WTH Did Hamas Attack and How Will Israel Respond? Haviv Gur Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The monstrosity of Hamas’ attack on Israel is hard to fathom. This podcast, with Times of Israel reporter Haviv Gur, shares some insight into developments on the ground in Israel, tragedies that Israelis are experiencing real-time, and analysis of the political, religious, and military aspects of the conflict.
He also gives us a glimpse into Israel’s calculus following the attack – what do Israelis think Palestinians are thinking? Where are the roots of Palestinian extremism, how do the majority Arab Israeli population view the behavior of their neighbors? How has the fundamental understanding of regional cooperation changed, and where are we beginning to have clarity on the real aspirations of Palestinian leaders and other Middle East actors in the fall-out?
These questions and more with Haviv Rettig Gur. Haviv is The Times of Israel's senior analyst. He has reported from over 20 countries and served as director of communications for the Jewish Agency for Israel, Israel’s largest NGO. He lectures on Israeli politics, the US-Israel relationship, the peace process, modern Jewish history and identity, and Israel-diaspora relations. Haviv lives in Jerusalem with his wife and two sons.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.0 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.8 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.5 | Mark, what the hell? |
| 0:37.9 | What the hell is right? |
| 0:39.2 | I've never been sadder recording a podcast and watching what's unfolding in Israel right now. |
| 0:46.0 | I just want to read you a tweet that just came out from someone in the region. |
| 0:51.2 | This says, Zaka Southern Region, Head of Operations of operations Yossi Landau, said that in his |
| 0:56.6 | long career as an emergency responder, he had never seen horrors comparing to those unleashed |
| 1:01.5 | by Ghazan terrorists Saturday. Zaka is a volunteer civilian emergency response organization, |
| 1:07.2 | comprised of many religious Jews who help collect human remains after terrorist attacks. |
| 1:11.6 | And this is the part that actually hit me in the gut. |
| 1:13.6 | In the first home he and his colleagues entered, quote, |
| 1:16.6 | we see a pregnant lady lying on the floor and then we turn her around and see the stomach is cut open, |
| 1:21.6 | wide open, the unborn baby still connected by the umbilical cord, |
| 1:25.6 | was stabbed with a knife, and the mother |
| 1:28.1 | was shot in the head, and you can use your imagination trying to figure out what came first, unquote. |
| 1:33.5 | I mean, that's the monstrosity of what we're dealing with here in Israel, the people who would take |
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