ziad hafiz, former head of the arab national conference, political writer and commentator, thanks million dr. ziad, it's really early in the morning in washington, so thank you for being with us, now initially the americans seemed basically adamant on trying to find some sort of a balance between the zionist entity and lebanon, but following the latest speech of hizbillah secretary general. law zionist uh israel has resorted again to the policy of victimhood and the policy of uh self-pity uh which basically it masters usually to just attract more uh some sort of uh unconditional western support every time it wants to wage a war uh but uh setting western support aside for this particular matter is escalating the war with lebanon currently an actual viable option for zienist israel? "the short answer to that is no, it's not a viable option, but the point is nowadays we are no longer seeing neither in israel nor in the united states or the collective." per say rational thinking and rational behavior. i think the state of israel and its sponsors, united states and the collective west are more