Biden Administration Pressures Israel to Ratchet Down High-Intensity Attacks in Gaza, Blackrock is Sued Over ESG Investments | Dec. 18

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TOP NEWS | On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Secretary of Defense Austin visits Israel to pressure them to scale down ground military operations. IDF announces massive military tunnel in Gaza. The Vatican makes a declaration on blessing gay couples. The Blackrock investment first faces a new lawsuit over ESG investment practices. Harvard scrubs DEI website. Relevant Links Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brian Gotstein and this is the Daily Signal top news for Monday December 18th.
0:08.0	Here are today's headlines. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is visiting Israel and pressuring the nation to ease off its intense offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
0:29.0	Israel's ground campaign began on October 27th and has continued since. Any large-scale
0:34.9	military operation will have phases, Austin said to reporters on Monday
0:39.1	according to the Times of Israel. He noted that at some point the military campaign should switch
0:44.6	from aggressively targeting Hamas and other terrorist groups to a more
0:48.8	humanitarian mission. However he said in a video via Sky News that the U.S. ultimately wouldn't dictate
0:56.5	what Israel should do.
0:58.6	This is Israel's operation, and I'm not here to dictate timelines or terms.
1:05.0	Our support to Israel's right to defend itself is ironclad, as you've heard me say a number of times and that's not going to change.
1:14.6	It's critical as I said earlier that Hamas not be able to threaten Israel
1:28.1	from Gaza or even threaten Gaza anymore. And that's an interest that we all share.
1:30.6	That's a common interest with all of us.
1:35.0	And so today we had great discussions about the status of the campaign,
1:40.0	about goals and objectives, and about about how to reduce harm to civilians in the battle space and to and the need to ensure a sustained flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
2:00.0	U.S. based Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of cutting off the delivery of food, water, and other materials to Gaza.
2:07.0	Israeli authorities say that while the war to destroy Hamas continues, Israel has not shut off the transmission of aid to Gaza's civilians.
2:15.9	We placed zero restrictions on the amount of food and water that are being allowed into the
2:20.0	Gaza Strip, Israeli government spokesperson Tall Heinrich said according to Reuters. the It's discovered the largest Hamas tunnel in Gaza, about 2.5 miles long.
2:35.8	The vast tunnel is part of a large web of underground tunnels Hamas is built underneath Gaza.
2:41.3	The IDF said it discovered the tunnel a few weeks ago
2:44.0	it's large enough to drive vehicles through and extends about a hundred sixty feet underground
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