It's the Brian Lairer show on WNYC. Good morning everyone. We'll talk first today about the US response to the killing of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. this is a developing story.

And if even this time the Biden administration

is saying different things and the Netanyahu administration,

but then continuing to be complicit in the actions they criticize.

Here is Pentagon spokesman John Kirby yesterday

appearing to make a direct threat regarding sending more bombs.

There's no changes to their policy and their approaches, then there's going to have to be

changes to ours.

But that was just an implication that something would change regarding military aid.

He didn't say what would change.

And we've heard that kind of thing before.

On March 22nd, the Washington Post had a headline,

Biden administration gauges Israeli compliance with laws of war.

The article said that State Department had received Israel's written assurances

that its use of U.S. supplied weapons in the Gaza War has not violated international or U.S. laws in its

conduct of the war and protection of civilians, including the provision of sufficient aid.

That was a quote. And the article said a group of 17 Democratic

senators was calling on the Biden administration to reject Israel's claims amid

the growing debate in Washington over whether the United States should suspend arms transfers.

That was on March 22nd.

On the 29th, another Washington Post article reported

Biden approval of a new armed shipment to Israel

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