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The Reason Roundtable

What Joe Biden Got Right—and Wrong—Last Week in the Middle East

The Reason Roundtable

The Reason Roundtable

News, Politics

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman evaluate President Joe Biden's...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Reason Roundtable, your very favorite weekly Libertarian

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podcast from the magazine of Free Minds and Free Markets.

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I am Matt Welch joined by Nick Gillespie, Peter Suderman, and Catherine Mangue Ward.

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Good morning everyone.

0:17.4

Howdy.

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Hey, Matt.

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Happy Monday.

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See?

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We can all hit our lines a couple of weeks ago on this very program, our editor-in-chief, Catherine,

0:29.0

Mayhew Ward, aforementioned, pointed out that despite all the domestic political commentary to the contrary,

0:36.6

the Israel-Homass war is not fundamentally about us, meaning the United States and America.

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Well, last week, kind of challenged that notion

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with the historic visit to wartime Tel Aviv

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by President Joseph Robinette Biden.

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Biden over the course of about 36 hours last week flew to Israel,

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met with the Prime Minister and War Cabinet there,

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had other bilateral meetings with leaders from Jordan and Egypt and Qatar

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cancelled over Arab outrage over a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital that was

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initially blamed on Israel. He expressed full rhetorical empathy

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for Israel's lost and support for Israel removing Hamas

1:18.8

in Gaza while cautioning at the same time

1:21.1

against making the same kind of policy mistakes that America made

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