thousands of protesters gathered outside of Israel's parliament in Jerusalem for a third day calling for early elections and a deal to release the hostages Sunday will Mark six months since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and public demonstrations in the country have intensified in recent days Israeli police say a protest last night outside of the is uh Israeli Prime Minister netanyahu's home turned into a riot hundreds tried to break through barriers near netanyahu's home but were blocked
meanwhile President Biden says he was outraged and heartbroken by an Israeli strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen Aid workers in Gaza in a statement Biden wrote this conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many Aid workers have been killed this is a major reason why Distributing humanitarian Aid in Gaza has been so difficult because Israel has not done enough to protect Aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians he added incidents lik
e yesterday simply should not happen Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians strong words the strike killed seven humanitarian workers on Monday including a dual US citizen more than 200 Aid workers have been been killed in the war so for far according to the White House Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu posted on social media on Tuesday that Israel deeply regrets the tragic incident and that we will do everything in our power to ensure that such tragedies do not occur in the future
I got to tell you I'm glad the president spoke out strongly yeah but this has got to stop what really does and and and Richard it's it's uh it just uh continues and uh there there's a very powerful uh opad dropped in the New York Times last night by Chef Jose Andreas talking about how they had coordinated their movements with IDF uh they had taken all precautions that that needed to be taken and um let me just read you some of his words they're very powerful strong words um he said Israel is bet
ter than the way this war is being waged it is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians it is better than killing Aid workers who had coordinated their movements with the Israeli Defense Forces the Israeli government needs to open more land routes for food and medicine today it needs to stop killing civilians and Aid workers today it needs to start the long journey to peace today Richard um Israel and the supporters of Israel which I am have been always will be uh would be would be fo
oling themselves if they don't think that the overwhelming number of Americans agree with Jose Andreas that this is just enough and they need to focus on on a permanent ceasefire they need to focus on um focus on getting the hostages home uh they need to focus on creating a world moving forward without Hamas and of course in Israel it will be without Benjamin Netanyahu and maybe just maybe then we can take the first step of a Thousand Steps toward a two-state solution look Joe exactly right ther
e there's so many fault lines which have emerged in the last 24 hours let's begin with the the the world Central uh kitchen uh in ENT look this is this didn't come out of the blue as as you heard from the White House you've had roughly 200 Aid workers have have been killed also 20,000 civilians in Gaza put aside the Hamas fighters let's say approximately 20,000 civilians have been killed what this says to me is that Israel's approach to the war simply doesn't Place enough emphasis on avoiding ei
ther Aid workers or civilians and then you obviously have a question of competence here why is it that an identified vehicle that is had been whose movements have been coordinated was still targeted what's going on here could you have that degree of uh incompetence so either it's Cavalier or it's incompetent neither one is is reassuring you know and for the first time the Israeli government reacted they understand they understood what a PR disaster the this was and is but that doesn't change the
basics this was not an exception this was just high profile I Richard can I can I can I stop you there because that is such a good point it's not an exception it shows that there has been as Joe Biden has been worried about and warning about indiscriminate bombing these are the stories we know about we know about these seven Aid workers but we haven't talked about because it hasn't made the front pages the other Aid workers that have died because of this bombing in indiscriminate bombing in in
in in in this very tight condensed area it's just like the hostages that broke free from their captors shirtless arms in the air doing everything they're supposed to do and they get shot by the IDF how many times do you think that's happened when it's not been Israeli hostages sorry to speak the truth it's just the truth how many times I mean you know I I crazy me I'm actually worried about the the future of Israel I'm actually worried about Americans loving Israel as much as I love Israel I'm w
orried about what Benjamin net yah with this offensive uh is doing and and we're seeing it we're seeing it the more the protests Rise Against Benjamin Netanyahu and the more pressure he feels the more uh uh petrol so to speak he throws on the flames it's just going to happen because he knows he can't leave power he gets sent to jail so he will he will intensify this war he will hurt Israel standing in the world even more he will get us even further away from getting the hostages home all because
he's got to make himself seem like the indispensable Man by creating even even higher stakes in this war yeah look whatever the motives the the prospects or the odds of a wider longer War went up in the last 24 hours you you had in addition to this question of what Israel does in Gaza and how it waits going after homas for is getting the hostages back and you began with the protests in in Israel about that the attack on the Iranian compound in in Syria well you know we can argue that separately
