Led by Bibi, Led by Humza & Led By Donkeys
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
More mass protests in the streets- this time in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the rest of Israel.
Millions of Israelis believe their democracy to be in jeopardy.
The airport is blocked, universities out of action, a general strike has been called.
Even the diplomats won’t go to work. With academic and expert Ayala Panievsky, we explain why so many - both within the Israeli state and in the population at large - believe Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempt to transform the country’s judicial system to be a gross violation of democracy.
We explore whether this could finally be the end for Bibi and what it could mean for the wider Middle East.
And we usher in a new SNP leader after a divisive race, and talk to the investigative journalist behind the new Led By Donkeys sting.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | That's not the sound of people on the streets of Paris. |
| 0:30.1 | This time, it is hundreds of thousands of people, |
| 0:35.2 | 600,000 people, we're told, on the streets of Israel, |
| 0:39.0 | blocking off the main roads into Tel Aviv. |
| 0:45.3 | Why? Because they believe that their country, under the leadership of their perennial Prime Minister, Benyemin Netanyahu, is backsliding away from its democratic traditions. |
| 0:52.3 | They think that their country is on the verge of not being a democracy anymore. |
| 0:58.0 | And so what we have seen is the raw assertion of people power. Airport closed. ports shut down. |
| 1:06.0 | Diplomats going on strike. Universities stopping. A general strike across Israel has blown up in 24 |
| 1:15.8 | hours over Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts to hobble the courts. Welcome to the news agents. |
| 1:26.7 | The news agents. It's Lewis in the studio. And it's John. The Newsagents |
| 1:27.6 | It's Lewis in the studio |
| 1:30.3 | And it's John with a cup of lembsip by his side at home |
| 1:34.8 | Honestly, John |
| 1:36.0 | I inhale some tear gas on Friday |
| 1:37.9 | Where are you now? |
| 1:38.9 | At home with some lemsmsmson. |
| 1:39.9 | Actually, to be fair, you sound worse than I did. |
| 1:41.9 | Tear gas, if you've got a gas mask on, it's fine, mate. |
| 1:43.7 | I've got a real man's cold And it it's flu, and it's very, very serious. |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah, I can tell. |
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