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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

ISRAEL AT WAR: The multi-front probability - with Bret Stephens

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, returns for a conversation immediately on Day III of this war. Bret came to The New York Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal, where he was most recently deputy editorial page editor and, for 11 years, a foreign affairs columnist. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. And prior to working in Israel, he was based in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal. Today, Bret is also the editor-in-chief of Sapir Journal. You can find the Sapir Journal here: https://sapirjournal.org/ You can find Bret's most recent column here: "Hamas' Control of Gaza Must End Now" -- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/opinion/gaza-israel-hamas.html

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0:00.0

I'm usually more eloquent but you know to be perfectly candid and I think this is true

0:11.2

probably a lot of the people who listen to your podcast.

0:14.0

My sense of fury as well as helplessness has kind of, you know, overwhelmed my circuits in the last 48 hours. And now I welcome back to this podcast. Brett Stevens, New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist,

0:46.0

former International Global Affairs columnist for the Wall Street Journal,

0:51.0

and former editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post who lived in Israel in the early 2000s

0:59.2

running the Jerusalem Post there.

1:00.5

Brett, thanks for coming on. I'm sorry about the circumstances in which

1:04.5

we're speaking. So yeah, so let's start with what we know now. There's some reporting coming out which sort of confirms what we thought,

1:15.3

which is that Iran was involved behind this this invasion of Israel. What do we know and what's your sense of what we know?

1:28.0

The news from Hamas, the admission that they had coordinated this and in fact gotten the

1:37.4

permission the green light from Iran didn't surprise me at all. We've known for a very long time that Hamas has been, I mean more than 20 years that Hamas has been getting arms and aid from Iran.

1:53.4

It may be a Sunni terrorist group, but Iran's interests go beyond their parochial religious differences and in

2:04.7

destroying, wanting to, and seeking to destroy Israel.

2:08.8

The admission, however, is significant in that it's essentially

2:12.4

an invitation to war and that's how I think we

2:16.4

should look at this what has transpired so far as we speak as horrific as it is is I think going to be I'm sorry to say one front in

2:29.3

a multi-front battle that is going to unfold not over days or weeks but potentially over months.

2:36.2

And Iran one would think they've publicly admitted that they were involved?

2:41.3

Yes, they've publicly admitted that.

2:43.0

And would they not have...

2:45.0

They're boasting.

2:46.0

Boasting.

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