PREVIEW: HEADLINE: The Unanswered Question: Gaza's Future Post-Conflict GUEST NAME: David Daoud SUMMARY: John Batchelor and David Daoud discuss the uncertain future for Gazans after the fighting, debating if Gaza will be livable given the destruction. Dao
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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HEADLINE: The Unanswered Question: Gaza's Future Post-Conflict
GUEST NAME: David Daoud
SUMMARY: John Batchelor and David Daoud discuss the uncertain future for Gazans after the fighting, debating if Gaza will be livable given the destruction. Daoud addresses differing views on Gazans returning, notes "far-right" statements about expulsion versus Israel's stated policy of not expelling Palestinians, and expresses hope for a moral approach from Israel..
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| 0:25.9 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague David Diyud of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy about the question unanswered to my information at this point. |
| 0:32.6 | What happens to the Gazans after the fighting is done and the rebuilding begins? |
| 0:40.8 | Where do they go? David addresses it in terms of they will return. However, in between our debates, as I understand, about Gaza not |
| 0:49.1 | being a livable space for years, perhaps forever, given the destruction. |
| 0:58.9 | Is David Dayou to answer an impossible to answer question at this point? |
| 1:02.7 | Much more of this to nine. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, Egypt doesn't want it. |
| 1:14.7 | And look, you know, there's kind of a, I don't know, it's unclear where Israeli policy stands on this because you have statements off-the-cuff statements from, including cabinet officials from the far |
| 1:20.0 | right, saying the goal is to expel the Palestinians and Gaza. We have the prime minister of Israel |
| 1:25.1 | who's told us for years, even prior to October 7th, that the buck stops with him on policy. And he's saying that the stated policy |
| 1:32.2 | of the state of Israel is not to expel Palestinians from this territory. The stated policy is to |
| 1:37.5 | ensure that they're out of harm's way, that during the rebuilding process, they're not made |
| 1:42.1 | to necessarily suffer. |
| 1:50.3 | I suppose time will tell, but my genuine hope is that Israel will continue to move in a moral and legal direction on this and not one that gives into worse instincts. |
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