News - Sudan Army Advances, IDF Remains in Lebanon, US Foreign Aid Freeze

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The paperboy has been laid off, but fear not, for Danny and Derek are here with the headlines. This week: in Israel-Palestine, detainees were exchanged on Thursday (0:31), the IDF continues its operation in the West Bank (6:05), an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza (7:40), and Trump proposes the idea of ethnically cleansing the Strip (10:34); in Lebanon, the IDF ignores its withdrawal deadline (15:02); in Syria, the political transition continues (17:00), the IDF remains in the country’s south (19:04), and negotiations with Russia are underway over its bases in Syria as well as the fate of Bashar al-Assad (20:32); the rollout of China’s DeepSeek AI roils tech stocks (23:00); the Sudanese army sees a string of military successes around Khartoum (25:24); in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the M23 military group takes Goma while advancing south (27:59); Putin comments on peace talks regarding Ukraine (32:43); Colombia and the US get into a spat regarding deportation flights (34:12); and in US news, arms sales hit a new record in 2024 (37:16), Donald Trump vows to build a migrant detention facility at Guantánamo (38:20), and some details on the effects of his foreign aid freeze (39:35). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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0:35.4	Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more. Hello, Prestige Heads, welcome. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson, and we are very excited to bring you the news. Derek, let's jump
1:12.5	right into it and let's start with Israel Palestine. And could you tell us about these detainee
1:16.9	exchanges that happened on Thursday? Sure. This actually goes back to Sunday when there was a regularly
1:25.7	scheduled detainee exchange,
1:27.6	they're going on weekly,
1:30.1	or actually Saturday, Sunday, I should say.
1:33.6	They're going on every weekend, Saturdays,
1:36.7	the day when they're supposed to be happening,
1:38.3	where Hamas and Islamic Jihad and other factions release
1:43.3	a number of October 7th hostages.
1:45.7	The Israelis release a number of Palestinian detainees, and the ceasefire or the truce,
1:51.1	whatever you want to call it, continues for another week.
1:54.0	This past weekend, Hamas and company released four female IDF soldiers. So, you know, as you would expect, I guess.
2:08.1	But the Israeli government complained. Apparently there is a woman or was a woman civilian or considered a civilian who was still being held by Hamas or Islamic jihad, I think actually was the group technically holding her.
2:26.8	And she was scheduled to be released. She should have been released under the terms of the truce agreement.
2:33.0	She should have been released prior to any soldiers
2:35.4	being released, but she was not part of this exchange over the weekend. And so, as I say,
2:40.4	these Israelis reacted angrily to this. And they wound up delaying the opening of the roads,
2:47.7	the north-south roads in Gaza for people who have been displaced to southern Gaza
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