John Donison
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155 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 19 Aug
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by the Americans, by Israel and Iran goes on, we're going to have to wait and see what the extent of the Iranian response is going to be this time.
Their military capabilities have been hugely diminished in recent years because of those various conflicts, but they still have the capacity to hit all parts of Israel pretty hard.
Donald Trump believes Gaza's future lies in the hands of his Board of Peace, of which he will be the chair.
The members of the board itself are expected to be announced this week, but Israeli officials have already raised concerns about the makeup of some of the board's lower levels, saying that it contradicts Israeli policy and that Israel was not consulted about their composition.
So phase one, of course, of Donald Trump's peace plan saw the release of the remaining Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
We've now had the announcement of phase two.
Now, what that is meant to see is the establishment of a government of technocrats within Gaza, so figures from civil society, not fascists.
from Hamas.
The names of those individuals have been announced today.
But it is also meant to see the disarmament of Hamas and also the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza.
Now, that is problematic.
First of all, Hamas so far have said they are not willing to give up their weapons, and Israel has given no indication that it's ready to fully withdraw.
It wants to remain in place in Gaza.
It says to provide security.
The second point is, you know, we've got a ceasefire in place in Gaza for three months, but it is fragile at best.
In the past three months, since that ceasefire was announced in October, more than 430 Palestinians have been killed.
And then you've got the issue of the conditions in Gaza, which continue to be absolutely bleak.
More aid has got in.
but it's not enough and you know over the past week we've had some truly awful weather here in the middle east very very heavy rain heavy winds and you've got hundreds of thousands of people in gaza living in tents we've seen tents being ripped apart blown away in the wind it's cold
It's flooded.
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