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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Deal with it - with Ehud Barak

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

As a ceasefire with Hizbollah brings an anxious quiet to the north of Israel, Yonit speaks with the US diplomat who brokered the deal, Amos Hochstein. Plus, a conversation with the man who ordered an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon a quarter century ago: former prime minister Ehud Barak. In a wide-ranging discussion, Barak shares with Yonit and Jonathan his views on how to end the war in Gaza, the ICC arrest warrants - and why Israel may have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran. Plus: a Latin American mensch and a serial winner bags the chutzpah award -- You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/SKqZ6Ms2xBM Subscribe to our Substack: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/ X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenews Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/unholypod.bsky.social Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

There is one less front to worry about. Israel and Lebanon agree on a ceasefire.

0:04.2

We will talk to former Israeli Prime Minister Ahud Barak, the man behind Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon

0:08.9

25 years ago. The Israeli government targets the Israeli media. And it's Thanksgiving.

0:14.1

Israeli woman and English men here want to take part in American traditions. It's unholy.

0:18.3

I'm Yonit Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Avie.

0:20.5

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

0:36.6

I'm not one of a... I mean,

0:39.6

there are people now who do this who actually sort of vicariously get into a kind of Thanksgiving thing.

0:45.2

I heard people, you know, in London yesterday talking about it as if it's a British holiday. I mean,

0:50.3

this is only at the margins, I promise you, It hasn't come here. Halloween has completely come here.

0:54.4

It's wiped away.

0:56.5

Guy Fawkes night on November 5th.

0:58.5

That used to be the thing.

0:59.6

Now it's Halloween.

1:00.8

I'm drawing the line here.

1:02.1

I mean, I can't really think we should be doing Thanksgiving.

1:04.9

But a lot of our listeners will be giving thanks. We have a, you know, the greater part, I think, of our audience is in the United States,

1:11.5

and we say happy holidays to them. Oh, indeed. I mean, it would be an interesting twist,

1:16.2

ironic twist of history if England took on celebrating Thanksgiving for sure. There's obviously

1:21.8

a large part, you know, a very large population of Americans who made Alia to Israel. So it's a,

1:26.2

it's a thing here as well. I wasn't

1:29.1

invited to any Thanksgiving this year, but generally I'm occasionally invited. I didn't want

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