Foreign Affairs invites you to listen to its podcast, the Foreign Affairs Interview. This episode with Dahlia Scheindlin and Dalia Dassa Kaye was originally published on February 16, 2024.

Four months after Hamas’s October 7 attack, the war in Gaza continues with little reason to think that Israel is particularly close to achieving its declared goals. Meanwhile, the Middle East is on the precipice of a full-scale regional war—and it may be that that war has already begun.

Dahlia Scheindlin is a pollster, a policy fellow at Century International, and a columnist at Haaretz. She is the author of the new book, The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel. Dalia Dassa Kaye is a senior fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations and a Fulbright Schuman Visiting Scholar at Lund University.

We discuss the domestic political landscape inside Israel, the risks of further escalation in the region, and whether there is a better path forward.


Sources:

“Only the Middle East Can Fix the Middle East” by Dalia Dassa Kaye and Sanam Vakil
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/middle...

“Will the War in Gaza Ignite the Middle East?” by Dalia Dassa Kaye
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel...

“The Case Against an Israeli-Saudi Deal” by Dalia Dassa Kaye
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“Why Israel Won’t Change” by Dahlia Scheindlin
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“How U.S. Policy on the Gaza War Has Polarized Opinion in Israel, America and the Arab World” by Dahlia Scheindlin
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