Lord Stuart Polak, Member of the House of Lords and Sir John Scarlett, Co-Chair of the Wilson Center’s Global Advisory Council, and Baroness Catherine Ashton comment on the Israel-Hamas war and the need for the UK, the US, and their allies to prevent a wider conflict.

Selected Quotes

Lord Stuart Polak: "I just hope that the world will stay strong to try to bring an end to Hamas as an organization, to the rockets to stop, and the peace to move forward. Peace can only move forward when there is diplomacy going on."

Sir John Scarlett: "One is bound to say that it is hard to imagine how that can happen without further major destruction and damage in particular to civilian Palestinian society in Gaza."

Baroness Catherine Ashton: "The British government is showing its solidarity, not just to Israel, important though that is, but also in the context of trying to avoid any suggestion of a broader or wider conflict, is to send signals, and to do so with our closest allies, especially the United States."