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Ceasefires, Plans, and Activism

What would I have the Biden administration do on Gaza? There are answers, but they're not exactly great.

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Shadi Hamid
Oct 30, 2023
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Miss Peace of the Hague; Ach! I blow in so sweet and it comes out so awful!

Whenever I question or criticize Israel’s increasingly destructive response to Hamas’ October 7th attack, someone will inevitably ask me: well, Shadi, what would you do? I get it. It’s all too tempting to hunch our shoulders in despair and concede that there are no good options. But this doesn’t mean that all those otherwise bad options are equally bad.

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