PREVIEW: #ISRAEL: #OCTOBER7: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover re Micah Goodman's new work, The Eighth Day: Israel After October 7, that explores the two Israels of 2023: the Israel of the protests from January to Octobe
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/03/31/reclaiming_israels_hybrid_character_150728.html
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor. |
| 0:05.0 | This is John Batchelor. |
| 0:07.0 | Conversation with my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, his column at real-clear |
| 0:12.1 | politics, addressing a book, Mika Goodman's new book in Hebrew |
| 0:16.3 | language only so far as being translated. |
| 0:19.4 | The 8th day, Israel after October 7th. |
| 0:24.1 | This is the politics and the culture and the determination of the people of Israel in the face |
| 0:31.0 | of existential risk. the Hamas attack, the Hezbollah attacks, the Houthi |
| 0:37.3 | attacks, all of this right now and Mr Goodman has written a book about how Israel's united in the present contest. |
| 0:47.0 | But at the same time, leftover is the division that was prominent in political conversation from January of 2003 |
| 0:58.9 | till the day before October 6th. October the 8th day the day after is where we are now. Here Peter Berkowitz explains |
| 1:08.2 | that the cabinet is united it's a almost almost national cabinet. However, the leading party in this cabinet, if the |
| 1:20.9 | polls are accurate, is not a coup for Mr. Netanyahu, but his Benny Gans's party. |
| 1:28.5 | And that would be in the event of an election likelihood to form a government. So the intricacies of the eighth day |
| 1:36.6 | include a change of direction after Hamas is defeated, after Hezbollah is pushed |
| 1:41.5 | back from the attacks on Northern Israel after Iran has dealt with. |
| 1:45.7 | Here's Peter Berkowitz to explain the cabinet and the promise of a change of government in the near future. |
| 1:52.4 | Almost all parties. a change of government in the near future. |
| 1:53.0 | Almost all parties are participating. |
| 1:56.0 | Certainly the party that according to the polls |
| 1:59.0 | would win the most votes in the next election, |
| 2:02.0 | that's the party led in the next election. |
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