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October 7 Was “A Reenactment,” Not a Rupture | Robert Malley

October 7 Was “A Reenactment,” Not a Rupture | Robert Malley

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Rob Malley has spent three decades inside the peace process he now argues was never built to succeed. He negotiated at Camp David under President Clinton, led Obama's Iran nuclear negotiations that produced the JCPOA, served as Biden's Special Envoy for Iran, and ran the International Crisis Group. He's now a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at Yale's Jackson School and co-author, with Hussein Agha, of Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine. In this conversation, Scott and Malley cover: Why the twin caricatures of Palestinians and Iranians — irrational zealots on one hand, rational actors who'll cave under enough pressure on the other — are both wrong Why Malley argues October 7 wasn't a rupture from the past, but a reenactment of it What three decades of U.S.-mediated peace talks got wrong about the conflict from the start Three failed American approaches to Iran — diplomacy, sanctions, military force — and which one actually worked Whether international law means anything after the U.S.'s own record of violating it Why Israel's influence over American politics has been so durable, and why Malley thinks that's finally starting to shift What comes next for Gaza and the West Bank if the current trajectory holds More from At the Water's Edge: ⁠https://substack.com/@scottatthewatersedgeorg⁠ Malley's book, Tomorrow Is Yesterday, is out now. https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Yesterday-Pursuit-Israel-Palestine/dp/0374617120/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xXGA2LVaN84oK2HTqL0ZafM_ffC2qb0JcTzYRXwxYYruV7giWAcghjS_mCTijJO7ifqpr_rfyp9RaWXbHb9QEXkJ_WN8If_d9vDNoEVAz8vBZHr9CnQYeBZddsj59cPDMEFx7wja1QjVF0PPUm-jlHP8t7otOxcvsDbnY8EFaKb1_da3s0oLUHaY6qTl4OmtpFoZEobh1gjLsUweCGw9VoooRbweo-geXkoVnAuFQR4.IEQ9K_vB2pz9c_3zhVHO8UTil5XOFXOY3VjNKp-cC5c&dib_tag=se&hvadid=693803539913&hvdev=c&hvexpln=67&hvlocphy=9005070&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=3083797136747453616--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3083797136747453616&hvtargid=kwd-2443396325718&hydadcr=22537_13531293&keywords=robert+malley+book&mcid=cd77b3f36d583266b3b283bcc5466f73&qid=1789409486&sr=8-1
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