Europeans should ensure that urgent humanitarian aid now enters the Strip and should use this cessation of hostilities as an opportunity to wedge open space to advance a full ceasefire
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China sees an opportunity in receiving Arab Ministers to position itself as an alternative to the US and boost its Global South narrative
In this op-ed, Julien Barnes-Dacey and Jeremy Shapiro explain why the West should give up the battle of narratives
For Italy, for long a middle power working as a bridge in the Wider Mediterranean, this is about retrieving that connecting capability and use it towards the Global South
The massive challenge for Israel is that while it has said it doesn’t want to run Gaza, it still wants to assert its authority
Domestically, resources are overstretched, and accepting Palestinian refugees would mean being complicit in killing the Palestinian cause
The key external actors here are the U.S. and Iran, with Paris having a much weaker hand
I see these statements more as a need to respond to respective domestic politics rather than an act to put into discussion their overall co-operation