The Israeli incursion into Jinin is being presented as something bigger than it really is. Netanyahu for his purposes wants this to be seen as something very big that he's ordered and he hopes that this will satisfy the far right. But we're hearing both from within his own government and from the Israeli military that this is an operation which actually should end pretty soon.
The so-called refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot for militants for decades. We ask what set things off so violently this week. Now that Jair Bolsonaro is barred from Brazilian office for eight years, what happens to his brand of politics (11:17)? And how America got a new king of beers (19:17).
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