Day 469 - A look back at Biden on Israel: Patron or patronizer?

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, the weekly Friday Focus.

As US President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, we take a look at the relationship between the president and the Jewish state, starting with his famous meeting with prime minister Golda Meir in which he understood the importance of being a Zionist.

We hear how, after Biden's initial embrace of Netanyahu and the Israeli people following the murderous Hamas onslaught on southern Israel, the complex relationship between the president and his shifting Democratic party may have colored some of his later statements and led to micro-managing the war in Gaza.

Magid postulates that the traditionally special relationship between the US and its ally has also led to sanctions on settler extremists in an attempt to course-correct the Jewish state.

For news updates, please check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing live blog.

Discussed articles include:

On a deadline: How Biden and Trump brokered hostage deal before ‘all hell’ broke loose

Biden: US-backed pressure on Iranian axis helped secure hostage deal, end of Gaza war

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IMAGE: US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing.
0:11.8	Today is Friday, January 17th, day 469 of the war.
0:17.5	Amanda Borschelle Dan here at our Jerusalem offices, joined by U.S. Bureau Chief Jacob
0:22.3	Magid from Chicago for the Friday Focus. Thanks for joining me, Jacob.
0:28.2	Hi, Amanda. Good to be with you. Such a pleasure. And listeners, as you know, diplomatic
0:33.3	reporter, Laser Bearman, and I started this Friday focus series recently to
0:38.1	delve it deeply and give historical background to issues in the news today. And Laser is on
0:45.6	reserve duty in the IDF for the next several weeks, but he's here in spirit as I occupy his office.
0:52.8	And those watching on YouTube will see
0:55.3	Lasers prized map of Scotland right behind me in the background, so he's definitely still
1:00.8	with us. Jacob, thank you so much for taking up the gauntlet to do this Friday focus with me.
1:07.5	You could say this is my reserve duty.
1:10.5	Great. Your reserve duty. Great.
1:11.6	Your reserve of the reserve.
1:13.7	So Jacob, as U.S. President Joe Biden's term comes to an end, I want to speak with you about his legacy vis-à-vis Israel.
1:23.5	And, you know, this week it's come to a real end cap with the hostage release deal that is still, as we're recording, a little bit up in the air.
1:32.2	But let's begin with his Zionist street cred, which he has talked about so many different times before.
1:39.6	And of course, there's the famous Golden Mayor story.
1:43.1	So do you want to tell us the famous
1:45.4	golden Mayor story, but you have to do it in Joe Biden's accent, can you? Well, folks.
1:50.4	Okay, I'll stop there. Yeah, that's a story. I was actually kind of surprised if you think about it,
1:55.5	now that you mention it, that it wasn't mentioned in President Biden's speech yesterday when he
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