Biden to Israel; Bombs to Gaza
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
With bombs falling in Gaza, President Biden traveled to Israel to make a show of support. But as meetings with allied government leadership around the region were canceled, is the president doing more harm than good?
Guest: Yousef Munayyer, Palestinian-American political analyst and writer and Senior Fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC.
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| 0:39.9 | Yusef Muneer is Palestinian-American based in Washington, DC. |
| 0:44.4 | He has family and friends that he's been trying to keep in touch with in Gaza, but that's |
| 0:49.0 | been an almost impossible task. |
| 0:51.8 | It's extremely terrifying, especially because by this point, you've probably lost contact |
| 0:59.6 | with your loved ones, because communications have been effectively cut off, electricity |
| 1:08.5 | has been cut off, fuel for backup generators to provide electricity has been cut off. |
| 1:16.7 | So you know, people are glued to their television screens now, watching what is taking place |
| 1:25.8 | in the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:28.8 | Yusef is even watching the air strikes that are killing their families, and they may |
| 1:35.0 | not know for days or weeks about what has happened to them. |
| 1:42.8 | Yusef leads the Palestine Israel program at Arab Center Washington, DC, where he focuses |
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