What met Israel’s Netanyahu in Washington DC?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United States Congress, many lawmakers failed to appear, including Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Is this a sign that Washington is changing its tune?
In this episode:
- Omar Baddar (@OmarBaddar), Political Analyst, Director of Communications, Public Citizen
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra, Khaled Soltan, Tamara Khandaker, and Sonia Bhagat, with Manahil Naveed, Veronique Eshaya, Mohammad Zain Shafi Khan, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, Benjamin Netanyahu takes Washington. |
| 0:18.0 | I want to thank you for giving me the profound honor of addressing this |
| 0:22.4 | great city. And the reception is ranging |
| 0:24.5 | from a red carpet to a red line. |
| 0:30.7 | The Israeli |
| 0:32.5 | Prime Minister's wartime visit coincides |
| 0:34.9 | with U.S. political turmoil. |
| 0:40.3 | How is the U.S. election shaping his welcome? |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:59.0 | The Take was in Washington, D.C. during Netanyahu's visit for his joint address to Congress and the protests against it. |
| 1:05.0 | When I first came, I was crying. |
| 1:07.0 | To see this many people here, people protesting. |
| 1:12.4 | It's taken decades, but people finally understand what's going on in Palestine, |
| 1:16.6 | especially now with the genocide going on. |
| 1:18.8 | Netanyahu is losing support across the United States. |
| 1:22.5 | Most Americans don't want to be part of this genocide. |
| 1:25.3 | And you can easily see that this is one of the |
| 1:28.3 | largest rejections of a foreign official coming to the United States. |
| 1:32.3 | I would describe him as a vile human being with no consciousness, no understanding of history, |
| 1:42.3 | no understanding of Judaism and the values of humans. |
| 1:47.0 | He, to me, is the epitome of the opposite of what I believe as a Jew, how I was born, |
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