voters are asking for. all right, matt duss, thank you very much. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now with ali velshi in for alex. good evening, ali. important point there, this isn t an either or, all or nothing, don t support israel or do support israel. it s a measure of condition that goes along with the aid that we give ukraine or any other country that says we have to prosecute this war in a different way. in fact, it s interesting one of the things that we learned, right, during the early days of the war was very intense conditions placed on ukraine about attacks in russia, specifically because of fears of blow back, of escalation. and it was, this was an active conversation, very, ve clearly. very early, and they re constantly. i m glad you brought that up. thank you, my friend. have aooweekend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i am ali velshi in for alex wagner. last month, the united states economy gained 2
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i want to make it clear. my question to you is, do cracks in unity around the war, as sort of personified by ehud today, and hostage families now calling for a cease-fire creating space for an american president to maybe also have that kind of, you know, that kind of space for netanyahu as well. i mean, no one is asking, you know, president biden to completely, you know, take a different side right now. there s a way to support israel s legitimate defense. it is its right to protect its people in a way that s not, you know, obliterating gaza, as we have been saying. there is a case for president biden to pursue a policy that s different than this, that upholds america s relationship with israel, upholds the security of the people of israel. but that does not commit the atrocities that we are clearly seeing on the ground in gaza. and i think that is what the base of the party, and frankly, i think the majority of the
israel conducts the war in gaza, or how long israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pursues it. we are three months into this war now, more than 22,000 palestinians in gaza are dead, two thirds of them women and children, according to local health officials. that is more than 1% of the population of gaza. think about that. that s the equivalent of nearly three and a half million americans being killed. on top of that, half 1 million people are facing starvation. in an interview with the new yorker, the chief economist of the world food programme said, quote, in my life, i ve never seen anything like this in terms of severity, in terms of scale, and in terms of speed. now, in the past week, netanyahu said the war will go on for, quote, many, many more months. senators like elizabeth warren of massachusetts said, quote, the u.s. cannot write a blank check for a right-wing government that s demonstrated and appalling disregard for palestinian lives. vermont senator senator bernie
sanders has called the u.s. to stop funding the illegal war that s destroying the lives of innocent innocent men and children in gaza. right now, the fact remains that president biden has not just tied the u.s. to this war, but his own political fortunes, to specifically benjamin netanyahu, and crucially, his extremist right-wing political coalitions in a high stakes election. this is netanyahu, a man who spent his career taking every opportunity to undermine and hurt democrats, as he did numerous times to president barack obama. and that s a pretty perilous fight to be in. matt just serves as a foreign policy adviser for senator sanders. he s the executive vice president for the center of international policy. last month, he wrote about biden s accommodations over his war in gaza, and how we can shift policy. matt dust joins me now. i want to start, matt, on this sort of political question. because the state to state relationships, leader to leader relationships, but there s a specifi