Haviv Unplugged!

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Share on X: https://tinyurl.com/2s4x4j2h In recent days, there have been a lot of war-related developments that have taken place in Israel and outside of Israel. So it was good that we had the opportunity to catch up with Haviv Rettig Gur as Shavuot came to a close in Israel. In this episode, we wound up having a spirited conversation about: I.The mood in Israel days after after Operation Arnon, and also why the day after the successful resuce operation we saw Benny Gantz's long anticipated exit from the unity government; II. The ultra orthodox or 'Haredi' IDF exemption bill that passed in the Knesset; and III. Hamas's rejection (yet again) of Israel's ceasefire proposal.

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0:00.0	Hamas said no. Now that Hamas said no, what do we do? There is no ceasefire coming. There is no hostage release coming. Now what?
0:07.0	Netanyahu needs to stop campaigning for 10 minutes and start doing the job.
0:11.0	And in the north, the escalation is serious. Missles fell in the north the escalation is serious missiles fell on
0:15.1	sfat today missiles fell on Tiberius today either the north faces an Israeli
0:21.3	statement a clear Israeli statement that we can escalate and will
0:25.1	escalate and the damage will be disastrous. Or we're going to actually end up escalating
0:30.3	and the damage will be disastrous. The only way Hezbollah pulls back from the brink is if we stop telling them we refuse to fight. And so there is an indecisiveness to this government that has dragged everything out, hurt everything, and driven Israeli
0:44.9	morale into the dumps even as the army has delivered one success after another.
0:50.8	And that has to be reversed.
0:52.3	So guns is gone. Everything is now a Netanyahu. It's 11.5.5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12th here in New York City. It's 6.45 a.m. on Thursday, June 13th in Israel as Israelis get ready to start their day.
1:17.8	In recent days, there have been a lot of war-related developments that have taken place inside Israel and outside of Israel.
1:25.0	So it was good that I had the opportunity to catch up with Haviv Rettigur from the times of Israel just as
1:32.0	Chavuut had come to a close in Israel.
1:35.0	In this episode we wound up having a rather spirited conversation about
1:40.0	one the mood in the country in the days following Operation Arknown and how the day after Operation
1:47.3	Arnone, which resulted in the rescue of 4 Israeli hostages Ultra Orthodox or Haire di exemption bill, their exemption from the IDF, pass at least the first round of it, pass in the Knesset.
2:09.0	And then three, we saw Hamas's rejection yet again of Israel's ceasefire proposal.
2:15.8	I can't remember if this is the eighth or ninth rejection by Hamas.
2:20.2	I've lost track.
2:21.9	Haviv had some pretty impassioned takes on every single one of these issues.
2:26.5	So I just wound him up and let him go.
2:31.2	Haviv unplugged.
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