As Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations and claimed with a straight face that “Israel seeks peace. Isreal yearns for peace,” Israel escalated war in Lebanon by dropping massive bombs on Beirut in an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. There will be civilian casualties adding to the growing number of deaths due to Israel’s continued failed campaign in Gaza and Lebanon to eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah respectively. This latest attack follows the U.S. releasing $8.7 billion in aid to Israel.
The U.S. election is five weeks away and Democrats won’t touch this issue for fear of harming their political chances. As a result, Bibi knows he has near carte blanche to implement his supremacist goals of expansionism regardless the war crimes, regardless the lives lost.
Nobody with a straight face can allege that the Biden Administration’s policy during the Gaza war has been a success. If anything, President Biden has enabled and supported Bibi’s criminal actions which many Democratic voters consider a genocide.
The question is will the Harris Administration do anything different?
I invited foreign policy expert Matt Duss, the EVP of Center for International Policy, co-host of the UNDiplomatic Podcast, and foreign policy director for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, to imagine what a successful Israel-Gaza policy would look like under a Harris-Walz Administration that could finally help regional security, end war crimes, and benefit Democrats politically.
In this Chai Talk, he offers immediate solutions and long-term course corrections in which the United States could use its immense power and leverage to direct a more sane, just, and peaceful policy in the Middle East.
Grab a chai and give us a listen!
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