Saturday, October 4, 2025

Special Edition: Two Years of War – Israel, Gaza & Searching for Peace

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We’re just days away from the two-year mark of the Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza that continues today. As a new deal is on the table, we’re speaking with Dr. Boaz Atzili — a professor of international security with deep personal ties to this conflict.

He reflects on the impact of October 7th, the costs and consequences of the war, and possible paths forward for Israelis, Palestinians, and the region.  

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Guest: Boaz Atzili

Dr. Boaz Atzili is a Professor at the School of International Service, American University in Washington DC. He holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT and a BA from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University.

Dr. Atzili’s research focuses on territorial conflicts and peace, the politics of borders and borderlands, security aspects of state weakness, deterrence, and coercion. His books include Good Fences Bad Neighbors: Border Fixity and International Conflict (University of Chicago Press: 2012), Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States that Host Nonstate Actors (Columbia University Press: 2018, with Wendy Pearlman), and Territorial Designs and International Politics (edited, Routledge: 2018, with Burak Kaderchan).

Learn more about our guest’s family’s experience in the upcoming documentary, Holding Liat.

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