Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur.
On February 4, US President Donald Trump made a bombshell proposal to resettle the population of Gaza. The announcement caught the world by surprise and over a week later, no one is entirely sure what Trump intends beyond restarting and resetting the discussion of Gaza after the war.
We discuss Israeli comedian Reshef Levy‘s biting Hebrew-language assessment of politicians’ responses and how they reflect the ambivalence the plan has aroused in the Israeli public.
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We wonder if the Trump proposal is based on previous historic plans such as the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan.
And so this week, we ask Haviv Rettig Gur, what matters now.
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