Jerusalem - Rafah - Washington - with Nadav Eyal

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Are we witnessing a dramatic change in the Biden administration’s approach to Israel’s defensive war against Hamas? Are these changes just rhetorical to mollify either US domestic political constituencies or Middle East regional actors (or both)? Or do they represent meaningful policy changes? Should Israeli leaders be concerned that the US-Israel relationship is entering a new phase? To help us understand what’s going on, our guest today is NADAV EYAL, who returns to the podcast. He is a columnist for Yediiot. Eyal is one of Israel’s leading journalists, and a winner of the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award. Eyal has been covering Middle-Eastern and international politics for the last two decades for Israeli radio, print and television news. He received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. We also have an update from Nadav on the heroic hostage rescue in Rafah.

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0:00.0	As far as the Israelis are concerned, they just gave the administration a huge present,
0:04.9	saying to the administration, go to Hezbollah and tell them we're not going to insist on 1701
0:11.9	UN Security Council decision being maintained and implemented in the north
0:16.5	if you're willing to stop the war where you are at right now in a status quo of about 7 to 10 kilometers from the border. And in order to make that happen,
0:27.5	you need the truce, you need the ceasefire in the south, because Hezbollah is shooting, because Israel is shooting in Gaza.
0:34.0	So everything needs to stop in order to at least have a chance with the big agreement
0:42.0	with Saudi Arabia and the new Middle East and what Tony Blincken is trying to push here in the Middle East.
0:47.0	From what I'm hearing, the Americans believe that it's possible and also get a prisoner swap in the south and have some sort of horizon and the US
0:56.1	elections. So everything depends on Hamas agreeing to a prisoner deal right now. And this is why everything is focused on
1:07.2	pushing them at the moment and as far as the Americans are concerned in the
1:11.4	White House also pushing Netanyahu. It's 10 p.m. on Monday, February 12th here in New York City. It's 5 a.m. in Israel on
1:29.6	Tuesday, February 13th as Israelis are getting ready to start their day.
1:36.3	Are we watching before our eyes a dramatic change in the Biden administration's approach
1:41.2	to Israel's defensive war against Hamas. In recent days,
1:45.9	President Biden has described Israel's response to Hamas and Gaza as, quote,
1:50.8	over the top as though Israel's military response is disproportionate.
1:56.0	Secretary of State Blinkin, who has laid out a new and unprecedented approach
2:01.0	to the creation of a Palestinian state has suggested that Israel is
2:05.5	operating as though it has, and I quote here, licensed to dehumanize Palestinians.
2:10.8	And he compared that to the way Hamas dehumanized Jews in its October 7th
2:16.2	massacre. This is language against Israel that the Biden administration had not
2:21.2	only more or less strenuously avoided but had
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