Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on What Donald Trump's Return Might Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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For today’s podcast, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, for the latest in their series of podcast conversations on aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This time, they focused on what might be one of the most consequential developments in recent memory: Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
They discussed who seems likely to steer policy toward the conflict in the incoming Trump administration, how the approach may differ from Trump’s last stint in the White House, and what it all may mean for Gaza, the West Bank, and the broader region.
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| 1:37.0 | I'd say that President Trump succeeded in destroying Palestinian expectations in his first term. |
| 1:44.8 | I think that the concept that they would go back and boycott because they didn't like the starting point |
| 1:49.1 | would not only be disastrous for their long-term relations with America, but disastrous for their |
| 1:54.6 | relationships with the rest of the region. |
| 1:56.8 | It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Scott R. Anderson with Joel Brunnell, managing director at the S. Daniel Abraham Center from Middle East Peace. |
| 2:04.8 | What are you going to do? Like, 70% of the country doesn't want you to settle Gaza. So even if the Trump administration's like, go forward and settle, 70% of the country doesn't want you to do that. It's cold, it's winter now, lots of people need food and aid. Are you really going to take on the entire costs of that yourself? Because the Trump administration isn't going to be paying for it. And the Arab world has told you they'll only pay for it if there's a political pathway forward. |
| 2:27.4 | Today, we're discussing what Donald Trump's return to the White House may mean for the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| 2:34.5 | So, Joel, the last time we got together for what has now become, I think, a really |
| 2:39.9 | useful series of podcasts, I hopefully we'll be able to keep going in the years to come that we |
| 2:44.3 | have to talk about this stuff. |
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