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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Biden and Netanyahu Clash Over Israel's Next Move

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden criticized Benjamin Netanyahu's strategy to defeat Hamas in his State of the Union address, then spoke of the 'red line' the Israeli Prime Minister will cross if Israel takes the city of Rafah. So is the president trying to appease the anti-Israel wing of his party, and what will he do if Netanyahu moves ahead anyway, as he says Israel will. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Right now. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. President Biden opens up a public dispute with Israel and especially with

0:34.6

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the conduct of Israel's war in Gaza.

0:39.8

President Biden even says an attempt to clear Hamas out of the city of Raffa, its last

0:44.5

stronghold would be a red line, quote unquote.

0:47.6

What's behind this change of rhetoric and perhaps policy toward Israel inside the White House.

0:54.4

Welcome, I'm Paul Geego with the Potomac Watch

0:57.5

podcast here and with my colleagues Bill McGurn

1:01.1

and Kate Batchelder O'Dell.

1:03.2

So Mark change of tone by the President on Israel,

1:06.2

notably starting with his State of the Union address

1:09.0

where he lectured the Israeli leaders

1:11.8

on how they are conducting the war. Let's listen.

1:15.6

The leadership of the to Israel I say this.

1:18.8

Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip.

1:24.0

Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be priority.

1:28.0

As we look to the future, the only real solution to the situation

1:32.0

is a two-state solution over time.

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