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CVS Island The World. I'm John Batcheter.

The Huthies claim that they will keep this up, this harassment, and this provocation,

until and if Gaza is solved, meaning the Israelis withdraw Hamas returns

to authority or some version of that.

Do you propose that that is something that can persuade Israel and its allies to back off from Hamas this is a threat to global shipping

that you say yes the insurance companies but they will they will charge as

much as they can get away with and the price of all is already indicating it's responding to

this you see it possible to persuade Israel to back off on the Gaza offensive?

Absolutely not. They can't afford to do that. They know it. They know they have to get rid of this problem once and for all and the

definition then is what constitutes once and for all. They even a mass and it's

back is particularly in Turkey where the Turkey and Qatar where the

headquarters of Hamas exists they are proposing moving a lot of Palestinians out as we discussed

earlier into the Kurdish areas of Turkey and into

northern Cyprus which is controlled illegally by Turkish troops at the moment.

So they're all looking at ways to get to their end objectives, but the Israelis

can't afford to leave off on this and the Israelis do have spare capacity to take

out key targets in Yemen.

Again, I think that there's a real scope for diplomacy and discussion

and trade-offs of interest to occur between all of the

parties without this going much further. But basically it has to acknowledge, as

a lot of people have suggested during the years of the Yemen war, which was initiated

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