peace activist and author of the general son journey of an israeli in palestine in tel aviv we have gideon levy he's a columnist and member of the hots editorial board all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want gideon there's such a there's a concept called the october surprise meaning right before a month before a presidential election something happens to change it ok and our viewers may know some of those events what do you think the possibility is that israel unilaterally could attack iran if netanyahu is called gone to the united nations and made his case i mean he thinks he's right. it's hard to imagine the. take in the coming weeks it's really almost impossible to imagine it even though you know by itself when you speak about surprise you speak about something which might be unexpected which must be unexpected but if we are really talking ration the lead there is no chance that it was the do something right now as long as it is perceived as a ration of the country you know mico it i think that gideon really hit the nail on the head here be

gideon really hit the nail on the head here because in western media and we hear from a lot of israeli officials from the right wing is that the move those are irrational all of those all the leadership in iran is irrational that's why they can't have the bomb eccentric cetera but i think getting it right i mean we get a lot of irrationality coming out of people like netanyahu. yes that's true at the same time i would say that israel needs the iran issue and the iran threat as a distraction it's used it for several years now as a smokescreen so that it can continue the brutal oppression the killing of the incarceration the torture of palestinians so that it can continue holding thousands of palestinian political prisoners so that it can destroy towns and villages so that it can keep people in gaza in this in this awful concentration camp and all the time all the while people talk about iran iran i think it's a bluff i think the whole iran thing is a bluff and a myth but. generally the israeli the state of israel knows how to use this very skillfully to its advantage so on the one hand

and even he truly believes that they're going to be able to weaponize well a bomb very very soon gideon what do you think about this i mean is this just people being gullible or are they just on someone's payroll or is it a ideological i mean how do you explain your american colleagues you know your friends in america and when you look at how they think i mean you must be aghast. let's talk peter about that and you know you can raise the same questions for an attorney who himself doesn't really believe in what he say or does he many people ate everything and here i must say i know much less obviously about american think tanks than this thing things but they are all inspired by what they hear from the tell you how and his environment and i can tell you that i truly believe this is. as a credit for the senate and yell i truly believe that the guy he's deeply convinced that iraq is presenting. danger to israel and seeing the tea truly believes that he's the messiah who would save the jewish people and the state of his from another holocaust i think this is quite deep rooted in his way of

peace activist and author of the general son journey of an israeli in power stein in tel aviv we have gideon levy he's a columnist and member of the editorial board all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want get in there's such a there's a concept called the october surprise meaning where.

to be sued by james didion, the trustee, and he will be soon by a joint sort of attack between the gideonsnd the plaintiffs lawyers that are already filing suits. he faces millions upon millions of civil liabilities. jon corzine is telling his friends that he is not -- he may never start a hedge fund and he's definitely not doing one now. he has made that sort of the ridiculous the surgeon you can create a registered hedge fund by doing that. we should point out that testimony means nothing other than everyone knew that he would get this tax money. the investigations do continue. doubtful criminals, highly likely that he will face something on the civil and the notion that he is just a bad manager. you don't go to jail for being a bad manager. but they have rules and regulations about management. i think what is interesting, and i know that you're pressed for time, next month there will be a report by the house financial services committee on this. what they will show is that jon corzine may have been one of wall street's worst managers ever. gerri: my heart goes out to the farmers and cus