Lawfare Daily: Benjamin Wittes on Israel, Gaza, and Implications for U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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Summary
On April 24, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes delivered a Watson Distinguished Lecture at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to discuss the Israel-Gaza war and the implications for U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He talked about Israel’s incompatible objectives of freeing hostages and eradicating Hamas, the moral context of the war, U.S.-Israeli relations in this context, what the U.S. and Israel still have in common—and what they no longer have in common—in this environment, and how the war could affect U.S. presidential elections.
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| 0:28.4 | How do you alleviate a moral disaster in a fashion that is consistent with the fact that a state will and in my judgment should defend itself and that we don't really like the idea |
| 0:49.7 | of tens of thousands of civilians paying the price for that. |
| 0:54.0 | It's the Law Fair Podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Natalie Orpet, Executive Editor of Law Fair. |
| 0:59.0 | Introducing my colleague Law Fair Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Widis. |
| 1:04.0 | Whether this issue alone has the capacity to destroy the Biden administration and elect |
| 1:11.8 | Donald Trump, I am skeptical. |
| 1:14.5 | Whether this issue in combination with other things |
| 1:18.4 | erodes the President's electoral coalition, |
| 1:22.2 | I have no doubt that that is true. |
| 1:25.0 | Today, we're bringing you audio from a recent event at Brown University, |
| 1:29.0 | where Ben delivered the Watson Distinguished Lecture to discuss Israel, Gaza, and implications for foreign and domestic |
| 1:36.4 | policy in the United States. |
| 1:39.5 | I want to start with a memory that has been very much on my mind of late when I was, this took |
| 1:48.3 | place in the summer of 91 ended up in Jerusalem where I spent a month kind of lying around and and |
| 2:11.0 | found myself one day at a conference listening to one of the most extraordinary people |
| 2:18.6 | I have ever laid eyes on. |
| 2:20.6 | And his name was Yishar Hulebovitz. |
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