War in the Middle East—and Congress Is Dysfunctional

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Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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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 For other podcasts, check out: https://www.goalhangerpodcasts.com/disorder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.6	Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policy's editor-in-chief.
1:05.5	This is FP Live.
1:10.4	Welcome to the show. So, I'll be honest, we plan a lot of these discussions in advance,
1:15.7	and this session was originally meant to focus on how to reboot America's China policy.
1:21.8	And we were going to have that discussion with Congressman Andy Kim, who serves on the Select
1:26.1	China Committee in Congress.
1:28.5	He and I ended up taping a big part of that conversation, and we will air some of it here.
1:33.6	But we're going to save most of it for another seasonal podcast I host called Global Reboot.
1:39.8	What I do want to share with you in full on this episode, however, is about more immediate news.
1:45.9	Israel has ordered an evacuation of 1.1 million Gazans from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south.
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