but the timing that you asked, my a former colleague at the jerusalem post i could talk about was actually more significant because of 2 things that he didn't mention. one is that the iran talks about reconstituting the iran nuclear dealer, are speeding up again, which is something in both israel and egypt are against. and the other is the rocket fire from hamas on israeli civilians that has resumed. and there were, were talks between bennett and see, see about how to end up. mcgill was just talking about iran, which certainly was higher on the agenda this meeting between president cc and prime minister. been it from your perspective. how much can the warming of relations between israel and egypt act as a bulwark against iranian expansion in the region? you know, certainly there's that there is a potential for that. and there, obviously in the talk, as you mentioned in your lead up, they're going to talk about iran. that's going to be a point of emphasis. no, no, obviously talk about how mass. but i think also the timing. i think what i said yesterday, and what you mentioned in the introdu

let's bring in our guest, in west jerusalem, gil hoffman's chief political correspondent at the jerusalem post. welcome to the program. thank you for joining us on inside story. how significant was this trip by prime minister bennett to meet with the president? >> this was a squeeze between the sisi and the u.n. general assembly meetings in the yuan. -- u.n. the fact that this was held before the u.n. means that they want to push the israelis into a more serious effort in the peace process. we know that on the record, they have been very honest. they don't want to have any talks with the palestinians. that is in a way good but time,. what is the purpose of having these meetings if there is not going to be an end to the occupation? that is the main goal of the arab side. we have to find a way to get the israeli prime minister to change its position from saying we don't want any diplomatic talks with the palestinians to start a serious discussion about the two state solution. >> at a time when prime minister bennett is trying to establish his foreign-policy credentials, how much of a boost did t

it's been well covered in the jerusalem lem post, why at a time when we have 1,200 americans dying every day of covid is this not something that's being pushed? i strongly encourage our health establishment to familiarize themselves with what right now looks like a miracle drug. my final comment is with regard to the pro-life issue. when you consider the hundreds of thousands of people who would have been born every day in this country but who have their lives cut short before they are born, you can see why this is another issue that our press corps should be talking about, our churches should be talking about. already there have been big changes of policy under the new administration. first of all in the past under the mexico city policy if money was going to an international organization, if that international organization was performing abortions, they could not have the money. we changed that, president biden changed it saying, you can't use that money directly for an abortion, since money is fungible your organization can take the good name of the united states and use it to prosely