Is Biden's Unconditional Support Of Israel Nearing Its Limit?
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
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NPR's Fatma Tanis speaks with analysts who say that U.S. support for Israel is undermining American interests and NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, about how President Biden's history with Israel is shaping current U.S. policy.
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| 0:00.0 | The temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has collapsed after a little more than a week. |
| 0:14.7 | The bombing was relentless in southern Gaza. |
| 0:18.0 | Last night, James Elder, global spokesman for UNICEF, |
| 0:21.5 | described the assault. |
| 0:23.0 | I cannot stop thinking about the 1.8 million people here in the South. |
| 0:29.0 | I don't think there was more than a 5 or ten minute period throughout the course of the night and I really didn't sleep where something wasn't flying overhead or the sky being lit up. |
| 0:42.6 | Gaza health officials say several hundred Palestinians have been killed, |
| 0:47.3 | hundreds more wounded since fighting started again over the weekend. |
| 0:51.7 | UNICEF spokesman James Elder again on the impact the |
| 0:55.1 | intense attacks are having on Gaza's children. I feel like I'm running out of |
| 0:59.8 | ways to describe the horrors hitting children here. I feel like I'm almost failing in my |
| 1:05.0 | ability to convey the endless killing of children here. Consider this, fighting has resumed between Israel and Hamas. |
| 1:16.0 | As civilian casualties continue to mount in Gaza, |
| 1:20.0 | will the Biden administration maintain its unconditional support of Israel? |
| 1:27.0 | From NPR, I'm Mary the Wees Kelly. It's Monday, December 4th. |
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| 1:46.1 | Details at capital1.com. It's consider this from NPR. The numbers are almost incomprehensible. Thousands of Palestinians have died since Hamas and Israel began fighting almost two months ago. |
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