Does Netanyahu Have an Exit Strategy?
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
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Summary
Seven months into the war in Gaza, both the international community and many Israelis are demanding to know what Benjamin Netanyahu’s “day after” plan is. Observers are also wondering whether charges from the International Criminal Court will influence Israel’s approach—and whether the death of Iran’s president and foreign minister will change how Hamas fights.
Guest: Yair Rosenberg, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion.
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| 0:00.0 | Ask the Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg why he thinks there could be a shift going on with |
| 0:11.0 | the war in Gaza. |
| 0:12.6 | And he'll tell you, just look at Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet. |
| 0:17.6 | A top member of Israel's war cabinet and arrival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:22.0 | is warning he will resign if the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning he will resign if the Prime Minister |
| 0:24.8 | does not change course in Gaza. |
| 0:27.0 | So Nick, what happened today in Israel? |
| 0:29.4 | It looks like the private infighting has burst into public view. |
| 0:33.0 | Over the past week, one by one, the men who should be working with Prime Minister |
| 0:40.8 | Netanyahu to plan this war have come forward to say they do not support |
| 0:46.8 | Netanyahu's leadership. |
| 0:49.0 | They specifically say he's got no plan for what happens after the fighting is done. |
| 0:55.0 | I mean, does it feel like we're entering a new stage of this war to you? |
| 1:00.0 | I think Israel itself is entering a new stage when it comes to a debate over the war. |
| 1:08.1 | In the days since this very public break, headlines from the Middle East have just kept coming. |
| 1:15.0 | First, the President of Iran, Israel's main adversary, and Hamas's main supporter, |
| 1:21.0 | died in a shocking helicopter crash. |
| 1:25.0 | There are multiple reports now coming from Iran |
| 1:27.7 | within the last few minutes that Abraham Riesi is dead. |
| 1:31.4 | Riesi, the foreign minister, and several others killed after the helicopter was forced to make a |
| 1:36.3 | hard landing in the steep mountains of Iran. |
| 1:39.3 | The next day, pressure built in the region in a different way. |
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