Book talk: Crossing the Red Line
- Date & time
- –
- Speaker
- Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Nomia IqbalAkbar Shahid Ahmed (diplomatic correspondent, Washington D.C.); Nomia Iqbal (veteran BBC correspondent)
- Location
- Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
- Organisation
- Frontline Club
Topics
About this talk
Akbar Shahid Ahmed in conversation with veteran BBC correspondent Nomia Iqbal on Gaza and the Cost of American Power. On 11 September, the Frontline Club will host Akbar Shahid Ahmed — an award-winning diplomatic correspondent based in Washington, D.C. — to discuss his new book, Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War In Gaza. For 16 months, the Biden administration enabled a humanitarian catastrophe and thousands of apparent war crimes in Gaza — fueling Israel's offensive there, and eventually in Lebanon, despite mounting moral, strategic, and legal objections from the public and within the U.S. government itself. CROSSING THE RED LINE is the definitive record of why officials stayed on that disastrous course. Drawing on nearly 175 interviews with insiders, Ahmed documents dark choices that shaped our current reality, by torpedoing standards for warfare and helping Donald Trump regain power. Ahmed and Iqbal will discuss whether Biden and his team could have acted differently to save lives, the international implications of America's complicity in Gaza's suffering, and the prospects of breaking from dubious policy patterns. Event duration: 1 hour 30 minutes. Doors at 6:30 PM.
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