All right, Alexander, let's talk about the war in Israel and Gaza.

And I guess we could talk about the Eisenhower entering the Gulf.

What's going on there?

And, of course, we have a whole lot of diplomacy happening in the Middle East.

Blinken was in Israel.

And my general sense of this is pretty much what we've been saying for the past two, three

weeks.

We've been pretty consistent in saying this, which is that the Biden White House, they've made a mess of the policy in Israel.

Medellin Yahoo has made a mess of things.

And it seems like the Biden White House is trying to figure out a way to exit this.

But there are other forces involved,

which perhaps are not so keen on exiting. And maybe one of those forces is Netanyahu himself,

the man. But the more this war continues, the worse it gets for Israel in the United States.

After me, I mean, for Gaza, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a

horrific tragedy, but this is this is, this is not going the way the US and and Israel

probably thought it would go. No, and can I just say, I mean, you know, we've,

you know, it's not been an easy conflict to cover, but I think the results that we see at the moment, where we are at this moment, this particular

point in time, if you go back and look at all our programmes right from the start of this affair,

this particular twist in the fighting, you can see that we were saying that it would probably

arrive at this point, provided there wasn't that greater escalation across the Middle East, which is a real potential possibility.

If it was just confined to Gaza, we would find ourselves in this particular situation where there is this kind of

ceasefire. It's a very odd and complicated ceasefire. You can sense that some people in Israel

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