Biden’s Israel Problem (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, Daniel Bessner)

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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0:34 A brief message from Bob 2:12 Derek and Danny stumble into Bob’s Zoom room 3:11 Israel’s doubly out-of-control week 12:13 How Biden's Gaza failures will shape the Democratic Party 26:42 Biden’s political incentives on Israel-Palestine 30:12 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges, American Prestige, Discontents), and Daniel Bessner (American Prestige, University of Washington). Recorded April 04, 2024.

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0:00.0	Your Listen.
0:03.0	Your listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:34.0	Hey, this is Bob, and I just wanted to let you know that this podcast was recorded on Thursday
0:40.1	right before reports that Biden had warned Netanyahu that there would be consequences if Israel
0:47.2	didn't improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and before reports that this warning had led Israel to open a new aid corridor to Gaza.
0:57.9	Now, we'll have to wait and see how significant this does or doesn't turn out to be,
1:02.6	and the same holds for reports that Biden told BB he wants to ceasefire very soon.
1:08.2	I haven't seen reports that anyone in the administration is warning about
1:12.6	withholding military aid to Israel, and I suspect that the administration is a long way from
1:19.1	really using that kind of leverage. Still, this latest round of news has led to more conversation
1:25.8	about that possibility. So since we begin this podcast
1:30.2	by discussing Biden's failure to use that leverage or any kind of real leverage, I just wanted to let
1:36.9	you know what information was and wasn't at our disposal. Anyway, pretty much everything we say is still relevant. In fact, a lot of it is
1:46.5	actually more relevant by virtue of these recent developments. And I think it's a very good
1:52.2	discussion. And if you like it, I encourage you to smash the like button or share this on
1:58.3	social media or rate and review the podcast or do whatever it is
2:04.2	you do when you like things. Okay. So here's my conversation with Derek Davison and Daniel
2:11.5	Besner. Oh, look, it's the guys from the American Prestige Podcast who have stumbled into the non-zero podcast or else it's the
2:19.3	other way around.
2:21.2	No, I think we've stumbled into yours.
2:23.2	I think that's fair.
2:24.5	You're the podcasting Godfather, the guru.
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