What If Gaza Boils Over?
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🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As Palestinian allies like Hezbollah and Iran voice their support, is there a danger of more countries being pulled into the war in Gaza?
Guest: Gregory Gause, head of the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, specialist in Middle East politics.
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| 0:35.0 | Prices vary based on how you buy. Consider for a moment all of the fronts that have opened up, over 40 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:57.6 | First Israel brought the fight to Gaza, but then Hamas and its defenders |
| 0:59.9 | widened the field of battle. |
| 1:02.0 | We're hearing that six people were hit |
| 1:04.1 | when an anti-tank missile was fired across the border |
| 1:07.6 | from Lebanon into the northern part. |
| 1:10.6 | There are missiles coming into Israel |
| 1:12.1 | from Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 1:14.0 | But this will ramp pressure on Israel. |
| 1:18.0 | American military bases are being targeted in Iraq. |
| 1:22.0 | There are reports of attacks from as far away as Yemen. |
| 1:25.0 | And just this past weekend the US launched retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed |
| 1:32.4 | fighters in Syria. |
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