and brutal invasions by syria and israel have done it immense damage. this is the famous corniche. when i was in beirut recently, i was shocked by the number of beggars on the streets people who ve been forced out of their homes in syria by the civil war there. now, perhaps unsurprisingly, a backlash against the refugees is growing in lebanon. i spoke to carine torbey, the bbc s beirut correspondent. there is absolutely no end in sight for this crisis. lebanon is already overwhelmed with its own problems, which are massive. this is a country with a very delicate demographic balance. so this is all coming together to make the lebanese, for the first time, say, enough is enough. is it important that these refugees, a million and a half of them, are from syria, a country which has,
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backing a palestinian state. josep borrell, the european union s foreign policy boss, supports the decision by the international criminal court to seek arrest warrants against mr netanyahu, as well as the leaders of hamas. france is a lot more critical of israel nowadays. so is germany, israel s loyal backer for 70 years. so, is attacking rafah worth all this collateral damage? well, if mr netanyahu calls the attack off, he could lose power, and rightly or wrongly, his critics in israel, and they re many, claim that this is the consideration which counts the most for him. well, that s it from this edition of unspun world. from me and from the unspun team, until we meet again, goodbye.
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or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they ve invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there s no such difference, they re all terrorists, all of them. but qatar doesn t view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that s why it was up on the naughty step recently for several years. saudi, bahrain, uae all ostracised qatar. because they don t trust qatar. they think that it is a trojan horse for letting in the muslim brotherhood and its ideology that they find dangerous. and finally, on our geographical tour. mm.
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josep borrell, the european union s foreign policy boss, supports the decision by the international criminal court to seek arrest warrants against mr netanyahu, as well as the leaders of hamas. france is a lot more critical of israel nowadays. so is germany, israel s loyal backer for 70 years. so, is attacking rafah worth all this collateral damage? well, if mr netanyahu calls the attack off, he could lose power, and rightly or wrongly, his critics in israel, and they re many, claim that this is the consideration which counts the most for him. well, that s it from this edition of unspun world. from me and from the unspun team, until we meet again, goodbye.
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