The Edition: Unholy war
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Paul Wood writes for The Spectator about the role that Iran potentially played in the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend. He says that it is unlikely that the proscribed terrorist group acted alone and joins the podcast alongside Uzi Arad, former national security advisor to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (01:22)
Also this week:
Labour conference in Liverpool has come to end and, as always with conference season, the best events took place on the fringes. Katy Balls our political editor spoke to London mayor Sadiq Khan and they have kindly allowed us to hear a section of their discussion, where they cover anti-seminitism, ULEZ and the upcoming mayoral election in May. (27:29)
And finally:
Former Labour MP Sion Simon writes in the magazine this week about his experience losing his sight and his battle with ‘internalised ableism’. He joins the podcast to tell us what he has learned from going blind. (43:39)
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| 0:26.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. |
| 0:34.1 | Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. I'm William Moore, |
| 0:39.8 | the Spectator's Features Editor. On this week's episode, we'll be discussing what Iran gains from the |
| 0:45.9 | conflict in Israel, hearing from the Mayor of London, Sique Khan on anti-Semitism, Ulez and the upcoming |
| 0:52.0 | battle for City Hall, and I'll be speaking to Sean Simon, |
| 0:55.8 | the former Labour MP, about what he's learned from going blind. |
| 1:00.8 | First up, Paul Wood writes for the magazine this week about the role that Iran played |
| 1:06.6 | in the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend. He says it is unlikely that the terrorist group acted alone, |
| 1:12.7 | and he joins me now to discuss alongside Uzi Arad, |
| 1:16.5 | former national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nehanyatu. |
| 1:22.1 | Paul, could you start by taking our listeners through some of the most recent developments in the conflict. |
| 1:28.2 | Can you give us a sense of the scale of it as we speak? What's happening now and where things |
| 1:34.4 | might likely be heading by the weekend? Israel has a playbook for this. It's done this many times before. |
| 1:41.3 | There's an incident. Israel, first of all, bombs, the obvious targets, and then |
| 1:45.6 | there is a ground operation, but some very important things have changed. Usually, Israeli generals |
| 1:51.3 | are very conscious that there is the military clock, and there is also the political clock |
| 1:55.4 | running, and they have a limited time before international outrage pushes the US to call a halt to their operations and they're |
| 2:02.7 | very conscious of that clock. But now, of course, due to the extremity of the events, the atrocities, |
| 2:08.7 | the massacre, mass murder in many places of Israel, Israel is not going to be stopped, even if the |
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