It was a slightly calmer night on the airwaves as the nation’s talking heads cooled it with the economy talk and shifted their attention back to the war in Gaza.

Satterfield is becoming a regular on the airwaves: The Biden administration is trying hard to get its message out to the Egyptian public, with Middle East humanitarian envoy David Satterfield appearing on Yahduth Fi Masr for his second televised interview this week.

In a nutshell:

  • War: good, but could be better;
  • Aid: not enough;
  • Peace: not right now.

Watch, if you can stomach it. Runtime: 3:37 | 3:02 | 3:19 | 3:18 | 3:42).

Talking heads go off on the Israeli government: Yesterday’s comments from Israel’s far-right finance minister about deporting Palestinians drew the ire of the talking heads. “This is a deranged government. Little kids still in school have better awareness than this,” Masa’a DMC’s Osama Kamal said (watch, runtime: 4:18). “This is talk of ethnic cleansing … this is completely rejected by Palestenians and Arabs,” El Hadidi said (watch, runtime: 2:09).

ALSO- Al Hayah Al Youm hosted Amira Saber, campaign spokesperson for presidential candidate Farid Zahran (watch, runtime: 24:05), for a conversation that centered around the war on Gaza and Zahran’s campaign.

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