Revenge, retaliation or a proportionate response? Will the war spread to the entire Middle East? Why did the US president travel to Israel? What are the important messages for Israel and the Arab states in the region? How can the United States simultaneously support and restrain Israel? How can Washington prevent Palestinian civilians from becoming victims in its retaliatory strikes against Hamas? Can international diplomacy avoid the entire Middle East peace process from being disrupted? How can one wage war in the era of cellphone recordings and instant global publicity? How can a state wage war against a terrorist organization? Is Hamas maintaining a dictatorship in the Gaza Strip? Is it using the civilian population as hostages? What can the world do to end the intolerable conditions in the Gaza Strip? What can international public opinion do with the fact that Hamas and Hezbollah are both armed terrorist organizations and political entities organizing local administration? What mistakes did the Israeli government and intelligence services make? What impact will all of this have on Israeli policy in the long term? Why can't we find the right partners on the Palestinian side? How can we settle the Middle East in a way that also solves the Palestinian issue? Which regional state is interested in this? Why is Iran doing everything it can to prevent this? How can Israel fight Hamas, how can it eliminate its military capabilities? And: how can we ensure that the permanent war situation based on mutual revenge does not arise again and again? Where did Hamas' military organization grow stronger? Where does it get its money, knowledge, and men? Did it also get ammunition from the aid? How are the Israeli water, food, and electricity blockades, as well as the harsh military retaliation, pushing the civilian population of the Gaza Strip and Hamas together? Is it possible to know how many actually support Hamas? What will be the fate of the hostages? Who is the US warship sent to the region threatening? Can it prevent the spread of the armed conflict, the entry of Iran, Hezbollah and other armed groups in the region into battle? To what extent does the Israeli and Ukrainian war divide the military power and assistance capabilities of the United States? How much and what kind of weapons should Washington now give to Israel? Will this weaken its ability to provide assistance to Ukraine? How do China and Russia view the fact that the United States has to support another country at war? What influence do the Arab states of the region have on Hamas? What is the purpose and interest of the European Union in the region? How much is the migration pressure increasing? How much could the terrorist threat to Europe increase? Péter Tálas, head of the Strategic Defense Research Institute of the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences, in the Inforádió Aréna program on 18.10.2023. Podcast. Subscribe to InfoRádió's YouTube channel and be the first to know about the latest uploads! Follow us on the internet: http://infostart.hu/ Follow us on Facebook: / infor%c3%a1di%c3%b3-118703541479581 Inforádió. Hungary's news radio. The news radio.