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HARDtalk: Colin Smith - Former Head, EU Mission to the Palestinian Police

27/01/2009

Colin Smith - Former Head, EU Mission to the Palestinian Police

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Is there life left in the notion of a two-state solution in the Middle East?

Is there still a chance of a two-state solution in the Middle East? Colin Smith, former Head of the EU Mission to the Palestinian Police, talks to Stephen Sackur.

After weeks of bloodshed in Gaza, is there life left in the notion of a two-state solution in the Middle East? 

Colin Smith has spent the last two years running an EU funded effort to train the Palestinian authority police force, but with Gaza off-limits and Israel's occupation of the West bank unyielding, is there any point laying the groundwork for Palestinian statehood? He talks to Stephen Sackur.

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