Public sentiment on the eve of invasion - with Haviv Rettig Gur

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Society, October 7, Hamas, War, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Haviv Rettig Gur returns to our podcast to provide real-time reporting and analysis on the war, and invaluable historical context. He will be a weekly guest on our podcast through the duration of the war. Today he is focused on Israeli public sentiment as the country mobilizes, and also looks at how the October 7 is perhaps changing perceptions in and of the Israeli Arab community. Haviv is the political analyst at The Times of Israel. He was a long time reporter for the Times of Israel. He’s also working on a book. Haviv was also a combat medic in the IDF where he served in the reserves. We discuss Haviv's latest piece: "Hamas does not yet understand the depth of Israeli resolve": www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-does-not-yet-understand-the-depth-of-israeli-resolve/

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0:00.0	They dragged out the bodies, these people, they tied their hands, then they stabbed them,
0:08.0	then they set them on fire, and then they shot them.
0:13.0	There are among the 1300 dead,
0:17.0	hundreds of bodies where the point was torture.
0:22.0	Salah Haruori, one of Hamas's leaders, The point was torture.
0:22.7	Salah Haruhi, one of Hamas's leaders, interviewed in Al Jazeera and said,
0:27.7	they love life and we love death.
0:30.7	To the west, that sounds horrifying.
0:32.1	But what he meant was we believe we're true believers
0:35.6	we know that after death you go into the bosom of a good god who appreciates your
0:40.6	sacrifice and so death doesn't scare us and these Jews they don't have
0:44.7	that they don't have that faith they don't have that belief and so death terrifies
0:48.5	them and so they don't love life so much as they cling to it desperately and which side is going to win the one that
0:54.6	can face death with courage or the one that can't and that's how they think about
0:59.0	all of this they're wrong and they're going to discover that they're wrong and the tragedy here
1:06.4	after the atrocity committed against us. Gaza's civilian population is going to
1:11.9	suffer and Hamas is going to make sure of it. It is
1:32.7	October 16th, 1030 p.m. here in New York City. It is 4.30 a.m. in Israel. An unsettling tension has been building up in and around Israel over the past 48 hours as Israel
1:38.5	prepares its main offensive on the Gaza Strip.
1:41.7	There's a palpable feeling that Israel is on the At this point no one can rule out the possibility of a regional war that would include
1:54.2	Hezbollah in the north in southern Lebanon and Syria and Iran in the east.
1:59.2	The spirit of Israeli society, even as it mourns, is impressively and unmistakably united and strong.
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