Rashid Khalidi on the Israel-Hamas War

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After a brief pause, Israel is now looking to expand ground operations across the Gaza Strip. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement that “under no circumstances will the United States permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.”

Palestinian civilians are stuck in a dire situation. And already, global media and public attention on the Middle East seems to be declining. To understand what might happen next, FP’s Ravi Agrawal spoke with Rashid Khalidi, a professor of Arab affairs at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance. He was briefly an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s.

 

Video clips from this event

  • Rashid Khalidi on whether Palestinians resent Hamas for the destruction Israel has wrought on Gaza. 

  • Watch Khalidi’s answer when asked what Israel’s response should have been to the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7. 

  • Are Palestinians missing a Mahatma Ghandi? Rashid Khalidi thinks it’s a dead-end alley to go down because no Palestinian leader has been capable of articulating a clear strategy. 

  • Are Arab States abandoning the Palestinian cause? Khalidi differentiates between the Arab public and their governments, which he calls either absolute autocracies or military dictatorships.

  • Rashid Khalidi gives the Biden administration an F minus for its handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict. Watch to find out why. 

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Rashid Khalidi: Biden Deserves an “F” on the Middle East

The Palestinian-American historian and professor on the road ahead after Oct. 7.

Insider  |  Ravi Agrawal

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