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after the israeli military carried out one of the largest air strikes in recent months in gaza and lebanon targeting sites of the islamist group hamas. the latest we are hearing from israel itself is their chief of staff has called up reserve soldiers in air defence units, fighterjet pilots and drone operators. israel says they are in retaliation for a major rocket attack on israel launched from southern lebanon, which the israelis blame on hamas. carine torbey who is in beirut for us....

Leaders either at the israeli or palestinian side willing or able to make the kinds of decisions that are required even to structure a negotiating process. having been involved for decades to broker agreements, the raw materialfrankly is not there. the americans are preoccupied with ukraine and rising china, their own elections and frankly, the region, a source of support however ambivalent towards palestinians, they have also decided in large part, the abraham accords, to go their own way. so i...