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

And we do have quite a bit of news.

We have a Security Council resolution that has been passed.

Russia abstained from this vote.

I'm curious, why did Russia abstain?

We have Blinken in the Middle East. This is his eighth trip to the Middle East. I believe he is currently in Cairo, and he is pushing for this

three point three phase plan that is also a bit confusing because the United States says this is an Israeli plan.

Israel doesn't seem to be signed up to this plan.

And the United States is signaling that that Hamas will accept this plan via Qatari intermediaries, and it seems a bit

confusing exactly what's happening here.

And finally, you could address the

resignation pulling out of the war cabinet

of Gans, who is seen as Netanyahu's number one competitor,

his main opposition. He was part of the war cabinet. He's out. He says that Netanyahu does not

have a plan going forward for dealing with Hamas and Gaza.

And it's my sense that he is, that Gantz is aligned with the Biden White House, his plan going forward.

And perhaps he's going to be the, the man that they would like to engineer into the prime

ministership of Israel.

Anyway, what is going on in this region?

I think we're perhaps starting to enter the end game of the Gaza crisis. And it's playing out,

if you go back and watch our various programs, going all the way back to October, it's playing

out almost exactly as we said it would. We said that the focal place to look at, a lot of people

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