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Amanpour

Chaos in Israel

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Israel is in chaos as its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu desperately tries to calm protests rocking his country. They started after a controversial decision he made to reform the judiciary. Meanwhile, violence is flaring in the West Bank and now Netanyahu's Finance Minister Bezaelel Smotrich is facing backlash after making incendiary comments, saying the Palestinian town of Huwara "needs to be erased." Shireen Falah Saab, an Arab journalist, tells Bianna why she’s not surprised by the minister’s comments.  Also on today's show: Laura Poitras, Director, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”; Simon Lereng Wilmont, Director, “A House Made of Splinters”  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Four. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Israel on edge, unrelenting protests over Netanyahu's proposed judicial reform and a wave of

0:17.7

violence in the West Bank.

0:19.6

I speak to Palestinian journalist Shirin Falasab.

0:22.7

Then, when you think of the profit of people's pain,

0:27.2

you can only be furious.

0:29.4

Artist and Activists Nan Goulden's personal quest

0:32.2

to hold the powerful to account for the

0:34.2

opioid crisis. Director Laura Poitress joins me on her acclaimed new film

0:39.5

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. Plus it's been almost spiraling out of control and for each one of these kids that I saw at the shelter they could easily put in 10 more but there is no space for them.

0:52.0

Filmmaker Simon Lorang Wilmot talks to Hari Sri Navasin

0:56.0

about his Oscar Nominated documentary, House Made of Splinters

1:00.0

on The Sorrow and Hope found in a Ukrainian children shelter. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm

1:15.0

I'm gonna goadriguez in New York sitting in for Christian

1:21.0

on one poor. Israel is in chaos.

1:24.0

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is desperately trying to calm protests

1:27.5

rocking his country, protests that started

1:30.1

after a controversial decision he made to reform the judiciary.

1:34.3

Demonstrators are beyond angry over the move saying that it threatens the very

1:38.0

foundations of Israel's democracy.

1:40.6

One of the bills would give a simple majority in the parliament the power to overrule the Supreme Court.

1:45.0

Meanwhile, violence is flaring in the West Bank and now one of Netanyahu's senior ministers is facing backlash after making incendiary comments.

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