How Much Leverage Does The Biden Administration Have Over Israel?
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
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Summary
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the U.S. would not supply Israel with some weapons if it moved forward with a ground invasion of Rafah. The announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that the government had already paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over fears of an imminent offensive in the southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering. Israel has been ramping up its attacks on Rafah over the last few days, all while negotiators frantically try to reach a ceasefire deal in Cairo. Ben Rhodes, former Deputy U.S. national security advisor to President Obama and co-host of Pod Save The World, talks about how much leverage Biden really has over Israel's military operations.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 9th. I'm Priyanka Aravindi. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Juanita Toliver, and this is What a Day, the show where we're on better terms with the city of Los Angeles and the couple suing for the right to demolish |
| 0:16.2 | Marilyn Monroe's home. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, apparently some like it litigious. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.0 | Not us though. That's not where we're about. |
| 0:26.0 | We're very chill over here. |
| 0:28.0 | On today's show, a Georgia appeals court will review whether DA Fani Willis can |
| 0:35.1 | stay on Trump's election interference case. Plus, independent presidential |
| 0:39.4 | candidate RFK Jr. attributes his memory loss and mental fogginess to a brainworm. |
| 0:45.0 | But first, Israel's offensive on Gaza's southern city of Rafa has been ramping up the last few days, |
| 0:50.7 | and now an invasion of the city seems imminent. |
| 0:53.6 | As we've told you on the show, there are well over a million people in Rafa, many of whom have |
| 0:58.3 | been sheltering there after being forced to flee their homes elsewhere in Gaza. |
| 1:02.3 | We know the negotiators have been trying to broker a ceasefire deal |
| 1:05.0 | before this invasion to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. |
| 1:09.0 | What's the US doing in response to this? |
| 1:11.0 | The US has upped the pressure on Israel a bit. Last |
| 1:14.7 | week they postponed a shipment of arms to the Israel Defense Forces citing |
| 1:18.6 | potential concerns over their use in Rafa and on Wednesday President Biden told CNN that he would stop the |
| 1:24.5 | shipment of some weapons to Israel if the IDF invaded Raf and also |
| 1:28.4 | confirmed that civilians have been killed using 2,000 pound bombs from the US. |
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