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What Next: Israel’s New Wartime Government

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

While mounting a military response to Hamas, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to unite his far-right wing with his political rival, centrist Benny Gantz, a former military Chief of Staff. The plans for retaliation that are emerging are unlike any of Israel’s past skirmishes with Hamas. Guest: Dov Waxman, director of the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The death toll and the level of suffering in Israel and Angaza has worsened since the attack by Hamas on October 7th.

0:55.0

Now Israel has declared war.

0:57.0

In order, more than a million Palestinians to relocate.

1:02.0

I've been, you know, following the conflict and I've lived in Israel and I've been following it for now, you know, three decades.

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And honestly, I don't think I can recall as difficult a week as this past week.

1:15.0

Dove Waxman is a professor of political science at UCLA and he leads the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at the University.

1:23.0

He's still processing the initial surprise attack by Hamas, the killings, the taking of hostages.

1:31.0

Then the retaliatory airstrikes by Israel and the forced evacuation of Palestinians in Gaza.

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