About the Episode

Kim Ghattas is an author contributor to the one of the best English language magazines in the world – The Atlantic. Ghattas is in Washington and Beirut. She says the Massive operation by Hamas inside Israel is very different from anything in past. It is Well planned, and must have taken months and must have outside support from Iran and it’s force based in Lebanon know as Hezbolla. Ghattas says this is a huge intelligence failure by Israel, caught totally unaware. At the moment of this recording we do not know how many Israeli Civilians and Military Personnel have been killed in Israel by Hamas and we do not know how many Israelis have been forcibly taken to Gaza. We do know that the Yom Kippur War began 50 years and 1 day ago. We don’t know how large this war will get. But we do know it will get much larger and bloodier than it is on this first day the War between Israel and Hamas. Will it become a wider war with Iran? That’s the major fear at the moment expressed by observers around the world.

From my Saturday Free Press Column, I wrote about the great mistake the Manitoba PCs would be making if they drift further right. The Right Wing thing doesn’t work in Winnipeg where 2/3 of the population lives. The Tories took only 3 out of 32 Winnipeg ridings and only won Tuxedo by 263 votes. I mention Tuxedo because the very reliable PC riding was was created 42 years ago. and has been held for nearly 23 years by Heather Stefanson, the person who will earn a footnote in history for being an elected Premier for nearly two years. Her riding bleeds blue. It has never been captured by another party. In the 10 elections up until this one, the PCs won every single time. The election math tells you that switching was going on everywhere from Tory Blue to NDP Orange. Winnipeg has 32 of the province’s 57 seats. On Oct. 3, the PCs took only three — barely more than 10 per cent. Call this year’s edition of the Manitoba PCs, “Ten per cent Tories.” The Manitoba Conservatives are at a crossroads. Go right or left. That’s the choice. If they go right, they will deliver a string of governments to the Ndp. As I say in my column they will turn Premier Kinew into King Kinew.