Mehdi Hasan vs Jonathan Conricus on Israel

Piers Morgan Uncensored

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Reports are coming in that Israel’s first attack on Lebanon in five days has killed a local mayor in the city of Nabatieh, along with five other civilians. Israel simply says it’s stuck Hezbollah targets. These killings serve as a tragic backdrop to this showdown debate on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Jonathan Conricus is a former IDF soldier and spokesman who never flees from defending his nation; in the studio or on the battlefield. Mehdi Hasan is a veteran journalist and polemicist, who never holds back on the crimes of Israel. Today, these two men go head-to-head. Neither of them have respect for the other’s position, which is exactly why Piers believes there’s potential to learn from their contention. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your list of nonsense that you are spewing out.
0:03.0	I'm not sure how Jonathan still comes on these shows and defends that kind of barbarism.
0:08.0	Slanted and biased.
0:10.0	And you know, I read parts of your book and I know exactly what you're doing.
0:14.0	We watched it, Jonathan.
0:15.0	We're in for a long battle.
0:16.0	I think that we're in for more fighting.
0:18.0	The next step is indeed Iran. No one trusts anything Jonathan's saying.
0:22.7	Actually, many people do trust what I and my peers say. What is it that you stand for? What do you
0:29.0	represent? Human rights, dignity, equality. It's such a shameful. It's such a nonsense talking
0:34.6	point. You should be ashamed of yourself. The US has ordered Israel to urgently boost aid to Gaza or face having some military
0:42.3	assistance cut off.
0:43.3	It comes after reports to Benjamin Netanyahu was considering a surrender or starve plan
0:49.3	to choke off aid to the north, leaving hundreds of thousands without food or water to flush out Hamas terrorists.
0:55.5	Israeli officials have told their US counterparts they won't enact that plan. But frankly, that's
1:00.3	what they tend to say about most of their escalations just before they happen. In the past few days,
1:05.2	four Israeli soldiers were killed, 58 more badly injured in a Hezbollah drone attack. The UN, meanwhile,
1:10.6	has condemned a large number of civilian deaths caused by Israeli strikes, including one that hit a gals and school. With the conflict now at its most dangerous juncture, I'm joined by two of the most accomplished advocates for their relative position. Jonathan Comrickus is a retired lieutenant colonel, an international spokesman for the Israeli defense forces.
1:31.6	And Medi Hassan is editor and CEO of the Teo News. Well, welcome to both of you.
1:35.1	It should be a fascinating debate. I hope, unlike some of my debates on this,
1:40.9	it doesn't descend into talking over each other and ad hominem too much because I think you're both better than that. And I say that as a compliment, having interviewed you both
1:44.3	multiple times. But Medi, let me start with you about where you feel we are now. It seems to me
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