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As Violence In Gaza Worsens, What Can Obama Do?

David Gilkey/NPR

A Bush administration spokesman has called on Hamas — the Islamist organization that controls the Gaza Strip — to stop firing rockets into Israel and "agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire." Is there anything President-elect Obama can do to change the dynamic in the region?

Guests:

Aaron David Miller, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and author of The Much Too Promised Land

Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., and visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Daily Star newspaper

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