Gaza withdrawal explained (38min)
The much-anticipated evacuation of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank begins. We look at this historic moment in Israeli -- and Israeli-Palestinian -- history. Host Neal Conan's guests are Matti Friedman, reporter for the Jerusalem Report; Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Dennis Ross, author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story Of The Fight For Middle East Peace; and Joseph Ayalon, a lifeguard in the Israeli settlement of Dugit.
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