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Welcome to the show. It's clear that the White House has begun to shift its rhetoric on the

Middle East. President Joe Biden is now criticizing Israel for its bombing of Gaza. He's called

it over the top. And he's trying to take matters into his own hands

when it comes to getting humanitarian aid there. Progressive Democrats have gone much further.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on Thursday for Israel to hold new elections,

without which he said, Israel risked becoming an international pariah. The rhetoric is new, but as we

enter a sixth month of the war, what is changing on the ground? Officials have pointed out for a while

that Ramadan served as an unofficial deadline for a ceasefire of some sorts, that that deadline has

come and gone, and meanwhile, the humanitarian

situation in Gaza only gets worse.

Aaron David Miller, who's been on this program before and frequently writes for FP,

described in the Times this week that if you try to examine what Biden's Middle East policy

actually is, it is this, I'm unhappy with Israel, but won't do much

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