On this edition of Parallax Views, Steve Simon, Professor of Practice in Middle East Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington,National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism in the Clinton White House and for the Middle East and North Africa in the Obama White House, and author of Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East, joins the show to discuss his Foreign Affairs article "What Comes After Hamas?". We discuss what he sees as being at stake in the current situation in Gaza, the possible "eternal dystopia" facing Gaza, what eradication of means, the role the United Nations could play in a post-Hamas Gaza, and much, much more.