Is there hope for peace in the Middle East?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In an extended interview, Jon speaks to Layla Moran, the only MP with Palestinian heritage and the Lib Dem MP for West Oxford and Abingdon.
She talks about her family in Gaza, peace talks and how hope gets her through everyday.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.2 | Layla, do you have hope? |
| 0:14.3 | I do. I do. I do. I have to. I cry every single day, John. Every single day. |
| 0:19.5 | And I'll do these interviews and people say, you know, how do you hold it together? |
| 0:23.6 | Well, the answer is I don't. |
| 0:25.6 | And I go home and I let it out. |
| 0:28.5 | But I do it because you have to have hope. |
| 0:33.1 | Because if you give up on the hope, then you have nothing. |
| 0:35.6 | That is Leila Moran, Liberal Democrat MP, the party's foreign affairs spokesperson, |
| 0:41.4 | and the only member of Parliament who has Palestinian blood. |
| 0:46.1 | Her relations are still in Gaza City. |
| 0:50.5 | Their home has been blown up. |
| 0:53.1 | In this extended interview, we're going to talk to Laila Moran |
| 0:55.8 | about the state of the Middle East, |
| 0:58.8 | her hopes for peace, |
| 1:00.4 | the need for community cohesion, |
| 1:03.1 | and how one particular government minister |
| 1:06.1 | is making matters a lot, lot worse. |
| 1:10.4 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:15.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I'm joined now by Leila Moran MP, the Member of Parliament for Oxford, West and Abingdon. |
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