The October Massacre changes... Everything - with Elliott Abrams
b"In this episode with Elliott Abrams, we provide additional detail on the history of Israel-Gaza/Hamas \\u2014 this time from a White House insider on U.S.-Middle East policy during a critical period in Hamas\\u2019s takeover of Gaza \\u2014 what were leaders in Washington and Jerusalem thinking at the time? \\n\\nElliott takes us into the Situation Room: What did they get right and what did they get wrong? This part of the discussion is a good complement to our conversation last week with Jonathan Schanzer on this history of Hamas. \\n\\nElliott also considers all that has changed for Israel, the region (especially the Sunni Gulf and Iran), and the Diaspora-Israel relationship as a result of this war. \\n\\nElliott is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.\\n\\nElliott was educated at Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School. After serving on the staffs of Senators Henry M. Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, he was an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and received the secretary of state's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary George Shultz.\\n\\nElliott is the author of five books, including \\u201cTested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict\\u201d, which is most relevant to today\\u2019s discussion."