Day 497 - Decoding Trump’s foreign policy
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 36 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.
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, part of The Times of Israel's newest podcast series, Friday Focus. Each Friday, join Berman and Borschel-Dan for a deep dive into what's behind the news that spins the globe.
This week, Berman assesses how the current Trump administration's foreign policy seems to be shaping up. From the US president's bombshell February 4, 2025, proposal to transfer Gaza's population from the Strip to reset the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to efforts to end the Ukraine War, Trump's gaze appears to be as global as it is domestic.
So how does that square with his promise to "Make America Great Again"?
Berman zooms out and in 30 minutes illustrates how the president appears to be adopting a new motto: "Speak brashly and carry a big stick."
Please see today's ongoing live blog for more updates.
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IMAGE: US President Donald Trump takes questions during a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. Today is February 14th Friday, Day 497 of the war. |
| 0:13.1 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our diplomatic correspondent, Laser Bearman, for an in-depth Friday |
| 0:18.3 | focus. Hi, Laser. Thanks for joining me today. Hi, Amanda. Good to be back. |
| 0:23.1 | It's so great to have you and we've both kind of been away so it's nice to catch up if only on a Friday |
| 0:29.2 | focus slash schmooze kind of podcast. Friday Focus podcast. A schmoozy Friday focus. We'll schmooze after without the |
| 0:36.1 | world listening. All right. The world doesn't |
| 0:38.0 | need to listen to this. And what we're set to do today is to kind of decode U.S. President |
| 0:44.4 | Donald Trump's foreign policy. I'm going to ask you all sorts of questions about this, the logic of it |
| 0:50.8 | or the lack of logic of it. We'll see. And all sorts of questions like that. |
| 0:56.3 | But first, I just want to mention one of the headlines after a break. |
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| 1:41.4 | Israel has reportedly sent a message to Hamas through mediators, Egypt and Qatar, that the |
| 1:47.3 | hostage-release ceasefire deal will continue if the terror group releases three more hostages |
| 1:52.9 | on Saturday. So Israel's Channel 2 News is reporting that Hamas is expected to release |
| 1:59.3 | some three living hostages. This is not the all |
| 2:04.0 | hostages that U.S. President Trump has demanded, and neither is the nine living hostages that we |
| 2:09.7 | know about in phase one of the deal. And these are, we're talking on Friday, it's Valentine's Day. |
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