The Weekend Intelligence: The man who would lead Palestine
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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Twenty-two years ago, Palestinian politician-turned-revolutionary Marwan Barghouti was convicted of acts of terrorism and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in an Israeli prison. Now, there’s a chance he could be released. Barghouti is at the top of Hamas’s list of prisoners they want exchanged for the hostages they took on October 7th. And Palestinians overwhelmingly want him to lead them. The Economist's Nicolas Pelham asks who is Marwan Barghouti and could he be the man who will lead Palestine?
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| 0:54.0 | Mamud Abbas, the leader of the Moribund Palestinian Authority, has cancelled every presidential and parliamentary election for the past 18 years. |
| 1:07.0 | His public appearances are increasingly rare and scripted. |
| 1:17.0 | Abbas is 88 years old and he sounds it. He often appears half asleep in public and his people don't like him. |
| 1:30.0 | And his people don't like him. Recent polling shows if elections were to be held |
| 1:37.0 | he'd capture just 8% of the vote. The man who'd capture the most votes in that hypothetical election, |
| 1:47.0 | Marwan Barhuti. There's just one problem. |
| 1:53.0 | Bar Huti is in prison and has been for the past 22 years, |
| 1:58.0 | on charges of terrorism. I'm Ora Ogunbei and in this episode of the weekend intelligence, Middle East correspondent |
| 2:12.0 | Nicholas Pelham profiles the man that some are hailing as the next leader of the Palestinian people. |
| 2:19.0 | A man who could be released as part of a ceasefire negotiation between Israel and Hamas. |
| 2:25.0 | A convicted terrorist who could become the region's peacemaker. |
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