The Politics of Israel and Palestine

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The Israel/Palestine conflict has yet to cool down, but the rhetoric around the ongoing skirmish is heating up in the U.S. The gang talks about the pressure on Biden to help with the situation abroad. Plus, it seems as though a commission to look at the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 might not be getting much GOP support, if any at all. Sarah, Steve, David, and Jonah try to figure out who is to blame for that. David educates everyone on the abortion case the Supreme Court will be hearing, and the gang discusses the debate over the origins of COVID-19. Show Notes: -DNC boos Israel language -January 6 was just a “normal tourist day” -Pictures of Rep. Clyde blocking the doors into the Capitol -Advisory Opinions on SCOTUS abortion case -Historic polling on abortion - Gallup -How Abortion Views Are Different - David Leonhardt -Origins of Covid - Following the Clues -Josh Rogin’s Twitter -Don McNeil’s Lab Leak Story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the dispatch podcast.
0:02.3	I'm your host Sarah Isger with a cold, if I sound a little nasally.
0:06.8	It turns out the COVID vaccine does not prevent cold and flu.
0:11.2	I am joined by the healthy and good looking Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg and David French.
0:17.4	We've got plenty to cover today.
0:19.0	We're going to talk about the latest out of Israel, the January 6th commission, abortion
0:25.0	politics at the Supreme Court and what happened at that Wuhan lab.
0:44.8	Let's dive in.
0:46.2	I saw recently a Democrat say that it wasn't that the Democratic Party has changed its position
0:52.8	on Israel, but that Israel has changed its positioning toward Hamas and Palestine.
0:59.7	Steve, I'm wondering if you will just walk us through the very basics of how we got here
1:05.0	and whether anything has changed with the Israeli conflict.
1:10.2	Well, I think there are two separate issues and you brought them together, I think,
1:15.6	aptly.
1:16.6	The first is what's actually happening on the ground in Israel and Gaza and the second
1:20.8	is what's happening here in the United States.
1:23.4	On the first, we've seen a spike in violence over the past couple of weeks rising from
1:29.1	the decision of, I think, really from internal political differences between Fatah and Hamas
1:37.3	on the Gaza Strip and among Palestinians.
1:41.8	There was a court case having to do with the potentially eviction of some Palestinian families
1:47.6	from a neighborhood called Sheikh Jarrah that had Hamas in particular very upset the Palestinian
1:56.8	authority and others were, I think, looking to establish their toughness bone of feedays,
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