What should we have for dinner Trevor? We've got a few bits in the fridge.

Beets me, Connie.

Hang on, I'll use my phone.

How about a nice prawn curry?

Whoa, that's amazing, Connie. You got a chef living inside your phone

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Can the phone what the dishes do, Connie?

On the one hand, Israel having sustained this terrible blow feels compelled, not only justified, but compelled, to restore the Terence, to signal to Iran, to Hezbollah to everybody in the region

that it will not stand by as Iran's weakest proxy in the Middle East Hamas inflicts that kind of damage

that Israel has to change the equation it has to change the rules of the game and

I think in some respects Israel also understands that all the

relationships that it has cultivated over the last decade with the UAE with Bahrain with Sudan with Morocco of course continuing

the relationship with Egypt and Jordan and indeed the prospect of a historic peace deal with Saudi Arabia depend on the perception of Israel being

a competent and powerful state.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

We were looking forward to running an episode this week on a really interesting book by Jonathan Raout called The Happiness Curve about the way in which the happiness of people varies over the course of their lifespan, but given the events in Israel and the Middle East, we changed plan at the last minute, and I'm going to have a conversation about a rather more sobering issue with terrible Hamas led a terrorist attack that killed over a thousand innocent civilians in Israel, the biggest slaughter of Jews since World War II,

and the evolving geopolitical crisis that is resulting including the Israeli attack on Gaza.

To talk about this I've invited Amahai Magan. He is a visiting fellow at the Freeman Spogley Institute at Stanford University as well as a professor in Israel.

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