How Israel’s War with Hamas Could Escalate Into a Regional Conflict

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Tommy cover the major developments in the war between Israel and Hamas, including the widening difference between Netanyahu and Biden on post-war planning, increasing criticism of the Israeli war effort within the Democratic Party, and the escalating risks of a regional war with Iranian-back proxy groups like the Houthi rebels and militia groups in Iraq and Syria. Then they discuss Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalization, foreign governments funneling money to Donald Trump and NJ Senator Bob Menendez, reports that US objectives in Ukraine are changing, and the fallout from an “almost naked” party in Moscow, the stabbing of an opposition leader in South Korea, protests in Germany, and a new Prime Minister in France. Finally, Ben speaks with Taiwanese journalist and podcaster Emily Wu about Taiwan’s upcoming election on January 13th.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pod Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Happy New Year buddy.
0:15.0	I mean it feels like it's been forever, man. It has been very, very long. It's been a
0:19.6	million years. It's been a sabbatical I think.
0:21.6	Yeah, we love sabb think. You have a good break?
0:26.0	Yeah, you know.
0:28.0	Went to New York.
0:29.0	Nice.
0:30.0	A lot of kid activities.
0:32.0	You know, when you have kids you have a great time but you are more tired at the end of the break.
0:36.0	So tired.
0:37.0	So tired.
0:38.0	Hannah got the stomach flu like 36 hours into our Christmas break and so there's a lot of
0:42.0	it's dark chasing kids one-on-one it's
0:44.1	dark not ideal but it's great to be back just got back from Iowa that was fun
0:48.8	at that time a year or that time of every four years yeah the time of the time of every four years. Yeah, that time of that time.
0:54.0	It's weird, man.
0:56.0	It's the same places, it's the same events, same reporters.
1:00.0	Except it doesn't matter.
1:02.0	Content was very dark. It doesn't matter content was very dark.
1:03.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:04.0	It doesn't matter and the content is very dark.
1:06.0	It was this incredibly hopeful thing for us.
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