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Know your enemy to defeat them

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.