Democracy Now! 2024-01-17 Wednesday
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for January 17, 2024; Israel’s War on Journalists: More Reporters Killed in Gaza in 3 Months Than Any Country Over Entire Year; How Israel Bombed Al Jazeera Journalists & Blocked Rescue of Cameraman Samer Abudaqa Until He Died; “They Don’t Show Gaza”: Gideon Levy on How Israel’s Press Is Failing to Cover the War’s True Toll; What Happened on October 7? Gideon Levy on Haaretz’s Call to Investigate Kibbutz Killings & More; “The Logic of Escalation”: From Red Sea to Iran & Beyond, Will Israel’s Gaza Assault Spark Wider War?
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | Part as it may seem given that the war on terror is stretched for over 20 years, but this might be the most dangerous moment |
| 0:25.2 | I've ever observed in the Middle East. Whether it's the United States or Iran and each of their various allies, |
| 0:35.4 | the escutory pressures of the current war |
| 0:38.4 | emerging from Israel's devastation of Gaza |
| 0:41.8 | are tremendous. |
| 0:43.4 | From Iraq to Lebanon to Pakistan to the Red Sea, |
| 0:46.8 | can Israel's war on Gaza escalate into a full-blown regional conflict. |
| 0:52.1 | We'll speak with award-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman |
| 0:55.1 | but first Gaza's the deadliest place for journalists on record. |
| 0:59.9 | More journalists have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, nearly all of them Palestinian, |
| 1:05.0 | that have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year. |
| 1:10.0 | Many of those journalists who are still alive have lost their family members have lost their homes |
| 1:14.4 | so this really is a war on journalists in Gaza. |
| 1:18.0 | We'll speak with independent journalist Sharif Gokudus andf Mansour with the Committee to Protect Journalists. |
| 1:25.0 | We'll take an in-depth look at a new investigation into the killing of an Al Jazeera cameraman |
| 1:30.6 | last month. |
| 1:31.6 | And what do Israelis see on TV? |
| 1:35.6 | How has Israeli media's coverage shaped opinions of the war? |
| 1:40.4 | We'll go to Tel Aviv to speak with Haareth's journalist Gidun Leavi. |
| 1:45.0 | All that and more coming up. |
| 1:47.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
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