New Year’s Retribution - with Jen Psaki

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The new year began ominously, with rockets in Israel, an assassination in Beirut and talk of a widening of the war. Yonit and Jonathan discuss all that - along with this year's US presidential election and the changing face of the Democratic party - with former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki. Plus: the results of an exclusive Unholy/Morning Consult poll of US attitudes to Israel and Hamas; Israel's Supreme Court makes a landmark decision; and the new film that wins coveted Unholy awards in both the mensch and chutzpah categories. UPDATE: Since this episode was recorded, Warner Bros has amended its online synopsis of the movie One Life so that it now refers to the "predominantly Jewish children" rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	2024 begins, much as 2023 ended with war intensifying and ongoing.
0:09.2	We'll talk about all of that.
0:11.0	Plus, a special guest, a veteran of the Joe Biden administration,
0:14.8	who made the journey from C.J. Craig to Rachel Maddell.
0:19.5	We're talking to Jen Sarky.
0:21.2	It's Unholy.
0:22.3	I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:25.1	And I'm Unleve, of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:37.0	Unholy, Two Jews on the news, 2024.
0:40.7	What can you say besides, let's hope it's not as bad as 2023?
0:47.1	If the beginning of that year here is any indication, then I have to tell you, Jonathan,
0:52.2	that at the stroke of midnight,
1:02.4	Hamas launched 27 rockets over southern and central Israel, obviously 90 days into this war, and the terror organization in Gaza still has the ability to decide when it fires these rockets
1:10.0	and over where 18 of these rockets and over where.
1:12.8	18 of those rockets were intercepted.
1:15.0	The rest fell in open fields.
1:16.9	No one was hurt.
1:17.7	But obviously, for Israelis who, to begin with, I think it's safe to say, we're not really
1:23.0	in a festive mood, were reminded if they needed to be reminded of where we are. Yeah. I mean,
1:30.1	over the rest of the world, people are watching fireworks displays at midnight, even in, you know,
1:35.8	small villages and towns that's the thing to do the fireworks display. And what a reminder of the
1:41.1	contrast with how things are in Israel and in Gaza and in the region
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