How Israel Became a Rogue Ally
What A Day
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🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he’s invading the Palestinian city of Rafah despite strong opposition from the Biden administration. Why does Israel, a country that seems to rely on the U.S. for so much, increasingly ignore and defy its long time American patron? And at what point is a defiant ally not really an ally at all? This week on How We Got Here, Israel’s decades-long effort to break free of their military, economic, and diplomatic dependence on the United States—and what it means for the peace process.
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| 0:00.0 | So Max I've been following the dynamic between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu pretty closely. |
| 0:06.0 | And listen to Shinnow, this is not because you have the world's worst sense of fun. |
| 0:10.0 | No, no, it's because I've noticed something very hard to explain about their relationship and I have |
| 0:14.9 | a great sense of fun. |
| 0:16.2 | I have multiple books on reproductive coercion around the world on hold at the Los Angeles |
| 0:21.6 | Public Library as we speak. |
| 0:23.6 | But you know who isn't having fun Aaron is Joe Biden every time he talks to Benjamin |
| 0:27.7 | Netanyahu. |
| 0:28.7 | Well this is a thing. |
| 0:29.7 | They really don't like each other. |
| 0:32.2 | Biden has been trying for months to reign in Netanyahu's war in Gaza |
| 0:35.1 | and every day two million people in Gaza |
| 0:37.6 | pay the price for his failure. |
| 0:39.4 | Biden just gave Netanyahu this big public ultimatum |
| 0:42.3 | to not invade Rafaafa which is a city in |
| 0:44.6 | Gaza and you think you know Israel's this tiny little country that relies on |
| 0:48.1 | America for weapons aid diplomatic cover at the UN etc so presumably Israel has to listen to the US. But Netanyahu |
| 0:55.6 | came right out and said he's invading Rafa no matter what the US says. |
| 0:58.7 | Boy if you know anything about foreign policy that is not how that is supposed to work. |
| 1:05.3 | I'm Aaron Ryan. |
| 1:06.3 | And I'm Max Fisher. |
| 1:07.4 | This is how we got here, a series where we explore a big question behind the week's |
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