What Next - What Was The Point of Israel’s Pager Attack?
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
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What message was Israel sending to Hezbollah, its backers, and the population of Lebanon, by blowing up pagers and walkie-talkies last week? And does the international community view this act as a violation of the laws of armed conflict?
Guest: Shane Harris, intelligence and national security reporter at the Washington Post.
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| 1:07.4 | says that hundreds of people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. Israel has |
| 1:12.3 | worn tens of thousands of Lebanese people to flee. So keep |
| 1:16.9 | listening and look out for the latest coverage on slate.com. Over the last week, I feel like me, you've been wondering what exactly will Israel do next. With Gaza trapped in a brutal deadlock, no ceasefire in sight, the Israeli |
| 1:40.2 | military seems to be shifting its attention north to Hezbollah to Lebanon. |
| 1:47.8 | It is on a knife's edge. |
| 1:49.2 | I mean, what other, you know, volatile is how I would probably describe it. |
| 1:53.6 | This is Shane Harris from over at the Washington Post. |
| 1:57.1 | And at the same time I feel like it's sort of the situation in the Middle East |
| 2:01.9 | is moving kind of inexorably to this bigger |
| 2:04.6 | confrontation that people have been fearing for a number of months now. |
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