Welcome to God God What Now, the politics podcast, it's not weird, you're weird.

I'm Andrew Harrison and on today's show as the dust settles from the far right riots of the past couple of weeks

has the violence and the backlash against it changed the country or revealed something about it.

We look at the aftermath and the big task is defeating the far right.

Plus, Kamala Harris has overtaken Donald Trump in the national polls

and the Democrats look like they're having fun at last.

Will the Democrats new found energy under Harris give them the edge and will the Republicans ever find an attack line that works against her and waltz?

Let's meet the panel. First up it's Guardian columnist Raff Bear. How are you doing?

I'm very well thank you Andrew how are you?

I'm not bad we're going to start with the cheerful stuff the US is

sending additional fighter jets and warships to the Middle East as it looks increasingly likely that

Iran and its allies are going to attack Israel after the assassination of

K Hamas figures.

The Israeli defence mistake, you have Gallant told the US that Iran is getting ready for a large-scale

attack on Israel.

What would that mean?

How likely is it and how pessimistic are you in general?

Taking the last question first, I'm pretty pessimistic, but with relations to the Middle East, that's pretty much taken as red isn't it?

Look I mean you know you can go back as far in time as you like to see the roots of

conflict in the Middle East but I think the key thing that we have to bring

into perspective here is actually what happened in April where there already

was a relatively large scale attack by Iran on Israel again in retaliation then for in that

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