Israel and the U.S. at war together.

The war against Iran is the fight that the Israeli leadership wanted for decades, and today much of this country supports.

But many eyes here are on Washington, an unprecedented military and intelligence partnership, but also the unpredictability that comes with President Trump.

Can a war launch together be ended together?

And is there a limit to U.S.-Israeli

partnership coming up on a special edition of Compass Points?

Hello and welcome to a special edition of Compass Points. Hello and welcome to a special edition of Compass Points from Israel. This is a nation at war, besieging Iran in the name of trying to foment the collapse of the

regime, and besieging Lebanon, trying once and for all to extinguish Hezbollah control

in Beirut and along Israel's northern

border.

And it's absorbing constant Iranian attacks after nearly two and a half years of being at war

since the October 7 terrorist attacks that has strained this society.

We focused recently on Washington's perspective on this war.

To understand the view from here, my conversation tonight with Ronan Bergman

of the New York Times, one of the region's premier investigative journalists. Ronan Bergman,

thanks very much. Good to see you again. Same here. Welcome to my house, our house. Thank you for

having us. How do you think this war began? The short answer, I think if it wasn't for October 7, we would not be sitting here

now discussing a full-scale war between Iran and Israel. Because it's hard to underestimate how much

October 7th changed Israel and has since changed the region. And it's hard to underestimate

the vision of Yichu Sinoa, not just, the former head of Hamas, not just to get

Hamas to a total surprise attack. He said if we're able to recruit the other parts of the resistance,

so Iran, Hezbollah, the Qudsis, the Palestinian Islamic jihad, all of these,

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