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The Jackpod: Saving Rafah

VPM | By NPR
Published February 16, 2024 at 6:00 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State George P Shultz (left) watches as U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks on the telephone in the White House's Oval Office, Washington DC, August 12, 1982. (Mary Anne Fackelman/White House via CNP/Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of State George P Shultz (left) watches as U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks on the telephone in the White House's Oval Office, Washington DC, August 12, 1982. (Mary Anne Fackelman/White House via CNP/Getty Images)

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty looks back to 1982 and the Presidency of Ronald Reagan as he considers how and why the U.S. should intervene to prevent an Israeli assault on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

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Jack Beatty, On Point‘s news analyst. He was a longtime senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Author of Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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