Explaining Israel-Hamas war, mayoral candidate talks race, franchisee helping children, and more on Houston Newsmakers

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Middle East and public coverage professionals percentage information about the Israel-Hamas warfare and the historical past of this war.

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• Mama Garcia stocks more about her efforts to run for Houston mayor.

• The Dave Thomas Foundation is attempting to seek out loving adoptive houses for kids.

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Israel-Hamas War

Thousands are lifeless and many more 1000’s had been injured in Israel and Gaza after a Hamas terrorist assault on Oct. 7. The reaction from Israel has been forceful with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to wipe out Hamas. David Satterfield is a former United States ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey and is now Director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. He has negotiated will all events in that area and says the Hamas assault units a brand new low bar.

“More jews killed, murdered in a single day since the end of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany,” Satterfield mentioned. “More Israeli civilians dead in a single event since the founding of the state.”

The terrorist assault through Hamas is the most recent in what has been a many years lengthy war between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Emran El-Badawi is the Director of Middle East Studies on the University of Houston and says younger other folks should be those to modify the truth of the area.

“If we are going to merely copy the older generation, the older generations of Jews and Arabs and Muslims and Christians, if we’re going to do that, we’re going to be in conflict forever,” he mentioned. “This is why we’re here. It’s 2023, and it is embarrassing that the longest running conflict and occupation in modern history is still here.”

See more background on what has resulted in years of war within the Middle East and the potentialities for setting up peace on this week’s Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall.

“Mama” Garcia says she isn’t delusional about probabilities to win mayor race

Her identify is Annie Garcia, advert she’s sometimes called “Mama.” She’s within the race to be Houston mayor. The newest ballot from the Hobby School of Public Affairs displays she has no likelihood as she and 11 different applicants are receiving not up to .04% of votes. She says she understands the chances however being within the race could also be a possibility to steer whoever makes the runoff and in the long run wins. Her major precedence has been schooling and says whilst the mayor does now not have direct duty for the Houston Independent School District, there are efforts the mayor can take to make a distinction.

“The mayor could expand parks and recreation, which is already and amazing resource in the city and going from just offering Summer camp (to) doing Summer tutorials,” she mentioned. “We could be working to get the state out of our schools a lot faster with a mayor who saw a path for that and didn’t just say, this is not my problem.” See her complete interview on Houston Newsmakers with Khambrel Marshall.

Below is the most recent ballot of most probably electorate for mayor launched on October tenth:

Wendy’s franchise proprietor promotes significance of adoption via Dave Thomas Foundation

Ricki Oberoi owns 46 Wendy’s eating places. He says he’s construction 4 more to make it a good 50. That’s spectacular however now not as spectacular as his dedication to elevating consciousness and cash to assist youngsters in finding adoptive households.

“To date we’ve raised over 300 million dollars just in adoption funds, so we provide a lot of support to adoption,” he mentioned. “Here in Houston, we have three centers (including) Dave’s Wonderful Kids who are looking for forever homes for children.”

Oberoi says all of his eating places are seeking to lift consciousness about one of the most terrible realties for some youngsters.

“There are 120,000 children looking for forever homes. We’ve got about another 80,000 that are going to age out who are 18 years old,” Oberoi mentioned. “Suddenly, foster care ends, and they literally become homeless on their 18th birthday.”

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For more information on this week’s Houston Newsmakers

· The Honorable David Satterfield, Director, Baker Institute for Public Policy

· Website: https://www.bakerinstitute.org/expert/david-m-satterfield

· Emran El-Badawi, Ph.D. Director, UH Middle Eastern Studies Program

· Website: https://www.uh.edu/class/mcl/faculty/el-badawi_e/index

· Annie “Mama” Garcia, Candidate for Houston Mayor

· Website: https://mamaformayor.com/

· Ricki Oberoi, Wendy’s Franchisee

· Website: https://www.davethomasfoundation.org/our-programs/wendys-wonderful-kids/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI15jB1YjxgQMVwkd_AB1qmwmnEAAYASABEgLdVfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds