Friends In Need - with Matti Friedman

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The battle for Israeli democracy, to quote the opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu's "judicial reform" plan, moved to a new front this week - with an effort to enlist the Jewish diaspora into the protest movement. Yonit and Jonathan speak to writer and journalist Matti Friedman about his "Open Letter to Israel's Friends". Plus an update on the earthquakes that shook the Middle East and a chutzpah award to a woman in (British) politics and to the absence of women in (Israeli) politics. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Cyber Attacks Can Be Prevented. Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.
0:09.7	A powerful and lethal earthquake in the region. Judicial Reform Plan goes wider into the rest of the Jewish world.
0:18.9	We'll have a conversation with someone at the center of all of that.
0:23.0	It's unholy.
0:24.3	I'm Jonathan Friedland of the Guardian in London.
0:27.2	And I'm Unlevy of Channel 12 in Tel Avic.
0:42.9	Unholy, two Jews on the news from Keshepp podcasts.
0:44.1	What can I tell you, Jonathan?
0:46.6	Just a week of devastating news, really.
0:53.5	The pictures on and on television of what has been going on in Turkey and northern Syria. The time we're recording, estimated 20,000
0:57.9	people dead in this tragedy, just heartbreaking images of people, you know, searching through
1:03.3	the rubble, looking for their loved ones, really just terrible. It's one of those moments,
1:07.8	isn't it, where whatever the politics that goes on ordinarily, it suddenly, it reminds me of those differences.
1:15.1	Do you remember in sort of atlases, there would be political geography with all the borders and boundaries, and then there would be physical geography, which would show mountain ranges and contours with no borders marked on?
1:27.5	And this is one of those kind of moments where you forget the borders and the politics
1:32.8	between Israel, Syria.
1:34.1	This is just people who live in the neighbourhood and suffering, the most intense kind of
1:40.2	suffering.
1:40.4	The other thought I had about it was I remember after there had been a huge political turmoil and just upheaval in Haiti, that country was then struck by a terrible
1:50.6	earthquake. And you just thought, how much more are these people meant to suffer exactly?
1:55.6	You think about Syria, 11 years, 12 years nearly, of the most bloody, it's not even right to call it a civil war,
2:05.4	but just, you know, deadly onslaught pursued by the government of that country.
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