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Foreign Policy Live

Grading Biden’s Middle East policy

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

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4601 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

More than 16,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. As Israel resumes ground operations in Gaza, is there an end in sight? Rashid Khalidi is the author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance and a professor at Columbia University. He describes why he thinks decades of failures of diplomacy have led to this moment and why the Biden administration’s Middle East policy gets an “F” in his report card.  Suggested reading: FP Contributors: How Will This War End? How Can the Next One Be Prevented? Tareq Baconi: What Was Hamas Thinking? Steven A. Cook: Israel May End Up Reoccupying Gaza Steven Simon and Aaron David Miller: Grading Biden on the Israel-Hamas War Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the show. After a brief pause, Israel is now expanding its ground operations across the Gaza Strip.

0:48.8

Palestinian civilians are stuck in a dire situation, and already global media and public attention on the Middle East

0:56.1

seems to be declining. Just like Ukraine, it is becoming one more conflict that rumbles on as we

1:03.7

go on with our lives. Is there a way forward for Palestinians? I wanted to speak this week

1:10.8

with Rashid Khalidi. He's Palestinian-American

1:13.8

and still has some family in Gaza and the West Bank. Caladhi is the Edward Said Professor of

1:20.1

Arab Affairs at Columbia University, and he's written several seminal books on the Palestinian question.

1:26.8

He's the author most recently of the

1:28.5

Hundred Years' War on Palestine, a history of settler colonialism and resistance. He was also an

1:35.1

advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s. As you all know, we've already had a former

1:43.3

Israeli prime minister on this show, Ehud Barak,

1:46.7

and we've also heard from Aaron David Miller, a storied American advisor and negotiator.

1:52.4

Calhavi brings a different perspective, and I think it's a valuable one to contend with.

1:57.9

Caliith, as you'll hear, gives the Biden administration a failing grade for how

2:02.6

it's handled events in the Middle East since October 7. We're going to discuss and debate that,

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