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Its a reminder that there is one unders way, the bombardment i think thats something they refuse to die. Certainly they refuse to buy quite an opening submission, only to be closed after the war. And as it drags on menu on these paintings, maybe a survivor of causes or higher speed clements and i have a question president bite has promising to build a port to get help the guys up. But is it meaningless theater or a real shift in the us approach to israels war on gaza . Lets get to the bottom line. The to here is real. Tell this story. The war and god is going according to plan. Even is really leaders admit theyre far away from their stated goal and destroying homage. But according to plan includes the killing of more than 31000. 00 people. Mostly innocent women and children. According to plan also means 20 more than 2000000 palestinians who were refugees to start with, into a homeless, destitute and starving population. And according to plan offers no glimmer of hope that the future is going to be any brighter after the designation of gases infrastructure in schools and hospitals and bakeries, everything. The United States, as israels most important ally and benefactor, has resisted calling for a complete c spire. And while nudging israels military to be more cautious about killing tens of thousands of innocent people, washington hasnt conditioned any of its a or support on getting is real to change course. Now the us and its partners are going to build a port in the gaza. That is real, cant easily block, but its unclear whether well use the massive humanity or any crisis. Its meant to be assigned to something different. But what exactly, unless more, especially since, as of the time of this show, there still are no signs of a temporary truce. Today were talking with a us senator, who is one of the 1st and few american politicians to act on demand, made humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes. Us senator from maryland, Chris Van Holland center. Thank you so much for joining us. Let me just start this out. And say, and i watch a lot of c span c span is where we watch those of you in the house. And those of you in the United StatesSenate Debate issues, youre one of the few who has gotten up and talked in human ways about those people suffering and gaza. I hadnt heard President Biden talking to similar kinds of terms until about 2 weeks ago in the king of jordan. King adela came to town. There been very few people who put this in human terms. So i want to ask you, what is the gap between your frame that you have and you brought to this and many of your colleagues last day. First of all, its good to be with you. And as ive said many times before, in the aftermath of the horrible mazda attacks on israel of october 7th, israel was of course, within his right to defend itself. But that does not justify the humanitarian catastrophe. They were witnessing in gaza, a man made humanitarian catastrophe where weve got over 15 kids who are starved for out of 5 of the hungry is people in the world right now are in gaza. And the huge parts of the population are on the verge of starvation. So i, you know, i am urging my colleagues to look at this from a human point of view. Weve been pushing President Biden to do the same. I was pleased to see present by it and Vice President harris speak out more forcefully on this issue. I was pleased to see the present decide to do air drops and now a c port. But that is not enough. We have to insist not just in words, but with all the levers of our power and influence that the netanyahu government opened up core doors to allow more aid to get to starving people. So we just heard the pressing United States and a major state of the union address, talk about a multi nation effort to get more aid and medical supplies to those and gaza. I guess my question to you is, you know, having reported on this now for, for almost 5 months, why is the United States so impotent . Because when you look at the, when we 1st started, we knew israel was blocking 8 and supplies going in by, by textbook definition. Thats a war crime. And when you sort of see it, the president succeeded in getting 8 trucks at the beginning of this crisis into this. You know, that looks. I dont know what other word to call it then other than pathetic. So is there some sense in the bite and white house and among those that you talked to in the National Security establishment that the world is watching this and its not a good picture. I think people understand that this looks really bad, not just to see. So many people in desperate straits, but the fact that the United States continues to be rebuffed by the net yahoo government president by it and has called upon a Prime Minister netanyahu time and time again, let more trucks in let more relief in. We have to have some light at the end of the tunnel with the 2 state solution. And time after time gets almost no real meaningful results, some incremental progress. So that clearly looks bad around the world. And what has to happen is in addition to job oni Prime Minister netanyahu, the United States needs to use other tools in our tool box. To not just insist, but the se, if you continue to ignore us. If you continue to robust these requests, there will be consequences is one of the things ive heard you talk about on the floor is a National Security memorandum. Im going to read it from National Security. Memorandum on safeguards and accountability with respect