let's speak to professor yossi mekelberg, senior consulting fellow of the mena programme at chatham housewhat is your immediate response or assessment to these attacks? i think the immediate response is, everyone dry to adhere to their own rules in this game. everyone expected israel would react to the attack on the 1st of october. it was just ahead of october. it was just ahead of the jewish of october. it was just ahead of thejewish high holidays so there was expectation that by there was expectation that by the end, the attack would take place, but also there was a relatively narrow window of opportunity to do that before the american election. without having to much of an impact on the american election, so the timing and also the targets, not nuclear targets in iran, not nuclear targets in iran, not oil, not targeting them but military targets, it also enables both sides to claim victory. from the israelite point of view, it used the targets it wanted and then hit some manufacturing capabilities of iran's missiles industry. from iran's point of view, because it took place in military