u. k. natasha winsted, a specialist on u. s. foreign policy and deputy dean in the department of government at the university of essex. natasha is also author of democracies and authoritarian regimes. and in arlington, virginia in the united states salad again the senior fellow at the middle east institute and author of blind spot american and america, and the palestinians from bow 4 to trump. good to have you with us. natasha lynch, that if i could start with you. this is the 1st time in 12 years that american president is meeting with an israeli prime minister who is not benjamin netanyahu. i suspect the optics of this will be more important than anything else at this point, but what is the brightest button administration looking to get out of this? yeah, do you think it really is more about the optics particularly because for biden, he's dealing with the crisis in afghanistan. i think look a bit chaotic and he wants me to look at business as usual. i think that he does want to try to assure israel that iran is a threat, bu