attend a United Nations conference on world tourism. |
| 1:46.7 | This has never happened before. |
| 1:49.0 | The communications minister of Israel will also visit the Saudi Kingdom. |
| 1:55.5 | Israeli officials landing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on official business. |
| 2:01.0 | And these visits are signs of what could be a tectonic shift in the region. |
| 2:06.5 | Saudi Arabia and Israel normalizing their relations. |
| 2:10.6 | Israel and Saudi Arabia have never had diplomatic relations. |
| 2:13.7 | But today, both countries appear to want normalization, |
| 2:18.4 | and the U.S. is actively negotiating its details. |
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