Hello Biden, Bye Bye Boris - with Peter Baker

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Roll the red carpet and get the cameras ready - in less than a week, the leader of the free world will make his way to Israel, only to be greeted by a freshly-appointed Prime Minister of a caretaker government. Yonit and Jonathan are joined by the New York Times’ Chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, to discuss the objectives of the visit, the upcoming midterms and the American relations with Saudi Arabia. And, it seems our British friends got a bit jealous of Israel hogging all the political drama - and decided to take a shot at it, with the announcement of Boris Johnson (Br)exiting office. But as the United Kingdom is left prime minister-less, one issue troubles our co-host most - who will replace Johnson, the star of more than one of Jonathan’s columns?! Plus - here’s a scoop: this ice cream manufacturer is losing cone-trol (okay, we’re done with the gelato puns) over a battle on selling their products in the settlements. -- 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	Hello, I'm Unite Levi of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:15.2	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:18.4	And we are unholy two Jews on the news from Keshet podcast.
0:21.9	And boy, is there a lot of news today, Jonathan.
0:24.7	That is the one commodity, which is not in short supply.
0:28.7	You know all these Brexit supply chain issues?
0:31.7	The one thing there is no supply problem here is news, news, news.
0:36.7	I have been either at the keyboard or at the microphone
0:40.3	or at my notebook for, I think it feels like 48 hours straight. This is the kind of stunt you
0:46.2	pull normally where you've got political instability. Yes, I'm like, I was wondering, were you
0:49.6	envious, were you envious of our prime minister's resignation? You had to get one of your own? I'm just like,
0:55.3	you wanted the focus? What happened here? You're still in my thunder, man. Your very eminent colleague,
1:01.8	Amit Segal, said, didn't he, that Boris Johnson was Britain's first Israeli prime minister.
1:08.0	And, you know, how prophetic. It was the lack of shame that made him say that.
1:13.2	It was the lack of shame that made him say it, which also made him Britain's first American
1:16.4	president as well, if you think about Donald Trump. But just prescient because, I mean,
1:22.1	what is it, a matter of days after Naftali Bennett did his, Boris Johnson did his.
1:27.7	The manner of the departure, we should say, rather different.
1:31.3	I mean, you and I talked last week about this very gracious handover,
1:35.0	and Naftali Bennett more or less volunteered this resignation.
1:38.3	People weren't particularly expecting it.
1:40.4	He was the one who said enough's enough, and then his hug with his successor.
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