14 Nov 2024

You're Hired - with Alyssa Farah Griffin and Amos Harel

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JL;DR SUMMARY Alyssa Farah Griffin discusses the implications of Trump's appointments for U.S. policy in the Middle East, highlighting friction between isolationist and hawkish perspectives. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

"The concerns of Israelis and Jews around the world following the anti-Semitic violence in Amsterdam."

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

"I'm Yanit Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv."

London, United Kingdom

"I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian, now back in London."

Nablus, Palestinian Territories

"And Amos Orel will talk to us about northern Gaza."

Michigan, United States

"I think if 150,000 voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had voted not for Trump, but for Harris, the whole outcome would have been different."

Wisconsin, United States

"I think if 150,000 voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had voted not for Trump, but for Harris, the whole outcome would have been different."

Pennsylvania, United States

"I think if 150,000 voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had voted not for Trump, but for Harris, the whole outcome would have been different."

Israel

"When I look at, you know, as an Israeli, first of all, and we will talk about this more, I think with, with Alyssa, but also, you know, the perfect alignment between the Israeli rights and the American right and what that means."

Saudi Arabia

"It isn't a fluke. It isn't a 2016. This is the Americans in large numbers knowing and listening and hearing everything he said and still choosing to vote for all kinds of reasons."

North Gaza, Palestinian Territories

"Or people like that, who's going to be the ambassador to Israel and Pete Hagsteth, that is going to be the secretary of defense talking about building the third temple when he was here in 2018."

Poland

"I remember, and it would have been probably 2019, I was working for Vice President Pence, and we got together a group of some of the defense ministers and foreign ministers of a handful of Arab nations in Poland, and all of them agreed, and Ambassador Johnson and Ambassador Dermer of Israel was there."

Germany

"Boschwitz had an amazing story. He fled Germany."

Australia

"Ulrich himself, he had a series of terribly, sort of, misfortunes. He was deported to Australia."

United Kingdom

"He came as an enemy alien, as they were then called, to Britain."

Palestinian Territories

"So this was definitely a punishment election, I mean, you could definitely use that Jonathan Friedland phrase on what we saw in the United States."

Kiryat Gat, Southern District, Israel

"We have a mensch award to give out this week which I would want to give collectively to the residents of kibbutz near oz near oz as we all know we've been covering this for more than a year a symbol of the failure of october 7th the abandonment of october 7th no one came to this kibbutz for hours and hours a quarter of the residents were either murdered or kidnapped and they decided this week in a vote to rebuild the community they said that victory for them means the return of the hostages and the reconstruction of the kibbutz they have been living most of them in the city of Kiryat Gat and they've decided with all of the just imagine the the sort of pain and the unimaginable pain really of walking through this kibbutz again but they have decided to move back and to rebuild and to try and you know live there again."

Florida, United States

"No, I think you notice some people thinking maybe it's, I mean, this is really clutching at a shred of the straw, really, but thinking, is he doing this, Trump, so that he's got great cover with the pro-Israel community, particularly, and people always outside Israel make a huge fuss of, or make a mistake of reading the pro-Israel lobby or community, as a synonym for Jews."

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You're Hired - with Alyssa Farah Griffin and Amos Harel

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