Day 469 - A look back at Biden on Israel: Patron or patronizer?

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute
audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and
the Jewish world.


US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda
Borschel-Dan for today's episode, the weekly Friday Focus.


As US President Joe Biden prepares to leave office, we take a
look at the relationship between the president and the Jewish
state, starting with his famous meeting with prime minister Golda
Meir in which he understood the importance of being a Zionist.


We hear how, after Biden's initial embrace of Netanyahu and the
Israeli people following the murderous Hamas onslaught on
southern Israel, the complex relationship between the president
and his shifting Democratic party may have colored some of his
later statements and led to micro-managing the war in Gaza.


Magid postulates that the traditionally special relationship
between the US and its ally has also led to sanctions on settler
extremists in an attempt to course-correct the Jewish state.


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Discussed articles include:


On a deadline: How Biden and Trump brokered hostage deal
before ‘all hell’ broke loose


Biden: US-backed pressure on Iranian axis helped secure
hostage deal, end of Gaza war


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IMAGE: US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International
Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)


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