"Calm before the storm"
Makdisi Street
Bayt al Makdisi
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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The brothers gather in the garden of their family home in the mountains of Lebanon to discuss recent Israeli escalations and the possible consequences from Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere, following the Israeli bombings in Beirut and Tehran; the focus of the discussion is the fact that, despite inflicting massive and irreparable trauma on civilian life in Gaza, the Israelis have been sinking deeper and deeper into a losing war in Gaza, and may now be looking for a way to drag the US into a wider war to "save" themselves.
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Date of recording: August 3, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Peaceful here, in a beautiful area and it's peaceful, but again everybody's waiting for something to happen. |
| 0:08.0 | It's that moment of just waiting. |
| 0:11.0 | The calm before the storm. |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, a bit of dread, but a bit calmer than it was pre-Hassan Nasana speech, I think. |
| 0:18.0 | For sure. But you're waiting, you're waiting and waiting and let's see. So here we are in our house in the mountains of Lebanon and we're all waiting for something to happen. And if we don't know what it is that's going to happen. Karim, as the local, as you always put it in... You're just as local in this context we're all local now but |
| 0:38.0 | Kenyam as the local in quotation marks of course what are your thoughts what are |
| 0:43.6 | your predictions no predictions but familiar feel as usual waiting for the |
| 0:51.0 | Israelis to to attack and to hit waiting for you some kind of battle, waiting for some kind of explosion, waiting for somebody. |
| 1:00.0 | At this case now, Hezab and others to retaliate from this incredible assassinations, a series of assassinations across the region and here. |
| 1:10.0 | And now we're waiting and now as |
| 1:11.9 | Hassan al-Sala said it could happen anytime it can be today it could be |
| 1:16.6 | tomorrow it could be next week something's gonna happen and then you know you |
| 1:19.3 | wait to see what are the Israelis going to do and the Americans are moving |
| 1:22.6 | we just read now they're moving yet more battleships into the you know |
| 1:26.4 | close close to our coast and so it's all |
| 1:29.4 | it's this it's this usual thing of just expecting something big to happen people are worried people |
| 1:33.8 | are anxious and it's that that sense of dread but at the same time the sense of okay after the |
| 1:41.4 | hassan al-nasala speech actually people calmed down a little bit in the sense of |
| 1:45.2 | there was a sense of immediate response because there was a lot of no the worry of an immediate |
| 1:51.0 | response versus after the speech it felt like okay it could be today but you know it could be |
| 1:55.6 | next week so there was a slight release of attention uh but it ordered that you know who we are |
| 2:00.7 | continuing in the meantime people are doing as as we always do order that, you know, who we are continuing. In the meantime, |
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