Israel begins Rafah invasion.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Rafah invasion. On Monday, Israeli forces began striking targets in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. During the course of the war, over a million Gazan refugees fled to the Rafah region to shelter from Israel's incursion in the north. Several Hamas battalions have also fled south to Rafah and maintained a stronghold there, which Israel says it is aiming to dismantle with its latest push.
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| 0:41.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Rafa invasion, which appears to be underway, at least some kind of operation, is underway in southern Gaza. |
| 1:14.1 | This is the long-awaited move from the War Cabinet in Israel that a lot of people have been dreading, |
| 1:21.5 | a lot of people have been encouraging. |
| 1:23.9 | There's been a big debate about whether this should happen or not, |
| 1:27.2 | and we're going to break down |
| 1:28.8 | exactly what's going on and some of the initial reactions to it. |
| 1:33.4 | Interestingly enough, this happened at kind of a both serendipitous and an odd time for a piece |
| 1:41.8 | that I've been working on tomorrow. |
| 1:47.5 | I, since this weekend or late last week, I guess, have been kicking around this idea of writing a piece that is basically |
| 1:53.7 | an argument that I'm wrong. It is a little bit of a thought experiment and a little bit of an expression of just the doubts I have about my position on what's been happening in Israel and my calls for a ceasefire and my insistence that the war should end. |
| 2:13.7 | And I started writing this piece basically trying to steal man the other side, trying to make |
| 2:19.4 | the best argument I could that actually Israel should invade Rafa. |
| 2:25.3 | They should rip the band-aid off and do this and finish the war and do it fast and do |
| 2:30.8 | it with his few civilian casualties as possible and do everything they can to destroy Hamas and actually end the war. |
| 2:37.6 | And I started writing this piece over the weekend. |
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