All right, Alexander, let's do a video on the big story, which is the conflict in Israel.

So it's Monday, Monday, midday for me here.

And we've, I guess we've waited the weekend to see how things develop so we can do our first video on this conflict.

And what are your thoughts after, what you said was a momentous, we're living in momentous times, a momentous weekend where we had this Hamas operation, which, according to the media,

according to Netanyahu, the Biden White House, took everyone by surprise. What are your thoughts?

Well, I think it clearly did take everybody by surprise. I mean, I know that there are, I say,

everybody. I know that there are some people who are saying that this is all, that there was a collusion and that the US government and

the Israeli government and all of these people were parties to some sort of plan to make

it happen. I've seen no evidence of that myself. All the indications that I've seen up to this

point, all combined to say that there's been a colossal, a catastrophic intelligence failure.

The Israeli military were caught completely by surprise. They didn't expect this to happen.

They didn't expect this to happen on the scale that it did or to be as organized as carefully as it was

and they weren't prepared for it and we now see that Netanyahu that the Israeli army are hurriedly

trying to get on top of this thing trying to find some means to basically bring this situation, this critical situation, under control.

And of course, there's many people in Israel, very understandably, very frightened and very, very angry.

And it's all happened at a time of political conflict within Israel.

There's now been a sort of coming together of people.

And there's talk about forming a national unity government.

And Israel feels that it is at war.

But I will say, we've just done a program, Glenn Deeson and I with Alistair Crook,

in which he's discussed much of the background to this wall.

And he points to the fault lines within Israel itself as having provided both the opportunity for Hamas to launch this strike,

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