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This is John Baxter, from a much longer conversation with my friend Gregory Kaplie, editor

and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, about Nigeria, certainly about the Middle East

War, and also about the troubles in China, and the visit of King Charles to Kenya, the

Commonwealth.

But we discuss here what are the opportunities, what are the options, what are the thinking

about going after Hamas in the heavily populated densely packed North Gaza, with all the world

watching.

Gregory entertains the options, the other possibilities, and none of them more attractive

than any other.

And then we come to what is to be done about Hamas, what is to be done into the future,

the Hamas elements, the leadership elements that are not in Gaza now.

That will happen if they try to reorganize themselves.

And then Gregory connects all of this to the trouble in East Asia.

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