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Oct 2023
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Can the Gaza conflict be contained?

Financial Times
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Gideon talks to Baroness Catherine Ashton, former high representative of the EU on foreign affairs, about the role of diplomacy in helping to contain the Israel-Gaza conflict. Clip: The White House


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