Netanyahu Insists on Rafah Offensive Despite Biden's Warning
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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Summary
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated his plans to do exactly what President Joe Biden keeps advising him not to do: launch a ground offensive into the crowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza. Netanyahu’s comments came after Biden directly warned him against it in a phone call, their first in more than a month. Netanyahu insists a ground offensive in Rafah is the only way to eliminate Hamas, despite the fact that more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering there.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 20th. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm Juanita Tolliver. |
| 0:03.8 | And I'm Puyanka Aravindi, and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.7 | The pod that wants to know, has anyone been able to finish the Don Lemon, |
| 0:10.5 | Elon Musk interview? |
| 0:12.0 | I keep rewinding over and over again to the part where it looks like |
| 0:15.4 | Elon Musk is gonna cry. Don Lemon's like this is not a gotcha moment are you |
| 0:19.8 | upset? Normally like I wouldn't support the public humiliation of someone, but in this case, yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Yes, I do. |
| 0:27.0 | A thousand times, yes. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, the latest in the war in Gaza, as well as the fraying relationship |
| 0:35.5 | between Israel and the US. Yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:40.1 | reiterated his plans to launch a ground offensive into the crowded city of |
| 0:44.4 | Rafa in southern Gaza. This came less than 24 hours after President Biden |
| 0:49.6 | directly warned him against doing so in a call between the two leaders. |
| 0:53.8 | Take a listen to Netanyahu. |
| 0:55.0 | In that clip, Netanyahu told lawmakers that Israel sees no way to eliminate Hamas, which has been their |
| 1:04.6 | goal in this whole war without getting rid of the remaining battalions that they |
| 1:08.8 | say are in Rafa. Rafa, as many of you know, is a city where over 1 million displaced Gazans who fled their largely |
| 1:15.6 | destroyed homes across the enclave are currently attempting to shelter. |
| 1:20.3 | Earlier this week, Netanyahu agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to DC to discuss a prospective |
| 1:25.2 | Rafa operation with the Biden administration, but it appears now that they are moving forward |
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