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alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament's foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can't say, "well, we only "have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortunately we don't have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we're not doin...

alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament's foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can't say, "well, we only "have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortunately we don't have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we're not doin...

alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament's foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can't say, "well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortunately we don't have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we're not doing...

alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament's foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can't say, "well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict," because unfortunately we don't have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we're not doing...

That the current israeli government are the ones that have lost the moral authority because of the way they've chosen to speak about this, the way they've chosen to pursue it. i think we do — we've seen the us, for example, put in place sanctions against extremist settlers... and the uk government. that is something which we did, indeed. i wish we'd done it with them at the start to show thatjoint working. those, i think, are the right measures to put in place. we cannot lose our ability to have leverage over the israeli government. and so, unfortunately, you have to really be careful with w...