[02:46]★今日のおすすめ★ Mass exodus begins in Gaza as Israel tells people to leave ahead of more raids
[14:11] Defense secretary visits Israel in latest show of U.S. support for fight against Hamas
[16:55] The senior official told me that the coming ground invasion of Gaza would not be the same as previous ground invasions. He said -- quote -- "This is going to be something different, something out of the box," but of course, he would give no details.
[** out of the box = unconventional; outside the limits of conventional thinking ]
[18:17] In total, the U.S. is sending a series of weapons, most notably, Iron Dome munitions, expecting those Hamas rockets to continue, small-diameter bombs, which are bombs designed to be more precise, and therefore cause fewer civilian casualties, what are known as the Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, kits. Those turn older dumb bombs, so to speak, into precision-guided munitions, and -- quote -- "critical ammunition" that Israeli soldiers use.
[24:11]★今日のおすすめ★ GOP picks Jim Jordan as latest House speaker candidate, but unclear if he can win
[28:21] Colo. officer convicted, another acquitted in first of 3 trials in death of Elijah McClain
[28:21] GEOFF BENNETT: Jurors have convicted one white Colorado police officer and acquitted another in the first of three trials stemming from the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man. McClain was unarmed while walking home in Aurora, Colorado. He was wearing a face mask because of a blood disorder that made him feel cold. After a driver called police saying he was acting suspiciously, officers arrived and forcefully restrained him. The use of force set other events into motion, leading to McClain's death. [** Elijah McClain = see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elijah_McClain ]
[34:21]★今日のおすすめ★ Brooks and Capehart on the Israel-Hamas war and U.S. support
[38:25] DAVID BROOKS: Well, first I want to appreciate Jonathan's comments. The history of Judaism is the history of hiding in homes while people come and kill -- try to kill you and try to burn you down. And so that goes back to the exiles thousands of years ago. It goes back to the pogroms, when my ancestors left Central Europe. It goes back to the Holocaust. And so the whole point of the state of Israel was, that would not happen again.
[** pogrom = A pogrom is a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring or expelling an ethnic or religious group, particularly Jews. The term entered the English language from Russian to describe 19th- and 20th-century attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire (mostly within the Pale of Settlement). Similar attacks against Jews which also occurred at other times and places became known retrospectively as pogroms… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom ( Wikipediaの右上のlanguagesに日本語のページへのリンクもあります ) ]
[41:21] I am happy to be wrong about the reaction from the Republican presidential field. I thought they would follow form and not criticize Trump at all, for fear of engendering the rage of their base. But Governor Haley, Governor DeSantis, Governor Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, most of them criticized Trump, and I applaud them for that.
[** to follow form = いつものやり方に従う]
[43:52] What is happening within the Republican Conference, Jonathan, so much that anyone would know? JONATHAN CAPEHART: It's chaos. It's mayhem. It's also pathetic.
[** mayhem = A state or situation of great confusion, disorder; chaos ]
[44:02] We -- the speaker of the House isn't just some person. It's a constitutional officer. It's a third in line to the presidency.
[** 下院議長は副大統領の次なので、second in line to the presidencyが正しい ]
[44:40] GEOFF BENNETT: Well, on that point, we spoke with the Democratic leader on this program yesterday, and he made an overture to what he called traditional Republicans, offering something of a coalition government. REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): [** 昨日放送されたこのインタビュー ] There is a real path and a real opportunity to be serious, to be substantive, to be sober in meeting the needs of the American people and our allies like Israel and Ukraine across the world. But we just need traditional Republicans to break from their extremist wing and join us in a bipartisan coalition.
[45:54] Patrick Stewart reflects on his life and legendary career in new memoir, 'Making It So'