Fight Your Own Battles: Foreign powers shouldn't intervene in the Middle East

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🗓️ 18 November 2015

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Filmed at Sadler's Wells on 17th July 2013. Speaking for the motion were Palestinian-American writer, human rights campaigner and political commentator Susan Abulhawa and Former British Ambassador to Syria Sir Andrew Green. Speaking against the motion were Director of Research for the Brookings Doha Center Dr. Shadi Hamid and Senior Adviser on Public Affairs for the Electoral Reform Society Nick Tyrone. The debate was chaired by Guardian columnist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	This is the seventh debate in our series of Google Plus versus debates organized by Intelligence Squared and tonight the motion
1:26.7	before us is fight your own battles foreign powers should not intervene in the Middle East.
1:34.6	And as we know, the Middle East has been shaped one way or another
1:37.8	by Western powers since the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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