With Israel’s horrific war of attrition against the entire population of Gaza showing no signs of ending, the US last Friday escalated its direct military involvement in the region as its war planes carried out air strikes on more than 85 targets at different locations in Syria and Iraq.

Distinguished Fellow at the American University of Beirut, Rami Khouri joins host Allen Ruff to discuss his perspectives and provide some context for the current situation.

Rami George Khouri is a senior fellow with the Middle East Initiative and an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author. He is Palestinian-Jordanian and a U.S. citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. He was the Founding​ Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs ​(IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 2006-14; he is now a Senior Public Policy Fellow at IFI, and Distinguished Fellow at the AUB.

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