Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza

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Haviv Rettig Gur

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4.9 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Warfighting has resumed in Gaza. Israel's message is clear: Gaza's future depends on Hamas releasing hostages and surrendering its control of the territory.

But there is a larger pivot underway, a regional strategic realignment. Hamas once hoped its attack on Israel would trigger a broader regional war. In a sense, it succeeded, relegating Gaza to a marginal arena in the larger strategic struggle. That alone, gives Israel a freer hand to resume war whenever it wants. Hamas is now truly strategically alone.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to a quick emergency episode of Ask Habib Anything. This is really going to be quick and dirty. There's back to war in Gaza. There's a resumption of war. And we've all heard the news and the very senior Hamas officials and leaders and military planners, the spokesman of the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza, killed by Israel.
0:28.0	It's escalating fast and things are changing profoundly.
0:31.4	And what we're seeing happening in Gaza is the tip of the iceberg of a really profound pivot that's happening right now in the Middle East.
0:37.4	So I want to walk us through that really quick.
0:39.5	Things for you to watch out for.
0:41.6	It's going to be short.
0:42.6	It's going to be quick.
0:43.4	I think it's going to be fascinating and important because this is one of those one of those pivot moments.
0:50.4	But first, I want to thank Joe and Shira Lieberman for sponsoring this episode and a string of episodes and asking that their sponsorship just be an – their ad read, so to speak, is remembering someone who died on October 7.
1:07.3	We just went through the holiday of Purim.
1:09.8	And I want to remember – I want to remember a five-year-old boy
1:14.0	whose favorite holiday was Purim and who was gunned down in his car with the rest of his family.
1:20.3	Both parents are single children, and so two families ended that day on October 7.
1:28.5	Aitin Kapchitaitao is his name.
1:30.7	He is five years old from Dimona.
1:32.8	His father, Evgeny, mother Dina, and sister Aline, who was eight years old, had spent
1:39.3	a Simchatelah holiday on a camping trip in Park Ashkelon nearby.
1:44.8	The next day on Sunday was going to be Aiton's fifth birthday.
1:50.5	There was a barrage of rockets.
1:52.3	They heard sirens.
1:54.0	They packed up their camp.
1:56.1	They got in their car and they were trying to drive home to Sterrott,
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