No More Free Cease-Fire for Hamas in Gaza

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Israel ends a two-week cease-fire with Hamas with a combination of air and ground strikes, but what will it take to secure the release of hostages? Plus, Donald Trump threatens the Houthis in Yemen will be “completely annihilated" if they continue to hold shipping routes hostage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:38.9	Israel is back to fighting in Gaza, with both airstrikes and land forces again.
0:43.9	What prompted the resumption of fighting and what comes next?
0:47.4	Meanwhile, President Trump vows in a social media post that the Houthis in Yemen will be, quote,
0:52.7	annihilated as the U.S. continues to strike the terrorists
0:55.9	that have been holding global shipping hostage. Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kate Batchelder-Odell,
1:01.2	and I'm honored to be back again filling in as your host. I'm joined today by my colleagues
1:05.5	Bill McGurn and Elliot Kaufman, both are first round draft picks to help you understand the latest
1:10.5	in the Middle East.
1:11.7	One of our core aims today will be to help our listeners connect the dots between the fighting
1:16.3	in Gaza and the U.S. strikes in Yemen. The common threat is Iran, the conductor of this terrorist
1:21.9	orchestra across the Middle East, and the real question is what the Trump administration plans
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