to transfer defense articles and defense services. This is basically a memorandum of a, an order that when we ship military supplies and munitions to allies or to those in need that theyre going to be used responsibly and within a code of conduct that we would find to be within a few minutes. Terry and norms, youve been talking about this and you said you see textbook war crimes in place. Do we have a problem in this country of a complicity with war crimes that are being deployed right now as we speak, using us military, munitions, and bombs, etc. To well look clearly what is happening right now in gaza is not consistent with best practices for reducing civilian har. Whether or not theyve tripped over International Humanitarian law is going to be a factual question that people have to look at. But theres 0 doubt, steve, that you have shoes, numbers of, unnecessary and avoidable civilian casualties. Number one, number 2, as you said, the deliberate effort to prevent humanitarian assistance from reaching people is, as i said, on the floor of the senate, a war crime. So the United States needs to be using all the levers of its influence to address the situation. And that is why we can call on the present do this. The National Security memorandum. 20 is a really good new tool if it will be utilized. This came about because i, along with 18 of my senate colleagues, introduced an amendment to the National Security supplemental that had funding for ukraine for is real heads. You may have turned a we introduce and amendment laying out the terms and the framework that later were incorporated into the National Security memorandum 20. I worked with administration for weeks on this and it will finally say that when the United States transfers military assistance and weapons to another country, could be as real, can be ukraine, any country that country has to commit. And promised in writing that it will use those weapons in accordance with International Humanitarian law, and that it will facilitate and not arbitrarily impede the delivery of humanitarian assistance into any conflicts on where that country is using us weapons. I should also say it has a very big reporting requirements that will require the Bind Administration to Tell Congress about whether or not those other measures are being complied with and whether theyve been complied with the since january, 1 of last year. So that covers the war and gas. It also covers the war in ukraine. One of the split screens in my mind, senator is on one hand, you on the floor of the senate talking about the devastation and the problems that occur. Monroe is not funded. If United States and other allies do not fund one right because it normally services the guidance in all sorts of ways, but a broader population of refugees. The other side is the, this, the side decision in israel to expand 3400 settlements in the west bank. And im just sort of saying, wow, very interesting timing. There. We have a major crisis going on. Im just interested in whether, as you look at it, it is, there is, you know, wheres the humanity at this moment can be interest spectra. And on the moment and the, and i guess the question about when youre looking at a long term equilibrium that is fair in just to the israeli side and fair in just to the palestinian side. How does shutting on run down, you know, 16000 employees in, in gaza. And at the same time, seeing a Settlement Expansion decision of 3400. 00 new homes in the west bank. How does that sit with you as well . Its, its really outrages and this should make present bite and very, very angry and both in terms of expanding a settlement and making it even harder to achieve. What the president has acknowledged is the only viable long Term Solution to secure is real security. And to give dignity and self determination, the past name people, which is a 2 state solution. If you continue to have it x, its elements in the west bank that becomes impossible with respect to an run, gaza. They are the delivery mechanism for humanitarian assistance. There are 13000 on route employees who help run schools at least before the war when people, because were going to School Health services. Now theres this allegation, which even if its true, even if were true, that up to 14 members, out of that 13000. 00 organization were involved in the a mazda attacks of october 7th. They need to be punished. They need to be held accountable and to be for their own right itself is then you are a nation and does an investigation and said theyve their visa accusations may in fact be true. Yeah, theyre looking into this right now and theyve already fired those folks. And obviously if theyre guilty, they need to be held fully accountable. I dont think Many Americans really know what on right here. So the operation in gaza is headed by a guy called scott anderson. He is a u. S. Army veteran me. I spoke to him just the other day via video. There is no collaboration between on ross and home us. This is a mist generated by netanyahu and others whose goal since at least 2017, has the been to get rid of on right now just in gaza. But in the west bank, jordan and other countries. They dont like the fact that on right exist, it is an organization that helps Palestinian Refugees who were displaced since 1948. And the world has an obligation to address this issue, which is why president byte and really needs to push hard and set forth right now, a practical path to achieve that 2 state solution that hes talked about. So center, i dont