Day 426 - Trump speaks loudly and carries a big stick on Gaza

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

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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.

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened those holding hostages in the Middle East with unprecedented American firepower if they are not released by the time he enters office on January 20.
The latest warning was posted on Truth Social came two days after Hamas released a propaganda video showing American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander pleading with the president-elect to secure his release and hours after the IDF revealed that another American-Israeli hostage — Omer Neutra — was killed during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught and that his body is being held in Gaza. We discuss what efforts have not yet been brought to the table and how Neutra's death was covered in US media.

Israel’s Channel 12 reported yesterday that an Israeli delegation will travel to Cairo early next week after Egypt has put together a new multi-stage hostage deal proposal. Also, earlier in the week, we heard that the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly administer postwar Gaza. Magid weighs in whether this new alliance could be enough to give Hamas the lifeline it needs to claim post-war victory.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday announced the appointment of his Lebanese-American in-law Massad Boulos to be his senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. Boulos will likely work alongside Steve Witkoff, who Trump last month appointed as his special envoy for the Middle East to work on expanding the Abraham Accords that he brokered at the end of his first term. Are these the right men for the job?

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Discussed articles include:

Trump warns there will be ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages aren’t released by Jan. 20

Slain Israeli-American hostage remembered as ‘hero of Israel’ at NY memorial service

Fatah, Hamas agree to form committee to run postwar Gaza

Trump says Lebanese-American in-law will be senior aide on Arab and Mideast affairs

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IMAGE: Illustrative: Campaigning for a second term, former US President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled 'Fighting Antisemitism in America' at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington DC, September 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing.
0:08.8	Today's Thursday, December 5th, day 426 of the war.
0:14.2	Amanda Borschelle Dan here with our U.S. Bureau Chief, Jacob, hi, Jacob.
0:18.2	Thanks for joining me.
0:19.3	Hi, Amanda.
0:19.7	Good to be back with you.
0:21.8	Always a pleasure.
0:32.6	There is some optimism among official Israel that a new effort pushing a staged hostage release and ceasefire in Gaza could be achieved.
0:42.0	This comes on the heels of a bold statement from President-elect Donald Trump that the hostages are released by January 20th or else.
0:57.2	Jacob will fill us in on this as well as an almost deal between the Palestinian authorities ruling party Fatah and Hamas on how to rule on the day after the war. Others and much, much more when we're back.
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1:56.1	U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened those holding hostages in the Middle East
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