What is Netanyahu's next move?
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Last night - after Israel's Prime Minister addressed the nation - the troops went into Gaza.
It was a raid that paved the way for what Netanyahu promised would be the ground invasion to come.
But what is the end game here? And are any of Israel's allies prepared to try and stop them? We talk to the Economist's Defence Editor Shashank Joshi about how Israel is preparing for war and what the end game might be.
Also - has Keir Starmer done enough to reassure large Muslim communities - and others - he understands their pain over the loss of life in Gaza? What do they need to hear him say if a ground war begins?
And the US finally have a Speaker. And it's a guy that frankly, no one has ever heard of. Who is he?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Laura FitzPatrick
Planning Producer: Alex Barnett
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.9 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | That is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyanyahu addressing the nation last night, |
| 0:24.2 | and the translation of what he says is, we are the people of the light. They are the people of |
| 0:30.3 | darkness. We shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah. It is almost as though he is announcing |
| 0:36.8 | a holy war, a biblical justification for what is |
| 0:41.4 | about to unfold in 2023. How that plays in the rest of the world is arguable. Netanyahu wouldn't |
| 0:50.9 | be the first person to invoke God or religion before an act of war. But I guess it just |
| 0:59.2 | throws into relief now what we are on the cusp of. A ground invasion, which we have been told, |
| 1:08.8 | will go ahead. |
| 1:12.6 | There is no time scale. |
| 1:15.2 | We do not know the urgency of this, |
| 1:18.3 | but we know it's going to happen. |
| 1:22.0 | Today, we're going to analyse what it could look like and what the end is in sight for Gaza and for Israel itself. Welcome to the newsagents. The Newsagents. |
| 1:35.6 | It's John. It's Emily. And a little bit later on in the podcast, it's almost like a comic |
| 1:40.3 | interlude. We're going to be talking about the travails of finding a speaker for the House |
| 1:44.5 | of Representatives in the US. They've finally done it. The well-known household name that is, |
| 1:50.2 | hang on, looks at his notes, Mike Johnson. Yeah, this is what happens if you've gone through |
| 1:54.5 | every other member of the House of Representatives before, you finally find one that they will vote |
| 1:59.7 | for. We'll bring you all that and explain what the importance is a bit later. |
| 2:04.4 | But back to Israel and to Netanyahu, |
| 2:07.1 | who has vowed to fight Hamas above ground, underground, in Gaza and outside Gaza. |
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