Trying to Make Sense of the Mideast Mess

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Despite killing Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week, Israel is stepping up its military campaign in Gaza. In Lebanon, Israel’s campaign is straying further from military targets, attacking branches of a Hezbollah financial center which is used by many civilians as a bank. Meanwhile, a Hezbollah drone has hit the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not there, and no injuries have been reported. Ryan Crocker, who served as US ambassador to Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and other posts across the region joins Christiane to discuss. Also on today's show: Leslie Vinjamuri from the think tank Chatham House & Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg on the upcoming US presidential election; Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman (Ret.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.4	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur here's what's coming up.
0:23.0	I told the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday
0:26.0	let's also make this moment an opportunity
0:30.0	to seek a path to peace.
0:32.0	The President's advice to Israel
0:34.1	after it eliminated the Hamas boss in Gaza,
0:37.2	but the Prime Minister says the war is not over
0:40.3	and the devastation continues.
0:42.4	Veteran Middle East diplomat Brian Crocker,
0:45.0	former U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, joins us on reshaping the region.
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0:59.8	We bring you the view from abroad and at home with Leslie Vinchemuri of
1:04.4	Chatham House and Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg.
1:08.0	Then, Donald Trump is not a peacemaker. He is not the person that's going to
1:12.1	avoid World War III.
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