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A crisis-level shortage of clergy in North American Reform and Conservative synagogues has led to a fascinating new phenomenon – an exodus of Israeli-born rabbis moving to the United States and Canada to serve as spiritual leaders. On the Haaretz Podcast, Judy Maltz, Haaretz’s Jewish world editor who has reported on the trend, explains how these Israelis are filling an ever-growing need as fewer and fewer young North American Jews are training to be rabbis in non-Orthodox movements. Meanwhile, the number of Israelis receiving rabbinic ordination has grown. “I think what's luring them abroad primarily is the salaries and the conditions,” Maltz told podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, adding there was another extremely appealing factor: respect. “A woman rabbi who had recently taken a job in New York said to me ‘I no longer have to prove I'm a rabbi here.’ That is a very appealing factor: being admired and accepted for what you are and your profession, and that you don't have to constantly fight for recognition and legitimacy.” By contrast, in Israel, they are still battling for that legitimacy and even face mockery. The Israeli imports are helping to solve the “very huge shortage of rabbis” to serve U.S. congregations in the non-Orthodox Jewish community “because nobody really wants to go to rabbinical school anymore and the whole business of organized synagogue life has become less appealing,” Maltz explained. With liberal Jews affiliated with Jewish organizations (like synagogues) are having fewer and fewer children, she said, it has also been more difficult for Reform and Conservative congregations to sustain their traditionally strong youth movements “which have been the pipeline tor rabbinical school.” The new imports, Maltz noted, are not only breathing new spiritual life into their new congregations “but since October 7, these Israeli rabbis find themselves serving as a kind of bridge between their congregations and Israel – and as an important resource on information about what's happening in Israel where the news changes so quickly. They are finding themselves in this new and rather unexpected role of explaining what's happening.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. Read more: Israel's Hottest New Export: Reform and Conservative Rabbis Far-right Mob Storms Reform Synagogue in Ra'anana Screening Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony Beyond Netflix's Hot Rabbi: Progressive Judaism Is Having a Moment on Screen 'Proof of a Thirst': Percentage of Reform Jews in Israel Doubles in Recent YearsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tel Aviv merkezli “Haaretz” gazetesinde geçen Mayıs'ta yer alan bir haberde İsrail'in Gazze'de yürüttüğü soykırımla ilgili askerî harcamalarının yüzde 70'ini ABD fonlarından sağladığı belirtilmişti. Gazze'de, Batı Şeria'da soykırım devam ediyor ve ABD de İsrail'e askerî yardımı sürdürüyor. ABD her yıl İsrail'e 3.8 milyar dolarlık askerî yardım yapıyor. Gazze'deki soykırım sürecinde görüldüğü gibi ABD yıllık rutin yardımın dışında da İsrail'e para akıtıyor.

« Paris et Londres signent un accord sans précédent », titre Le Figaro, « un accord essentiel pour le Premier ministre britannique, soumis à une forte pression alors que les chiffres de traversées clandestines de la Manche sont à la hausse ». Le principe de cet arrangement est celui-ci, explique le quotidien conservateur : « les migrants arrivés sur de petites embarcations seront détenus et renvoyés en France dans les plus brefs délais. En échange, pour chaque retour, une autre personne sera autorisée à entrer au Royaume-Uni par une voie contrôlée, sûre et légale ». Un accord qui ne choque pas le Figaro, mais qui suscite la colère de Libération : le quotidien de gauche parle d'un « accord de la honte » et de « cruauté ». « La France et le Royaume-Uni veulent s'échanger des vies humaines pour combattre l'immigration », dénonce de son côté Médiapart, qui rappelle que « depuis le début de l'année, près de 21 000 migrants ont réussi à traverser la Manche à bord d'embarcations non-adaptées ». Le journal Le Monde estime toutefois que cet accord n'aura qu'une ampleur limitée. Selon le quotidien, « le nombre de personnes concernées devrait s'établir autour de cinquante par semaine ». Un accord également commenté par la presse britannique Le Guardian, par exemple, qui sans être enthousiaste souligne tout de même que c'est « la première fois que le gouvernement britannique augmente le nombre de voies d'accès sûres, permettant aux demandeurs d'asile d'atteindre la Grande-Bretagne ». Mais cet accès sera réservé à certains profils de candidats : « À ceux qui n'ont pas tenté d'entrer illégalement au Royaume-Uni », a précisé le Premier ministre Keir Starmer. Le Times publie de son côté un éditorial sans concession, estimant que « l'annonce faite par Starmer, ne risque pas de faire trembler les migrants dans leurs petits bateaux ». « Dans un avenir proche » ironise le quotidien britannique, « le Royaume-Uni restituera à la France une cinquantaine de petits bateaux par semaine et en retour cinquante autres bateaux arriveront dans l'autre sens, en toute légalité ». « Il n'y a pas si longtemps », ajoute le Times, « le Premier ministre avait excellé à souligner le ridicule du plan du gouvernement pour le Rwanda (…) c'était la décision dénuée de sens et non dissuasive des conservateurs. Cette fois-ci c'était la décision de Starmer, avec l'air mièvre et sévère qui le caractérise », assène le Times. La rapporteure spéciale de l'ONU pour les territoires palestiniens contre-attaque Francesca Albanese s'est attirée la foudre des États-Unis. « Le secrétaire d'État Marco Rubio », explique La Repubblica, a décidé de « lui imposer des sanctions » pour ses propos sur la situation à Gaza. Francesca Albanese estime « qu'on veut la faire taire alors que 60 000 personnes, dont 18 000 enfants, ont été tuées à Gaza. Il s'agit d'une tentative pour faire taire les accusations de génocide.  Avec Israël, les États-Unis « utilisent des méthodes mafieuses pour  m'intimider », accuse la rapporteure de l'ONU. En Israël justement, le quotidien Haaretz estime qu'Albanese « ne fait pas grand-chose, si ce n'est rédiger des rapports, faire du lobbying, prononcer des discours et publier des tweets ». « Elle cherche à créer un monde de bandes dessinées, opposant le bien au mal, où l'héroïsme palestinien affronte la violence et l'oppression israélienne. La date du 7 octobre 2023 », ajoute Haaretz, « n'apparait jamais dans son rapport. » Francesca Albanese, qui trouve plus de soutien, dans les colonnes de l'Orient le Jour. Le quotidien francophone libanais parle « d'une voix propalestinienne que les États-Unis cherchent à faire taire (…) son franc-parler et ses prises de position dérangent et polarisent largement ».  « Mais elle incarne », nous dit l'Orient-le-Jour, « une voix internationale indispensable, aux yeux des Palestiniens, pour mettre la lumière sur les agissements de l'État hébreu dans les territoires occupés ».   

Israel, it seems, is once again on the brink of a cease-fire deal with Hamas – one that would see hostilities halted for at least two months, and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages. But as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump talk particulars in Washington, the families of the 50 remaining hostages are far from relieved. The deal on the table would only bring home 10 of the living hostages, and the remains of 18 of the deceased – leaving the fate of the 22 others in question. Aviva Siegel was kidnapped on October 7 from Kibbutz Kfar Azza along with her husband, Keith. She was released after 51 days, and campaigned tirelessly for Keith's release. After he came home in February, the reunited couple have fought for the return of the remaining hostages in Gaza. Siegel joins Haaretz reporter Linda Dayan to talk about this deal, captivity, adjusting to freedom and the urgency of bringing every hostage home. "Nobody's really talking about what's going to happen after the 10 [living hostages] come home, and half the hostages that aren't alive," Siegel says. "I've asked important people if they can answer that, because it's a question that I think about all the time, and I'm very, very worried." On what may be the eve of a historic decision, she says that she would tell decision-makers – at home and abroad – her own story, and ask them how they can abandon the hostages who remain there, like 27-year-old twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman. "I was there for the 51 days. I felt that I was left behind," she recounted. "And there were so many moments that I lost hope and I just wanted to die. What I saw in Gaza and what I felt was so much for a human being to go through. I just wanted to die. So I want the leaders to understand that they have to take responsibility – I'm just an ordinary person, and I just want my life back." Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. Read more: 'I Still Can't Believe It When I See My Father Eating, Sleeping, and Wearing Warm Clothes' 'A Little More and You're Home': Kfar Azza's Fight for Its Last Hostages in Gaza What Exactly Is In the Cease-fire/Hostage Deal On the Table?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Trump claimed that Gaza ceasefire talks are "going well" as he met with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu in Washington, who was also optimistic after the meeting, even saying that peace between Israel and the entire Middle East was possible under Trump's leadership. While the world waits for an agreement, the people of Gaza continue to be bombed, with over 60 people reported killed there today. Noa Landau is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which has done extensive investigative reporting on this war, and she joins the program from Tel Aviv.   Also on today's show: economist Ernie Tedeschi; NYT reporter Caroline Kitchener; award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins ("Purpose")  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

«Dal momento in cui ha finito il liceo ha fatto solo quello: combattere. Era esausto. Sono tutti esausti. Mentalmente distrutti. Questo deve finire». A dirlo non è un'attivista pacifista né un'opinionista controversa, ma Alexandra Radia, madre di Niv, sergente dell'IDF ucciso a giugno. La sua voce incrinata in diretta nazionale ha aperto una breccia in un muro di silenzio istituzionale che da mesi nasconde la devastazione umana che attraversa l'esercito israeliano impegnato a Gaza. Haaretz ha raccolto testimonianze di soldati attivi: raccontano di una macchina militare che addestra a sparare e non insegna a sopravvivere alla colpa, al trauma, alla nausea che ti coglie davanti a un piatto di pasta perché ti ricorda l'odore della morte. Le parole che Israele non vuole sentire sono quelle che incrinano la retorica dell'eroismo. Si parla di giovani spezzati che non riescono a fare l'amore, che vomitano in bagno durante una cena di famiglia, che hanno smesso di credere che quella guerra serva a qualcosa. Uno su otto, dice uno studio, è mentalmente inadatto a tornare in servizio. Ma il governo stringe i ranghi e prosegue. «Quanti morti servono per dire basta?», chiede Uri, uno dei soldati. Intanto il premier Netanyahu, in un raro momento di irritazione, ha bollato queste testimonianze come “diffamazione contro l'esercito”. Forse perché la verità che rivelano è insostenibile anche per chi ha voluto questa guerra: non ci sono solo i corpi dei civili palestinesi a chiedere conto delle scelte politiche, ma anche le anime devastate dei suoi stessi figli in divisa. Nessuno tornerà com'era. Nemmeno Israele.. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

