Are Gazans starving so that Netanyahu can survive?

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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“Let them eat burgers“ - Israel’s PM Netanyahu has popped up on a Canadian fratcast talking about his favourite fast food and weighing up the merits of the Double Whopper. Across the border, Gazans are starving to death - UN estimates suggest a thousand have been shot in the meagre food distribution queues. Many more are facing malnutrition and critical levels of hunger. We keep being told that 80 percent of Israelis are against the war - so why hasn’t it stopped? We speak to Ayala Panievsky.

Later, Hunter Biden rants at George Clooney and Barack Obama’s team for trying to bring his father down. It’s a three hour long interview. An act of loyalty? Or stupidity?

And, why is Nigel Farage providing the most memorable moment of the Tory reshuffle?

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. This is a global player original podcast. It's your go-to at McDonald's. No, I'll tell you, Burger King. We did the, you know, the double, you know. Whopper? Yeah. I haven't ripped Burger King in a long time. It's not. Burger King kind of sucks. Yeah. No, you're wrong. The BK Lounge can hit it.
0:01.0	I disagree completely.
0:01.9	You like Burger King in a long time. Burger King kind of sucks. Yeah.
0:21.6	No, you're wrong.
0:22.5	The Beaker King Lounge can hit.
0:23.5	I disagree completely. You like Burger King over McDonald? That's their worst take, I think. Absolutely. That's a crazy take, my life. No, that's fine. That's Bibi Netanyahu, taking time out from his busy schedule to chat to podcasters about his favourite fast food.
0:20.1	It's pretty obscene, given the number of garlands now starving to death,
0:42.9	just the other side of that Israeli border. The calls for change, the condemnation, the fury from the
0:51.2	West has intensified with the statement from the Foreign Secretary David
0:55.0	Lamy and others. But is any of it, any of it, making a blind bit of difference to the Israeli
1:02.4	government? Welcome to the newsagents.
1:09.6	It's John. It's Emily. And it's hard not to find it utterly useful. The News Agents.
1:11.3	It's John.
1:12.1	It's Emily.
1:13.0	And it's hard not to find it utterly jarring.
1:16.2	To hear the talk of your preference between a Big Mac and a Wopper when not that many miles from
1:24.7	the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, it's the Gaza Strip, where a thousand
1:30.0	people, according to the aid agencies, have now died while queuing to get food.
1:38.2	Nothing more than the daily battle for survival.
1:41.9	There are also reports of malnutrition and starvation and death through starvation.
1:49.1	You will know that nine weeks ago, Kirstama talked about the situation in Gaza being intolerable.
1:57.9	And yet somehow, he and other world leaders, to be fair, have found that they could
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