All right. We are live with Alexander Mercuris and we have with us the excellent Professor Jeffrey Sacks.

Gentlemen, we have about 30 minutes. We have a lot to discuss. So a quick hello to everybody that is

watching us, Alexander, Professor Sacks. Let's jump into it. By the way, I have all of Professor Sacks's

information where you can follow him in his work in the description box down below, and I will

add it in comment as well. Alexander, Professor Sacks, let's talk about what is going on in Syria.

Let's go straight in because obviously we've had dramatic events in Syria, a collapse of the Assad government just after just a few weeks.

Assad is now in Moscow, lots of news coming from Syria itself.

Professor Sachs, let's go straight in since I know you have very time limited today.

Thank you, by the way,

for joining us to start that. Great to be with you as always. Tell me, let's have, tell us your

views, your views, and then we can take it from there, your overall views. I think the,

interesting starting point is a statement by Netanyahu a couple of days ago.

He gave a press conference.

He said that this is a completion of a step-by-step process that Israel has been pursuing.

And I think that that is not bragging, if I could put it in that odd way. I think that

that is an accurate statement of what has happened. But it's not only an Israeli effort of the last

few months with its war on Hamas and Hezbollah, which dramatically weakened

the military base of the Assad government, which depended on Hezbollah for its military backing.

But this is a campaign of Israel, as Netanyahu himself said,

that is to remake the Middle East, that goes back 30 years, actually. Now, let me state at the

outset, I think Netanyahu is a madman. I think what Israel has done is destructive beyond belief.

But the point is that there has been a plan. The plan has been to remake the Middle East in Israel's image, if you will.

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