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Right and where on WNYC now are monthly call your senator segment with New York Senator

Kirsten Gillibrand.

If you're from New York and sees your senator or even if you're not, your questions are

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Text your questions for senator Gillibrand of course we'll be talking about U.S. policy

toward the Middle East but also touch on a few other things 212433 9692 for yours.

Senator always good of you to do this welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much.

So President Biden has announced that he is going to Israel tomorrow.

Do you support him going and what would you describe as the purpose?

I do support him going.

He is going to reaffirm the United States of solidarity with Israel and our iron clad

commitment to its security.

He will also make sure that there is a crystal clear message that this war should not escalate

and that Lebanon has been another actor should not engage.

He's going to focus laser like on the hostage release and how we can move forward on getting

hostages released by Hamas.

I think he also will talk to Netanyahu about how best to minimize civilian casualties

and how to enable humanitarian assistance to flow into Gaza for civilians that does

not benefit Hamas and I think he will work on how we can limit the loss of life.

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