Escalation - with Amos Harel

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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A dramatic — some might say extreme — proposal to escalate the war in Gaza, fresh signs of daylight between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu and an increasingly direct confrontation with Yemen. This week, we turn to military analyst Amos Harel to make sense of what’s coming — and the competing forces driving events. Plus: a powerful new art exhibition, a spellbinding new play and an outrageous act of chutzpah.

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0:00.0	A radical, not to say, extreme plan to expand the war in Gaza and signs of distance between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Binium Netanyahu.
0:12.0	It's unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.
0:15.2	And I'm Unite Levy in Tel Aviv. Unholy, two Jews in the news.
0:30.1	An announcement before we begin, just to remind our listeners, London, June 8th, just be there.
0:35.4	It's going to be very cool.
0:36.4	Our very first unholy live event at the Queen
0:40.2	Elizabeth Hall. Yuval No Harari, historian, author, intellectual, Oracle, two stars from the
0:46.4	entertainment world, actor Andy Nyman, and singer Mira Awad. It's going to be fantastic. My only
0:53.1	issue right now is that I don't have the perfect suit. So I will
0:56.5	leave Jonathan to do his podcast. I will go and find my perfect suit. Shopping. Yes. It is important,
1:03.7	you know. Suits are important. They are. So you've already revealed something there. You're going
1:08.0	to be wearing a suit. I will. Are you surprised?
1:10.9	That's a pre-show reveal.
1:13.1	I love suits. You know this about me. And I found the only job in the world where this is, my obsession has a outlet and an accelerates to my obsession of loving suits.
1:22.3	Yeah. What are the other jobs for women that require suits? I'm thinking, Secretary of State for the United States in 2016 also.
1:31.5	This gives me options, thank you. Yeah. Oh, not 20s. Future career trajectory. Yeah, no, so you've given, that's your, the first of many reveals. You've told us something of what you might be wearing, but also the line-up for our big show on the 8th of June in London.
1:47.5	We're delighted to say, and this is usually sort of Donald Trump-style hype when you say there's only very few tickets left.
1:54.4	It has sold, almost sold out this show.
1:57.4	And there are very, very few tickets left.
1:59.3	I think by the time you hear this,
2:07.7	it may be too late. So you need to book up for that. Now, lots of news which we're going to get to, especially with our guest. Do you think we should change our podcast name to just,
2:11.5	there's a lot going on? I think so. That would be popular, I think. That could really work.
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