Thank you for having me again, stephen. Ambassador Danny Danon in new york, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me again, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. Now, israel is currently fighting a multi front war. How much pressure, both military and diplomatic, would you say israel is under right now . Stephen, a year after October 7th and israel is still under attack, not only from hamas In Gaza, but also from lebanon, yemen, iraq, iran. We have seven fronts, and unfortunately we have casualties. Israelis are dying from those rockets, but we are determined, we are determined to win this war. We realise we dont have any other choice, and that is why we have seen that we moved forward both In Gaza and with hezbollah. You know, we are a peaceful nation. If you would have asked me a year before that what we are doing now will happen, i will tell you, no way, because we have no desire to be in any conflict, not with hamas, not with iran, not with hezbollah. And all those a
Where monitoring this is the time being butjustjoining us, there is a live situation going on in the united states, in georgia, the us state of georgia. This is right outside of atlanta where Reuters News Agency have reported that two people have been killed and at least four people have been injured. So, we are continuing to monitor this for you in the moment we get any more updates, will bring them to you and from my understanding from the statement of authorities is that this is still a live situation and those responsible have not been apprehended and when monitoring not for you, the other live story, the other live shot that where monitoring is from israel where we are expecting the israeli Leader Benjamin Netanyahu to speak eminently, we are expecting to speak half an hour ago but the timings of slipped. But follow on his apology that he made earlier on this week, apologising and asking for forgiveness from israelis for failing to return the six hostages that were found killed in
we begin in uvalde, texas, where a long awaited report into a deadly school shooting has been highly critical of the police. it found, what they describe, as a cascading failures of leadership, decision making, tactics, policy and training, when the gunman burst into robb elementary school in 2022 hundreds of police officers rushed to the scene but it took more than an hour for them to confront him. in that time, the gunman murdered i9 students and two teachers. that delay sparked outrage among the victims families and across the us more widely, and it prompted the us department ofjustice to investigate, producing today s report that runs 600 pages long. the us attorney general merrick garland visited families in uvalde, and he called the police he said the victims deserved better. in the hours and days after, it was a failure that should not have happened. we was a failure that should not have happened. have happened. we hope to honour the have happened. we hope to
aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length
aida touma sliman injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, thank you, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. let me ask you a simple first question how much has changed for you and for your community in israel since october the 7th? oh, you can think about it in this way. there was a life, that is not so easy before october 7th, but now it is unbearable after october 7th. we were thinking that our main struggle would be for peace, and the occupation of our own people in the west bank and gaza, and struggling for our rights to be equal citizens, and to have equality and to be able to develop our community in an equal way like thejewish community in israel. after october 7th, although before that we felt racism, after 7th october, we feel really threatened. we feel terrorised also on the establishment level from ministers and policies led by the government, and from the general public. we became suddenly as if terrorists in potential. i want to talk at length a