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Commentary | 6 September 2024

The Women Leaders podcast: Events unabated

Summer used to be a period of quiet. The sun shone (a bit), holidays were taken, events slowed to a glacial pace, and newsrooms had to deal with what was known as the “silly season”.

This is no longer the case. Whether this is because global events really have become more dramatic or because we instantly know about them thanks to the speed and reach of social media, this past summer was an example of constant and rapid events:

From the assassination attempt on Donald Trump to the sudden rise of Kamala Harris, both now presidential candidates in the US;  from the ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza/Israel, and to the hardening of the China-Russia partnership in the face of the west — the world carried on spinning unabated, and at speed.

To get a closer insight into events in the US and the Middle East, Ilana Bet-El is joined by Jodi Rudoren, Editor in Chief of the Forward and former New York Times Bureau Chief in Jerusalem. In a strong and flowing conversation, they move through the rapidly changing realities of US politics and the changing gender roles within them, the prospects of both presidential candidates’ policies on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the appalling lack of women in the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians — and elsewhere too.

This episode was recorded on 5 September 2024

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The European Leadership Network itself as an institution holds no formal policy positions. The opinions articulated above represent the views of the authors rather than the European Leadership Network or its members. The ELN aims to encourage debates that will help develop Europe’s capacity to address the pressing foreign, defence, and security policy challenges of our time, to further its charitable purposes.

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