THE DEFINITIVE RAP: IDF Military Operation Interview with Alex Traiman, CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of JNS

Baila Sebrow, producer and host of The Definitive Rap for 5Towns Central interviewed Alex Traiman based in Jerusalem. Alex is CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of Jewish News Syndicate, the fastest-growing news agency in the Jewish world. He is an award-winning political commentator and veteran Israeli journalist. Alex has covered eight Israeli elections and numerous conflicts, including Israel’s complete military and civilian withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.  In the past year, Alex has conducted interviews with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Strategic Affairs Minister (and former Ambassador to the United States) Ron Dermer, a member of Netanyahu’s five-man war cabinet. Alex is known to have direct insights into the thinking of the Netanyahu administration. Since the war began, Alex has written extensive war analyses and conducted interviews with former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel, Thomas Nides and David Friedman. Traiman has been interviewed over 75 times in the last month alone by multiple news outlets, including CBS, BBC, Bloomberg, and Fox. He has also lectured on war developments in Israel and the United States.  Baila opened the show explaining that The Definitive Rap has been on hold in producing episodes the past few weeks, because the staff has been spending a great deal of time volunteering on behalf of the displaced people in Israel, and the IDF.  What happened on October 7th to the victims and their families, their suffering will always be with them, a part of them. This is not something anyone can get over. The brutalities of murders, rapes mutilations, tortures, of innocent babies, children, women, and men, because they happened to have been born Jews, or they happened to be in a Jewish location at the time of the attacks. Furthermore, how so many people within several nations that are saying it’s the Jews that are at fault. That they are the occupiers, the aggressors, and that the Jews are committing Genocide. What is happening to society? Where is the international outrage? To date, 120 plus hostages are still being held in Gaza, Medical exams of the released hostages revealed physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. Where is world condemnation on Hamas’s intentional abuse, murder, and torture?  Alex gave an update about what’s going on now in the IDF military operation, and he spoke in great detail why there is so much American support for Hamas, particularly in the college campuses.  He also discussed how United Nations and everyone else keeps talking about the humanitarian crisis inside Gaze, and why bordering Egypt doesn’t take in the Palestinians, and offered his take on Netanyahu’s war leadership at the present time.  Alex explained the very important key point people need to understand about the psychological warfare Hamas has committed.   This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate