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

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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.