Zavica Kline joins us now, the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post,

thanks so much.

Did I get your first name right?

Uh, it's pretty close.

All right.

Zavikov, so my apologies.

All good.

So you're here for the annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York City.

Regardless of October 7th, you would have had this conference.

Yeah, we would have had it, but it's just so different.

I haven't been to America actually since October 7th and and it's wow you know it's both Israel and America have have gone through these you know

Distrubing trends I would say and in situations. Yeah how do you think how would you characterize the IDF's

military operation that's a big question I would say the IDF took it took a while for the idea to get its act together and then you know many friends of

mine are fighting and have been fighting and people that left their families

for months behind.

I think the government, because of international pressure

and other reasons, kind of did not give them

enough of a leeway to operate fast and more exact.

And I think also the pressure from the US

now with the issue of international,

with the military aid, is a big issue right so whether it affects

it or not the US saying we're not going to give you aid is something that affects the way you are

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