Le Premier ministre israélien se déplace à Washington pour la première rencontre entre les deux hommes depuis la guerre lancée par Israël contre l'Iran. Un événement porteur d'espoirs, et dont une grande partie de la presse se fait donc le relais. Les deux hommes parleront du dossier iranien, mais aussi de la guerre à Gaza. Car, écrit le Figaro, le président américain est « déterminé à arracher un cessez-le-feu » dans l'enclave palestinienne. Après sa victoire contre Téhéran, le président américain veut poursuivre sur sa lancée et « faire progresser la paix au Moyen-Orient », juge le quotidien français. Une perspective envisageable seulement « si les armes se taisent dans la bande de Gaza. » Le Washington Post lui aussi, faisant référence aux lubies pour le moins changeantes du chef d'État américain, estime que ce dernier « semble être d'humeur à faire la paix ». Il faut dire, ironise El Pais, que Donald Trump « a promis lors de la campagne qui l'a ramené à la Maison Blanche qu'il parviendrait à la paix dans le monde dès son premier jour au pouvoir », et le voilà donc, certes, « 168 jours plus tard, » prêt à avancer vers son objectif.  Sauf que la « volonté de fer » du président américain va rencontrer celle d'un Benyamin Netanyahu très attaché au pouvoir, et dépendant, rappelle le Figaro, d'une « coalition va-t-en-guerre ». Mais justement, pointe le Washington Post : « Politiquement, le Premier ministre n'aura pas de meilleure opportunité que celle qui se présente après la réussite sur le terrain iranien, qui va s'estomper avec le temps. » De toute façon, abonde le Soir en Belgique, « dans les faits, les deux hommes ont intérêt à conclure cette trêve », l'un pour concrétiser l'image de faiseur de paix qu'il cherche à se donner depuis le début de son mandat, l'autre pour « ménager son opinion publique, » qui attend toujours « le retour d'une cinquantaine d'otages retenus dans Gaza ». Les négociateurs israéliens, eux aussi, en déplacement Les négociateurs israéliens se rendent à Doha, au Qatar, et ont décollé quelques heures à peine après Benyamin Netanyahu. Cette « synchronicité » n'a « rien d'une coïncidence », souligne Haaretz en Israël : « Le président américain a indiqué à plusieurs reprises qu'il perd patience au sujet des combats en Israël », et « sous la pression américaine », aussi bien Israël que le Hamas, « ont rapidement fait savoir leur disponibilité ». Une ébauche d'accord a déjà été rédigée, dont El Pais rappelle le point de départ : « Un cessez-le-feu de 60 jours » qui serait l'occasion d'un échange de prisonniers et d'otages. Mais ce premier jet, critique Haaretz, laisse de côté certains « point essentiels » comme « la fin de la guerre ou la gestion de Gaza une fois que les forces israéliennes se seront retirées ». La question du départ des soldats israéliens a toujours été l'un des points les plus sensibles des négociations et il l'est probablement toujours : un expert interrogé par Le Soir se dit ainsi « extrêmement dubitatif sur le fait que Benyamin Netanyahu l'accepte », d'autant que ces derniers mois, « Washington avait validé l'idée que la bande de Gaza telle qu'elle a existé jusqu'à présent pouvait disparaître ». Mais si cela doit arriver, ce sera, juge Le Soir, « par étapes » car « aujourd'hui, ce qui compte pour Israël, c'est de rester dans Gaza ». L'intelligence artificielle et les menaces qu'elle fait peser sur Internet Si vous utilisez encore Google, alors la sentence du Monde est irrévocable : vous êtes un « cyberboomer ». Car les plus jeunes, eux, utilisent ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity ou un autre agent conversationnel pour leurs recherches en ligne. Une « tendance », voire une « révolution » qui aura, entrevoit déjà le quotidien français, « des conséquences vertigineuses pour l'avenir du Web ». Pour les moins convaincus, difficile d'imaginer quitter Google ou un autre moteur de recherche quand on y a passé plus de vingt ans. Pourtant, le Monde en est certain : « Demain, qu'ils le veuillent ou non, tous les utilisateurs de Google franchiront le pas », et le géant américain en a conscience, puisqu'il a « déjà mis en place deux solutions de recherche par IA ». En fait, ces moteurs de recherche par intelligence artificielle (IA), « qui n'impliquent plus de cliquer sur des liens », remettent en cause « tout le modèle économique du web, qui risque de s'écrouler », prédit le Monde. Et s'il n'y a plus de motivation financière, s'il n'y a plus de visites sur les sites, questionne le Monde, « pourquoi s'acharner à publier du contenu ? » D'où cette question : à force de systèmes d'IA qui « ringardisent les moteurs de recherche et rendent facultative la consultation de sites Internet », « que va-t-il rester [de ce fameux] World Wide Web » tel qu'on le connaît ?

C'est à la Une du Washington Post : « Le Hamas accepte un cessez-le-feu à Gaza, et demande des garanties américaines sur les pourparlers pour mettre fin à la guerre ». En Israël, le Jerusalem Post précise que le cabinet de sécurité israélien se réunira ce soir. De son côté, Haaretz a obtenu une copie du projet d'accord : il prévoit que « Donald Trump s'engage à poursuivre les négociations jusqu'à un accord final et garantira le respect du cessez-le-feu par Israël ». L'accord prévoit aussi une libération des otages israéliens selon un calendrier précis : huit otages vivants seraient libérés le premier jour de la trêve, et les deux autres le 50ᵉ jour. S'ensuit un décompte macabre : cinq corps seraient restitués le 7ᵉ jour du cessez-le-feu, cinq le 30ᵉ jour et les huit autres le 60ᵉ jour. L'accord prévoit également que « l'aide humanitaire à Gaza reprendra immédiatement après que le Hamas aura accepté le cessez-le-feu, qu'elle sera importante et livrée en quantité suffisante, conformément à l'accord de cessez-le-feu précédent signé le 19 janvier » … Dernière précision fournie par Haaretz et elle a son importance : « Le président Donald Trump devrait annoncer personnellement le cessez-le-feu ». Un chiffre qui interroge À lire également dans la presse internationale ce matin : un article sur les demandes d'asile en Allemagne. Un article du journal die Welt, qui annonce « une chute spectaculaire du nombre de demandeurs d'asile en Allemagne ». « Pour la première fois depuis des années, l'Allemagne n'est plus le pays d'Europe qui compte le plus de demandeurs d'asile ». « Un rapport confidentiel de la Commission européenne, fait état d'une forte baisse des demandes », explique le quotidien allemand. Ainsi, « entre le 1er janvier et le 30 juin, le nombre de demandes d'asile a chuté de 43 % par rapport à l'année dernière ». Et l'Allemagne n'est pas un cas unique. Le nombre de demandeurs d'asile a « globalement diminué », mais dans de moindres proportions, dans les pays de l'UE, ainsi qu'en Norvège et en Suisse. Comment cela s'explique-t-il ? Cela s'explique, selon Lena Düpont, experte en migration, interrogée par die Welt, « par les accords conclus avec d'importants pays d'Afrique du Nord, comme la Tunisie et l'Égypte, qui en échange de programmes d'aide, dont certains se chiffrent en milliards », ont accru la surveillance à leurs frontières. Cela ne va pas sans écueil. Comme avec la Libye, notamment. Elle aussi a conclu un accord de partenariat avec l'Union européenne, mais tangue sous l'effet de la guerre civile.  De nombreux migrants ou réfugiés (ils seraient actuellement 90 000 en Libye) tentent de fuir le pays. Jouer des coudes Enfin, le coup d'envoi aujourd'hui du Tour de France cycliste… Le Tour de France, une affaire d'hommes, qu'ils soient coureurs ou commentateurs. Mais des femmes parviennent tout de même à se faire une place. C'est le cas de Marion Rousse, ancienne coureuse devenue commentatrice pour France Télévision, mais aussi directrice du Tour de France femmes. La Croix s'est intéressée à son parcours, celui « d'une femme qui, à 33 ans, incarne la féminisation d'un milieu longtemps exclusivement masculin ». Interrogée, Marion Rousse explique pourquoi elle a arrêté sa carrière à seulement 24 ans. Parce qu'à l'époque, « il n'y avait que deux ou trois filles qui étaient rémunérées, et c'étaient toujours les mêmes qui gagnaient les courses ». La Croix lui demande alors « si elle a des regrets de ne pas avoir pu vivre du cyclisme ». « Au contraire », répond Marion Rousse, « je suis très fière d'apporter ma pierre à l'édifice pour que, justement, les cyclistes actuelles n'aient pas à vivre ce que j'ai vécu ». Alors qu'elle, a dû « jouer des coudes ». « J'ai toujours évolué dans ce milieu d'hommes qui est celui du vélo », poursuit Marion Rousse. « Mais j'ai toujours eu la force de caractère de ne pas me laisser faire. Oui, je suis une femme et alors ? Je sais aussi parler de vélo »… Et elle conclut : « je vois quand même une vraie évolution, il y a de plus en plus de journalistes femmes dans le sport, et la parole s'est libérée ».

Un articolo del quotidiano israeliano Haaretz, che pubblichiamo su Internazionale questa settimana, rivela che i comandanti dell'esercito israeliano ordinano di aprire il fuoco sui palestinesi vicino ai centri di distribuzione del cibo, anche se non rappresentano una minaccia. Con Francesca Gnetti, editor di Medio Oriente di Internazionale. L'annuncio del dalai lama era molto atteso, perché i tibetani temono che la Cina voglia imporre un suo successore. Con Ilaria Maria Sala, giornalista, da Hong Kong.Oggi parliamo anche di: Film • Happy holidays di Scandar CoptiCi piacerebbe sapere cosa pensi di questo episodio. Scrivici a podcast@internazionale.it Se ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità. Vai su internazionale.it/abbonatiConsulenza editoriale di Chiara NielsenProduzione di Claudio Balboni e Vincenzo De SimoneMusiche di Tommaso Colliva e Raffaele ScognaDirezione creativa di Jonathan Zenti

