After the World Central Kitchen Attack, How Far Will Biden Shift on Israel?
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
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The Washington Roundtable: Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos discuss how the Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza could factor into a policy shift by the Biden Administration on Israel and the war. President Biden realized that he needed to “catch up to where the country was,” Osnos says. Then the British barrister Philippe Sands, a prominent specialist in international law who represents the state of Palestine in the case against the Israeli occupation before the International Court of Justice, joins the group to discuss whether the laws of war have been violated in this conflict.
This week’s reading:
- “Donald Trump’s Amnesia Advantage,” by Susan B. Glasser
- “Biden’s Increasingly Contradictory Israel Policy,” by Isaac Chotiner
- “What It Takes to Give Palestinians a Voice,” by Robin Wright
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