Danger of a Wider War. With Joe Cirincione.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The crisis in the Middle East is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, there's a real danger that it will escalate and metastasize to envelope the whole region in an even bloodier conflict. President Biden and the United States are playing a key role in the region and specifically in Israel’s response to the truly horrific, no excuses, terrorist attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens. So time for the pod to turn to our foreign policy guru, Joe Cirincione. He has a long and highly regarded record of foreign policy and nuclear policy analysis. He has been our guide to this and other crises around the world. Today he and Bill talk Israel and Ukraine, two democracies under attack.
Today once again and importantly, Bill highlights the work of the world central kitchen led by Jose Andres. No matter where the disaster manmade or natural, the World Central Kitchen is on the scene feeding hungry people. They are already in Israel and Gaza. They need your support in their humanitarian mission. You can help by going to their website at WCK.org and do what you can to alleviate the pain of war.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors. Good of you to join us for another edition of the Bill |
| 0:10.9 | Press 5. Well, it's been two weeks since Hamas shocked the world with its violent attack on Israel. |
| 0:17.5 | Two weeks since Israel declared war on Hamas in return, and two weeks of non-stop |
| 0:23.2 | shelling on both sides, mainly by Israel on Gaza, in anticipation of its ground invasion. |
| 0:30.4 | Meanwhile, President Biden made a historic visit to Tel Aviv and gave an Oval Office address |
| 0:35.5 | to the nation to reaffirm America's support for Israel, |
| 0:39.3 | and humanitarian aid for displaced Palestinians has finally started pouring across the border. |
| 0:46.3 | But this war in the Middle East is far from over, indeed, with incoming missiles from Hezbollah in the north and Israeli missiles striking |
| 0:56.4 | the West Bank and Syria in the last couple of days, there are growing fears that things could |
| 1:02.4 | erupt into a wider war consuming the entire Middle East. So, time for us to get a good update |
| 1:10.2 | on where things now stand and where we might be heading. |
| 1:13.9 | And we turn again to our own foreign policy guru, national security analyst, and former head of the Plowshares Fund, Joe Sirencioni. |
| 1:23.9 | Joe Sierensione, welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 1:26.8 | Thank you again for joining us. Joe, one of these days, we're going to talk, you know, when things are doing great, right? |
| 1:35.1 | We'll be talking about a peace summit or a new diplomatic treaty, yes, but not today. Sadly, this is not one of these days. |
| 1:44.3 | In fact, everybody that I talked to, Joe, and let's start there, you know, it's been two weeks now, |
| 1:52.3 | but people are really worried that this is getting more and more serious and could easily |
| 1:56.9 | spiral out of control. |
| 1:59.3 | We saw yesterday Israeli shelling Syria and the West Bank, and of course, |
| 2:05.3 | Hezbollah sending missiles in from the north. Could this easily blow up? Is it likely to? |
| 2:14.4 | What are the risks there? It could easily escalate. In fact, that is the focus of U.S. efforts right now to prevent |
| 2:22.1 | this conflict between Israel and Hamas from escalating along two axes. First, vertically. |
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