Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. Last night, a rare warning from President Biden an all out assault will have consequences. They go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. For one former israeli Prime Minister, this is a significant moment the current government squande
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forbid them from buying oil from the united states of america. and what i would say is we re playing economic and war brinksmanship with a nuclear power. and that, you know, to be face to face with a nuclear power at point in history is going to require calm, cool, collected threading of the needle for the american interests. howard: yeah. brinksmanship is a good term. unfortunately, the bloody nose is not good enough, we need to bloody putin further. gillian, one things that seems to have faded is the media argument about, oh, ukraine just isn t that important, not of strategic interest to the united states. is that because this has now mushroomed into a a global confrontation between the u.s. and europe and even japan and even switzerland and putin s lies and his ruthlessness? yes, but i think the other thing that s kind of shifted the narrative is the white house is now trying to convey that message to the american people. a few weeks ago jen psaki at the