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Gaza: 'River to the Sea' Ideology Clashes with Two-State Solution Hopes · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today Ongoing War Report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: We begin with the ongoing ideological chasm concerning the future
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  Speaker 1: of the region. JPost.com highlights a significant contradiction. While Western leaders,
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  Speaker 1: including figures like UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, UN Secretary-General
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  Speaker 1: Antonio Guterres, and officials from France, Canada, Australia and the US,
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  Speaker 1: champion a two-state solution, Influential Palestinian voices and groups like Hamas,
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  Speaker 1: Hezbollah and Iran reject Israel's existence. The From the River
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  Speaker 1: to the Sea chant, representing a demand for a Palestinian
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  Speaker 1: state encompassing all of Israel, from the Jordan River to
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  Speaker 1: the Mediterranean, is seen as fundamentally negating a two-state solution.
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  Speaker 1: This is further complicated by Jpost.com reporting that Palestinian children
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  Speaker 1: are taught from an early age that Israel is occupying
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  Speaker 1: Arab land and the enemy must be eradicated. undermining any
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  Speaker 1: spoken commitment to peace. Meanwhile on the ground, Telegram channel
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  Speaker 1: Jewish News 24 reports the elimination of four Hamas terrorists
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  Speaker 1: in separate strikes across Gaza. One of those eliminated had
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  Speaker 1: infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre and was involved
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  Speaker 1: in advancing attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops, aiming
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  Speaker 1: to restore Hamas's terror capabilities. In a related development, Telegram
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  Speaker 1: channel Amir Tsarfati relays that Prime Minister Netanyahu responding to
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  Speaker 1: a call for restraint from French President Emmanuel Macron, stated,
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  Speaker 1: If we don't dismantle Hamas in Gaza, you'll meet them
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  Speaker 1: in Paris. Shifting to international diplomacy, Jpost.com notes that criticism
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  Speaker 1: from American democratic figures and activist groups is increasingly focusing
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  Speaker 1: on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This strategy, the report suggests,
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  Speaker 1: may serve to mask a more fundamental opposition to Israel's
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  Speaker 1: policies and the broader US-Israel relationship. Figures like Senate Majority
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  Speaker 1: Leader Chuck Schumer have called for Israeli elections, framing a
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  Speaker 1: change in leadership as the solution. Senator Bernie Sanders has
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  Speaker 1: directly linked criticism to the current government's immoral and illegal
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  Speaker 1: war policies. Activist groups, such as Jewish Voice for Peace,
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  Speaker 1: have also levelled harsh critiques. The focus on Netanyahu allows
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  Speaker 1: some Democrats to appease a radicalising base without explicitly challenging
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  Speaker 1: the core US-Israel alliance. maintaining conditional support while objecting to
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  Speaker 1: the current Prime Minister. Concerns over rising antisemitism are highlighted
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  Speaker 1: in commentary shared by Telegram channel Amir Tsarfati, who relays
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  Speaker 1: remarks from UAE political analyst Amjad Taha. Taha links unrest
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  Speaker 1: and attacks in France directly to government policies and what
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  Speaker 1: he describes as indifference to antisemitism. He points to student
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  Speaker 1: celebrations of the October 7 massacre on university campuses, waving
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  Speaker 1: Hamas and Hezbollah flags, which he states the French government
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  Speaker 1: did not stop, even calling on the UN to give
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  Speaker 1: Hamas a state. Taha alleges that when these students targeted
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  Speaker 1: Jewish individuals and establishments, their actions were effectively endorsed by
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  Speaker 1: this indifference toward the suffering of the Jewish community. He
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  Speaker 1: criticises French authorities for treating antisemitism as an opinion rather
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  Speaker 1: than a crime, and for failing to ban groups like
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  Speaker 1: the Muslim Brotherhood or Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Domestically,
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  Speaker 1: an incident involving TV host Yinon Magal on Channel 14
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  Speaker 1: has drawn significant attention, as reported by Jpost.com and the
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  Speaker 1: Times of Israel. Magal referred to former IDF chief of
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  Speaker 1: staff Gadi Eizenkot as a monkey, suggesting he was controlled
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  Speaker 1: by elitist Ashkenazim behind the scenes and questioning his Mizrahi heritage.
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  Speaker 1: Eizenkot condemned the remarks as low and suggested Magal was
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  Speaker 1: acting on behalf of someone else. The Yashar party has
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  Speaker 1: drawn parallels between this incident and the infamous 1981 Charchahim speech,
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  Speaker 1: which reportedly slurred Likud voters. Yanon Magal later stated he
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  Speaker 1: used the term monkey to mean a puppet and not
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  Speaker 1: as a racist jab. Finally, in other news, Telegram channel
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  Speaker 1: Newsil reports on escalating violence in Ashkelon. A 17-year-old was
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  Speaker 1: murdered with an axe during a brawl on Herzl Street.
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  Speaker 1: The victim was critically injured and taken to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: where he was pronounced dead. For continuing coverage of antisemitism
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  Speaker 1: around the world, listen to Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media.
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  Speaker 1: Find it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that this AI-generated report may contain occasional inaccuracies,
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