There is no appetite in the broader region for a conflict with or involving Iran, said Coates Ulrichsen.
The greatest risk, he said, is “an escalating cycle of action and reprisal in which each side responds to the other and other actors join the fighting as well.”
“I think both the U.K. and the U.S. do have moral duties to receive refugees from all over the world.” Kelsey Norman, director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program at Rice University, joined Nigel Farage on GBNews to discuss what should be done about refugees from Gaza.
In the context of the current Israel-Hamas conflict, Kelsey Norman, director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, discussed the issues for different countries around hosting refugees.
Gilead Sher is an Israeli lawyer and former senior negotiator in the peace process with the Palestinians. He said that Hamas is violating international law by not disclosing the identity, location or health condition of the hostages. “There's also a real fear that Hamas will treat [sic] the Israeli abductees with other Palestinian terrorist organizations. It has already announced that 30 of them have been handed to the Islamic Jihad,” said Sher, who is also a fellow in Middle East Peace and Security at Rice University’s Baker Institute.
Hamas had delivered “a blow to Israel beyond what it is used to,” and was also putting its capabilities on display, said Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs who focuses on Palestinian affairs. Its shock tactics are a declaration that it “must be taken more seriously.”