Biden’s breaking point on Gaza

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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President Joe Biden says the US won’t supply further weapons if Israel is going to use them in Rafah. Axios reporter Barak Ravid explains what that means for the war. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amina Al-Sadi and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by David Herman and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! vox.com/givepodcasts Please take a second to help us learn more about you! vox.com/podcastsurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's been a big week for the Israel-Hamais War.
0:05.0	On Monday, Israel warned about 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate Eastern Raffa.
0:11.0	The Israeli military used leaflets and text messages to tell Gazans to leave
0:15.8	eastern ruffa. Shortly thereafter they bombed targets and took the Palestinian side of the
0:21.2	Rafa border crossing.
0:23.0	While that was happening, we were getting conflicting news
0:25.8	on a ceasefire.
0:27.1	Hamas accepts a ceasefire deal, wrong deal,
0:30.6	everything falls apart.
0:32.1	And while that was happening it seemed like
0:34.0	President Joe Biden was working towards an ultimatum and then Wednesday night in
0:38.7	an interview with CNN he articulated it.
0:41.3	They go into Rafa.
0:43.0	I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafa.
0:47.0	To deal with the cities, to deal with that problem.
0:50.0	We're going to unpack it all and figure out whether any of it gets us closer to the end of this war on today explained.
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