This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: British MPs vote on launching air strikes in Syria
Know your enemy to defeat them
21 November 2021 10:12 GMT
Rachel Shabi has written for Middle East Eye on the level of debate in the Commons today. You can read it here.
All this talk of heroism and standing with the international community and Britain’s place in the world – it all seemed as though consideration for the Syrian people, as well as the Iraqis and the wider Middle East, didn’t register nearly enough in this historic debate.