News - Israel Bombs Damascus, Militant Violence in Haiti, France Withdraws Troops from Senegal

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our content! Derek is in the shop for maintenance, so Danny presents the news with the Quincy Institute’s Alex Jordan. This week: Israel bombs the Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus (0:39) as Netanyahu’s corruption trial carries on (7:05), plus US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemns settlers killing a US citizen (10:24), and the Hague Group coalition meets in Bogota to decide how to hold Israel accountable for its crimes (16:02); the saga of Trump’s flip-flopping on Ukraine military aid continues (20:29); Trump announces more tariffs while affected countries struggle to make a deal with the US (28:30); the US Navy is constructing facilities to repair and maintain Philippine military vessels (33:35); the UN releases a report detailing how militant violence in Haiti has killed 5,000 people in the last 9 months (37:48); and the French army has withdrawn its last troops from Senegal (42:48). Be sure to watch and listen to Alex and Courtney Rawlings on the Quincy Institute’s Always at War podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.8	Back again with Alex Jordan of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. I texted Derek,
1:11.9	but he just wrote back New Phone, Who Dis, so I don't know where he is. But Alex, thank
1:17.1	you so much for joining us. Yeah, always happy to be here. So let's start with the news.
1:24.2	The news, the news, the news, always about the news. And let's talk about Israel.
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