Die US-israelischen Lebensmittelverteilungsstellen in GazaEin Kommentar von Rainer Rupp.Vor einigen Wochen hatte das verbrecherische Apartheid-Regime der Zionisten in Israel der humanitären UNO-Hilfsorganisation unter Androhung von Waffengewalt die Verteilung von Hilfsgütern - Lebensmittel, Medikamente und Wasser - im Gazastreifen verboten. Anschließend haben die wegen Völkermords vom Internationalen Gerichtshof gesuchten Mitglieder der Netanjahu-Regierung ihren grausamen Zynismus gegenüber den Palästinensern auf die Spitze getrieben. Gemeinsam mit ihren amerikanischen Komplizen der Trump-Regierung haben sie eine, in Anführungszeichen, „Humanitäre Stiftung für den Gazastreifen“ gegründet, wo nur noch ein Bruchteil der zum Überleben der Gaza-Bevölkerung notwendigen Mengen verteilt wird.Aber viel schlimmer noch ist die Tatsache, dass diese israelisch-amerikanischen Lebensmittelverteilungsstellen zu „Killing Fields“ geworden sind. Denn tagtäglich schießen israelische Soldaten gezielt in die Menge der Wartenden, um einige Menschen zu töten und zu verletzen. Dabei wird kein Unterschied zwischen Männern, Frauen oder Kindern gemacht. Mit den üblichen zionistischen Argumenten wurden diese Berichte von offiziellen Stellen in Israel als hässliche, anti-semitische Propaganda von Judenhassern abgetan. Das Morden an den Verteilungsstellen ging jedoch weiter.Laut einem Bericht der Gesundheitsbehörde in Gaza vom letzten Sonntag zum Beispiel hatten israelischen Streitkräfte in den vorangegangenen 24 Stunden mindestens 86 Palästinenser getötet und 365 verwundet, denn die Israelis hatten weiterhin Ziele im gesamten Streifen bombardiert und zugleich hatten israelische Soldaten weiterhin Hilfesuchende wahllos erschossen. Unter den 86 Getöteten befanden sich 18 Menschen, die Hilfe suchten. Damit hat sich die Gesamtzahl der Palästinenser, die seit Ende Mai beim Versuch, Lebensmittel von den Verteilerstellen abzuholen, erschossen wurden, auf 583 erhöht. Weitere 4.186 Hilfesuchende wurden teils schwer verletzt, was bei vielen den sicheren Tod bedeutet, weil in den zerbombten Krankenhaus-Ruinen Gazas die notwendigen Medikamente nicht ankommen und die medizinischen Apparaturen zerstört sind.Die jüngsten Tötungen von Hilfsgüter-Suchenden ereigneten sich, obwohl wenige Tage zuvor ein Bericht der israelischen Zeitung Haaretz enthüllt hatte, dass diese Morde nicht von unkontrollierten, sadistischen Soldaten ausgeführt werden, sondern hinter den indiskriminierten Tötungen System steckt. Laut Haaretz haben die israelischen Soldaten auf Befehl ihrer vorgesetzten Offiziere wahllos unbewaffnete, friedliche Palästinenser unter Feuer genommen, die vor den US-israelischen Verteilungsstellen für Lebensmittel warteten. Menschen jeden Alters wurden getötet oder verwundet mit dem Ziel sie von den Verteilungsstellen zu vertreiben oder zu zerstreuen, obwohl sie keine Bedrohung darstellen."Es ist ein Schlachtfeld", zitiert Haaretz einen israelischen Soldaten: “Wo ich stationiert war, wurden jeden Tag zwischen einem und fünf Menschen getötet. Sie werden wie eine feindliche Streitmacht behandelt - keine Kontrollmaßnahmen, kein Tränengas – nur scharfes Feuer mit allem Erdenklichen: Mal schwere Maschinengewehre, mal Mörser oder Scharfschüsse.“ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

« Grand et beau projet de loi », les qualificatifs sont signés de Donald Trump lui-même, qui obtient une nouvelle victoire. « La chambre des représentants a adopté de justesse ce projet de loi de grande envergure », explique le New York Times, « il vise à prolonger les réductions d'impôts et à réduire les mesures de Sécurité sociale ». Texte adopté « de justesse » donc par 218 voix contre 214. Et pour parvenir à ce résultat, Donald Trump a donné de sa personne, nous explique le Wall Street Journal. « Le président et ses collaborateurs ont supervisé une série de réunions et d'appels téléphoniques de dernière minute avec les républicains réfractaires ». Ainsi, Donald Trump aurait lui-même appelé certains de ces réfractaires. Notamment Thomas Massie, représentant républicain du Kentucky, « qui avait exaspéré le président en votant contre une version antérieure du projet de loi et qui, bien qu'il se soit de nouveau opposé au projet de loi hier, a soutenu une mesure procédurale permettant son adoption ». « Étant entendu », précise le Wall Street Journal, « que Trump modérerait ses attaques, selon des sources proches du dossier ». « Les promesses vagues et les cajoleries de Trump ont porté leurs fruits », remarque le quotidien américain, « ce qui souligne son emprise sur le Parti républicain ». « Seuls deux républicains de la Chambre des Représentants et trois sénateurs républicains ont voté contre le projet de loi ». Très ferme Donald Trump, encore et toujours, également à la manœuvre au Proche-Orient. « Le président américain espère une victoire sur l'accord de paix entre Israël et Gaza » titre le Washington Post. « Il espère conclure un accord de cessez-le-feu la semaine prochaine lorsqu'il accueillera le premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou à la Maison-Blanche, et alors que son équipe de négociateurs réduit les écarts entre le Hamas et Israël, pour un accord sur la libération des otages et la fin des hostilités ». Trump a annoncé qu'il se montrerait « très ferme ». Il faut dire, explique le Washington Post, « que sa décision de bombarder l'Iran a divisé les plus fervents partisans du président dont certains se sont sentis trahis par sa promesse d'éviter de nouvelles guerres ». En Israël, une partie de la presse considère que les choses ne vont pas assez vite. C'est le cas d'Haaretz. Le journal d'opposition accuse le Premier ministre Benyamin Netanyahu de « traîner les pieds sur un accord de cessez-le-feu à Gaza, et de prolonger l'agonie des otages ». Haaretz qui semble toutefois faire confiance à Donald Trump. « Pour la première fois depuis longtemps », écrit le journal, « les évènements prennent une direction claire. Le président américain entend exploiter ce qu'il décrit comme une grande victoire sur l'Iran, pour imposer un nouvel ordre régional au Moyen-Orient. » Et « sa première étape sera la Bande de Gaza ». Les jeunes et la démocratie Ainsi va le monde, et il n'inspire pas vraiment les jeunes Européens. C'est le Guardian qui nous l'annonce : « Les jeunes Européens perdent confiance en la démocratie », selon un sondage de l'Institut YouGov pour la Fondation Tui, dont nous parle ce matin le Guardian. Il en ressort que « seulement la moitié des jeunes en France et en Espagne pensent que la démocratie est la meilleure forme de gouvernement ». Plus inquiétant encore : « plus d'un jeune européen sur cinq serait favorable à un régime autoritaire, dans certaines circonstances… non précisées… » « Et près d'un jeune européen sur dix déclare qu'il ne se soucie pas de savoir si son gouvernement est démocratique ou pas » … 6 700 personnes ont été interrogées pour ce sondage, précise le Guardian, en Grande-Bretagne, en Allemagne, en France, en Espagne, en Italie, en Grèce et en Pologne ». On ne peut pas dire toutefois que tous les jeunes européens sont indifférents à la démocratie. « 48 % d'entre eux craignent que le régime démocratique de leur pays soit menacé ». Ils sont même 61 % en Allemagne, « où l'économie est en difficulté, et où l'extrême droite a fait des percées significatives, alimentées en partie par le soutien croissant des jeunes électeurs ».

Watch Call me Back on YouTube: youtube.com/@CallMeBackPodcastCheck out Ark Media's other podcasts: For Heaven's Sake: lnk.to/rfGlrA‘What's Your Number?': lnk.to/rbGlvMFor sponsorship inquiries, please contact: callmeback@arkmedia.orgTo contact us, sign up for updates, and access transcripts, visit: arkmedia.org/Ark Media on Instagram: instagram.com/arkmediaorgDan on X: x.com/dansenorDan on Instagram: instagram.com/dansenorTo order Dan Senor & Saul Singer's book, The Genius of Israel: tinyurl.com/bdeyjsdnToday's Episode:Over the past few days, we've observed strong signs that Israeli leaders are moving to bring the Gaza war to a close, though it remains unclear how exactly this would take shape.On Tuesday, Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermermet with senior Trump administration officials in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit the White House on Monday, July 7. This comes just over a week after Israel's 12-day war against the Iranian regime. The war also included, of course, a round of American strikes on Iran's three key nuclear facilities. Prime Minister Netanyahu spent his entire political career warning of the existential threat posed by Iran's nuclear program, and he is now largely being credited — even by domestic critics — with its destruction. As the post-Iran War geopolitical map is being drawn, we wonder, what could be Netanyahu's next moves in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria. Saudi Arabia, and domestically, in Israel?To discuss this we are joined by Israeli author and journalist Ari Shavit. Ari is the author of the award-winning book My Promised Land and was a senior correspondent at Haaretz for many years.To order Ari's book, My Promised Land: https://tinyurl.com/45jbnhbzCREDITS:ILAN BENATAR - Producer & EditorMARTIN HUERGO - Sound EditorMARIANGELES BURGOS - Additional EditingMAYA RACKOFF - Operations DirectorGABE SILVERSTEIN - ResearchYUVAL SEMO - Music Composer

Linda, Don and Noah discuss (1) U.S. President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts demanding the immediate cancellation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trial—calling Netanyahu a ‘great hero' who, along with Trump, ‘saved Israel'—and how figures across Israel's political spectrum have more or less fallen in line; and (2) what to make of a Haaretz “expose” about the IDF and the new humanitarian aid centers in Gaza. Plus, a simulated daughter offering real comfort, and the varied aftermaths of the “Twelve Day War.” Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Def, def to the IDF?

