From inside a city under fire, journalist Rania Khalek describes the devastation in Beirut, and the dissonance of Americans who think they'll remain unaffected.

“We’re All Just Open Targets Now”: Rania Khalek on Expanding War in Lebanon

Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist and host of the Dispatches podcast from BreakThrough News*.* Khalek spoke to Current Affairs from Beirut—amid ongoing airstrikes—to discuss the brutal on-the-ground reality of Israel’s attacks, the complicity of U.S. politicians, and theresponsibility of ordinary Americans to speak out against the bloodshed. Although war may seem distant, she warns, it is closer than people think: “People need to treat this as being serious,” says Khalek. “Because there is something called an imperial boomerang, and this will come home.”

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