The Disastrous Lebanon Ceasefire Deal, with Tony Badran

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Earlier this week, Israel signed a controversial ceasefire deal with Lebanon, brokered by the Biden administration. Tablet’s news editor Tony Badran joins Liel to explain why the deal is the culmination of Barack Obama’s anti-Israeli vision for the region, how it might complicate the Trump administration’s foreign policy, and what reasons, if any, Israel had for signing such an agreement.

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome back to Routless, the podcast that tries to get at the bottom of the truth,
0:23.1	even when the truth is very confusing. Look, it is now the eve, the cusp of Thanksgiving.
0:28.8	We were going to come at you with a totally different episode.
0:32.5	But then news broke.
0:34.5	And it sort of broke our brains too because of this ceasefire agreement between
0:39.4	Israel and Lebanon is kind of a little bit incomprehensible. I know a lot of people are asking
0:44.3	a lot of questions and having a lot of feelings. Therefore, we summoned the one man who has all
0:50.6	the answers, a native of Lebanon who had gone on to become the greatest single, you know, kind of analyst
0:59.8	slash thinker slash philosopher king of the Levant.
1:03.6	Tablet's own news editor, you've heard him here before, you'll hear him here again.
1:08.2	Tony Bojran, I'm so sorry to summon you late at night to have this particular
1:14.4	annoying conversation.
1:15.7	First of all, hi, hello, how are you?
1:17.3	Welcome to the show.
1:18.2	I'm doing well.
1:19.7	Terrific.
1:20.6	It's probably about to change in a few minutes because I'm going to start by asking
1:24.9	you this seminal question.
1:27.1	We're reading news of a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
1:31.4	Last we checked, most of us, those of us who are not obsessive about this issue, as some of us are, Israel was winning.
1:38.5	All of Chisbalah were dead.
1:40.5	Everything seemed fine.
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