The Ground Operation Begins/End of hostage negotiations? — with Avi Issacharoff

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Avi Issacharoff returns for an urgent update on overnight developments and their implications. Avi 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	That's the part of the system or part of the theory when you negotiate with the terrorist
0:04.4	organizations so you cannot only offer carrots. You have to hold a big stick in your hand and try
0:12.2	to aim for the head and I think that this is what Israel is doing
0:15.2	meaning negotiating over the prisoners but at the same time fighting Hamas. It is now the
0:35.0	Saturday, October 28th morning in New York City, afternoon in Israel.
0:40.4	This is now the third chabat since the October 7th war began.
0:45.2	I am welcoming back to this podcast.
0:48.4	My longtime friend Avia Zakaroff, who is a very experienced journalist on military affairs, national security,
0:57.0	the Arab world, and specifically the Palestinian political community and terror community and terrorist infrastructure both in Gaza and
1:05.9	the West Bank and he's the co-creator of Fouda, the hit TV show on Netflix and a bunch of other a bunch of a number of other
1:15.4	television and film projects all many of which deal specifically with some of the
1:20.2	issues that are actually eerily playing out now.
1:23.2	Avi, thanks for being here.
1:25.1	I didn't, thank you.
1:27.0	So Avi, let's just jump right into it.
1:30.6	What do we know, just can you provide a snapshot of what we know has been happening over the last
1:35.5	18 hours in Israel?
1:38.1	So since yesterday at 5.30 PM, the Israeli ground forces started with a kind of a limited incursion into
1:48.6	the northern part of Gaza Strip, especially the areas of Beth Hanun and Beth Lahya.
1:55.0	This is not the first time that our forces are spending some time in these territories.
2:00.4	It happened before, in the former decade but even since 2006 we've been there a few times
2:08.0	but it hadn't happened since 2014 and now it seems that the Israeli army is back there inside Gaza Strip.
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