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In almost every other arena, the left would be aligned with Israel.

What was confusing to me is that people could see what happened on October 7th and think

that being on the side of Hamas was being pro-Palestinian. It was so clear that

what Hamas was doing was incredibly destructive to their own people and sort of cynically

using their own people to hide behind as a strategy of their war. Like the higher the death

count, the more they were winning their cynical political strategy and PR strategy here.

And so if you care about the Palestinian people, the idea that you would celebrate October 7th or be against Israel's fight to get rid of Hamas did not make any sense to me.

Yeah. to me. It's 9 p.m. on Saturday, October 18th here in New York City, Shavua Tov. It's 4 a.m. on Sunday, October 19th, in Israel, where Israelis are beginning a new week.

Before the news update and today's conversation, just one housekeeping note. A reminder that this Thursday night, October 23rd,

Amit Segal, Nadavail and I will be hosting our first live podcast together following the Israel Hamas deal that was

brokered by the Trump administration. We will be together in New York City at the Stryker Center.

From Jerusalem and across the Middle East to Washington, D.C., there are still a lot of unanswered

questions about how this plan will be implemented. And there is news developing as we speak. In fact,

Nadav and Amit will have news to update all of us on that evening. Plus, we'll be getting into a lot

of analysis about how we got here and where we go from here. If you would like to attend,

please go to the show notes and follow the Stryker Center link to register.

Also, for Inside Call Me Back subscribers that will be in attendance, you will also be receiving

a free autograph copy of a meet's new book, a call at the event.

So that's a pretty good reason to become an Inside Call Me Back subscriber.

Again, there's a link in the show notes to subscribe to Inside Call Me Back,

and there will also be a link to attend the Stryker event.

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