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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Biden’s two-pronged Israel strategy — with Bret Stephens

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Since October 7, the United States has vetoed three resolutions put before the UN Security Council calling for a ceasefire. But suddenly, this past Monday, in a jarring change of course, the U.S. abstained, which -- for all practical purposes -- means the Biden administration chose to allow the 15-member Security Council to pass a similar resolution by a 14-0 vote.

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0:00.0

Biden's political problem is not Israel or the Palestinians.

0:03.9

This political problem is inflation and immigration and the perception that he's feeble.

0:08.4

I think I'm not the first to mention this joke.

0:11.5

The administration's new two-state solution is about Michigan and Nevada,

0:15.2

but that's not what is going to tilt the election one way or the other. So to the extent that this is a matter of

0:20.4

politics, this isn't going to help Biden Biden it's perverbially like worse than a crime

0:25.2

it's a mistake. It is a six p.m. on Thursday March 28th here in New York City. It is midnight in Israel March 29th. Since October 7th, the United States has vetoed three

0:49.0

resolutions put before the UN Security Council calling for a ceasefire in the October 7th

0:55.3

war. But suddenly this past Monday in a jarring change of course the US

1:02.1

abstained on a vote calling for a ceasefire at the UN Security Council,

1:06.8

which for all practical purposes means the Biden administration chose to allow the

1:12.3

15-member Security council to pass a similar resolution

1:15.9

to the ones they had vetoed in the past by a vote of 14 to 0. The Biden

1:21.8

administration knew it was greenlighting the passage of this resolution.

1:27.0

And this resolution demanded a ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan which ends April 9th.

1:34.0

The resolution also demanded the release of all hostages taken captive the weekend of

1:39.2

October 7th.

1:40.6

But what makes this resolution different is it did not condition a ceasefire on release of the

1:46.8

hostages, which had been one red line for the Biden administration when these previous resolutions had come up for a vote.

1:54.0

Among the many other glaring problems with this resolution is that it made

1:59.0

zero mention of how the war began,

2:02.0

zero mention of Hamas, zero mention of the fact that Israel is

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