An explosive expose by Haaretz featured testimonies from IDF soldiers and officers that they were ordered to use live fire to disperse thousands of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza who had crowded the handful of stations set up to distribute humanitarian aid. The story grabbed international attention, and sparked fury among top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz, who both called the article a “blood libel.” On the Haaretz Podcast, one of the three journalists who wrote the story, Nir Hasson, takes listeners behind the scenes of his reporting, explaining the reasons soldiers decided to speak to him and his fellow journalists. The soldiers’ motivations, he said, were two-fold. First the “moral issue” of being put in the position to use deadly force to stop “hungry people trying to get some food for their family” bothered them. “The second thing they spoke about was the fact that this was not the IDF that they used to know. These were not values of the army that these reservists used to serve in,” Hasson added. “They told me, this is not the way a professional army deals with a civil population. They were very angry at their commanders for telling them to use this kind of tool to control a crowd,” and even refused to employ non-lethal methods like tear gas. Also appearing on the podcast: Haaretz columnist Amir Tibon, who pointed out that the formation of these distribution centers appeared to be aimed at creating such intolerable conditions that Gazans seek to leave, while "doing nothing" to serve Israel's proclaimed war goals – returning the hostages and ridding Gaza of Hamas. The current operation, Tibon said, “is not serving real security interests of Israel, is not helping us get back the hostages, and it is part of a dangerous fantasy that is leading us into a ‘forever war’ in Gaza.” Read more: 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid Israeli Army Says 'Lessons Learned' From Army Fire Incidents on Gaza Aid-Seekers After Haaretz Exposé A Fatal Failure: Israel's Gaza Aid Policy Leaves Dozens Killed Daily as They Seek FoodSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pełnej wersji podcastu posłuchasz w aplikacji Onet Audio. W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Raport Międzynarodowy prowadzący Witold Jurasz i Zbigniew Parafianowicz omawiają coraz gorsze relacje pomiędzy Azerbejdżanem i Rosją. Zauważają, że prezydent Azerbejdżanu Ilham Alijew zachowuje się w sposób wyjątkowo asertywny. Witold Jurasz podkreśla, że Alijew, który odziedziczył władzę po ojcu, okazał się być, co nie jest oczywiste wśród autorytarnych przywódców, politykiem wyjątkowo sprawnym. Zdołał nie tylko skonsolidować władzę, ale też wzmocnić swoje państwo. Przede wszystkim jednak cechował się tym, czego często niestety brakuje polskim politykom - cierpliwością w stosunku do Rosji. Zaczął zachowywać się twardo dopiero wtedy, kiedy realnie mógł sobie na to pozwolić.   W dalszej części podcastu prowadzący omawiają sytuację na granicy z Niemcami i zauważają, że miały miejsce przypadki, kiedy to Republika Federalna przerzucała nielegalnych imigrantów w sposób pozaprawny na teren Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Z drugiej strony ostatni przypadek, kiedy to Niemcy nie wpuściły obywateli Afganistanu na swoje terytorium i odesłali ich do naszego kraju, nie powinien budzić kontrowersji, dlatego że Berlin działał w pełnej zgodzie z prawem unijnym i międzynarodowym. Obydwaj prowadzący zgadzają się też w jednym - nie jest rolą aktywistów ani zachodniej granicy bronić, ani wschodnią granicę otwierać. Państwo, jeżeli będzie tolerować tego rodzaju bałagan i warcholstwo, przestanie istnieć. Wspomniany zostaje tekst Marcina Wyrwała i Edyty Żemły o tym, jak państwo polskie jest niezdolne do rozpoczęcia produkcji amunicji artyleryjskiej.  Prowadzący podcast zadają pytanie, czy to wynik działalność obcej agentury, czy też przerażającej po prostu głupoty.   Wracając do kwestii amerykańskich bombardowań Iranu, Witold Jurasz i Zbigniew Parafianowicz odnotowują, że amerykańskie media informują o kolejnych szczegółach, według których administracja amerykańska tak naprawdę nie zdołała zniszczyć podstawowych irańskich instalacji jądrowych. Oznaczałoby to, że dwunastodniowa wojna Izraela i USA z Iranem wcale nie zakończyła się wielkim sukcesem.   Przy okazji omawiania wątku izraelskiego, obydwaj prowadzący odnotowują tekst izraelskiego dziennika Haaretz, który w oparciu o relacje żołnierzy IDF stwierdza, że Izrael dopuszcza się regularnych zbrodni wojennych. Z artykułu wynika bowiem, że żołnierze otrzymywali rozkaz strzelania do nieuzbrojonych cywili. Witold Jurasz, Zbigniew Parafianowicz podkreślają, że pojawienie się takiego tekstu w izraelskim dzienniku jest triumfem dziennikarstwa, ale też dowodem na to, że Izrael przy wszystkich swoich wadach jednak czymś się od wielu innych państw w regionie różni.   Witold Jurasz opowiada z kolei historię, kiedy to jechał do Krakowa pociągiem i zadał pytanie siedzącemu obok mężczyźnie, z jakiego jest kraju, na co ten ewidentnie speszony półszeptem odpowiedział, że ma żonę Polkę i urodził się w Jerozolimie. Na uwagę, że nie musi się obawiać powiedzenia, że jest z Izraela, człowiek ten odpowiedział, że kiedyś to był strach, a teraz wstyd i znów strach. Obydwaj prowadzący podkreślają, że pojawienie się takich lęków jest bardzo niepokojące. Nie należy obciążać ani wszystkich Izraelczyków, ani tym bardziej wszystkich Żydów za działania armii izraelskiej. 

Abd al-Karim al-Kahlut è morto dissanguato per un proiettile che non sarebbe stato letale in nessun altro luogo del mondo. In un ospedale qualunque, bastava una TAC. Ma a Gaza, dopo quasi due anni di assedio e distruzione, anche l'evidenza medica è un privilegio. La sua storia – raccontata con cruda precisione da Haaretz – non è un'eccezione: è la regola spietata di una macchina bellica che ha spento la sanità per logorare la sopravvivenza stessa. Al-Kahlut era un metalmeccanico. Aveva messo da parte i soldi per aprire una piccola officina. Poi è arrivata la guerra, e con essa la fame. Ha provato a ottenere del cibo in uno dei centri di distribuzione dell'agenzia “umanitaria” sponsorizzata da Israele e Stati Uniti, nonostante fosse noto da settimane che i soldati aprono il fuoco anche lì. Ferito ai glutei, non sembrava grave. I medici lo hanno rimandato a casa. Nessuna TAC. Nessun tempo. Nessuna energia. Un giorno dopo, è morto. I centri di distribuzione come quello di Netzarim violano ogni principio umanitario: costringono i civili a spostarsi verso il cibo, esponendoli al fuoco israeliano. Nessuna ONG indipendente avrebbe mai accettato un meccanismo simile. Ma l'Occidente ha firmato in calce. E quando Haaretz ha denunciato i morti attorno agli aiuti, Netanyahu e Gallant hanno parlato di “calunnie”, salvo poi installare nuove recinzioni: confessioni travestite da misure preventive. Oggi a Gaza si muore per fame, per infezioni, per mancanza di diagnosi. Si muore come Abd al-Karim, lasciando due bambine senza padre e un padre cardiopatico senza medicine. A chi resta, non resta che il dolore. #LaSveglia per La NotiziaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/la-sveglia-di-giulio-cavalli--3269492/support.

We're taking a short break and using this time to amplify the voices of other creators we love in the true crime space. While we're enjoying our summer hiatus, we've got something dark and compelling to keep your earbuds company. We're dropping an episode from Ye Olde Crime hosted by twisted sister co-hosts and our friends from the midwest - Lindsay and Madison. In this episode, they discuss the vampire fields of Poland, as well as the protective powers of iron, that superstitions are deeply rooted in Eastern Europe, and why 3D printing and facial reconstruction are so important.Information pulled from the following sources⁠2024 Archaeology News Online article by Dario Radley⁠⁠2024 CNN article by Katie Hunt⁠⁠2024 Daily Mail article by Harry Howard⁠⁠2024 Daily Mail article by Jonathan Chadwick⁠⁠2024 Express article by Rebecca Robinson⁠⁠2024 Lit Hub article by Ed Simon⁠⁠2024 Reuters article by Thomas Holdstock⁠⁠2023 Indy100 post by Alex Daniel⁠⁠2023 Mirror post by Ryan Fahey⁠⁠2022 Haaretz article by Viktoria Greenboim Rich⁠⁠2017 Smithsonian Magazine article by Joshua Rapp Learn⁠⁠2015 Lund Archaeological Review article by Leszek Gardela⁠⁠2014 Gizmodo article by George Dvorsky⁠⁠History UK articleVisit our website! Find us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Patreon, & more! If you have any true crime, paranormal, or witchy stories you'd like to share with us & possibly have them read (out loud) on an episode, email us at pnwhauntsandhomicides@gmail.com or use this link. There are so many ways that you can support the show: BuyMeACoffee, Spreaker, or by leaving a rating & review on Apple Podcasts.

Unter der Überschrift „Gaza: Israel soll laut Medienbericht gezielt auf hungernde Palästinenser schießen“ schrieb DER SPIEGEL, die israelische Zeitung Haaretz habe von gezieltem Schusswaffeneinsatz israelischer Soldaten auf unbewaffnete Zivilisten an Verteilungszentren in Gaza berichtet. „Mehrfach sind dort hungernde Menschen durch Schüsse gestorben“. Und weiter: Mit Berufung auf Quellen in der israelischen Armee (IDF) berichtet dieWeiterlesen

Projeto de lei orçamentária pode aumentar a dívida pública em mais de US$ 3 trilhões na próxima década. A proposta inclui cortes de impostos de quase US$ 4 trilhões, mas também corta verbas de programas sociais como saúde, educação e alimentação. E tem ainda:- Ataques aéreos e ordens de evacuação forçam dezenas de milhares de palestinos a deixarem suas casas, enquanto tanques e tropas israelenses avançam e aviões bombardeiam escolas e café na costa da Cidade de Gaza- Após denúncia do jornal israelense Haaretz revelar relatos de soldados com ordens para atirar, Forças Armadas de Israel admitem que civis palestinos foram mortos em filas de distribuição de comida na Faixa de Gaza- Mesmo proibida oficialmente, 30ª edição da Marcha do Orgulho LGBTQIA+ reuniu mais de 35 mil pessoas e se transformou em um ato de resistência internacional na Hungria Notícias em tempo real nas redes sociais Instagram @mundo_180_segundos e Linkedin Mundo em 180 Segundos Fale conosco através do mundo180segundos@gmail.com

Bienvenue dans le 90ème épisode de "Chez Kevin Razy". Deux fois par semaine, on se retrouve ici pour parler de ce qui se passe dans la vie comme dans un groupe WhatsApp. On ne s'interdit aucun sujet.Pour soutenir notre podcast :https://fr.tipeee.com/ckr-podcast/Rejoins notre canal Telegram :https://t.me/CKRnews▬▬▬▬▬▬ DANS CET EPISODE ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Cette semaine :La Corse reconnaît l'État palestinien + demande d'arrêt des livraisons d'armes à IsraëlMarion Maréchal poursuivie pour diffamation envers une école musulmaneTSAHAL affame et tire sur les civils : révélation Haaretz relayée par BFMBHL sur Radio J : propos méprisants sur Gaza et la distribution alimentaireHaziza reçoit un "gaulliste" : séquence lunaireDes Français donnent de l'argent à l'État pour rembourser la dette publique

