Fallout - with Dana Weiss

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A tempestuous week in Israel, as the fallout from Monday’s first move in what critics call the “judicial coup” continues. What will Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers do, now that the Supreme Court has less power to restrain them? The first signs suggest the prime minister and his coalition allies have big ambitions - and plan to move fast. Yonit and Jonathan dive into it all, joined by Channel 12 diplomatic and political analyst Dana Weiss. Plus there’s chutzpah on display at Fox News (not a first) and a mensch to be found in the world’s oldest rock group. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Cyberattacks Can Be Prevented.
0:05.7	Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:12.0	A momentous week in Israel, the fallout beginning to be felt, and now attention goes to the future.
0:18.7	What is coming next?
0:20.8	It's unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:24.5	And I'm Unholy, of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:37.3	Unholy, Tootu's on the news.
0:39.1	We recorded our emergency update 24 hours after the crucial Knesset vote this week.
0:44.8	In a regular country, we would surely not have enough news to come back two days later with our regular scheduled podcast.
0:52.5	But I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
0:54.6	This is an irregular country, and we have yet more things to talk about, Jonathan.
0:59.0	Yeah, and irregular country and irregular times.
1:01.7	I mean, these are extraordinary times, even by Israeli standards.
1:06.0	It's quite fitting that we speak in the shadow of one of the most solemn days of the Jewish calendar
1:14.2	Tishaba of, the ninth of, meaning that's just a date and a month in the calendar, but it commemorates
1:22.4	the destruction of not one but two temples in Jewish history in Jerusalem. They are sort of standing in for
1:31.4	Jewish tragedy. They're understood to be not just the thing itself, the destruction of the
1:36.2	holiest site in Judaism twice over, but also the notion of a moment of downfall and destruction.
1:47.5	And crucially, not just necessarily destruction by Israel's external enemies, but the
1:52.7	notion that the threat, and here at this point you feel the divine scriptwriter is being
1:57.3	a little heavy-handed, a little on the nose, because the threat comes
2:01.4	from within, as the story is told. That is what actually leads to the destruction and calamity.
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