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Teens and see supply. It's Friday, December 1st.

Welcome back to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Now, if it sounds like there's a lot of horns honking on this particular world

stage that's because I'm recording today's bulletin from an office

overlooking the busy streets of Midtown Manhattan and there apparently is nothing that New Yorkers enjoy more than

making full use of their car and truck horns. All right let's get briefed. The New York

Times has released a jarring report revealing that Israeli officials knew about

Hamas's intentions to orchestrate a massive attack on Israel more than a year ago, but repeatedly dismissed the plans as

either theoretical, just aspirational, or an outright impossibility. We'll also discuss a Chinese influence operation

recently broken up by Meta who warned that these campaigns are stepping up

efforts to so discord within the US ahead of the 2024 elections.

But first, our afternoon spotlight.

Israel has resumed combat operations against Hamas after the fragile truce that began on November 24th expired today.

There were widespread hopes for another extension, but those hopes were dashed shortly before the 7 a.m. extension

deadline when Israel reported shooting down a rocket fired from Gaza. Israel has since

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