Arash Azizi is a writer and historian. He is an incoming Postdoctoral Associate and lecturer at Yale University and a contributing writer at the Atlantic. His writings have appeared in numerous other outlets including New York Times, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Liberties, Newsweek, New Lines, Haaretz, Daily Beast, Jacobin, Foreign Policy and the Toronto Star. He is the author of “The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US and Iran's Global Ambitions” (Oneworld, 2020) and “What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom” (Oneworld, 2024.) He is writing a book on Iran and Israel to be published by Public Affairs (a division of Basic Books.)https://x.com/arash_tehran-------------------------To learn more about psychedelic therapy go to my brother Mehran's page at: https://www.mindbodyintegration.ca/ or to https://www.somaretreats.org for his next retreat.***Masty o Rasty is not responsible for, or condone, the views and opinions expressed by our guests ******مستی و راستی هیچگونه مسولیتی در برابر نظرها و عقاید مهمان‌های برنامه ندارد.***--------Support the showhttps://paypal.me/raamemamiVenmo + Revolut: @KingRaam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Destructive attacks on Palestinian communities by West Bank settlers “emboldened” by support from powerful far right-wing figures in the Netanyahu government have received little attention as the country has focused on the war in Gaza and the recent clash with Iran. Last week, dozens of settlers descended upon Kafr Malik, a Palestinian town north of Ramallah, attacking residents and their property, as well as IDF soldiers who arrived at the scene. The outpost – illegal even under Israeli law – was dismantled by the Israeli army later that night, triggering multiple riots at a nearby army base and police station. The settlers’ attacks on Israeli soldiers sparked widespread public outrage and even condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz. Haaretz West Bank correspondent Hagar Shezaf joined host Allison Kaplan Sommer this week for a behind-the-scenes look at the ongoing tension and the “Jewish terrorists” so dedicated to driving Palestinians off of their land that they are willing to attack IDF soldiers when they stand in their way. Noting that Israelis generally “support the soldiers over the settlers,” she shared insights about the evolving political climate toward violent extremists in the West Bank. “I think in settler society – and to an extent, broader Israeli society, it has become much, much, much more normalized post October 7 – the sense that these people are guarding the land.” Attacks on IDF soldiers, she said, are “obviously always controversial in Israeli society – but attacking Palestinians? Not so controversial anymore.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. Read more: Dozens of Israeli Settlers Attempt to Break Into West Bank IDF Base, Army Source Says Six Settlers Arrested for Assaulting IDF Troops in West Bank; Netanyahu: Bring Them to Justice Five Days After Building an Outpost on the Edge of a West Bank Palestinian Village, Israeli Settlers Drove Locals OutSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PRESS REVIEW – Monday, June 30: The heatwave across Europe is making international headlines, with Spain and Portugal recording record temperatures. Next, settler violence is escalating amid what Haaretz calls a "West Bank pogrom". Also, The Washington Post tells the bittersweet story of a seven-year-old girl's last midsummer Christmas. Finally, we test if our anchor can differentiate an AI-generated video from a real one. The sizzling heatwave is making headlines across Europe. The Financial Times reports that Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Portugal and the UK have all been experiencing "unusually high temperatures" in recent days. British daily The Guardian reports that, in the UK, the heatwave could result in the "hottest ever start to Wimbledon". By Tuesday, temperatures in some parts of England are expected to reach 35°C. France isn't being spared from the heat. French daily Courrier Picard reports that 84 departments have been placed under orange heatwave alert. French left-wing Libération's headline reads “Heatwave: fire at home”. The paper reports from Aubervilliers – a northern suburb of Paris – where many people live in concrete buildings that retain heat and aren't equipped with air conditioning. Some apartments can reach 40°C inside when it's 30°C outside. Further south, Portuguese paper Diario de Noticias writes that Portugal reached a new heat record yesterday: 46.6°C was recorded in the region of Evora, in the centre of the country. That's the highest temperature ever recorded in Portugal in the month of June. A record was also broken in Spain, where the mercury reached 46°C in El Granado, Andalusia, the Spanish daily El Pais reports. That's almost one degree more than the previous record set in 1965.  We turn next to the West Bank, where violence has been escalating in the past few days. Last week, settlers set fire to Palestinian property and over the weekend, the IDF said they had detained Israeli settlers in the occupied territory after they attacked security forces. Israeli left-wing paper Haaretz reports that settlers rioted and attempted to break into an army base, after a 14-year-old Israeli was shot, possibly by the IDF. The officer involved said there was another riot, in which rocks were thrown at his vehicle. He shot into the air, thinking the rioters were Palestinian. Right-wing Israeli paper The Jerusalem Post writes that "Violent Jewish settlers are a moral and strategic liability". It says the last thing the country needs, amid the war with Iran and in Gaza, is IDF soldiers having to fight "Jewish extremists". Haaretz says that a "Quiet, West Bank pogrom" is in progress. The paper says that the condemnation of the attacks has been "very weak" and that it was only a matter of time before the settlers would start attacking Israeli soldiers "who prevent them from carrying out their wicked schemes against Palestinians".  Turning to the US, we bring you a bittersweet story reported by The Washington Post. A community in the DC region decorated dozens of houses for Christmas in the middle of summer. They did it to put a smile on the face of a little girl with terminal cancer who might not make it to December. The paper writes that in a period filled with global and local crises, the community felt grateful "to do something tangible" and help the family and little Kasey "find a moment of happiness in the face of a certain tragedy". And it certainly worked: she even got to meet Santa.   Finally, as artificial intelligence keeps progressing, it's getting almost impossible to differentiate an AI-generated video from a real one. The New York Times has generated several AI videos and put them together with real ones to create an online quiz. We test the skills of our presenter.  You can catch our press review every morning on France 24 at 7:20am and 9:20am (Paris time), from Monday to Friday.

Válka mezi Íránem a Izraelem je v tuto chvíli pozastavena a platí příměří. Po izraelských útocích na jaderná zařízení, sérii vzájemných útoků a nečekaném zapojení Spojených států do konfliktu to oznámil americký prezident Donald Trump na své sociální síti Truth Social. Co ale znamená současné příměří a dá se čekat, že se konflikt rozhoří v dohledné době znovu? Analyzuje izraelský deník Haaretz.Všechny díly podcastu Svět ve 20 minutách můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Información proporcionada por soldados revela que los comandantes habrían ordenado a las tropas disparar contra la multitud para “ahuyentarla o dispersarla”.

1-Striscia di Gaza. La fame è usata come arma di guerra. Il giornale Haaretz dà la parola ai soldati israeliani. Le testimonianze raccolte confermano le denunce delle Ong. ( Martina Stefanoni) 2-Nucleare iraniano: Donald Trump gioca la carta degli incentivi per rilanciare i negoziati. ( Nima Bahlevi, Alfredo Somoza) 3-Gran Bretagna. Più welfare meno armi. Il premier Starmer fa marcia indietro sui tagli ai sussidi dopo la rivolta dei deputati laburisti. ( Daniele Fisichella) 4-Allarme disuguaglianza. Negli ultimi dieci anni la ricchezza dell'1% più ricco è aumentata di circa 34 mila dollari. Il rapporto Oxfam alla vigilia della Conferenza sul finanziamento dello sviluppo di Siviglia. ( Giulio Maria Piantadosi) 5-Cervelli in fuga dall'oscurantismo. Marsiglia ha accolto ieri primi ricercatori americani. ( Francesco Giorgini) 6-Massive Attack. Concerti oltre i confini della musica. La recensione di Pier Giorgio Pardo.

Israel’s military achievements in its war with Iran will mean little if they are not “anchored to a diplomatic agreement that will ensure that Iran will not develop nuclear weapons,” Shira Efron, research director of the Israel Policy Forum, said on the Haaretz Podcast. Without such a guarantee, she fears, the “fragile cease-fire” in place will not hold and there will be a regression into the “tit-for-tat war of attrition” that the Trump-imposed cease-fire managed to halt. Bringing the Iranians back to the negotiating table in good faith, however, she said, will be challenging. From their perspective, after they showed willingness to negotiate, Israel and the United States struck militarily. “What incentivizes them to trust the negotiation process again? How do you bring them to the negotiation table and make it clear to them that their situation without a nuclear weapon would be better than having a nuclear weapon? Because they can choose, theoretically, the path of North Korea and say ‘If we had a nuclear weapon, no one would have struck us, so getting one is what we should be doing.’ Our challenge is to make sure that this doesn't happen. And I think it's not going to come only from kinetic strikes. It also has to come from diplomacy.” The quick resolution to the Iran conflict highlighted the depth of the quagmire of the Gaza war, she noted. “The juxtaposition of Gaza and Iran couldn't be more pronounced. You see an adversary that Israel actually feared and prepared for. There were actual goals of war that were defined and articulated, and we knew when to leave on time. In Gaza, we have very unclear objectives of the war like ‘total victory’ and ‘complete elimination’ of Hamas.” Efron admitted that she had held out a “fantasy” scenario in which there had been a backroom deal that when Donald Trump committed to attacking Iran, he had conditioned it on Israel agreeing to end the Gaza conflict. However, she said, based on conversations with Israeli officials, “There are no indications that this condition was there. But there's no question that the president does want to end the war in Gaza. He wants to bring back the hostages.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After 12 days of frenzy over World War 3, the bombs and rockets over Tehran and Tel Aviv have stopped, for now. And, under relentless pressure from Donald Trump, NATO's members have all agreed to raise their defence spending to five per cent of GDP over the next 10 years. However Trump's victory lap has been interrupted by a leaked US intelligence report which says the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities did not obliterate them and may only have delayed their programme by a few months - so the President won't be getting that Nobel Peace Prize, just yet. Joining Piers Morgan to discuss the latest is White House Correspondent for Steve Bannon's War Room, Natalie Winters, former IDF spokesman Doron Spielman, author and journalist for Haaretz, Gideon Levy, staff writer at The Atlantic and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, David Frum and Iranian-Swedish writer Trita Parsi. Piers Morgan Uncensored is proudly independent and supported by: Cozy Earth: Luxury shouldn't be out of reach. Go to https://cozyearth.com/PIERS for up to 40% off Cozy Earth's best-selling temperature-regulating sheets, apparel, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Israel's decision to attack "regime targets" in Iran like Evin prison, and its open desire to encourage an overthrow of Ayatollah Ali Khameini's government is misguided and potentially dangerous, a top expert on Iran said on the Haaretz Podcast. "I have serious doubts that something positive will come out of it," said Danny Citrinowicz, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies' Iran and the Shi'ite Axis Program and a former Iran specialist in Israeli military intelligence. The Israeli military has had "amazing" operational success against Iranian nuclear and military targets, he said, but expressed worry that there appears to be "no exit strategy that will help us preserve our achievements while ending this war" and that the decision to attack targets like Evin Prison, state television and other non-military locations "have been taken very lightly" and "actually might cause us to erode our achievements against Iran." He warned that Israel moving to assassinate Khameini would transform the war "from a political to a religious dispute" and "find ourselves in an endless conflict" that would also fail to spark a revolution in Iran and "do far more harm than" good. Also in this episode, host Allison Kaplan Sommer ventures out of the studio and goes underground into a makeshift tent city in the parking lot of a sprawling mall, where Tel Aviv residents seek nightly protection from Iran's ballistic missiles. The voices from the encampment under Dizengoff Center represent the millions of Israelis caught without anywhere to securely spend the night under fire. "It's humid, the floor is rock hard, there's no good circulation, and there's constant activity even when there's no siren," said Jeffrey Lubata as he settled into a tent for the night with his family. But, he noted, it is safe. This episode was recorded before a cease-fire was announced between Israel and Iran on Tuesday. Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel and the Middle East in English. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Foreign ministers from the UK, France and Germany, with the EU's foreign policy chief, have opened talks in Geneva today with their Iranian counter-part, Abbas Araqchi. For more on this Gideon Levy, Columnist with the Haaretz newspaper; Chris Weafer Chief Executive of 'Macro-Advisory', Eurasia based Business Consulting firm.

Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist and columnist with Haaretz, analyses where the war between Israel and Iran could go next.

The sweeping military success of the IDF's surprise preemptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities coupled with the devastating retaliatory ballistic missile strikes have left Israelis "feeling triumphant and scared at the same time," columnist Amir Tibon said on the Haaretz Podcast, adding that "the vast majority of the public in Israel support this war." Tibon, Haaretz's former diplomatic correspondent, reviewed the progress of the war over the first week with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, along with the ways he sees the conflict potentially playing out. "The best-case scenario for Israel is either an American attack on the underground Fordow nuclear site or an agreement that causes the Iranians to give up the uranium there," he said. "The worst case scenario is a war of attrition with Iran, in which we continue to bomb them but cannot fully eliminate some of their sites, and they continue to bomb us and wake us up three times every night with ballistic missiles." In retrospect, Tibon said, "the 10 days before the Israeli strike were a joint American-Israeli trap set for the Iranians" in which U.S. President Donald Trump deceptively declared he was pressuring Israel to stand down in deference to diplomatic efforts. Also on the podcast, Professor Amit Schejter, one of the tens of thousands of Israelis stranded abroad after the war shut down Israel's airports, discusses the challenges of finding his way back home. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a special podcast on the new and devastating conflict between Israel and Iran, host Allison Kaplan Sommer talks to Haaretz senior security analyst Amos Harel, who assesses the initial military achievements, the high price of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch a preemptive strike on the Islamic Republic and the likelihood of the United States being pulled into the war. Harel believes that while, as always, there were political and personal interests behind the premier’s timing of the attack, Israel’s top security chiefs widely viewed it as necessary. “Not only was Iran on its way to becoming a nuclear power, but there were other parts of its plans in which they were making impressive progress in recent weeks. Their rate of production of ballistic missiles meant that within a few years, the Iranian arsenal that could hit Israel would probably rise to up to 8,000 missiles. The current assessment is around 2,500 missiles. That is quite a difference, and there was a narrow window of opportunity in which Israel had to act.” Harel was skeptical that a cease-fire was possible any time soon since “not enough blood has been spilled.” He was also doubtful that Israel’s display of force and destruction could push the ideologically driven ayatollahs to the negotiating table to make compromises on nuclear enrichment. If the conflict drags on and “becomes a war of attrition that leads nowhere, then Netanyahu will be in deep trouble,” he predicted. Judy Rowland, a former New Yorker also joined the podcast to share her harrowing experience when an Iranian ballistic missile hit her Tel Aviv apartment building. She lived on the 29th floor on Friday night, which she said, felt reminiscent of the 9/11 attack. When the missile struck, she and her family were huddled in their apartment’s safe room. “We thought about the people who were stuck on the higher floors” in the New York towers. “When we smelled smoke, I started thinking ‘Will we burn to death? Or will we jump out of the windows?’” The parallel arose again as the Rowlands and their neighbors were making their way down the tens of flights of stairs amid the debris seeking safety. “I couldn’t help thinking about all those people in the buildings walking down the stairs. All of us felt it and were saying the same thing. It was a total 9/11 moment. This was our 9/11.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Plans by anti-war protesters to disrupt the wedding of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Avner have turned the festivities into the focus of controversy in Israel, said Haaretz journalist Rachel Fink, speaking on the Haaretz Podcast. The protests reflect an attempt to send a message that holding such a celebration as war continues in Gaza, represents an “unacceptable” level of insensitivity, Fink explained. “At a time when so much of Israel is suffering for so many reasons – the hostages, soldiers who have fallen in the war, how much suffering there is in Gaza right now – it just feels so blatantly inappropriate to have this extravagant over-the-top wedding.” Still, Fink noted in her conversation with podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, there are many Israelis in the anti-Netanyahu protest movement who believe that personal celebrations should be off-limits for angry protests and the young couple should not suffer for their parents’ behavior. Some are also convinced that if the wedding is disrupted by the protest movement, there will be a backlash of sympathy for the Prime Minister and his family that will “feed into their narrative that we [the protesters] are anarchists, that we have no sense of common decency. This will only play against us” and a truly successful disruption of the Netanyahu wedding “could turn into a disaster for us, not them.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel in English. Read more: Too Far? Debate Over Protests at Avner Netanyahu's Wartime Wedding Roils Israelis From Sept. 2024: Israeli Ministers, Politicians Attend Joyous Wedding as Murdered Hostages Laid to Rest From March 2023: Sara Netanyahu and the Salon Siege: Life-saving Rescue or the Plot of an ‘Evil Genius’?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It is impossible to overstate how hellish life in Gaza has been for the past 20 months.The death count is above 50,000 people — more than 15,000 of whom are children — and at least 1.9 million of Gaza's 2.1 million people have been displaced over and over again. Starvation is rampant. Hospitals are either damaged or closed; there are only 2,000 remaining hospital beds.Nearly two years after the atrocities of Oct. 7, Israel still has no plan for the day after the conflict ends. Instead, it is escalating its assault on what remains of Hamas and seizing territory to expand its security buffer zone. There are reports that the government is considering a plan that would herd the Gaza Strip's Palestinians into just a small fraction of the territory. In the West Bank, meanwhile, settler violence has increased sharply, and new settlements are moving forward at a record pace.Ehud Olmert, the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009, recently published a searing opinion essay in Haaretz, one of Israel's most influential newspapers: “Enough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes.” He joins me to discuss why he believes Israel's war in Gaza can no longer be justified, what he finds missing in Israel's current political leadership and why he has not yet given up hope for a two-state solution.Book Recommendations:The Gates of Gaza by Amir TibonThomas Jefferson by Jon MeachamAll or Nothing by Michael WolffWait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns GoodwinThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.htmlThis episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Jack McCordick and Elias Isquith. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, with Kate Sinclair. Mixing by Isaac Jones and Aman Sahota. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Marie Cascione, Annie Galvin, Rollin Hu, Marina King, Jan Kobal and Kristin Lin. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Frankie Martin of the Wilson Center and to Orca Studios. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Israel’s new controversial aid initiative in Gaza and its support for the Abu Shabab criminal gang rivaling Hamas share the common goal of helping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prolong the war, journalist Nir Hasson said on the Haaretz Podcast. “Netanyahu must preserve the radical right-wing fantasy of ethnic cleansing in Gaza for political survival. For this, he needs the war to continue,” said Hasson, who covers the humanitarian toll of the war for Haaretz. Hasson said that until “we have any other proof” of who is behind the shadowy Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, he regards it as “a proxy of the State of Israel.” Therefore, he said, Israel’s leaders are responsible for the “humiliating” and “dangerous” scenes at GHF aid distribution sites. In his conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Hasson also discussed his Haaretz investigation into the failure of Israel’s evacuation warnings to protect civilians in Gaza. “In Gaza, there is nowhere to run. Even the IDF safe zones are not safe,” he said. “Israel has really pushed the civilian population of Gaza to the edge.” The unprecedented level of destruction and human suffering there, Hasson said, has reached the point where “I can’t find the words anymore to describe the way I feel about what we’re doing in Gaza. And I'm not alone in this feeling. [There are] more and more Israelis around me that think that it's gone too far. “If we had the excuse of not taking humanitarian issues into consideration because of the trauma of October 7 – it's about time to start talking about it. …I hope we'll see it more, but it's not going fast enough.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel in English. Read more from Nir Hasson: Armed Gaza Militia Rivaling Hamas Hands Out Aid in Israeli-controlled Zone Testimonies: IDF Responsible for Lethal Shootings Near U.S.-led Aid Site in Gaza Hunger Games: Israel Forces Gazans to Choose Between Starvation and Risking Their Lives An American Doctor Visited Gaza and Saw the Horror Up Close. Five Cases Haunt HerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began facing cross-examination by prosecutors in his criminal trial, the majority of Israelis are much more focused on “life-and-death” issues as the Gaza war wears on, Haaretz columnist and public opinion expert Dahlia Scheindlin said on the Haaretz Podcast. The subdued level of public interest “highlights how Israelis have become resigned to the extraordinary situation of their prime minister being on trial for corruption during the longest war and the most devastating war Israel has ever had,” Scheindlin said. While polls show a majority of Israelis frustrated and “furious” over that situation, “they feel helpless to do anything about it,” Scheindlin added. Deeply upset about the continuing hostage crisis and IDF casualties, and with reservists and their families exhausted, the Israeli public has little patience for courtroom banter regarding issues like the size of a Bugs Bunny doll that a Hollywood tycoon gave to the Netanyahu children in the 1990s which, Scheindlin said, “trivializes the proceedings.” In her conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Scheindlin also analyzes the brewing political crisis in Israel as the ultra-Orthodox party Degel HaTorah threatens to bring down the government over its failure to pass a law exempting Haredi men from military service and assesses the odds as to whether the country will soon be heading into new elections. “When governments fall in Israel, they usually fall over religion and state issues,” she said. Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel in English. Read more: 'I Did Not Commit a Single Crime': Netanyahu Calls Indictments 'Persecution' on First Day of Cross-examination Explained: Why Is Benjamin Netanyahu on Trial? Yes to Transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis Back Expelling Gazans A Grim Poll Showed Most Jewish Israelis Support Expelling Gazans. It's Brutal – and It's TrueSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I ugens Radio Information samler vi op på de sidste ugers dramaer i og omkring Trumps administration, vi sætter fokus på Israels fremfærd i både Gaza og på Vestbredden, og vi hylder Tessa i TV2's bundsolide tv-krimi 'Løgnen' --- I denne pinse-special af Radio Information skal vi en tur i Trump-land med Mathias Sindberg og Rune Lykkeberg. For der er lidt at samle op på: I forrige uge vedtog et snævert republikansk flertal i Repræsentanternes Hus det, Donald Trump har døbt »The Big Beautiful Bill«, men som, mener Sindberg, er svær at beskrive som andet end »et historisk klasseforræderi«. I sidste uge meldte Trump ud, at det var slut med udenlandske studerende på Harvard Universitet og i denne uge, efter sin afgang fra jobbet som chef for DOGE, skruer Elon Musk op for konflikten med sin gamle bonkammerat Trump. Lyt med og få en klog udlægning af begivenhederne. Og så skal det handle om Palæstina. For omsider er Israels allierede i Europa begyndt at lægge et vist pres på Benjamin Netanyahus regering i et forsøg på at bremse dens uhørt brutale krig i Gaza. Mindre opmærksomhed får Israels fremfærd på Vestbredden. Senest har den israelske regering annonceret, at den vil etablere 22 nye bosættelser på Vestbredden. Og som den israelske avis Haaretz konstaterer, er der tale om »en de facto annekteringsproces«. Anton Geist er gæst. Og så skal vi tale om TV2's hitserie Løgnen og ikke mindst den ene af de to hovedroller: Tessa, som har genskabt anmelder Bodil Skovgaard Nielsens tro på dansk tv-drama. Som hun skriver i ugens kulturkommentar: »Var du også lidt skeptisk, da du hørte, at rapperen Tessa ville springe ud som skuespiller i TV 2-serien 'Løgnen'? Så kom med i klubben, hvor vi æder vores fordomme.« Hør hende uddybe, hvad hun mener med dét.

