In this week's show we look at how the war in Israel and Gaza has affected Finnish public debate and foreign policy.
This week Finland backed a United Nations resolution demanding a ceasefire — changing tack from an earlier vote when Finland abstained. That shift has reflected intensified destruction on the ground in Gaza, newer wording in the resolution itself and Finland's debate on the issue.
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In practical terms, an arms deal with Israel has been criticised on ethical grounds but also because of Israel's stance on other issues.
"There's more pragmatic security policy consideration and criticism towards the deal which is that Israel has until now never supplied weapons to Ukraine, even though Ukraine has repeatedly requested them," said Timo Stewart from the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
"And the reason for this is that Israel has avoided antagonising Russia."
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This week's show was presented by Egan Richardson and Zena Iovino. The sound engineer was Matias Puumala.
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