News - Biden Green-Lights US Weapons Against Russia, ICC Issues Warrants for Israeli Leadership, Leftist Victory in Sri Lanka

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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One more news episode before us Yankees have a holiday. Note: Although we will not have a news roundup next week, we'll have other new content. This week: In Israel-Palestine, the ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant (0:56) and the US vetoes another ceasefire resolution (6:11); US envoy Amos Hochstein is working on a ceasefire in Lebanon (8:50); in Sri Lanka, the leftist coalition wins a parliamentary majority (12:26); in Sudan, the RSF commits new atrocities (14:12) and Russia vetoes a ceasefire (16:33); in Russia-Ukraine, Biden gives Ukraine permission to use long-range US weapons in Russia (18:29), while Reuters reports that Putin is open to peace negotiations (23:19); the US recognizes opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as president of Venezuela (24:55); a new armed group wreaks violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (27:09); and we have a New Cold War update featuring the final Biden-Xi meeting (29:10) and Biden’s last G20 summit (31:06). Subscribe now for more content and features! Watch the new documentary from Al-Jazeera's Fault Lines program, "All That Remains", which follows a 13-year-old amputee from Gaza named Leyan as she seeks treatment in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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1:03.4	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson.
1:07.2	And we're very excited to bring you the news.
1:08.9	But before we do, just some quick updates,
1:11.3	all subscribers, please join our Discord server. A lot of people have already joined it. I really
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1:28.7	please consider reviewing it. It actually does help us. It lets us get ranked in all of those good
1:33.7	things. So now that that's done, Derek, why don't we move to the news? And why don't we start with
1:39.6	Israel-Palestine, and particularly pretty big news, that the ICC has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu
1:46.0	and Joav Galant, the former Israeli Minister of Defense.
1:50.3	This is, I was actually contemplating not starting this week's news with Israel Palestine,
1:56.3	if you can believe it, even though we've done that for probably a year now, steadily.
2:01.0	But then the ICC on Thursday, not long before we started recording,
2:07.5	issued finally after months of delays and delaying tactics by the Israelis,
2:12.9	the U.S. and the UK government, a bunch of the other members of the support network,
2:18.0	finally issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant,
2:22.8	the former defense minister, the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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