Biden Heads To Israel
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the breaking news of an airstrike hitting a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds of staff, patients, and civilians. They also discuss Biden’s upcoming visit to Israel and negotiations around hostage rescue and aid packages, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meetings with regional leaders and resistance to taking in Palestinian refugees, new reports on Hamas’ lengthy, detailed planning for the attack on Israel, and thoughts on alternatives to a massive Israeli military response. Then they cover Senator Bob Menendez being charged as a foreign agent, hopeful election results in Poland, a deal that could relieve US sanctions on Venezuela, Pakistan’s deportation order affecting Afghan refugees, and Australia’s failed Indigenous Voice referendum. Then Tommy speaks with Melanie Ward, CEO of Medical Aid for Palestinians (https://www.map.org.uk/ (https://www.map.org.uk/)), about the dire situation on the ground in Gaza for those needing medical attention.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome to Potsayva World, I'm Tommy Vitore. |
| 0:12.5 | And Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.5 | We still don't have a speaker at the house, Ben. |
| 0:16.1 | You know, I saw that Jim Jordan just didn't provoke that groundswell of overwhelming |
| 0:22.8 | enthusiasm that one would think a man like Jim Jordan could do. |
| 0:25.8 | Is that technically a self-own? |
| 0:28.0 | I mean, basically being in the Republican House caucus is a bit of a self-own. |
| 0:31.6 | That's a self-own. |
| 0:32.6 | We're leading with this because all the news is so depressing today. |
| 0:35.2 | We just have to kind of laugh about something. |
| 0:37.2 | But obviously today, we are going to talk about the ongoing Israeli military campaign of |
| 0:41.2 | Gaza in the efforts to create a humanitarian safe zone and get humanitarian relief into the |
| 0:45.6 | Gaza Strip. |
| 0:46.4 | President Biden is going to Israel. |
| 0:49.2 | We're going to talk about that and the US government's response to try to manage this crisis |
| 0:53.2 | as well as the international community's response and how they're very different. |
| 0:56.3 | We will also then try to catch you up on some of the other major stories |
| 1:00.7 | happening in the world, including reports that Senator Bob Menendez maybe was just a |
| 1:06.0 | Egyptian spy. |
| 1:06.9 | We should say that straight up spy, actually. |
| 1:08.3 | I wasn't like about that. |
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