Welcome to today's program. My name is Glenn Dyson. I'm a professor of political science.

With me is Alexander Mercuris from the very popular Duran.

And the guest today is Alistair Crook, who's an excellent background from extensive diplomacy. Today we're going to discuss some of the

intelligence failure in Israel and also thereafter a bit about the Western approach to

Russia and perhaps support for somewhat unsavory political groups.

So, yeah, let's just jump straight into it.

We now have a war again in Israel.

Alistair, how do you see this?

What cost all of this?

How did this happen?

Could you give us an overview?

Yes, I'll try to do it briefly because I think many people haven't really understood the context.

And the context is really important. You know, it hasn't just

happened out of the blue that Hamas have decided to, you know, go through the fence and attack.

Israel, there is a background to it. And it's a background that goes back quite a long way.

But it's reached its apex. It's reached its sort of crucial point at the moment.

The first point that is really key to understand is that there has been a schism in Israel that is profound.

And the two sides are more or less equally balanced.

In fact, the balance in Parliament, and the balance has been, in an electoral term, shifting

towards what has now called the right.

It's a coalition, in fact, of groups of the national religious and the settler and other groups.

And that is now, if you like, has a majority in the Knesset, the parliament in Israel.

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