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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | We have reached the point in the war where it is now obvious to everybody that the questions, the center of gravity is shifting from the battlefield to politics. |
0:09.6 | The army needs more soldiers. That runs headlong into Harady politics and coalition politics. |
0:14.9 | The hostages are in their last stretch. You know, they've been there four months, who knows if they're |
0:19.4 | still alive three months from now? That question of the hostage deal runs into coalition politics. The day after |
0:25.5 | question, because of humanitarian aid, the day after question can no longer wait for the day after. |
0:30.7 | That is a question for politics. |
0:33.0 | Everywhere you look, the center of gravity is no longer on the question of what the |
0:37.2 | IDF can achieve on the ground. We know what the IDF can achieve on the ground and we know |
0:40.2 | it's going to achieve it. The question now is all the rest of it and all the rest of it needs solutions and those solutions are going to be political solutions. It's 12 o'clock noon on Sunday March 3rd in New York City at 7 o'clock p.m. in Israel. In recent days it has not appeared |
1:07.0 | that there have been major IDF advances on the battleground in Gaza as |
1:11.2 | questions remain as to whether there will be a negotiated pause |
1:16.1 | in fighting in advance of Ramadan or not, and whether a full-scale military operation will advance against the remaining Hamas |
1:26.2 | battalions in Raffa. |
1:28.6 | At the same time, the Israeli government is contending with new external and internal pressure. |
1:35.4 | Externally, there is increasing international pressure on Israel following the humanitarian aid |
1:41.6 | incident last week that left a number of Palestinian civilians |
1:46.6 | dead, and increasing internal pressure, specifically on Prime Minister Netanyahu, as it relates to how he'll hold his government |
1:55.8 | together in the midst of a new debate about exemptions for hare-deme or |
2:01.3 | ultra-Orthodox Jews from their IDF military service. |
2:07.2 | This has thrown a bunch of questions on the table as different members of the Netanyahu government take positions that create new pressure points. |
2:16.0 | To help us unpack what's going on with these intensifying external to internal political pressure points. |
2:23.0 | We are joined by Haviva de Gour from the Times of Israel for our regular check-in. |
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