Internal political debates between American Jewish organizations have ground to a halt following the violent attacks in Washington and Boulder, with the community united and focused squarely on safety, Haaretz's Washington D.C. correspondent Ben Samuels said on the Haaretz Podcast. "Acts like this are just so unimpeachably antisemitic that there really is no gray area," he said. "We're seeing a real unanimity from the community. Whatever disagreements they may have with [U.S. President Donald] Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, or on what definition of antisemitism to adopt regarding criticizing Israel – these sort of attacks leave absolutely zero room for debate." If, after the shootings of two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington D.C. two weeks ago, "panic was at a fever pitch" among American Jews, following the Boulder attack on a march for Israeli hostages "it is a five-alarm fire." Government money for police protection, increased FBI capabilities and better online monitoring are among other demands from American Jewish leaders "that needed to be met yesterday." In his conversation with podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Samuels also discussed the details of the growing diplomatic chasm between Washington and Jerusalem on the direction and future of the Middle East: in Gaza, Syria, Yemen and – most notably – Trump's apparent determination to hammer out an agreement with Iran over its nuclear capability. "It's become abundantly clear from Trump that there will be no Israel carve-out in his 'America First' policy," Samuels said. Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel in English. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the strongest condemnations of Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza has come from its own former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009. Last week, he wrote a scathing op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with the headline “Enough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes.” Geoff Bennett spoke with Olmert to discuss more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

One of the strongest condemnations of Israel’s ongoing offensive in Gaza has come from its own former prime minister, Ehud Olmert, who served from 2006 to 2009. Last week, he wrote a scathing op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz with the headline “Enough Is Enough. Israel Is Committing War Crimes.” Geoff Bennett spoke with Olmert to discuss more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Today on the show, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks with Fareed about his op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz this week, in which he accuses Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza.    Then, Financial Times US national editor Edward Luce and AEI senior fellow Kori Schake join the show to discuss the latest developments in President Trump's tariff war, and Russia's renewed offensive in Ukraine.    Finally, former CNN correspondent and founder of the charity organization INARA Arwa Damon speaks with Fareed about the extent of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. She says that if the Western press were allowed in to witness the devastation, the war would end tomorrow.    GUESTS: Ehud Olmert, Edward Luce (@EdwardGLuce), Kori Schake, Arwa Damon (@IamArwaDamon)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ilya Lozovsky and the co-authors of his research article investigated nearly 50,000 internal emails obtained from a Russian foundation that pitches itself as offering legal aid to Russian "compatriots" abroad. In fact, "Pravfond" also helps numerous spies, criminals, and blatant propagandists, works hand-in-glove with intelligence services, and builds networks of Russian influence around the world. Today we will discuss this detailed look at the inner workings an influence machine that seeks to turn every Russian in the world into an agent of the Kremlin.----------Ilya Lozovsky is a Senior Editor and Writer at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). He is an Investigative Journalist with expertise in Democracy and Corruption. Based in Amsterdam, he writes about the intersection of corruption and democracy; covers Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Ilya was a key editor on OCCRP's award-winning ‘Plunder and Patronage' and ‘Matraimov Kingdom' projects about smuggling and money laundering in Central Asia. He was also integrally involved in the ‘Azerbaijani Laundromat,' ‘Troika Laundromat,' ‘Paradise Papers,' ‘Russian Asset Tracker,' and other high-profile investigative series. Ilya's work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Haaretz, and other outlets.----------Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilyalozovsky/ https://www.occrp.org/en/project/dear-compatriots/russian-foundation-aimed-at-helping-compatriots-abroad-supports-spies-criminals-and-propagandists https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/make-a-molotov-cocktail-how-europeans-are-recruited-through-telegram-to-commit-sabotage-arson-and-murder ----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.orgNGO “Herojam Slava”https://heroiamslava.org/kharpp - Reconstruction project supporting communities in Kharkiv and Przemyślhttps://kharpp.com/NOR DOG Animal Rescuehttps://www.nor-dog.org/home/----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube's algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Early on, it was clear the Beinin-Atzili family was not a typical hostage family, filmmaker Brandon Kramer, director of the new award-winning documentary “Holding Liat” said on the Haaretz Podcast. After learning that his relatives, Liat and Aviv Atzili, had been kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and held hostage by Hamas, and that Liat’s father and son were traveling to Washington, D.C. several weeks later with other Israeli-American hostage families to lobby on behalf of their loved ones, Kramer knew he had to document the visit. As he began to film what would become “Holding Liat” – which won Best Documentary upon its debut at the Berlinale Film Festival and is about to make its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival – Kramer noticed that their family’s experience “didn't fit neatly into any box.” Yehuda Beinin, Liat’s father, was openly calling for peace and reconciliation, and opposing the forceful military response the Israeli government was planning - from the start. At the same time, Kramer explains, “His grandson Netta – who had barely survived the attacks and was traumatized and very angry – and his other daughter, Tal, didn’t want to speak about politics at all. So within this one family, we saw a microcosm of the debates and fractures, and we felt we had a responsibility to try to make sense of this moment through this one family's lens.” Also speaking on the podcast, one of the film’s producers, Libby Lenkinski, noted that the authenticity of “Holding Liat” held it apart from the slew of October 7 documentaries designed with a political agenda that comprise “hour-and-a-half long visual op-eds” focused on making either a pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian case. At the same time, Yehuda, the film’s focus, “is a really great example of something that we see often on the left – a person warning about what might be coming and initially being thought of as alarmist or paranoid, and it turning out to be true.” When Yehuda was filmed in the first months of the war, warning that Netanyahu would pursue a brutal and endless war to serve a far-right political agenda, “I don’t think any of us could have imagined the kind of devastation that we would be seeing in Gaza, the endless killing and destruction. I think so many Israelis wanted to believe that this was necessary to bring back the hostages, and now it's just so clear that that was never the point. …Yehuda called out Bibi's bluff early on, and it turned out to be truer than we ever would have wanted to believe.” Subscribe to Haaretz.com for up-to-the-minute news and analysis from Israel in English. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gideon Levy, Israeli journalist and columnist with Haaretz, assesses Israel's position after the German Chancellor criticised the level of attacks in Gaza.

