Former US President Joe Biden failed to act quickly on a ceasefire, missing opportunities to bring Israel to the negotiation table, Middle East policy analyst and former Pentagon Middle East advisor Jasmine El-Gamal says.
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00:00Yeah, indeed. And just looking at your Twitter feed as well, Jasmine, I mean, you don't single
00:05out President Biden for his handling of these issues. You also had some criticism of his
00:12predecessor, President Biden. And I'm just wondering what your thinking was in terms
00:17of criticising him for not having brought about that ceasefire deal sooner than he did.
00:24What were you thinking there?
00:26Well, we saw over a period of almost 15 months how the Biden administration really could
00:34never manage to get the Israelis to enter into good faith negotiations around a ceasefire
00:42deal, nor use any additional pressure levers, leverage that the US had on the Israelis and
00:52especially with Prime Minister Netanyahu to try to get him to move.