So there was no better guess, as I'm sure you'll all know, having seen my previous interviews with the wonderful

Palestinian American analyst over by that, than this, the current guest who I just introduced.

I've interviewed him two or three times now, and we've got a lot to talk about to say the least.

We last spoke and I think back in January I think and this hideous obscenity has descended into even darker depths since we spoke.

But it's a big honor to be able to speak to you again.

So hello.

Yeah, thank you so much. Now, I really appreciate the platform as well and it is indeed a horrific situation that, you know, we can't possibly ignore and I appreciate you bringing attention to it.

No, it's obviously crucial and, you know, whatever horror I feel is obviously magnified for you.

So, you know, it's always a huge honor to be able to speak to you. Do you know, let's speak with Iran and, you know, before we came on, we were talking about

there could be an impending Iranian strike and, you know, what that for this this part of the conversation and so

as in the stand Iran has not responded with a with it in a military sense and

though clearly Israel is trying to goad Iran into a military response

after particularly the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, I have we will just often lose a bit perspective here.

Whatever people think about the Iranian regime park that, if the British embassy was bombed

in a foreign country by another power or the American, I mean the American embassy somewhere was bombed.

Can you literally just imagine everyone? There would be a military response very quickly.

And so what's going on here? I mean, Netanyahu is trying to regionalize

this war, isn't it? So what's that all about? Tell me what you think.

Sure, no, I think this is exactly right. We are in a situation in which there is one goal that Israel is succeeding in achieving in Gaza, which is to destroy Gaza and punish the civilian population in the hopes of making Gaza

unlivable and finding a way to again to quote Benjamin Netanyahu himself

thin out the population in Gaza that onslaught and that horrific project is ongoing,

and it is effectively succeeding,

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