Day 339 - Pessimism from all sides taints hostage negotiations
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman and editor Amy Spiro join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's episode.
Reports came out last night that the chances of a phased hostage-ceasefire agreement being achieved on the basis of Israel’s May proposal are “close to zero” and there is “very broad pessimism.” The US, which had indicated it was planning to present a new bridging proposal in the next two or three days, is now regarded as unlikely to do so, it added. Berman brings an update.
Amid public criticism from top Israeli officials last week, Egypt’s army chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ahmed Fathy Khalifa made a surprise visit on Thursday to the country’s border with the Gaza Strip to inspect the security situation. At around the same time, the Egyptian leader, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a first Egyptian presidential visit to Turkey in 12 years, where he discussed the Gaza war and ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the regional powers during talks in Ankara. How is the growing daylight between Israel and Egypt affecting the region?
Israel wrapped up its time at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on Sunday with 10 medals, including four gold, its best showing at the Games in 20 years. In this year’s games, only three of the 28 Paralympians representing Israel this year were wounded during military service. One of the sad byproducts of the war is a sharp uptick in other potential candidates. We hear about the highlights of the games and how the organization is working towards using the 2028 games as a goal for this war's wounded warriors.
For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.
Discussed articles include:
Slain hostages struggled with their killers in final moments, IDF probe said to find
Negotiators said to believe chance of hostage deal ‘close to zero’; US also pessimistic
Erdogan seeks Islamic alliance against Israel, says its ‘expansionism’ won’t stop in Gaza
Egypt’s army chief visits Gaza border after Israel says Sissi failed on smuggling
Israel celebrates its best Paralympic showing in 20 years with 10-medal haul
From Gaza to LA: Can Paralympics dream help wounded soldiers get back their fighting spirit?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.4 | Today is Monday, September 9th, day 339 of the war with Hamas. |
| 0:13.7 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our diplomatic correspondent, Laser Bearman, and news editor Amy Sparrow. |
| 0:18.9 | Thank you both for joining me today. |
| 0:20.6 | Good morning. Good morning. |
| 0:22.7 | The chances of a phased hostage ceasefire agreement being achieved on the basis of Israel's |
| 0:29.2 | May proposal are close to zero, according to sources in the Israeli security establishment. |
| 0:35.3 | Laser will give us the pessimistic update. Turkey is taking steps to improve |
| 0:41.2 | ties with Egypt and Syria aimed at forming a line of solidarity against the growing threat of expansionism, |
| 0:48.5 | it claims, even as the Israeli government appears to insinuate that Egypt didn't do a good enough job in securing |
| 0:55.7 | the Philadelphia corridor. We'll dive into this proposed realignment of power and see if it has |
| 1:01.7 | legs. Amy is here to give us an update on Team Israel's medal grab at the Paralympics in Paris, |
| 1:08.3 | as well as give us some impressions on how the Israeli organizers are seeing the next Paralympics in Paris, as well as give us some impressions on how the Israeli organizers |
| 1:11.7 | are seeing the next Paralympics in L.A. All this and more when we're back. |
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