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Conflict Zone is DW’s top political interview program. Join us each week as our hosts put tough questions to top guests from around the world. Get beyond the soundbite – enter the Conflict Zone.
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Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland tells Tim Sebastian that the devastation in Gaza is already unprecedented and an Israeli military operation against Rafah would be a "bloodbath."
Ukraine can still win the war against Russia if the West steps up its game, the Baltic country's Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins tells DW.
How Russia’s 'obedient majority' will elect Vladimir Putin to a fifth term and why it matters, from Moscow analyst Andrei Kolesnikov.
Egypt's previous Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy tells DW that neither Israel nor Hamas will likely accept a long-term peace deal. Fahmy says that if Israel wants lasting security, it must end occupation in the Palestinian territories.
Senior Democrat and former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about the wars in Gaza, Ukraine and tensions over Taiwan. Speaking to DW's Tim Sebastian, during this year's MSC, she also discussed the upcoming US election.
DW's Sarah Kelly hosted a high-level panel at this year's Munich Security Conference. The war in Gaza and prospects for a long-term peace between Israelis and Palestinians were discussed by the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority Mohammed Shtayyeh, Israel's former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and others.
Israel's war against Hamas has claimed nearly 30,000 lives, most of them civilians in Gaza. Israel so far failed to achieve its aim of eliminating the militant Islamist group. Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy tells DW no end is in sight.
A Ukrainian opposition politician tells DW that Kyiv cannot afford "autocratic tendencies" from the president. MP Oleksiy Goncharenko said the country could not win against Russia unless it remained a democracy.
Palestinian politician and activist Mustafa Barghouti tells DW he expects the International Court of Justice to order Israel to stop the war in Gaza.
A top Russian analyst told DW that 2023 has been a "surprisingly good year" for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war on Ukraine. The level of Western support for Ukraine will determine the course of 2024, Alexander Gabuev told Conflict Zone's Tim Sebastian.
Can Israel accomplish its goal of eliminating Hamas without further humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza? One US analyst tells DW it requires "magical thinking."
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, discusses the stalemate on the battlefield and the future of Western support.
More than 800,000 people have fled to UN emergency shelters in central and southern Gaza, Juliette Touma of the UNRWA told Conflict Zone, adding that number exceeded her agency's "worst case scenarios." Touma says the coming winter will exacerbate already desperate circumstances in Gaza. Her agency, which cares for Palestinian refugees, has had more than 100 staff members killed in the conflict.
Ex-Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon asks the international community to "tell us our mistakes" and how to avoid human suffering in Gaza while removing Hamas.
The Swedish Foreign Minister tells DW only a two-state solution will bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians. Tobias Billstrom said the immediate priority was the release of hostages kidnapped by Hamas and bringing aid to the people of Gaza.
"In both cases ... people think that they can just brutally, by force, rewrite the rules," said Lithuanian PM Simonyte, adding she is confident Western support to Kyiv will continue despite the Israeli operation in Gaza.
"Netanyahu is history, he's done," Ehud Olmert told DW. He called the current Israeli leaders "violent, messianic thugs" and said that long term, Palestinians must be able to "exercise their right to self-determination."
Russia's former deputy foreign minister Andrei Fedorov says Russia would need to change strategy and launch massive missile strikes across Ukraine to win the war.
1A former NATO Deputy Commander tells DW the only way to stop Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling is to build credible defense.
A senior Ukrainian defense official tells DW that Kyiv's goals remain the same despite the slow progress of its counteroffensive. Yuriy Sak says territorial concessions have not worked with Russia.
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