Jerusalem on the Brink
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories is growing heated. Protests over the forced dislocation of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have escalated into violent confrontations with Israeli police forces, including in the Old City of Jerusalem and on the sacred grounds of the al-Aqsa Mosque, interrupting prayers there during the holy month of Ramadan. Over the past few days, these clashes have in turn triggered rocket attacks into Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza and reciprocal airstrikes by the Israeli military. Some such rockets have even reached the city of Tel Aviv, leading Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partner, Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz, to promise a new military operation against Hamas in Gaza over the days to come.
To catch up on these fast-moving developments, Scott R. Anderson sat down with Natan Sachs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and director of the Center for Middle East Policy, and Zaha Hassan, a human rights lawyer and visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They discussed the origins of this most recent conflict, the unusual Israeli and Palestinian political context in which it is occurring and what it might all mean for the Biden administration's own objectives in the region.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | Definitely, this put pressure on the Arab governments that have normalized with Israel |
| 0:38.2 | and you saw the UAE come out with a statement on Jerusalem as well, you know, condemning |
| 0:43.5 | the storming of the Al-Uksa and likewise across the Arab world. |
| 0:49.2 | I think this is going to make it very difficult for the Arab governments that have normalized |
| 0:55.7 | with Israel to move forward as aggressively as they had been following the signing of the |
| 1:02.4 | Abraham Accords because of just how much coverage this has had in the Arab world and just |
| 1:08.6 | how sensitive this issue was with the attack on the Al-Uksa mosque. |
| 1:14.4 | I'm Scott R. Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast for May 12, 2021. |
| 1:20.0 | The situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories is growing heated. |
| 1:24.1 | Protests over the forced dislocation of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have escalated |
| 1:28.4 | into violent confrontations with Israeli police forces, including in the old city of Jerusalem |
| 1:33.1 | and on the sacred grounds of the Al-Aksa mosque, interrupting prayers there during the |
| 1:36.3 | Holy month of Ramadan. |
| 1:38.4 | Over the past few days, these clashes have in turn triggered rocket attacks into Israel |
| 1:42.1 | from Hamas-Katooled Gaza and reciprocal airstrikes by the Israeli military. |
| 1:46.9 | In the last 24 hours, some such rockets have even reached the city of Tel Aviv, leading |
| 1:51.1 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition partner, alternate Prime |
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