U.S. elections, four days away, we will talk to one of the leading voices of liberal America,

Rachel Maddow. And a lot is happening in the region. Will Iran retaliate for Israel's attack?

Is a deal between Israel and Hezbollah and a deal between Israel and Hamas within reach?

What's next for humanitarian aid in Gaza? And why are the writers who think that boycotting other writers will solve anything in this mad world?

Yes, we're Jews. There are more questions than answers.

I'm Inuit Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

Thank you. Unholy, two Jews on the news, as you say, lots of Jews, lots of questions, and then, and lots of news.

Oh, my word. I mean, we've said this perennially, this last year especially, but we're really, you know, at the business end of a US election. And I think there was, I'm going to call it not an assumption, but a hope that things might quieten down because of that. But on the contrary, all of the Middle East stuff is still very, very hot.

Since we've last spoke, and we'd always talked about, I mean, there's so much, we'd list how much, but one of the big ones is obviously, because we talked about it in anticipation for

so long, Israel's response to the October, the first Iranian barrage of ballistic missiles. And last weekend it finally

came. I mean, listen, the news is so intense that what happened, this retaliatory attack that we

have been anticipating happened six days ago. And it looks like it's a little bit old news now.

That's how mad this world is. So yes, let's, you know, I was on air first. It looks like it's a little bit old news now.

That's how mad this world is.

So, yes, I was on air for seven hours.

Let's at least summarize it in seven sentences what happened on that night.

You know, Israel has never attempted to do something as complex as that night of attacks on Iran, unprecedented, following, of course,

unprecedented attacks by Iran against Israel twice on April and on October 1st, as you said,

Jonathan.

So first of all, Israel attacking aerial defenses in Iran, also attacking or damaging severely

Iran's surface-to-air missile deployment. And also the drone

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