Day 404 – With Biden's term nearly up, US retires threatened embargo
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
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.
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.
US State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel acknowledged during a press briefing on Tuesday that Israel implemented some — but not all — of the steps demanded by the US in an October 13 letter giving Jerusalem a month to act or risk being deemed out of compliance with US law, which bars offensive weapons from being transferred to countries that block aid from reaching civilians. We hear what Israel did accomplish and why the US may have overlooked some shortcomings.
In a flurry of announcements, President-elect Donald Trump said he had chosen former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is a staunch defender of Israel, and his intended nomination comes as Trump has promised to align US foreign policy more closely with Israel’s interests as it wages wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. We hear what Rettig Gur sees taking shape in terms of Trump's predicted approach to Israel.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich paid a visit to Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the Israeli communities hit the worst in Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and met families of local hostages as well as former captives. It is Smotrich’s first visit to Nir Oz, more than 13 months after Palestinian terrorists rampaged there, killing or kidnapping 117 out of its 400 residents. There are still 29 hostages from Nir Oz held captive in Gaza. Why now?
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Discussed articles include:
US says it won’t withhold weapons to Israel, as deadline to address aid crisis passes
Trump taps Fox News host who said US must ‘stand by strong ally’ Israel to head Pentagon
US slams Smotrich’s vow to annex parts of West Bank following Trump’s win
In first, Smotrich visits Oct. 7-ravaged Nir Oz, says he feels ‘responsibility, guilt’
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IMAGE: A handout picture released by the official Jordanian news agency Petra shows an airdrop of humanitarian and relief aid to the southern Gaza Strip carried out by members of the Jordanian army on November 12, 2024. (PETRA News Agency / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. Today is Wednesday, November 13th, Day 404 of the war with |
| 0:12.8 | Hamas. Amanda Barshall Dan here with our senior analyst, Kaviv Rattigur. Hi, Kaviv. Always a pleasure |
| 0:18.9 | to speak with you on the daily briefing. |
| 0:21.5 | Hi, Amanda. Good to be here. |
| 0:23.5 | The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it would not withhold weapon shipments to Israel |
| 0:29.9 | as a 30-day deadline for Jerusalem to significantly alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza expired. |
| 0:39.4 | We'll also learn about some of the recent picks by President-elect Donald Trump and how they may influence the U.S.'s approach to Israel |
| 0:44.7 | during his new administration. And finally, we'll hear about finance minister Betelos-Motr-Motr |
| 0:50.5 | 's long overdue visit to Kibbutz-N's. Others and much, much more when we're back. |
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| 1:55.0 | The U.S. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel acknowledged during a press briefing that Israel implemented some, but not all of the steps demanded by the U.S. in an October 13th letter giving Jerusalem a month to act or risk being deemed out of compliance with U.S. law, which bars offensive weapons from being transferred to |
| 2:18.8 | countries that block aid from reaching civilians. Kaviv, you and I are parents, and I can't help |
| 2:25.1 | but think of the many, many times in which I've done the countdown to my kids, hoping they |
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