BIDEN: "Don't!" / NASRALLAH: "I hear you." - emergency episode with Dr. Matthew Levitt

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We just had a conversation with Dr. Matthew Levitt, an expert on Hassan Nasrallah and Hezbollah, getting his immediate reaction and analysis on Nasrallah’s first public address since the October 7 War. Matt is the director of the Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. During his tenure at Treasury, he played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists, weapons proliferators, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. He later served as a counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security. Previously, Matt was a counterterrorism intelligence analyst at the FBI, where he provided tactical and strategic analytical support for counterterrorism operations, focusing on fundraising and logistical support networks for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. He is the author of several books and monographs, including Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press, 2006), Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God (Georgetown University Press, 2013). He is the host of the podcast series, Breaking Hezbollah's Golden Rule.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is a special episode on Friday, November 3rd at 12.15 PM here in New York City, 6.15 PM in Israel.
0:21.7	We are dropping this special episode with Dr Matthew Levitt
0:26.4	from the Washington Institute for Neary's Policy.
0:28.8	Matt was on this podcast about a week ago when he gave us a crash course on the history of
0:33.9	Hezbollah. As our listeners know, Matt was with the FBI working on counterterrorism, he's
0:41.4	with the Department, U.S. Department of Treasury working on terrorism.
0:45.0	financing, both those positions he worked on and studied quite a bit how terrorist
0:51.3	organizations organized logistics and financing and a whole range of other projects
0:57.2	and they're organizing their terror campaigns.
0:59.8	As I said, he's now at the Washington Institute for Near East's Policy he's the author of a number of books
1:03.8	including one very important book on Hezbollah and he's the host of a terrific podcast that I highly recommend and is extremely relevant now called Breaking Hesba's Golden Rule.
1:15.8	Matt, thanks for hopping on on short notice for calling me back.
1:20.3	Always a pleasure.
1:21.5	Okay, so we're going to keep this succinct, but hopefully very informative.
1:27.6	I want to understand what happened.
1:29.9	So just to replay the tape, over the last few days there was a lot of hype about a big
1:35.4	speech that Hassan Nasrallah was going to deliver in Lebanon the head of
1:40.2	Hezbollah the Hezbollah's propaganda arm even released a video that was
1:45.4	hyping the speech. It looked like almost like an American-style political
1:48.6	campaign ad about the build-up to the speech, this big speech and then a lot of like pre-game, you know,
1:55.2	setting up of the seats, the setting up of the stage, the setting up of the, there was just a lot of like,
1:59.6	what you see like, you know, the pre-game hype of a Super Bowl.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ark Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ark Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.