In the midst of the terrible Trump tax bill moving through Congress, Ralph invites Sarah Anderson who directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies to discuss the massive tax loopholes huge companies like Amazon get that allow them to pay far less in taxes than ordinary working people. Then, Greg LeRoy from Good Jobs First joins us to discuss how state taxpayers are footing the bill for these massive data centers companies like Google are building all over the country. Plus, Ralph has some choice words for passive unions and responds to listener feedback about our guest last week, Nadav Wieman.Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a co-editor of the IPS website Inequality.org. Her research covers a wide range of international and domestic economic issues, including inequality, CEO pay, taxes, labor, and Wall Street reform.They're (Congress is) planning to give huge new tax giveaways to large corporations like Amazon and wealthy people like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. And partially paying for those tax cuts for the wealthy by slashing programs that mean so much to so many Americans like Medicaid and food assistance.”Sarah AndersonWe're not going to have a healthy, thriving society and economy as long as we have the extreme levels of inequality that we have today.Sarah AndersonDubbed “the leading national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” “an encyclopedia of information regarding subsidies,” “God's witness to corporate welfare,” and “the OG of ensuring that state and local tax policy actually supports good jobs, sustainability, and equity,”* Greg founded Good Jobs First in 1998 upon winning the Public Interest Pioneer Award. He has trained and consulted for state and local governments, associations of public officials, labor-management committees, unions, community groups, tax and budget watchdogs, environmentalists, and smart growth advocates more than 30 years.Public education and public health are the two biggest losers in every state giving away money to data centers right now.Greg Le RoyWe know of no other form of state spending that is so out of control. Therefore, we recommend that states cancel their data center tax exemptions. Such subsidies are absolutely unnecessary for an extremely profitable industry dominated by some of the most valuable corporations on earth such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google.Good Jobs First report: “Cloudy With a Loss of Spending Control”They've (Congress has) known for years that the ordinary worker pays a higher tax rate than these loophole-ridden corporations.Ralph NaderIn my message to Trump, I ask him, "Why is he afraid of Netanyahu? And doesn't he want to come to the rescue of these innocent babies by saying, ‘Mr. Netanyahu, the taxpayers in this country are paying for thousands of trucks stalled at the border of Gaza full of medicine, food, water, electricity, fuel, and other critical necessities? We're going to put a little American flag on each one of these trucks, and don't you dare block them.'”…No answer.Ralph NaderNews 5/23/251. It seems as though the dam in Israeli politics against acknowledging the horrors in Gaza is beginning to break. In an interview with the BBC this week, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated that what Israel "is currently doing in Gaza is very close to a war crime. Thousands of innocent Palestinians are being killed.” He went on to say, “the war has no objective and has no chance of achieving anything that could save the lives of the hostages.” These quotes come from the Jerusalem Post. And on May 21st, Haaretz reported that opposition party leader Yair Golan warned that Israel could become a “pariah state, like South Africa once was,” based on its actions in Gaza. Speaking a truth that American politicians appear incapable of articulating, he added, a “sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set goals for itself like the expulsion of a population.”2. Confirming this prognosis, the Cradle reports “The Israeli military has admitted that more than 80 percent of the people killed in the attacks on Gaza since Israel breached the ceasefire two months ago are…civilians.” This fact was confirmed by the IDF in response to a request from Hebrew magazine Hamakom, wherein “the military's spokesperson stated that 500 of the 2,780 killed in the Gaza Strip as of Tuesday are ‘terrorists.'” Leaving the remaining 2,280 people killed classified as “not suspected terrorists.” The Cradle compares this ratio, approximately 4.5 civilians killed for every combatant, to the Russia-Ukraine war – a ratio of approximate 2.8 to one. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has “claimed that the ratio is just one civilian killed for each combatant killed.” At the same time, AP reports that while Israel has allowed a minimum of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, under immense international pressure, “none of that aid actually reached Palestinians,” according to the United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. The renewed offensive coupled with the barring of humanitarian aid has raised the alarm about mass starvation in Gaza.3. Developments on the ground in Gaza have triggered a new wave of international outcry. On May 19th, leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada issued a joint statement, reading in part, “We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza. The level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable… The Israeli Government's denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law…We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.” The Parliament of Spain meanwhile, “passed a non-binding motion calling on the government to impose an arms embargo on Israel,” per Anadolu Ajansı. This potential ban, supported by all parties except the conservative People's Party and the far-right Vox, would “ban the exports of any material that could strengthen the Israeli military, including helmets, vests, and fuel with potential military use.” Left-wing parties in Spain are now pushing for an emergency session to impose a binding decree to this effect.4. The United States however seems to be moving backwards. Drop Site news reports Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff made a deal with Hamas ensuring that, “the Trump administration would compel Israel to lift the Gaza blockade and allow humanitarian aid to enter the territory…[and] make a public call for an immediate ceasefire,” in exchange for the release of Edan Alexander. Of course, once Alexander was released Trump reneged completely. Basem Naim, a member of Hamas's political bureau, told Drop Site, “He did nothing of this…They didn't violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.” Besides prolonging further the charnel house in Gaza, this duplicity undermines American credibility in the region, particularly with Iran at a time when Trump is seeking a new deal to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.5. Democrats in Congress are inching towards action as well. On May 13th, Senator Peter Welch introduced Senate Resolution 224, calling for “the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to address the needs of civilians in Gaza.” Along with Welch, 45 Democrats and Independents signed on to this resolution, that is the entire Democratic caucus except for John Fetterman. On May 14th, Rashida Tlaib introduced House Resolution 409, commemorating the Nakba and calling on Congress to “reinstate support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides life-saving humanitarian assistance to Palestinians.” This was cosponsored by AOC and Reps. Carson, Lee, Omar, Pressley, Ramirez, Simon, and Coleman. And, on May 21st, a group of eight senators – Welch, Sanders, Kaine, Merkley, Murray, Van Hollen, Schatz, and Warnock – sent a letter urging Secretary of State Rubio to reopen the investigation into the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh, per Prem Thakker. The Biden administration ruled the death “unintentional,” but a new documentary by Zeteo News reveals a “Biden cover-up.”6. More action is occurring on college campuses as well, as students go into graduation season. At NYU, a student named Logan Rozos said in his graduation speech, “As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine,” per CNN. NYU announced that they are now withholding his diploma. At George Washington University, the Guardian reports student Cecilia Culver said in her graduation speech, “I am ashamed to know my tuition [fee] is being used to fund…genocide…I call upon the class of 2025 to withhold donations and continue advocating for disclosure and divestment.” GWU issued a statement declaring Culver “has been barred from all GW's campuses and sponsored events elsewhere.” The moral clarity of these students is remarkable, given the increasingly harsh measures these schools have taken to silence those who speak up.7. Moving on, several major stories about the failing DOGE initiative have surfaced in recent days. First, Social Security. Listeners may recall that a DOGE engineer said “40% of phone calls made to [the Social Security Administration] to change direct deposit information come from fraudsters.” Yet, a new report by NextGov.com found that since DOGE mandated the SSA install new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, “only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent,” or 0.0018%. What the policy has done however, is slow down payments. According to this piece, retirement claim processing is down 25%. Meanwhile, at the VA, DOGE engineer Sahil Lavingia, “found…a machine that largely functions, though it doesn't make decisions as fast as a startup might.” Lavingia added “honestly, it's kind of fine—because the government works. It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.” This from Fast Company. Finally, CBS reports, “leaders of the United States Institute for Peace regained control of their offices Wednesday…after they were ejected from their positions by the Trump administration and [DOGE] in March.” This piece explains that On February 19th, President Trump issued Executive Order 14217 declaring USIP "unnecessary" and terminating its leadership, most of its 300 staff members, its entire board, installing a DOGE functionary at the top and transferring ownership of the building to the federal government. This set off a court battle that ended Monday, when U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the takeover was “unlawful” and therefore “null and void.” These DOGE setbacks might help explain Elon Musk's reported retreat from the political spotlight and political spending.8. On May 21st, Congressman Gerry Connolly passed away, following his battle with esophageal cancer. Connolly's death however is just the latest in a disturbing trend – Ken Klippenstein reports, “Connolly joins five other members of Congress who also died in office over the past 13 months…Rep. Raúl Grijalva…Rep. Sylvester Turner…Rep. Bill Pascrell…Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee…[and] Rep. Donald Payne Jr.” All of these representatives were Democrats and their deaths have chipped away at the close margin between Democrats and Republicans in the House – allowing the Republicans to pass Trump's “Big Beautiful Bill” by a single vote. Connolly himself prevailed over AOC in a much-publicized intra-party battle for the Ranking Member seat on the House Oversight committee. It speaks volumes that Connolly was only able to hold onto that seat for a few short months before becoming too sick to stay on. This is of course part and parcel with the recent revelations about Biden's declining mental acuity during his presidency and the efforts to oust David Hogg from the DNC for backing primaries against what he calls “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats.9. Speaking of “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats, Bloomberg Government reports Senator John Fetterman “didn't attend a single committee hearing in 2025 until…May 8, about a week after an explosive New York Magazine story raised questions about his mental health and dedication to his job.” Fetterman, who represents Pennsylvania on the Commerce, Agriculture, and Homeland Security committees skipped the confirmation hearings for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Budget Director Russ Vought, some of the most high-profile and controversial Trump appointments. Fetterman still has yet to attend a single Agriculture committee hearing in 2025.10. Finally, in more Pennsylvania news, the state held its Democratic primaries this week, yielding mixed results. In Pittsburgh, progressives suffered a setback with the ouster of Mayor Ed Gainey – the first Black mayor of the city. Gainey lost to Allegheny County Controller Corey O'Connor, the son of former Mayor Bob O'Connor, the Hill reports. In Philadelphia however, voters approved three ballot measures – including expanding affordable housing and adding more oversight to the prison system – and reelected for a third term progressive reform District Attorney Larry Krasner, per AP. Krasner has long been a target of conservatives in both parties, but has adroitly maneuvered to maintain his position – and dramatically reduced homicide rates in Philly. The Wall Street Journal reports Philadelphia homicides declined by 34% between 2023 and 2024, part of substantial decline in urban homicides nationwide. Kudos to Krasner.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. 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In 2019, Netflix released a six-episode miniseries starring the English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen played an Israeli spy, Eli Cohen. The latter Cohen was a Jewish immigrant from Egypt who, once in Israel, was recruited and trained by the Mossad. He then assumed the identity of Kamel Amin Thaabet, a wealthy Arab businessman who, having eventually moved to Damascus, became a backer and confidant of key officials in the Baath party. From his home in Syria, Cohen as Thaabet dispatched vast quantities of military and political intelligence to the Israelis throughout the early 1960s. Viewers of the Netflix show, The Spy, see all of this dramatized, as they also see Cohen's eventual capture, torture, and hanging. The Netflix series, and the story it brings to a new generation of viewers, is true.   Eli Cohen is celebrated as one of Israel's great intelligence agents, one of its great mistaravim, or those who assume the identity of Arabs to carry out their missions. There are streets and institutions and many children and even, in the Golan, a town in Israel named after Eli Cohen. For 60 years the Israeli government has tried to persuade, bribe, cajole, and if necessary steal the Syrian government's Eli Cohen file. During the rule of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, they could not get them. With the fall of the Assad regime, and with a new regime in Damascus looking to curry favor with the United States and the West, earlier this week the Syrians handed over some 2,500 documents from Syria's Eli Cohen file.   This week, Yossi Melman—a Haaretz reporter, journalist, and author of some eight English-language books on Israeli intelligence—joins Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver to talk about Eli Cohen, what Israel has reclaimed, and why this story remains so important some six decades on.

Since October 7 and throughout the endless months of the tragedy of the Gaza War, "fiction writing has felt impossible," Israeli author Dror Mishani said on the Haaretz Podcast. "There are too many tragedies around us." Mishani is Israel's premier writer of crime novels and a successful screenwriter. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages and adapted for television in the U.S. and Europe. "Before October 7, I was writing a crime novel. I'm trying to work on it again," Mishani said. "But the story and the characters are completely changed by the war, because I am. I'm still looking for the right ways to write fiction about what we're going through. As I've said, I'm still not quite sure it is possible." For many years, Mishani made a clear separation between politics and his art. But since the war, he told podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, confronting the topic "is the only form of engagement possible now – for writers, for scholars, for journalists. We have to stop this war. We have to figure out how to avoid the next catastrophe, and we have to find ways to live here together." Throughout the first year of the war, Mishani published columns in Haaretz critical of the war. He also kept a diary of his experiences of wartime Israel, publishing the entries as a column in the European press. The result is his latest book "Unheroic War Diary," published in German, French, Spanish and Hebrew. The reception of his war diary overseas, he says, has been positive, and thus far, he does not feel shunned by his readers in Europe. Along with criticism of Israel's war policies, he has felt "sympathy and identification" from fans abroad with the trauma Israel experienced on October 7. "Maybe this is because I wrote this diary," he said. "I don't know what would have happened if I had gone there bringing my French or German or Spanish readers another detective novel – if they would have wanted to read it. Maybe they would be right." "We are living in this divide," he says of the current stage of the war for Israelis. "On one hand, life is apparently normal: We watch TV, go to restaurants, we live our lives while we know that something is deeply, terribly wrong with what our country is doing in our name just a few kilometers from us. I don't know what the consequences of that will be. I know that a lot of people have decided to leave the country because that divide was too much, and they just chose normality." For now, he said, "I have chosen to give up normality." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fancies himself as Israel's Winston Churchill, when in fact, the Gaza war has demonstrated he is exactly the opposite of Great Britain's storied leader, asserted Anshel Pfeffer, Israel correspondent for The Economist, former Haaretz analyst and a Netanyahu biographer, on the Haaretz Podcast. "We shouldn't be making this World War II – the Nazis against everybody else, and comparing that to Israel's war with Hamas. But that's being almost forced upon us by Netanyahu and his supporters," said Pfeffer in conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer. Pfeffer, who recently published a column in Haaretz about Netanyahu's repeated slogan of achieving "total victory" over Hamas and his misguided identification with Churchill in the second world war, said "Churchill was a brilliant wartime leader. He managed to bring the British together at that crucial point in history, uniting a country at a time of a terrible war. Yet, he didn't have the ability to win elections. Netanyahu is the opposite. As we've seen so clearly, he is totally useless at uniting Israel at a time of war, but he's very, very good at winning elections and clinging onto power." Pfeffer also pointed out that the "scorched earth" victory model that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners are pursuing in Gaza hews closer to former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and Russian President Vladimir Putin than Churchill and the other Western allies. Netanyahu should be reminded, Pfeffer said, that the U.K. and the U.S. were "magnanimous and benevolent" victors who poured millions into rebuilding a de-Nazified Germany. "That is a very, very different vision of victory."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.