know if you had been briefed on, on the president s plans apparently, or coordinating with other european nations and others around this new port to bring a didnt know if you know medical supplies in food a to desperate guidance more directly. I have to say recently on my show, i had a very powerful stories of a palestinian american doctor who lives in chicago, who went in and he worked over there and said, he said, you had limbs blown apart. You had a young childs job boys job blown away. They couldnt bring in the metal piece that they needed to replace this person truck. They had been able to do it. They could, they could fix these things, right. He gave a lot of detailed sort of High Traction examples of what the inspections and blockages of certain supplies were coming in and it, it really affected me in this. And so one of the questions i have is, are the materials and supplies going to be, you know, coming into casa, going to be inspected in the same way. Are we going to begin to see something there . And im just interested in whether or not youve been briefed on how f a keishas this effort will be. When you see 38000, you know, food baskets delivered and you realize the population is 2100000. You begin to wonder how much is theater and how much is real . A while youre right, im glad you had um that doctor on your show. Um, im a dick durbin, my colleague from Illinois Center durban has been very much in connection in, in touch with him. And those are just some of the, the horrible stories look, again, air drops are, are, are good, but there are drop in the bucket. Now this new port facility will take a apparently, at least 45. 00 to 60. 00 days to get up and running. 4545. 00 to 60. 00 days to get up. But thats something i had not heard. The idea then would be to transport mandatory assistance in food from cyprus to this new port. Now, 1st of all, a lot of people can starve and 45 days. Secondly, its going to be very important, have a Distribution System at the other end here because us is the americans, were not going to put boots on the ground. We come back to honora, we need a Distribution System in, in guys where people can actually deliver humanitarian assistance without themselves getting killed in the process as weve seen on a number of occasions. So look, im for, im for, you know, trying to get as much food and humanitarian relief in the guys as possible. We need to. Yeah, 2200000 people civilians who are some of starved to death summer or the verge of starvation. And so we need to do all these things, but there is no substitute for trucks coming across different crossings. And this is why, when you see a graph over time of trucks, you know, not getting anywhere close to the 500 trucks that were crossing before the war. And actually going down steeply under a 100 for many days at a time. When you see people like the finance minister smote rich holding up for over 5 weeks. Flower at the port of ash though, when you have starving people, when you have the police, the National Security, the head of the police, ben, cuz were essentially telling protesters term shalom who are trying to block food from getting in the gaza. But thats okay. And hes telling his police folks not to clear them away to allow for when you see that this is something that president binders to say. This is unacceptable. And we have us was on the books that can be enforced to say that United States will not be supporting a net yahoo government with people like this and it doing those kinds of things. So whenever i ask a very senior middle east leader recently, how could all of this get a lot worse . And this person said, if we dont get a ceasefire a real ceasefire in place before ramadan, watch out that that ramadan can actually become a trigger of a far greater nightmare of desperate people moving across borders of mobilized militarys potentially in jordan, in egypt. And im just interested in whether thats on your radar screen and whether it is a sense of that kind of concerned of an escalation of this, you know, human nightmare that could lead other directions into an expansion. If you will, of this conflict in what it means for the United States, i think theres a very real risk of that. We need a cease fire and we need a release of all the hostages. And the hope had been to get that done before ramadan. Clearly or not at that point yet and you have Prime Minister netanyahu said that theyre still actively considering, or i have decided that theres going to be a Major Military operation against rasa. This is of course, the city in southern guys, a next to the egyptian border of the city whose population has swelled from 30000218 half 1000000 people today. Right, so exactly right. So 1. 