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Speaker 1: Internationally once again the spectrum of the so called all

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Speaker 1: out war in the Middle East. Tensions heightened the Israeli

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Speaker 1: strike to continue overnight in his Bla, of course, or

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Speaker 1: against his BLA. And Lebanon journalist and analyst Gideon Levy

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Speaker 1: back with us morning, Good morning to you. What's your

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Speaker 1: sense of whether this is a specific escalation that will

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Speaker 1: peter out in time or something bigger.

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid it's something bigger because I don't see anything

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Speaker 2: stopping it. There's no incentive, there is no mediator, there

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Speaker 2: is no leadership, and I don't see how will it stop.

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Speaker 2: Israel insist on its own conditions. Isabella seems to be

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Speaker 2: ready to sacrifice, and we are stuck in another bloodbath.

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Speaker 1: So as regards resource and intent from the Israeli side,

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Speaker 1: are they being worn down by fighting on all these

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Speaker 1: different fronts now or not?

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Speaker 2: Until now it's working? The big, big question is now,

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Speaker 2: if it's the northern front, will get into a ground up.

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Speaker 2: This might be too big and too complicated to have

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Speaker 2: two ground operations in two fronts with a quite exhausted army,

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Speaker 2: with the people who is quite lost and demoralized. With

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Speaker 2: the international status of Fasuel, which is rather closer to

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Speaker 2: a pariah state than anything else. This might be very

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Speaker 2: very hard. As long as it's only those air strikes

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Speaker 2: as well, can handle it easily.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you writes two very good points. One the international support.

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Speaker 1: What's your assessment of where that's at and how long

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Speaker 1: it goes for and how enthusiastic it remains.

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Speaker 2: Let's be very clear when we talk about international support,

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Speaker 2: it's first of all the United States above all, because

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Speaker 2: it's not only because United States is the biggest supplier

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Speaker 2: of as well, but the United States has also its

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Speaker 2: influence on Europe, on your country, and Australia on many

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Speaker 2: other countries. So it's all about the United States and

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Speaker 2: the United States until now play the very strange game

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Speaker 2: on one hand asking Israel, calling Israel to put an

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Speaker 2: end to the war, including the speech of President Biden

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Speaker 2: just yesterday in the Assembly, and in the same time,

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Speaker 2: the United States is applying Israel in an unconditioned way,

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Speaker 2: an almost unlimited way with weapons and demunition. As long

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Speaker 2: as this continues, Israel has a cart blanche to continue

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Speaker 2: the war no matter if there are demonstrations against Israel

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Speaker 2: or they are not. The question is if the American

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Speaker 2: administration will turn from talkings to actions, and this does

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Speaker 2: not seem soon, especially in a campaign and an election campaign.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll stay in touch. Getting appreciate to Gideon

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Speaker 1: Levey out of Israel this morning. For more from the

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