Israel begins its ground offensive to take Gaza City.

We will have reflections on the imminent Jewish New Year with a long-time friend of the podcast.

And the President of France raises the threat of economic sanctions against Israel.

And he conveys that message via one half of the unholy hosting team. And it's not me.

It's unholy. I'm Jonathan Friedland in London. And I'm Unlevy in Paris.

It's unholy.

Two Jews on the news.

I will explain what I'm doing in Paris in a minute.

We wanted to mention something else, Jonathan.

We did. We did.

If you are a listener to this podcast via Apple podcast, you'll notice it looks a tiny bit different

because there is a new button on

our page, as it were, which tells you that you can listen to bonus episodes if, big if,

you are a friend subscriber to the pod. Now, lots of you already are, and we are hugely grateful.

But if you're not, you need to become a friend or subscriber to hear all those bonus episodes, lots of extra content.

We are doing an extra bonus episode this very week, your need.

And the way to get those is to press that button and subscribe.

So with that bit of promotional work done, what has taken you to Paris?

There was a bit of a clue in our opening menu, but you're

there on big work. Anna Simon, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, wanted to speak

directly to the Israeli public and explain his rationale in pushing forward an initiative to

recognize a Palestinian state of the UN General Assembly next week.

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