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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Urgent Update: Israel At War

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is an emergency episode to cover the event that’s already being described as Israel’s 9/11 - with others drawing comparisons with Pearl Harbor or the surprise attack that led to the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago. Early on Saturday morning, Israel was infiltrated by Hamas forces who entered Israel from Gaza - murdering Israeli civilians and soldiers in their hundreds, wounding thousands and seizing many as hostages. As the IDF launches an intensive operation within Gaza, Yonit and Jonathan assess what’s known from the first 36 hours - and where things might go next.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an unholy emergency episode.

0:09.8

Israel at war, living a nightmare scenario after a shock attack from Hamas.

0:15.4

I'm Unite Levi of Channel 12 in Jerusalem.

0:18.4

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian, usually in London. It's unholy, two Jews

0:24.6

on the news. I'm travelling on the road. Yonit is back in Israel. A day of infamy, some commentators

0:33.5

already saying, a day of tragedy and horror. Is it 9-11? Is it Israel's Pearl Harbor? Is it the Yon Kippur

0:41.5

war all over again, 50 years and one day after a surprise attack? Deadly scenes and carnage across

0:50.2

Israel. So your need people will obviously be following the reports hour by hour,

0:55.4

but you're living it just, I mean, describe to us what you're seeing and what's happening.

1:00.3

I have a hard time explaining this, explaining what it feels like,

1:05.1

because never in living memory and the living memory of our generation,

1:08.9

my generation, have we encountered anything like this?

1:12.7

The last episode you and I recorded dropped on Friday.

1:16.6

It was exactly 50 years to the day of the opening of the Yom Kippul war.

1:22.9

Little did we know, little did tragically the idea of defense forces of Israel know that what we will see

1:28.8

a day after will be a shock attack by Hamas against Israel. So while terrorists managed to

1:36.3

breach the border and enter into Israel, they also encountered this is sadly their good luck and

1:43.6

Israel's bad luck. But at the time, there was a

1:45.8

sort of rave party, a nature party going on on the border next to a place called Reim.

1:50.8

Hundreds, if not thousands of young Israelis partying the very early hours of Saturday morning.

1:57.5

And so the terrorists kind of managed to, essentially this was, this was a massacre.

2:03.2

They shot at so many of those young partygoers and also managed to abduct some of them.

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