Biden and Netanyahu at Odds, Putin Responds to ISIS-K Attack, Cuba Food and Electricity Shortages, and More

The World Next Week

Council on Foreign Relations

Politics, News, News:politics

4.6 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The fallout after the UN Security Council adopted a resolution for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and release of all hostages further reveals a growing strain between the United States and Israel; Russia reels from the ISIS-K terrorist attack on concertgoers near Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin deliberating how to respond; the Cuban government cracks down on recent protests across the country over food shortages and power outages; and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is found to have stayed overnight at the Hungarian embassy in Brasília in February 2024. Mentioned on the Podcast Barak Ravid, “Netanyahu Cancels Meetings with Biden Officials Over UN Ceasefire Vote,” Axios For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The World Next Week at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/biden-and-netanyahu-odds-putin-responds-isis-k-attack-cuba-food-and-electricity-shortages

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0:00.0	In the coming week, the U.S. and Israel try to manage an increasingly strained relationship.
0:06.0	The Kremlin responds to a horrifying ISIS attack, and Cubans face escalating food shortages and power outages as long as 18 hours a day.
0:15.0	It's March 28th of 2024, and time for the world next week.
0:34.3	I'm Carl Ann Robbins, and today we're lucky to be joined by Miriam Elder,
0:38.1	who's filling in for my intrepid co-host, Bob McMahon, who dared to go on vacation.
0:43.9	Miriam is the council's Edward Armourou Press Fellow. She spent eight years in Russia as a foreign correspondent charting the rise of Vladimir Putin, first for the Moscow Times and then as Moscow Bureau Chief for the Guardian.
0:49.5	Then she worked for Bus Read News and was an executive editor at Vanity Fair. Miriam, thank you so much for being here.
0:55.2	I'm so happy to be here, Carla. Carla, let's start with Gaza. On Monday, the United Nations Security
1:00.7	Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza through the end of Ramadan
1:05.1	and an unconditional release of all hostages. What was notable about this vote first was the U.S. decided to abstain
1:12.1	rather than exercise its veto, something it's done repeatedly since October 7th, and second,
1:17.9	the furious reaction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who immediately canceled a visit
1:23.1	to D.C. by a top Israeli delegation. What do these events mean for U.S. Israel relations and also for the
1:28.9	war in Gaza? So, Miriam, we've talked a lot on this show about the growing tensions in this
1:33.9	U.S. Israeli relationship over the war in Gaza. And this week for the first time, and I know all
1:40.3	the experts are going to tell me I'm wrong about this, I began to imagine that President Biden could apply more than just rhetorical pressure on Bibi Netanyahu to try to head off
1:49.7	the thing that Washington is most worried about, which is a threatened ground assault on Rafa.
1:54.8	There's more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge there. And if that ground invasion
2:00.0	were to go through, you know, it's going to
2:01.6	likely kill thousands more civilians. And that is what that delegation, which the White House is
2:06.7	now saying is going to be coming, but Bibi Netanyahu's people have said, we haven't said yes yet,
2:11.6	so we'll have to see that's going forward. Biden isn't there yet. He may never get there,
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