The Jackpod: Saving Rafah
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty looks back to 1982 and the presidency of Ronald Reagan as he considers how and why the U.S. should intervene to prevent an Israeli assault on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.
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| 0:28.6 | I'm Magna Chakrabardi and this is the jackpot where on point news analyst Jack Beaty |
| 0:37.9 | helps us connect history, literature and politics in a way that brings Jack's unique clarity to the world we live in now. |
| 0:45.8 | Hello there, Jack. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello, Meagna. |
| 0:48.2 | Well, we're at episode 21, and if the podcast were years, it would be able to drink Jack. |
| 0:52.6 | But with that dad joke aside, what's your headline for today? |
| 0:57.8 | Saving Rafa. |
| 1:00.0 | Meaning what? |
| 1:01.8 | Well, Raffa at the southern edge of Gaza could soon rank with Gernica and Dresden as a place name in the annals of atrocity. |
| 1:16.6 | Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a speech |
| 1:20.3 | from the Senate floor this week lit up the human stakes in Ruffa. |
| 1:26.0 | Ruffa was a town of just 250,000 people before the war. Now there are 1.4 million people there more than five times |
| 1:40.4 | the original population. These people are packed into crowded UN shelters or |
| 1:47.7 | sleeping out in tents. It is a daily struggle for them to find food or water. |
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