the wisdom of that and I think there was some case for doing it but it does increase the odds that now this war will grow wider I think the chances of something with hisa in the north and Lebanon and Israel go up so what we're seeing Joe quite honestly and it's tragic is none of the preconditions and none of the prerequisites of a cing either in the Gaza front uh or or or more broadly with Lebanon with with Iran in the Red Sea the Middle East is like an earthquake zone with multiple fault lines
and at the moment several of them are going off at once and they re reinforce uh one another so you know you every once in a while you hope that out of bad news there could be a glimmer of good news I don't see it this morning I'm sorry to say so John this is obviously drawn widespread condemnation from the Middle East from the West the UK the United States we've seen it everywhere those Vehicles couldn't be marked more clearly we're looking at them in this video those were Aid workers you have
other Aid organizations now pausing their efforts saying we don't know that it's safe for our Aid workers to go into Gaza given what happened with world's Central Kitchen so what is the spot now that President Biden has been in for a long time but that was made much worse by what happened we can talk about domestic politics we saw a little of it in some of those primaries last night but on the international stage what is the spot he's in right now yeah to your Point those Vehicles couldn't have
been better marked in fact it looks like from the footage of the destroyed van one of the missiles went right through the logo of the world Central Kitchen right there right through the logo and just killed everyone uh inside uh and it should be noted to Richard's Point earlier you know this mistake hit uh comes a day after the Precision strike that killed the Iranian General uh in in Syria it's hard to reconcile uh those two things yes there's real political pressure we'll get into it a little
later but there was again a substantial uncommitted vote last night in Wisconsin that's a protest vote about God you know it's the primaries there's a belief a lot of those voters will eventually come home to President Biden they're not all going to there's some real anger there and that's not going to dissipate um and and now at least we have a moment where you know the president and this has been bubbling up from behind the scenes for a while President Biden frankly is furious at Prime Minist
er Netanyahu but yet still his administration has not conditioned sale weapon s conditioned Aid they haven't done it yet now maybe this is the moment that comes this also happens just we think a week or two perhaps before this Rafa effect ensive which really could be a flash point okay I'm so sick of hearing how upset President Biden is the buck stops with him if he wants to stop arm cells if he wants to stop the bombs that are indiscriminately killing civilians he can he has the power we don't
need him going and his AIDS going to reporters and talking on background about how upset they are what happened yesterday is still going to happen when at mik's conference the uh the head of the Palestinian red crescent spoke and she was incredibly moving this was in Abu Dhabi and she spoke about the difficulty of Aid getting in the country period from the north or south and she described a process that was kind of like the TSA changing the rules every single day going through airport security u
ntil those checkpoints are working and Aid is going through we don't need to be giving any more arm sale or money it needs to stop it needs to be conditional it's ridiculous that it's going on unchecked and unfettered and we're sitting around and talking how upset we are while we Hemorrhage billions of dollars it's the worst of all worlds right now for the president the the criticism looks increasingly empty it's six months we're reaching the six Monon Milestone of of this uh of this war that's
that's you know that's one fact to begin with and two things have happened in the last few days one is these attacks are continuing and yet so are us arms transfers to Israel without conditions they've been going on for 6 months where why does Israel need 2,000 PB bombs to be used in high density populated areas then 10 days ago what does Israel do it expropriates 2,000 acres of land in the West Bank for settlement construction where is the White House reaction to that that is how you undo even
the possibility Joe was talking about of one day getting to a two-state solution if you're going to have a Palestinian State the last I checked states are built on territory if the territory isn't there to build it on you can talk about two states till the cows come home you don't have it where's the administration reaction to that so at some point the words become empty and the Biden Administration is very close to having reached a point where their criticism of Israel is too much for the same
people who criticize Chuck Schumer but it's not nearly enough to affect the course of what is going on that is the worst of all possible it looks weak and impotent you were in the HW administration at the state department at the White House at the White House what would James Baker have done and seriously that's what we should be asking ourselves because that was a moment when we were a diplomatic superpower we we confronted Israel when if you remember at the time Israel was subsidizing people l
eaving the Soviet Union and they were going into the occupied territories we basically said it's Israel you you know you we help these people to get out of the Soviet Union but we're not going to subsidize they're going into the West Bank that forecloses options down the road we understand you may not have a Palestinian partner today but we want to work we want to preserve the option for the day when we might be and the administration basically said to the Israelis you have a choice they made th
eir choice there that Economic Consequences this Administration has got to have some teeth in it so hey everyone MSNBC has a new and improved app you'll get realtime alerts and Analysis live blogs in-depth essays video highlights and the best 2024 election coverage download the new MSNBC app here's how to do it you tap on the App Store on your phone you hit search on the bottom right corner you type in MSNBC you click on the MSNBC app you click on get or the cloud icon and enjoy it
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