Smart in 60 Seconds: The Gaza conflict threatens Iraq’s stability
Israel-Hamas War • 1m 21s
The October 7 Hamas attack threatens to disrupt more than Iraq’s normalization of relations with Israel, Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Iraq Initiative and Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Programs C. Anthony Pfaff says.
“After Israel responded to Hamas’s deadly October 7 attacks, Iraqis took to the streets in massive pro-Palestinian protests, burning Israeli flags and chanting anti-American slogans,” Pfaff writes, destabilizing Iraq’s relations with the United States. As the conflict continues, there is also a risk that Iraqi militias will engage in support of Hamas.
Read Pfaff’s analysis, “The conflict in Gaza threatens Iraq’s stability, progress in US-Iraq relations”: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/gaza-israel-hamas-us-iraq-relations/
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