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Speaker 1: The air strikes continue as is well in Iran Exchange

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Speaker 1: find it Yah who says the attack so far and

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Speaker 1: nothing compared with what is coming. Gideon Levy as the

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Speaker 1: journalist analysts with us from Tel Abev. Gideon, morning to you,

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you. From all I've been able to

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Speaker 1: read over the weekend, the sense is this is a

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Speaker 1: fourteen day campaign with regime change in mind. Is that

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Speaker 1: fair or not?

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Speaker 2: It is fair except of the limit of fourteen days.

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Speaker 2: It might be forty, it might be four hundreds. You

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Speaker 2: know how it starts, You don't know how it will end.

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Speaker 2: Iran can take it for a long time Israel less,

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Speaker 2: but it might take I don't see right now, how

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Speaker 2: do we end it?

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Speaker 1: No, well, I was going to ask about that. In

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Speaker 1: general terms, the Iron Dome seems to have worked to

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Speaker 1: a degree, the parts that haven't. How difficult has it

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Speaker 1: been over the weekend?

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Speaker 2: It was, including today, including yesterday. It is tough. It's

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Speaker 2: maybe the toughest to take over Israel of a civilian

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Speaker 2: Israel ever. But for the short term it is bearable.

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Speaker 2: What is unbearable if it will go on like this

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Speaker 2: for months?

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Speaker 1: Does anybody know?

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Speaker 2: Though everybody knows it First of all, I can't not

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Speaker 2: to mention the fact that whatever we are going through

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Speaker 2: now is nothing compared to what the people of Gaza

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Speaker 2: went through in the last twenty months. Let's just put

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Speaker 2: it in our mind that what we are doing now

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Speaker 2: it's really a summer camp relatively to what they are

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Speaker 2: going through. But in any case, it is tough. It's

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Speaker 2: very tough, and I'm not sure that it's very societic

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Speaker 2: and handle it over a long period of time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how stretched is Israel by the time you deal

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Speaker 1: with Gaza and I ran and on the Gaza front,

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Speaker 1: the international community, the patients was worrying pretty thin. How

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Speaker 1: strich does Israel at the moment.

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Speaker 2: It is? It's the question is if you mean it

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Speaker 2: militarily military oka. I think is Work can handle it

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Speaker 2: because in Iran it's mainly almost only the air force,

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Speaker 2: so troops are not on the ground, and the main

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Speaker 2: force of Israel is still in Gaza and continues to

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Speaker 2: be and continue to kill and continue to destruct on

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Speaker 2: a daily basis without any purpose. The problem is the society,

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Speaker 2: the civil society. We are now quite paralyzed. I mean

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Speaker 2: nothing is working, schools are not working. People at home,

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Speaker 2: this is very nice for a short period of time.

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Speaker 2: It will not be accepted here for a very long time.

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Speaker 2: The airports are closed, there's no way to get out

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Speaker 2: of Israel right now, no way to get into Israel.

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Speaker 2: Are not normal realities and they cannot last for long.

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Speaker 1: Gidean, appreciate your time. Will stay in touch. Give and

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Speaker 1: Gideon Levy, who was an Israeli journalist, they had the

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Speaker 1: bot the confidence I told you about last week. He

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Speaker 1: needed sixty one to get there and he got the

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Speaker 1: sixty one just I'm also reading over the weekend. Interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: Hamas have got some major leadership vacuum. Basically all the

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Speaker 1: Sinewars have been killed, and so there's war council that

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Speaker 1: runs the place very secret, generally don't meet physically, a

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Speaker 1: lot of it's done over walkie talkie, so it can't

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Speaker 1: be tracked or traced. But they've had been so effective

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Speaker 1: the Israelis and getting the leadership Hamasa stretched at the

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Speaker 1: moment themselves that the whole place, of course, is a

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Speaker 1: complete anapomiss.

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