wakeham all by israel against his enemies without seriously addressing the injustice against the palestinian people and are these developments taking place according to a grand us strategy for the region or in spite of it. today we're talking with political science, a steven wall, who teaches international affairs at harvard university. steven, thank you so much for joining us today. let me just start out with the fact that we've got a lot of conflicts going on in the region. we've seen now the death of hospitalized liter. uh, we've seen the death of the political leader of hamas is, is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu succeeding in the short term. yes, israel has achieved a number of really impressive tactical successes. some of them were not in any real doubt, it was obvious that if israel wanted to use its military powers to decimate guys, that it could do that. but some of the more surprising the page your attack against has again, testable forces for example, is something that i think to almost everybody by surprise. the big question is whether or not you can translate those tac