Escalating violence in the Middle East; the rising humanitarian crisis and the potential for spread of the conflict regionally

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This week's show focuses on the escalating violence following the Hamas attack on Israel. Fareed speaks with CNN Senior International Correspondent Sara Sidner, who joins the show live from Tel Aviv to discuss the complications of an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza and the implications of removing Hamas. Then, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Richard Haass joins the show to discuss the wider implications of the Israel-Hamas war on the Middle East and its potential impact on global geopolitics. Next, Fareed discusses Palestinian reactions to the violence with Rashid Khalidi, a Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman joins the show to discuss the intelligence failure that opened the door for Hamas' attack on Israel. Plus, Reuters journalist and author of the book, "Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement," Stephen Ferrell discusses the origins of Hamas and how the group has become what it is today. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States
0:06.2	and around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria coming to you live from New York.
0:11.4	Today on the program, a week and a day after Hamas's heinous terror attack, Israel
0:18.1	continues to strike Gaza and rockets continue to hit Israel as the world watches
0:23.6	for a ground invasion to begin. Let's get the latest live from Israel and then we
0:29.5	will talk to Richard Haas about the global politics at play, the influence of
0:34.6	America, Saudi Arabia, Iran and others in this conflict. Then, historian Rashid
0:40.8	Khalidi will join me to talk about Palestinian politics and the reaction of the
0:45.8	rest of the Arab world. Also, just how did Israel's much-rooted intelligence
0:52.7	apparatus miss the signs of an imminent enormous Hamas attack? I will talk to
0:59.1	the Israeli-investigated reporter Ronan Bergman. Finally, the history of Hamas, how
1:05.8	the Islamist group came to control Gaza and why it was able to pull off last
1:11.0	week's terror attacks. We'll explore with an expert. But first, here's my take.
1:19.7	Hamas's brutal and inhuman attack on Israel last week took the world by
1:25.1	surprise. Most importantly and tragically, it took the Israeli government by
1:30.5	surprise which meant a delayed response to the slaughter of its civilians. But
1:36.3	this was no black swan event. Instead, as the scholar Amy Ziegart notes, it was a
1:42.9	white swan, something utterly predictable. This is the fifth war between Israel and
1:49.6	Hamas in Gaza over the last 15 years. Israel controls air, land, and sea access
1:55.5	to the strip. Israeli intelligence is supposed to have an extensive network of
2:00.3	informants in Gaza. So what happened? We'll need time to reach a full
2:06.1	assessment, but it does appear that the Netanyahu government was so focused on
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