Now nearly a year on since this particular chapter all began.

There has been a dramatic escalation,

and particularly of course with regards to Lebanon.

And we've seen of course, course we've already done a video discussing

this the assassination of the Secretary General of Hezbollah and Hezbollah who was

assassinated last week but cruciallycially, with huge numbers,

uncountless, we don't know how many Lebanese civilians have been killed.

And of course, as ever, that particular death toll has become, not even secondary,

barely mentioned in all too much of the analysis of what's happening.

But we do need to be analytical, what's happening, what's the state of play,

you know, what's happening on the ground, what happens next.

And we've got a brilliant guest as ever or

or a goldberg who's a brilliant Israeli analyst we've interviewed we've

I was using the voyeur we here we all of us have been very lucky to have had the

wisdom and insight of orrie before and you've always been the

audience here very appreciative rightly so of everything Orie has had to say.

So Orie thank you so much for joining us again.

Oh it's my pleasure as it always is.

Let's start actually.

I think, I mean, do you think it's fair to say, I mean you're in Tel Aviv at the moment obviously where you live, that the Israeli state has moved

into a triumphalist phase. Also maybe than at any point, I mean at the beginning of this, Netanyahu, the Prime Minister,

was actually in a lot of political difficulty blamed for basically having left

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