News - Gaza Ceasefire, Yoon Arrested, Farewell to Biden

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Danny and Derek with your pre-Shabbat news roundup. This week: the terms and concerns of the Gaza ceasefire (0:30); Lebanon elects Nawaf Salam as its new PM (8:02); worries arise over foreign fighters in Syria’s new administration (12:21); in Sudan, the military takes Wad Madani, leading to reprisal killings (14:40); Somalia and Ethiopia agree to restore full relations (18:59); the TikTok saga continues (21:28); President Yoon of South Korea is finally arrested (23:55); in Russia-Ukraine, the US issues new sanctions (26:27) and Russia makes more advances (29:11); the US removes Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list (30:57); and Danny and Derek bid farewell to Joseph Robinette Biden (32:55). Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and more content, including our in-depth special on the Gaza ceasefire! Take a look at journalist Sam Hosseini confronting Antony Blinken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison, and
1:08.2	we are excited to bring you the news.
1:10.8	Derek, let's start with this ceasefire in Gaza.
1:14.9	But if everyone wants a real detailed analysis, I would point them to the special that we
1:21.5	released.
1:22.4	It'll be two days ago on Wednesday night, where we really go into the details of the ceasefire agreement
1:28.7	and what we think it portends for Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East broadly. And so we're not
1:35.0	going to recapitulate everything that we talked about then. But Derek, what has been the developments,
1:41.1	what have been the developments since we recorded that special?
1:54.8	So just to give people the very basics, the ceasefire is structured as it's virtually identical to the ceasefire that Joe Biden introduced back in, I think it was May and then allowed Benjamin
2:00.1	and Yahoo to torpedo.
2:01.9	It's basically the same deal. It's structured as a three-phase process. Only the first
2:07.9	phase has actually been negotiated in any detail, and this is relevant to what's come up today.
2:13.7	That's a six-week pause in fighting involving the release of 33 October 7th hostages,
2:20.3	and somewhere on the order of, the number keeps changing. At one point it was 2,000. Now I think it's
2:26.3	1,600 maybe detainees, Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody. And then, you know, the contours of that will be there, there'll be partial
2:35.2	Israeli withdrawal, and then the two sides will resume negotiations after a couple of weeks to
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