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Speaker 1: So the Israeli run conflict dent is a fourth day

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Speaker 1: this why so far? Over two hundred and iron nineteen

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Speaker 1: in Israel features editor a Jewish news syndicate and former

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Speaker 1: editor in chief at Jerusalem Post, Steve Linda's with a

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Speaker 1: Steve morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: What's your sense of where this goes over the coming weeks?

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Speaker 1: Do we have any idea or does it just carry on?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've definitely witnessed an escalation since the war began

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Speaker 2: on Friday, So this is the fourth day. We've just

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Speaker 2: had a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin attan Yahoo

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Speaker 2: in Israel, and he seems to think that Israel's on

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Speaker 2: the road to victory and that it shouldn't take much longer,

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Speaker 2: though he declined to say whether this would be days

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Speaker 2: or weeks. But we are seeing Iranian ballistic missile attacks

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Speaker 2: pretty much every day, every night, which sends, you know,

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Speaker 2: lots of Israelis into bomb shelters. Had at least twenty

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Speaker 2: four people killed since the began in Israel.

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Speaker 1: When Victor, when he uses the word victory, what does

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Speaker 1: victory look like?

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Speaker 2: Well, for him, I think victory looks like the end

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Speaker 2: of Iran's nuclear capabilities. On a visit to Iran to

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Speaker 2: an Israeli air base today, he said that victory is

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Speaker 2: the end of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. So

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Speaker 2: he said that Israel's on the path to achieving these

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Speaker 2: two goals now that the air space two Tehran is open.

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Speaker 1: What's your sense of the Steve were rewriting the Middle

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Speaker 1: East here or are we simply in a skirmish that

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Speaker 1: will curtail nuclear ambitions.

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Speaker 2: Well, from Nataniao's point of view, he's clearly trying to

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Speaker 2: change the face of the Middle East and realigning forces

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Speaker 2: for and against Iran. But it remains to be seen.

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Speaker 2: I think from the Americans point of view, especially Donald

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Speaker 2: trum they would like to get Iran back to the

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Speaker 2: negotiating table to strike some kind of a deal diplomatically.

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Speaker 2: So I think they're using this war between Israel and

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Speaker 2: Iran in a way to get Iran to come back

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Speaker 2: into the fold.

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Speaker 1: Any great expectation that anything tangible or material comes out

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Speaker 1: of the jew Seven this.

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Speaker 3: Week, well, I mean, like you, I'm a journalist, so

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Speaker 3: I don't really know. We'll have to wait and see,

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Speaker 3: but I think it's a very interesting situation. At the moment,

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Speaker 3: and the war certainly has made things very sensitive. So

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Speaker 3: we'll see if you know, the nations of the world

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Speaker 3: decide to take a strong stand, certainly with Britain and

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Speaker 3: France supporting Israel as well. At this time, I think,

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Speaker 3: you know, Israel has a few days to try to

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Speaker 3: end this and then it may alienate the world again

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Speaker 3: if it goes.

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Speaker 1: To Steve, appreciate your time very much. We'll start to

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Speaker 1: touch Steve Linda, who's the feature editor at the Jewish

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Speaker 1: new Syndicate former editor and chief at the Jerusalem Post.

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