Middle East Dialogues: Tarek Masoud in conversation with Matt Duss

A conversation between MEI Faculty Chair Professor Tarek Masoud and Matt Duss, former foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. This event is part of the Middle East Initiative's "Middle East Dialogues," a series of frank, open, and probing encounters with vital and varied perspectives on the current conflict, its causes, and the prospects for peace and progress in the region. To learn more about the Middle East Dialogues, visit our website here: https://www.belfercenter.org/programs... To stay up to date with the Middle East Initiative's research, events, and programming, subscribe to our newsletter here: https://www.belfercenter.org/middle-e... Copyright 2024 President and Fellows of Harvard College. Not to be reproduced without permission from Harvard Kennedy School. 0:00 Introduction 3:23 Hamas attacks were atrocious 6:43 Re-establishing deterrence 8:32 Proportionate response 10:11 No use of Gaza 12:08 Hamas empowered by policies 19:29 International trusteeship 21:25 Is the two-state solution dead? 24:53 The land for all solution 26:40 The demographic issue 31:34 Rewarding Hamas 36:50 US-Saudi relationship 38:20 National interests 41:47 Personal liberties 42:20 Iran 46:41 Democracy 48:38 How Duss got involved in the Middle East 49:59 Audience Q+A begins 53:28 Palestinian elections 56:34 Global power dynamics