Hello and welcome to background briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.org.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the

news. We'll begin with the United Nations permanent observer for the state of Palestine's call

for an international protection force in Gaza that emerged from Sunday's emergency meeting of the

UN Security Council, joining us to discuss how the formal request to the UN General

Assembly for an international peacekeeping force to protect Garzans facing death could be implemented

is Sarah Lee Whitson, the Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World now, Dawn. She was formerly the Executive Director of Democracy for the Arab World now, Dawn.

She was formerly the executive director of Human Rights Watchers Middle East and North Africa Division,

where she oversaw the work of the divisions in 19 countries.

Her forthcoming book is, From A Partate to Democracy,, a blueprint for peace in Israel, Palestine.

Then ahead of Friday's Trump-Puton summit in Alaska, we will examine what a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine could look like and speak with George Beebe, the director of Grand

Strategy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible

Stakecraft. He served in government for nearly 25 years, including as director of Russia

analysis at the CIA and as a White House advisor on Russia Matters for Vice President

Dick Cheney. His latest book is The Russia Trap, How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral

Into Nuclear Catastrophe, and his latest articles at Responsible Statecraft are,

No NATO for Ukraine is key to jump-standing stall talks and a US peace plan for Ukraine.

Then finally, we'll assess the extent to which the military is being mobilized by an American

dictator to suppress domestic opposition, now that Trump has moved to take over large swaths

of the southern border and the streets of Washington, D.C., as the Pentagon is now preparing

rapid reaction forces in Alabama and Arizona

to put down civil unrest. Joining us is Lucian Truscott IV, a journalist, screenwriter and the author

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