founder of none of the above media, and via skype from the borders, scotland, author and journalist ivan ridley. thank you both for being here. let me start with you, ivan, 24 israeli occupation soldiers killed in the battered enclave, in a single incident, what kind of impact will that have do you think on the israely population, have by and large been supportive of the genocide in gaza? well, this will uh, without doubt crush the moral of the israeli army, um, an army which has become known for some of its rather amateurish pranks and youtube and and tik tok escapades, the former... us marine and former un weapons inspector scott ritter has been very derisary about the military abilities and capabilities of the israeli army and i would say that that is largely because this is quite a different army to the one that fought in the 1967 wars, this is an army which polices women and children, which pulls the hijabs off the heads of unarmed palestinian women, which regularly rounds up and arrests and locks up children. this is an army which doesn't ordinarily engage with soldiers, now it is fully e