Is there a Path Forward for Israel and Gaza?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After returning from a week of reporting in Israel, David Remnick has two important conversations about the conflict between Israelis and Arabs both in and outside of Gaza. First, he speaks with Yonit Levi, a veteran news anchor on Israeli television, about how her country is both reeling from the October 7th terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas, and grappling with how to strike at Hamas as the country prepares for an invasion that would be catastrophic for Palestinians. Meanwhile, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibeh maintains that peace is possible, if the influence of Hamas and the Israeli far right can be curtailed.
David Remnick’s Letter from Israel appears in The New Yorker, along with extensive coverage of the conflict.
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you. This is the political scene, and I'm David Remnick. Just days ago, I returned from a trip that took me all over Israel, including what's |
| 1:04.9 | called Otef Azah, the Gaza Envelope. |
| 1:10.2 | This is part of an RPG? This is part of an RPG. |
| 1:11.6 | This is where a thousand armed men from Hamas broke through the barriers surrounding the |
| 1:16.6 | Gaza Strip and carried out a massacre that went on for hour after hour and left 1,400 |
| 1:23.6 | Israelis dead. |
| 1:24.6 | You can see the Kalachnikov, you can see another part of the RPG here. |
| 1:29.4 | They shot on these safe rooms with all the civilians, the RPG. |
| 1:36.0 | We were fortunate that most of them were not penetrated by the RPG, |
| 1:40.4 | but afterwards they broke the doors. |
| 1:48.7 | I was escorted by an officer from the Israel Defense Force, the IDF, which was still working |
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