Now it's been a long week after week in the horror which has unfolded of course since the 7th of October.

What we know this week is there has been the assassination of Isma Haniu.

Now that's obviously the Israeli state, Mossad, will have done that, though they never claim responsibility.

He was assassinated in Tehran. Israel has also said that Mohammed Dave, who was killed in a strike which

killed huge numbers of Palestine civilians last month, that he was killed. We have an escalation ongoing of course with

Hezbollah Lebanon and we've had riots in Israel in support of the right to torture and frankly rape Palestinian detainees.

There's quite a lot that's happened and we've got a brilliant guest to talk about this with.

We spoke earlier this year with the Israeli analyst

Ory Goldberg. You all loved what he had to say. You were all very educated, as was

I. So I thought it made sense to go and talk to Orie, not least because

his specialism includes not just what's going on with Israel and guards but the

broader Middle East. So Orie, great to speak to you again. How you did?

As well as may be expected Owen, that's a loaded question to ask somebody in the Middle East

at the moment.

Yeah, of course.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for having me.

It's always a pleasure, always in honor, yes, as well as can be expected. I suppose it probably is a better way of asking.

Let's just start with the assassination of Ismail Haney in who is of course the political leader of Hamas.

This was in the context of negotiations over a hostage deal potentially as well as a negotiations between the main Palestinian factions

obviously fat-time Hamas over unity brokered by China.

Extremely embarrassing, I would say, for the Iranian states,

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