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🗓️ 23 May 2024
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0:00.0 | It's 1130 p.m. on Wednesday, May 22nd in New York City. It's 6.30 a.m. on their day. In recent days I have had three persistent questions. One, how is it that in just |
0:27.8 | a matter of approximately 10 days the IDF managed to move anywhere between 850,000 to 1 million Gazan Palestinians from |
0:37.7 | Raffa to other areas of Gaza so that the I.D.F. could conduct its operation against remaining Hamas battalions in Raffa. |
0:46.0 | Weren't we repeatedly told by the Biden administration that it was not possible? |
0:52.0 | Here was Secretary of State Tony Blinking less than two weeks ago. |
0:56.8 | Most of the population from Gaza displaced from the north and from Central Gaza has gone to |
1:02.0 | Rafa. There are about 1.4 million people there. |
1:04.5 | And we've said to Israel that we cannot, |
1:06.4 | will not support an operation in Rafa |
1:08.6 | in the absence of a credible plan to protect civilians. |
1:11.3 | And they still haven't delivered it. |
1:13.0 | And of course, Vice President Kamla Harris had seen the maps proving it could not be done. |
1:20.0 | Any major military operation in Rafa would be a huge mistake. |
1:27.0 | Let me tell you something, I have studied the maps. |
1:30.0 | There's nowhere for those folks to go. |
1:32.0 | And we're looking at about a million and a half people in Rafa who are there because they were told to go there most of them. |
1:38.0 | And so we've been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into Rafa with any type of military operation. |
1:47.0 | So today my first question is how did this happen? |
1:51.0 | And what does it tell us about other gaps between the |
1:54.3 | Biden administration's forecasts and those of Israel's when it comes to war fighting in |
2:00.3 | Gaza? My second question is about Egypt. Given what we have learned in recent days, why has Egypt |
2:07.0 | escaped any real scrutiny or pressure over the past seven months? My third question is well is all the heat on Israel's |
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