S8 Ep956: Preview for Later Today: Samuel Ben-ur discusses Hamas's continued threat in Gaza despite shifting battlefield dynamics. He explores IDF operations, leadership objectives under Netanyahu, and the challenges of securing the region while Hamas remains armed
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with my new colleague, Samuel Benner, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, |
| 0:06.7 | who's watching Hamas in Gaza, long after the battlefield has moved to the whole of the Middle East, |
| 0:14.0 | Hamas remains armed and extremely dangerous. For the people of Gaza who live under its rule, |
| 0:23.5 | and for the IDF looking to secure the Gaza for the people who live there. Hamas is political wing, its military wing, its |
| 0:30.2 | outside supporters, the Board of Peace imagined by the president to get the original cease |
| 0:35.3 | fire order. What is that doing? |
| 0:37.9 | Why is the report that it has no money? |
| 0:41.3 | Especially what is the IDF doing given that the leadership, Mr. Netanyahu is saying we're |
| 0:47.6 | going to take 60 percent, that we're going to take 70 percent of Gaza. |
| 0:51.4 | But he doesn't want all of it. |
| 0:53.3 | Samuel explains, here's Samuel Benner for the FD on Gaza. But he doesn't want all of it. Samuel Samuel Ben-Ehr for the FDD on |
| 0:58.0 | Gaza three years later. More tonight. |
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