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Last Thursday, The New York Times published a long investigative piece titled “Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians”. The article tries to identify an unprecedented shift in the IDF’s military strategy and rules of engagement during its response to Hamas’s October 7 invasion, and reports on the impact on Palestinian civilians, including a substantial increase in risk to Palestinian civilians.

To discuss the ethics of Israel fighting a just war justly, to help us unpack and respond to the key charges in the Times investigation, and to briefly reflect on the (post-presidential) legacy of President Jimmy Carter, we welcome back to the podcast, Yossi Klein Halevi, who is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Yossi has written a number of books, including his latest, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” which was a New York Times bestseller. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Times of Israel. He is co-host of “For Heaven’s Sake” podcast.

Yossi Klein Halevi’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001IXOA04

Articles discussed in this episode:

“Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&tgrp=sty&pvid=1FCD1780-A3CA-40EB-BBFF-99870A87D46E

“Teens forced to perform sexual acts on each other: Report to UN details Hamas torture” https://www.timesofisrael.com/teens-forced-to-perform-sexual-acts-on-each-other-report-to-un-details-hamas-torture/

“Jimmy Carter, friend of dictators and champion of terrorists” https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3181150/jimmy-carter-friend-dictators-and-champion-terrorists/

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
07:10 Reactions to Houthi attacks in recent days
09:10 Immediate response to the NYT investigative article
16:15 Why the rules of engagement have changed in this war
19:41 The NYT article as a refutation of the “genocide” accusation
21:25 Factoring in the hostages
23:55 Could Israel achieve its military goals without loosening some restrictions it adhered to in the past?
25:28 Fighting according to international law when the enemy is not obliged by it
32:48 Is Israel David or Goliath?
36:30 Observations on the report to the UN by the Israeli Ministry of Health regarding the hostages
42:28 The hold-up in the current hostages’ negotiations
43:54 Does the way Israel has fought this war inflame antisemitism?
51:13 Why did the list of genocide accusations start before the war?

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