SCOOP: Untangling the Israel-Hamas War. Plus ~ A Sampling of Stateside Stories
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Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Monday, October 16, 2023, just after noon Central Time: A time-stamp for our coverage of two developing stories, the Israel-Hamas War and the race for a new House Speaker.
0:00 The Israel-Hamas War: Why is covering this story different and a few recent developments on the war.
10:50 The one thing we shouldn't lose sight of, that is fundamentally at the core of this particular chapter of the story we're looking at: Hamas.
13:57 How this connects to what's happening here at home with the race for a new House Speaker and why it matters.
20:09 How much aid does the United States give to Israel and the Palestinians?
25:57 What is life like in Gaza?
29:31 The people most harmed by Islamic terrorism and why, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.
33:54 Reporter's Notebook: Sharing a personal story from visiting Israel and reflecting on possibility.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday, October 7th, has been called Israel's 9-11. |
| 0:09.8 | More than 1,000 Hamas terrorists from Gaza smashed through a border wall to commit mass |
| 0:16.6 | murder, families in their homes, crowds at a concert, people in the street. |
| 0:27.6 | Israel is striking back with the largest bombardment of Gaza ever. |
| 0:31.6 | More than 2,000 have been killed by Gaza's count. |
| 0:35.6 | Certainly about 1,200 Israeli civilians were killed in the initial attack, but now Hamas |
| 0:42.8 | fighters and Palestinian civilians are being killed in the counterattack. |
| 0:49.4 | Is it time for a ceasefire? |
| 0:50.9 | Look, there's a fundamental difference. Israel is going after a group of people who |
| 0:58.2 | engaged in barbarism that is as consequential as the Holocaust. And so I think Israel has to respond. |
| 1:07.0 | They have to go after Hamas. Now, Hamas is a bunch of cowards. They're hiding behind the civilians. |
| 1:13.0 | They put their headquarters where civilians are in buildings and the like. |
| 1:19.0 | But to the extent that they can separate out and avoid, I'm confident the Israelis are going to do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians. |
| 1:30.1 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to Scoop. I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. That was the president of the United States, |
| 1:35.6 | speaking with Scott Peli of 60 Minutes on the typical 60 Minutes airing, which happens on Sunday night. |
| 1:42.2 | That interview was recorded a few days ago, |
| 1:44.8 | but still seems as accurate in representation of what the White House's current stances |
| 1:50.5 | of the war between Israel and Hamas. We are recording at this time on Monday, October 16th, |
| 1:58.4 | just after noon central time. I'm bookmarking that for all of us because we're |
| 2:02.6 | in the middle of a quickly developing huge global story. And we're going to take some time today |
| 2:08.8 | on Scoop to talk a little bit about the different threads of this story and try to untangle them |
| 2:14.8 | best we can. Admittedly, this is a very difficult story to cover. |
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