Mideast experts on the escalating Israel-Hezbollah conflict

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To discuss the spiraling violence between Israel and Lebanon, Geoff Bennett spoke with Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a longtime State Department official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, and Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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