WTH is Going On With the Hostage Rescue and Political Turmoil in Israel? Haviv Rettig Gur Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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This past weekend, Israeli special forces rescued four hostages Hamas kidnapped on October 7 and held in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. Israelis were ecstatic about the news. Meanwhile, Israel’s usual detractors in the West accused Israel of war crimes for harming “civilians” during the operation, apparently forgetting that Hamas chose to embed hostages within Gaza’s civilian population. What does the hostage rescue mean for the prospects of saving the remaining 120 hostages? Will turmoil and resignations at the senior levels of Israel’s national security government derail efforts to destroy Hamas? What does the future hold for this war amid growing threats from Hezbollah in Lebanon?
Haviv Rettig Gur is The Times of Israel’s senior analyst. Before joining the Times of Israel, he was a reporter for the Jerusalem Post. Haviv 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. |
| 0:03.0 | 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 is 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. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:30.6 | And I'm Mark Kesson. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:34.6 | Mark, what the hell? |
| 0:36.6 | What the hell is going on is Israel launched a daring operation to rescue four Israeli hostages |
| 0:43.8 | that were being held by Hamas. The images of these, the, first of all, you can watch, |
| 0:50.1 | actually, you and I both watch the video of the actual raid, which was just fascinating. |
| 1:01.9 | And just the video of the hostages being reunited with their families was so moving and so wonderful. |
| 1:03.1 | And then you look at the news coverage here in America and the response in America, |
| 1:08.6 | 200 Palestinians killed to rescue four hostages. It's like it didn't even |
| 1:15.7 | give like a moment for people to celebrate the reunification of these hostages with their families. |
| 1:20.4 | We were immediately turning to how terrible it was that Israel had done this. It killed so many |
| 1:25.8 | people in the in the operation. I mean, what the hell, |
| 1:28.5 | Danny? You know, look, to me, this is just a reflection of the bankruptcy of American public |
| 1:34.7 | discourse at this point. The New York Times, the Washington Post, major networks, everybody, |
| 1:39.8 | was more focused on the fact that there were casualties. |
| 1:45.7 | And by the way, completely uninterested in whether those numbers coming from Hamas were true |
| 1:52.1 | and less focused on the fact that somebody who has been parading himself as a journalist |
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