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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Tuesday, February 20th.

The U.S. has drafted a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire

and encouraging Israel to push pause on plans to attack the

southern city of Rafa in the Gaza Strip. The wording of this resolution underscores a dramatic

shift for the Biden administration, which for months, as you know, has pushed back on calls for

any sort of ceasefire, all while endorsing Israel's right to defend itself.

The move comes just a few days after President Joe Biden publicly called for a pause in fighting to allow for the release of hostages.

Biden also told reporters on Friday that he personally pressed Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu to wait on storming Rafah.

That's where more than a million civilians have fled amid the fighting,

and Biden is obviously worried about additional casualties. So far, Netanyahu appears to be thumbing

his nose at Biden, hence the increase in pressure with this draft resolution. This comes as the

U.S. has vowed to veto a separate Algeria-led resolution calling for a permanent

ceasefire. That's going to be considered today, but clearly the Biden administration doesn't want to

be accused of doing nothing. It's really not hard to see why. We are now eight days out from the

Michigan primary, and that's when the administration is going to get a first look at how many Muslim

and Arab Americans have turned against the man they helped boost to victory in 2020.

Biden won the Wolverine swing state by about 155,000 votes last time around, including the

backing by almost all of Michigan's 200,000 Muslim voters, with many of those voters now blaming Biden for the death

of almost 30,000 Palestinians, the president could be in trouble. There are also signs that Democrats

should be worried about Michigan over the weekend. Congresswoman Rashid Taleb, who is

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