The Gazan Battlefield — with Avi Issacharoff

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

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

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🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today, we consider to what to expect when the IDF enters Gaza. Avi Issacharoff has been an analyst and journalist for The Times of Israel, Walla, and Haaretz. In these roles, he reported extensively on the inner workings and leaders of Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza and the West Bank — Avi has extensive networks in the Israeli security services and the Palestinian Territories. He is also the co-creator and writer of the Netflix original series “Fauda”, and other television series for Netflix and Showtime. A fluent Arabic speaker, Avi was also the Middle East Affairs correspondent for Israeli Public Radio, covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq, and the Arab world between the years 2003-2006. In 2004, together with Haaretz’s Amos Harel, he authored the book "The Seventh War - How we won and why we lost the war with the Palestinians." In 2008, they co-wrote "34 Days - The Story of the Second Lebanon War”. Born in Jerusalem, he graduated cum laude from Ben Gurion University with a B.A. in Middle Eastern studies. He then earned his M.A. from Tel Aviv University on the same subject, also cum laude.

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0:00.0	The biggest military achievement in the history of the movement of Hamas
0:03.5	sends its foundation December 1987, meaning almost 36 years.
0:08.2	The biggest military achievement is the biggest failure ever of Hamas's movement.
0:14.0	You see now the pictures that are coming out of Gaza,
0:17.0	you see the fled of hundreds of thousands
0:19.0	leaving their houses in the North Gaza Strip in Gaza City, you see the numbers and you see what happened to Gaza Strip and this is only the beginning.
0:27.0	This is before we started even with the ground invasion.
0:30.0	And at the end of the day, if there's one organization that under his name will be written two things.
0:37.0	Our biggest attack ever against Israelis is under us, Hamas, but the biggest Nakba catastrophe ever is
0:47.4	under us also Hamas. It is Saturday, Saturday, October 14th at 7.45 PM here in New York City.
1:07.0	Shabbat ended here a little over an hour ago.
1:11.0	In my home, like many Jewish homes in Israel in the United States and around the world
1:15.6	Chabat the Sabbath Saturday is a sacred oasis in time a palace in time as
1:22.3	Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel described it.
1:25.3	It's a time to slow down and disconnect and reflect on the week that has transpired.
1:30.7	It's done with family and friends and community and like many Jews, we've all
1:36.3	been feeling that after being inundated with the most horrific images imaginable and many unimaginable coming to us from Israel that even here
1:47.4	6,000 miles away from ground zero of the October massacre were still in a state of shock and though seven days
1:55.8	have already passed it feels like for everyone this is only just beginning.
2:04.0	Here's an update on the current state of affairs in Israel
2:07.0	on the 8th day of the war.
2:11.0	Since Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7th, at least 1,300 Israelis
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