As Israel steps up its bombardment of Gaza, military and political support from the United States remains steadfast.

But could this war – which has caused such a humanitarian catastrophe – lead to wider regional instability?

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Has that been the intention? And what role does Washington play?

Presenter: Sami Zeidan

Guests:

Daniel Levy – President of the US/Middle East Project and former adviser in the office of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak

Nicholas Noe – Director of the Exchange Foundation in Beirut

HA Hellyer – Senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London and nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC