well, phyllis ben, this is the fellow with the institute for policy studies. she says the pressure on the, by the administration to support a cease fire is increasing. there's already a very strong movement that has emerged i have never seen in my years of working on this issue. i've never seen anything close to this level of mobilization of people, of movements of institutions all across the country, demanding a ceasefire. right now 80 percent of democrats president by his party. i want an immediate ceasefire. 66 percent of people across the country say they want to cease fire. and we're seeing a situation in which just as the u. s. is so isolated within the united nations, the buttons ministrations policy on this issue is completely isolated. here in the united states, it's gone far beyond now the individual high ranking members of the state department that we were hearing about. there's now been over a 1000 staffers of the us agency for international development usa i d that have signed letters saying that there must be a ceasefire. there are numbers of peo

so palestinian prisoners, which is expected on saturday as part of the gaza ceasefire deal. phyllis ben is a fellow of the institute for policy studies in washington dc. she's also the author of understanding palestine and israel. she says the ceasefire is in a franchise state. i don't know that we're even going to make it through the 6 weeks of phase one, which was to include the release of about half of the remaining hostages, the release of hundreds of palestinian prisoners that are being and legally held inside israel, as well as allowing in massive amounts of humanitarian aid, and it's not at all clear that that's going to survive. the ceasefire depends on and agreement. and other things that in phase is 2 and 3. there will be discussions about continuing the ceasefire as a permanent reality ending the war. and that has been from the beginning a palestinian demand for the uh, for the cease fire negotiation. it was a major concession when they agreed to sign off on the cease fire with the agreement only that there would be further negotiations towards making it permanent, rather tha

author of blind spot america and the palestinians from ball 4 to trump, and also in washington dc. phyllis ben is a fellow at the institute for policy studies. think time and international advisor to the jewish voice for peace organization finished. let me start with you in washington to understand why we've seen a visit of support by president biden, to tennessee to israel even after the massacre at the r audi baptist hospital in gaza. even at a time when the region is boiling, why, why is the us so committed and supporting as well today? that's a very long story and we don't have time to go into the history. but i think the question today is the consequences of this visit. this bear hug, diplomacy, and that we've seen so far means that unless there's a public call for a ceasefire, which i do not anticipate, we will see this visit is going to be seen and should be seen as a real endorsement of israel's continuing attack against casa there are likely to be vague references to urging israel not to violate international law or expressing some kind of concern for palestinian civilians. but the re

now we have joining us from washington, dc. phyllis ben is a fellow at the institute for policy studies and an international advisor to the advocacy organization, jewish voice for peace and tell of eve, gideon levy a columnist for the is writing daily hotspots and overall the punishment of garza. and also in washington d. c. nile stanish it political analyst and the white house column list for the political newspaper. the hill. thanks to all of you for joining us. if i could start with 9, so has nothing. yeah. who's visit demonstrated now do you think the support is route is no longer a solidly by a path as an a 5? 0 yes, it is certainly demonstrated zack's, i mean, the boy cops by democratic members of his speech to congress was very significant. didn't compost, a lot of democrats not only people on the so called hard left of the party in addition to that, you had to prove chest in the st switch underlined. i think the degree of public discontent with israel's assault on gasser. i mean, this is an issue where the, the voter base of the democratic party, knowing by a significant margin

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