2 to 1300000 people in ra for today are there because their homes in other parts of guys were destroyed or they had to flee. And they were told to go to rafa because this was going to be a safe place to go. So this will take, if you asked me how a humanitarian nightmare can become, even worse just, its hard to imagine it getting worse. Want your major attack against drop off, and you will see that in addition to all the other impacts that well have in the region. So in terms of other people getting, getting engaged, the risk of other violence in other parts of the middle east. Do you think President Biden now is taking this seriously or are we still seeing large we pastoring . I think its one of the things as you, you and i both know the president and i think the, the president largely is someone who does think seriously about Foreign Policy. Its hard for me to tell, for however, this is my side of the story on whether or not the recent actions are there as theater to respond to youth who are very disaffected by his posture or whether President Biden has a real commitment to change things. Now or so, i think hes taking it seriously, but i dont think the by the ministration is taking it seriously enough. And i say this for this reason, there was an article in the wall street journal just about 2 weeks ago. That said the by the administration was on the verge of notifying congress that they were going to have another major shipment of weapons for use in gaza. Including bonds. So it is in my view incoherence as a policy to say, a Prime Minister netanyahu youve, youve got to allow more humanitarian assistance in the gaza Prime Minister netanyahu make me a commitment that youre not going to go in to a roster. And at the same time, be planning on sending more weapons, which is why i and the number of us have called upon the president to utilize the current one, which is called 620. 00 i or the foreign assistance act. Its called the humanitarian, a quarters act, which says that you cant provide military assistance to a country that is restricting directly or indirectly. Us humanitarian assistance into a conflicts done by the way it would not apply and were not cover fired on in defense systems, but it would cover offensive systems like bombs being used in gaza. Its also why i pushed for National Security member random 20 and why its really important that they implement National Security memorandum. 20. Its an important tool for you. Its not a good tool if youre not willing to actually use it. So i would call upon the bite administration to immediately apply and use National Security. Memorandum 20 were in the president ial election season. There are primary is going on. You just saw what happened in michigan in minnesota, where folks came in and a voted on committed rather than offer for joe biden. Who is, you know, right at the head of that ticket, and no doubt that President Biden will be, will be nominated present ticket. But i guess my question is one, where is if you look back, its very rare that a Foreign Policy issue can be deeply consequential. And the president ial election will be inflation or, you know, other uh, economic issues, how people feel about the economy. Do you think theres a real risk that if this conflict doesnt pivot another direction, the president by might actually lose because of the frustration to President Trump . So steve, i think this is a huge issue on voters minds, especially as weve seen younger voters, the air of American Voters in, in michigan and others. And i fully respect and understand these vote. I mean, youre not running the cycle, right . But are you out hearing it in maryland from your constituents . Sure, im hearing it from young young people. And you know, this is a case where just doing the right thing is also in my view, the politically right thing to do. This is where our principles and politics should be a line, and this is why i think the president needs to be doing more. I will say that i think the, the act of protesting by withholding your vote or voting for, you know, not as non candidate in the primary is a very important political expression of peoples views. I do think it would be a huge mistake for those voters not to come out and vote for joe biden in november, for a whole host of reasons, both domestic and foreign. I will just remind people that President Trump cut off funding unilaterally to unreal not his own, on his own initiative. It wasnt a congressional act. So you know, donald trump and Prime Minister netanyahu are in many ways 2 peas in a pod. And um, so i would just say that as much as people may disagree with the presence actions and proposals, and ive express my my disagreements, and yet it would be a disaster for the world. And for america to re elect donald trump. Well, i want to thank you for being here. I want to also thank you for being human and you know, looking at real people in this, in this conflict, sometimes its easy to forget them. So us, senator chris fan holland from maryland. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank used or so whats the bottom line . Sure, the world is full of contradictions, but the contradiction we see from the United States right now trumpeting that is providing a port for the desperate palestinians in gaza. One of the same time doing just very little to forcefully stop israels attacks is the kind of contradiction that simply cant pass without calling it out. So much time so much money and lives wouldnt have to be wasted and lost is real, had just allowed the gate between egypt and the gaza strip to open. And there are hundreds of trucks there right now at the border. And if america doesnt have the muscle to open a gate, but instead has to go over the water to reach those in need and to evade blocks by its own allied powers, President Biden really think hes going to deliver on a palestinian state. Those are the contradictions that the whole world can see, and thats the bottom line, the its a top destination for travelers seeking them by the paradise experience. But the idyllic archipelago of fiji is also on the front line of global rising water levels and unforgiving schools. Have triggered some of the was 1st government lines relocation as a result of climate change. 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