One Year of War in the Middle East

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the anniversary of the October 7th attack in Israel and how the war has expanded across the Middle East in the year since, they play reflections from a Palestinian journalist in Gaza and an Israeli woman whose relatives were taken hostage, and discuss the heavy fighting this week in both Northern Gaza and Lebanon. Then they talk about how the war has become a major issue on the campaign trail, Trump’s bizarre claim to have visited Gaza and support for Israel attacking Iranian nuclear infrastructure, Kamala Harris’s frosty comments about Benjamin Netanyahu on 60 Minutes, Macron’s call to stop arming Israel, and Netanyahu’s ominous message to the Lebanese people. They also talk about Bob Woodward’s new book, the Tunisian election and the end of the Arab Spring, the dangers of the far-right surge in Austria, and a Qantas Airlines experience of in-flight entertainment gone horribly wrong. Then, Ben speaks to Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new book, “The Message”, that digs into the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and how victims can become victimizers.

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0:00.0	Welcome to PODS Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:10.0	I'm Ben Rhodes. I want the listener to know that Ben just
0:15.4	turned off a Mets playoff game for you. I did. So that's how committed he is.
0:19.8	Sacrifice. It is one nothing when I turned it off Mets and hopefully the podcast is good luck. I mean you know Tommy
0:26.4	October baseball is like a uniquely painful experience
0:30.9	The tension brief very high It can be fleeting.
0:33.7	Yeah.
0:34.7	We were in Philly for a pod on Sunday night and the game was happening kind of like as people
0:39.8	were filtering in and it was very clear to us that the shows,
0:43.6	whether it went well or poorly,
0:45.1	it was going to entirely depend on the Phillies winning that game.
0:47.4	So, you know, luckily they picked one off,
0:48.9	but I'm not really rooting for any of you.
0:51.4	I kind of hate all other teams right now if that's okay
0:55.0	that's fair that's fair I mean the funny thing is back in the day
0:58.0	as a Mets fan I hated the Yankees so much that I would actually
1:02.0	would actually read for the Red Sox after the Mets were eliminated.
1:04.1	Oh, yeah.
1:05.0	Just because it would upset the Yankees,
1:06.4	which is kind of a strange.
1:08.1	Just shows you how much sports fandom kind of breaks your brain,
1:10.8	you know?
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