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Netanyahu Responds to Obama Amidst Election Countdown · 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: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a strong response to
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  Speaker 1: comments made by former US President Barack Obama. Speaking in
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  Speaker 1: Belfast earlier this week, Obama suggested Israel was taking land
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  Speaker 1: off people and being excessive, and that Palestinians understandably said,
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  Speaker 1: this is injustice and I want my land back. In
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  Speaker 1: a video posted to X, Prime Minister Netanyahu asserted, the
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people are not foreign occupiers in the land of
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  Speaker 1: our forefathers. This is our homeland. He differentiated Israel from
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  Speaker 1: European colonial powers and stated that the primary obstacle to
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  Speaker 1: peace is not Israel, but regional enemies who refuse to
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  Speaker 1: recognise the Jewish people's right to a state, citing chance
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  Speaker 1: of death to Israel and death to America from states
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  Speaker 1: like Iran. Netanyahu stated that Israel and the United States
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  Speaker 1: are defending our common civilisation. In Gaza, one Palestinian was
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  Speaker 1: killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when an Israeli drone
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  Speaker 1: struck a group of civilians near Ibad al-Rahman School on
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  Speaker 1: Al-Jalar Street, northwest of Gaza City, according to WAFA. Looking domestically,
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the October 27 election, analyst Garry Kasparov argued
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  Speaker 1: in the New York Times that Israelis face a critical choice.
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  Speaker 1: A secular Hebrew democracy is or a rigid rabbinical theocracy,
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  Speaker 1: Kasparov compared the situation to Abraham Lincoln's observation of a
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  Speaker 1: nation divided. Meanwhile, party leader Liberman has accused rival Eisenkot
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  Speaker 1: of plotting a unity government with Netanyahu and ultra-Orthodox parties,
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  Speaker 1: while urging voters seeking change to focus on his party's efforts.
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  Speaker 1: Global voting for Israelis abroad saw high turnout, with over 4,200
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  Speaker 1: casting ballots at 99 missions worldwide, a significant increase from 2022.
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  Speaker 1: The profound personal toll of the conflict is also highlighted
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  Speaker 1: by the family of an IDF soldier killed in Lebanon.
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  Speaker 1: They have since left Israel, stating they could not find
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  Speaker 1: solace and citing IDF failures. The soldier died in Shamar
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  Speaker 1: on November 20, 2024, a week before a ceasefire. In
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  Speaker 1: the West Bank, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine reported being
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  Speaker 1: physically assaulted and kicked by masked settlers as Palestinians harvested
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  Speaker 1: olives near Ramallah. Witnesses also reported arson and stone-throwing, with
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  Speaker 1: the IDF and police investigating the incident. From a US
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  Speaker 1: policy perspective, analysis by United Against Nuclear Iran indicates that
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  Speaker 1: Iran has managed to export liquefied petroleum gas and jet
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  Speaker 1: fuel despite US blockades and sanctions. Reports show at least
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  Speaker 1: eight gas tankers carrying Iranian LPG have left the Gulf
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  Speaker 1: of Oman since mid-July, with one jet fuel tanker reaching
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  Speaker 1: Myanmar in September. The US military's central command maintains its
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  Speaker 1: naval blockade is ironclad. In a separate development, a rabbi
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  Speaker 1: for Emory University's Hillel, Nikki Gollum, was reportedly fired in August.
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  Speaker 1: Gollum attributes the decision to her relationship with a critic
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  Speaker 1: of Israel and potential pressure from a major donor, while
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  Speaker 1: Hillel stated the firing was for legitimate, work-related reasons. For
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