US Policy Towards Gaza | Role of AIPAC in US Politics | Biden's Debate Failure | Matt Duss | Ep 204

This episode is about assessing Joe Biden’s foreign policy as it relates to the ongoing conflict in Gaza. While not a whole lot has changed in terms of the substance of US policy towards Palestine and Israel, a lot has indeed changed in terms of the political discourse in Washington.
Uzair talked to Matt Duss about these developments and the long-term implications of Biden’s foreign policy choices. We also talked about the prospects for a broad agreement with Saudi Arabia, and the ways in which communities can engage at the grassroots levels to influence foreign policy.
Matt Duss is Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy. The Center for International Policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable U.S. approach to foreign policy.
Before joining CIP, Duss was a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 2017-22, Duss was foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt). Duss’s work has been widely published, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The American Prospect, and Foreign Policy.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:20 What has changed in Washington?
5:20 Role of AIPAC
8:40 America’s leverage over Israel
12:20 Impact of the presidential debate
18:35 Long-term implications of US choices
22:10 Saudi-Israel normalization
27:10 Key risks on the horizon
30:30 What can we do to change policy?
32:45 Reading recommendations
Reading recommendations
- The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
- Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe

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Nice intro but I like the og one

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[@adeemsuhail4658]

I am sorry but Matt Duss represents what perhaps appears as a sober perspective but one that still retains some kind of an ethical and in realist terms rational horizon for democratic politics in the US. Nothing in the historical trajectory of the party nor in this contingent moment of genocide bears out that naive optimism or an investment in the liberal status quo ante

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looks who’s talking about genocide