Yesterday morning, President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu had their first phone call since February 15, which lasted long enough for Biden to be late to his next engagement. The conversation came amid a clear sense that the U.S. is becomingly increasingly impatient with Israel’s conduct of the war, a sense driven by, for instance, Senator Chuck Schumer’s speech last week calling on Israel to hold new elections and vote Netanyahu out of office. Elliott Abrams, Michael Doran, and Jonathan Silver, in a conversation moderated by Zineb Riboua, fit these developments into the broader context of U.S.-Israel relations. They also examine how recent statements from Washington influence the calculations of Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and others. (Video, 55 minutes. You can also listen to the audio on any of the usual podcast platforms.)
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