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Oct 2024
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October 7, One Year On

Foreign Policy
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On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel and set in motion a new cycle of violence that has rocked the Middle East. Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, joins FP Live to look back—and ahead. 

Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):

Aaron David Miller and Steven Simon: Oct. 7 Changed Everything–but What if It Didn’t?

Aaron David Miller and Lauren Morgenbesser: Don’t Blame Biden for the Yearlong War in Gaza

FP’s Oct. 7 Roundup: Is the Israel-Hamas War Closer to Its Beginning or Its End?

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