The Israel/Hamas War with NatSec Analyst Joe Cirincione
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
To understand the history and context of what's going on in the Middle East right now, 6 minute cable hits won't do it. That's why Bill talks today with Joe Cirincione. Cirincione is a national security analyst and foreign policy expert, adviser to presidents and the former head of the Ploughshares Fund. This is his sixth appearance on the Bill Press Pod because that's how much we value his expertise.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends. Welcome back to the Bill Press Pod at a very somber time and a shocking |
| 0:12.8 | development in the Middle East. Well, we've all been lulled into believing that aside from |
| 0:18.5 | political chaos inside of Israel, all was calm in the Middle East. |
| 0:22.6 | And then suddenly, all hell broke loose with a widespread, brutal, violent terrorist attack |
| 0:28.8 | by air, by land, and by sea, by Hamas forces against Israel. |
| 0:34.7 | We've seen the shocking video of the Moss forces, overrunning Israeli border |
| 0:39.6 | posts, penetrating Israeli military bases, and pouring into Israeli communities near the border, |
| 0:45.5 | killing hundreds of civilians and taking many of them hostage, including women, the elderly, |
| 0:51.4 | and children. In response, Israel has declared war on Gaza, and President |
| 0:57.5 | Biden has pledged Israel the full support of the United States. And so overnight, the entire |
| 1:04.5 | picture in the Middle East has changed, and we're involved in what could be a long and difficult |
| 1:10.3 | war that will have a major impact, |
| 1:13.4 | not only in the Middle East, but throughout the rest of the world, including Ukraine. |
| 1:19.7 | To assess what's going on now and how this war might play out, |
| 1:24.0 | we turn today to our go-to guy on foreign policy, Joe Sirenciani, national security analyst, former advisor to several presidents, and former head of the Plowshares Fund. |
| 1:37.3 | Joe Sierensioni, welcome back to the Bill Press Fund. Thank you for joining us at a very troubling time indeed, Joe. |
| 1:45.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:46.4 | I'm good to be back with you, Bill. |
| 1:48.1 | I'm sorry it's not under better circumstances. |
| 1:50.4 | So several people have described Hamas' attack on Israel as Israel's 9-11. |
| 2:00.3 | Do you think that's an appropriate analogy? |
| 2:04.6 | I do. In more ways than most people might realize, it is certainly unprecedented in Israeli history. |
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