The history of Israel's wars is a history of kicking cans down the road.

I mean, that's how Israel has stayed alive these past 78 or so years.

1956 solved Israel's problems for a while.

Then came 67.

But, you know, I mean, that's the story.

Israel has enough power to postpone reckonings, but not to end them.

It's unholy. I'm Unonite Levy in Tel Aviv.

And I'm Jonathan Friedland in London.

And the clock stops on day 40. It's ceasefire. The voice you heard at the top of the show is Brett

Stevens of the New York Times. We'll talk about the war with him and also later in the program

as the coalition here in Israel continues its legislation.

Missiles or no missiles, we will discuss the extremely controversial death penalty bill

with an expert who sat on in the committee deliberations in the Knesset.

But for now, Jonathan, can I share with you a little bit about a little bit of what went through

my head when I woke up this morning.

Well, you tell me, I'm not going to guess what goes through your mind, but my word, what a week

it's been from where you are. So yes, walk me through it. What a week? What 40 days? I mean,

we should say we're talking on Thursday afternoon, on the night. Very early on Wednesday,

it was clear that a ceasefire was taking hold after

40 days of war between the U.S. and Israel versus Iran. I mean, just to say, I woke up Thursday

morning, and the first thought I had in my head was, what is this feeling? It's nice, but I don't

know what it is. And then I realized, oh, I've actually

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