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Oct 2023
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War in the Middle East—and Congress Is D...

Foreign Policy
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Israel has demanded that 1.1 million Gazans relocate from the north into the south, as a siege of the strip intensifies. What is Washington’s role? Democratic Rep. Andy Kim joined Ravi Agrawal amid a continued failure to elect a new speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Part of this conversation, focused on China, will also be featured in Foreign Policy’s podcast Global Reboot, in partnership with the Doha Forum.

Suggested reading:

Daniel Byman: Hamas’s Strategy of Failure

Howard W. French: The Peril in Declaring ‘I Stand with Israel’

Alexandra Sharp: Blinken Visits Israel to Pledge U.S. Military Aid

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