Daily Briefing Dec. 4: Day 425 – Committee pushes through weak climate bill
Arab affairs correspondent Gianluca Pacchiani discusses Lebanese Shiites and Syrian rebels; environment reporter Sue Surkes reviews a watered-down climate bill and recycled textiles
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Arab affairs correspondent Gianluca Pacchiani and environmental reporter Sue Surkes join host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.
Pacchiani reviews the reactions from Lebanese Shiites following the temporary ceasefire with Hezbollah, and how the Iran-backed terrorist organization will presumably lie low after being battered during the last months of the war with the IDF.
He also looks at rebel groups in northwestern Syria fighting the weakened regime of the Bashar Assad regime. The rebel forces, who are against Hezbollah, hope that Israel will strike Iranian convoys and Hezbollah forces inside Syria, aiding their cause.
Surkes discusses the weak climate bill that’s being pushed through the Knesset, a piece of legislation that lacks targets, has no budget and won’t serve as a tool in petitioning the government on climate targets.
She also looks at a Greenpeace Israel project that tracked used clothing by using AirTags, and found that the used textiles ended up mostly in the West Bank and Africa, where they were primarily dumped or turned into rags.
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Discussed articles include:
Lebanon’s Shiites increasingly reject role of scapegoat in Hezbollah’s war on Israel
Who are the rebels battering Syria’s regime, and do they pose a risk to Israel?
Most used clothes deposited in textile recycling bins end up in Africa — report
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