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Dec 2023
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Will the UN's call for peace in Gaza hav...

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The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has invoked rarely-used powers to direct the Security Council to take action. But will the move have any impact on Israel, the US or its other western allies?

Presenter: Tom McRae

Guests:
Mark Leon Goldberg: Editor-in-Chief of UN Dispatch
Jennifer Cassidy: Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Law at the University of Oxford 
Chris Gunness: Former spokesman for UNWRA

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