Why We Still Don’t Have a Cease-Fire

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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When even Israel’s American allies like Biden and Chuck Schumer seem to be growing impatient waiting for a ceasefire in Gaza, what is standing in the way? Guest: Fred Kaplan, Slate writer and author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	Benjamin Netanyahu got their red lines crossed.
0:44.0	When I say that, I'm talking about how Biden has called an all-out ground
0:50.6	invasion into the city of Rafa, a red line for him, which is an assertion that Netnahu
0:56.2	seems to be flat out rejecting. For Fred, the most notable thing here is that Biden drew a red line at all because since October
1:06.9	there have been no red lines there have been no if you take this step we're done or you're getting cut off.
1:14.7	Is that usual?
1:15.8	Well, this whole thing is unusual.
1:17.5	I mean, it's not often that we're trying to apply pressure on an ally.
1:25.0	It was an interview on MSBC that kicked off this latest dust up.
1:29.0	What is your red line with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
1:33.8	This was recorded just after the State of the Union.
1:36.4	At the time, the idea of a temporary ceasefire in Gaza
1:39.4	seemed dead on arrival.
1:41.6	And Israel was moving forward with that southern ground incursion,
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