Good afternoon folks. Welcome to the podcast of the lotices for the 10th of October 2023. I'm joined by

Bo and Dan and they're going to be talking about what has happened recently in

Israel. Now before we begin I apologize I have a bit of the sniffles so I'll do my best

not to cough and splutter but I may not be able to avoid it and we are going to try and

make sure that this coverage is sensitive and neutral.

Seem to object to it.

No, no, not objection.

It's just where possible if possible.

It's a minefield right? Yeah, where possible. It's a minefield right?

Yeah. We are definitely not going to make everybody happy with this one. It's impossible

with the subject like this. No. So before we begin, should we talk about our particular investment in the subject?

Because I have to be honest, I don't really want to have anything to do with the Middle East.

On a personal level, I'm not particularly invested in one side or another. That's not to say that I made

favour of one side killing the other or anything like that. It's just such a horrific minefield. I don't want to get involved is how I feel about it.

Yeah I mean I'm neither a Muslim nor a Jew or Jewish person sorry

let's say Jewish people instead of Jew. They I incur the terrifying wrath of Michael Rappaport.

Yeah, yeah, not really invested.

Obviously I'm a history fan, so, and ancient history as well, is really my forte so it's the history of it is it's

of endlessly interesting to me but the actual fighting on the ground is you know I don't have a dog in the game. So that's where I come to it.

I feel very much like an outside observer here.

Yeah, I mean this is something I follow for many years and I'd say that, you know, with maturity comes

looking at it with a little bit more nuanced.

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