Israel Moves On Rafah / Joe Biden's Antisemitism Speech

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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After crossing into Hamas's last bastion, Israeli troops take control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Meantime, Hamas says it had accepted a cease-fire deal, but why was that deemed insufficient by Israel, and what is the status of negotiations for the return of hostages? Plus, Joe Biden condemns antisemitism in a Holocaust remembrance address, as campus protests continue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.0	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.0	Israel makes its military move on Raffa,
0:26.4	the last Hamas redoubt in the Gaza Strip.
0:29.3	What's the latest on the ground?
0:31.0	Meantime, President Biden gives a speech on anti-Semitism at the
0:34.4	Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the Capitol as protests continue to Royal College
0:39.6	campuses. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues
0:45.6	Elliot Kaufman and Kim Strassal. On Monday, Israel's military said, quote, it was conducting
0:51.7	targeted strikes against Hamas terror targets in eastern
0:55.4	Rafa, unquote. As of Tuesday here in the US, Israeli tanks have entered and taken control
1:02.0	of the Palestinian side of the Raffa border crossing with Egypt.
1:06.3	Elliot, let's start with what's happening on the ground there.
1:09.2	Can you give us a sense of what's going on and where does Israel go from here?
1:13.0	Well, Israel understands that it has to fight in Rafah.
1:18.0	If it wants to defeat Hamas, there's really no other way, because what is in Rafa?
1:24.7	Hamas is four military battalions, Hamas as leaders, Hamas is hostages.
1:31.3	And so that's why Israel understood that it had to do something in the city
1:37.1	Hamas's final southern stronghold in Gaza.
1:41.0	There's no victory without that. What's happening right now, Israel has advanced
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