The Ben Shapiro Show - Breaking News: Iran Attacks Israel

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, we are here live as Iran has now launched a massive missile barrage toward Israel.

00:00:05.000 Up to 450 missiles launched from Iranian territory at Israel.

00:00:10.000 They're being shot down all over the state of Israel, ranging from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, from the north to the south.

00:00:17.000 In Ashdod, the video is fairly astonishing.

00:00:20.000 Again, Israel is an extraordinarily technologically capable state so far.

00:00:24.000 There are no casualties reported despite this extraordinarily large missile barrage that is all over the heads of civilians.

00:00:31.000 I mean, I am texting with friends right now in Israel as we speak.

00:00:33.000 You'll see me probably do it during this particular broadcast.

00:00:36.000 Finding out if they're okay.

00:00:37.000 People are hiding in their mamads.

00:00:39.000 That is a safe room that people have in their homes.

00:00:42.000 People are hiding in Essentially, bomb shelters, places like malls, places in their buildings.

00:00:50.000 And they've been instructed by the Israel spokesperson, the IDF spokesperson, to be vigilant and act exactly according to the instructions of the Home Front Command.

00:00:58.000 Some of the video, again, is pretty amazing.

00:01:00.000 Here is some of the video of missiles dropping near Tel Aviv.

00:01:05.000 These bright flashes that you're seeing in the sky are Iranian missiles.

00:01:10.000 Okay, guys, we gotta get off the roof.

00:01:12.000 These are coming down right next to us here.

00:01:16.000 You can see there are some impacts.

00:01:17.000 Those impacts mostly are happening in non-populated areas.

00:01:22.000 Israel has two separate shoot-down systems in the Iron Dome, which is meant mostly for short-range rockets.

00:01:27.000 And then they also have something called David's Sling, which is a longer-range anti-missile system.

00:01:32.000 You can see some more video of the missiles coming down, as well as sirens that are ringing throughout Israel.

00:01:37.000 There was a fair bit of warning here so virtually all of the population is underground or in their safe rooms at this point.

00:01:43.000 They have been since about 5 p.m.

00:01:45.000 local time.

00:01:46.000 The missiles start actually dropping in Israel around 6 p.m.

00:01:48.000 6 15 p.m.

00:01:50.000 local time which is about seven hours ahead of the east coast.

00:01:53.000 So at this point, they've been dropping in Israel for the better part of an hour and

00:01:58.000 a half.

00:01:59.000 That was the first barrage of missiles.

00:02:00.000 There's going to be a second barrage of missiles apparently that will be launched as well.

00:02:03.000 Iran, of course, announcing that this is in retaliation for the death of Hassan Nasrallah,

00:02:07.000 the head of Hezbollah, which is the Iranian terror proxy group in Lebanon, which has been

00:02:10.000 absolutely devastated by the Israeli Air Force and the IDF.

00:02:13.000 The IDF, of course, yesterday went into southern Lebanon in an incursion in an attempt to clear

00:02:18.000 out tunnels and terror cells in southern Lebanon that were intending to perform a second October

00:02:24.000 7th this time on the northern border.

00:02:27.000 We're still awaiting what Israel's response will be.

00:02:29.000 Senior officials in Israel say it will be severe.

00:02:32.000 This is not going to be like the last round where Iran fired some 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel and then Israel responded with a sort of pinpoint attack demonstrating technological capability.

00:02:43.000 There will be a much heavier response.

00:02:44.000 We'll get to that in a little bit what that response could be.

00:02:47.000 Here's some more video of the missiles coming down and you can hear the sirens in the streets obviously.

00:02:51.000 You hear the voice of children obviously.

00:03:01.000 And these are coming over populated areas.

00:03:04.000 In spite of Iran trying to pretend that these are military strikes, these are not in fact military strikes.

00:03:08.000 They do not have the capacity to actually launch at specifically military areas.

00:03:12.000 These are all flying directly over civilian areas.

00:03:15.000 Here is some of the footage of the impact in southern Israel.

00:03:18.000 You can see this large barrage.

00:03:24.000 Again, when a large barrage falls to the ground like that, it's a fairly safe assumption that that is an open area,

00:03:30.000 considering that, again, Israel has pretty sophisticated anti-missile defenses at this point.

00:03:36.000 Over the Western Wall, the Wailing Wall, Israelis were told, despite the fact that it is

00:03:40.000 one of the holiest seasons of the year, we are going into Rosh Hashanah as an Orthodox Jew.

00:03:44.000 very often at late at night.

00:03:45.000 You are saying what are called Salicho, which are extra prayers that you say.

00:03:48.000 All those were canceled.

00:03:49.000 Mass gatherings were canceled earlier today.

00:03:51.000 Here are some interceptions over the Kotel in Jerusalem.

00:03:54.000 And just remember that for all the talk about how Iran cares deeply about the Palestinian population, these missiles are also over East Jerusalem, which is almost entirely Palestinian.

00:04:02.000 and of course anything that's above the western wall is also above the dome of the rock and the

00:04:06.000 Al-Aqsa mosque.

00:04:07.000 I'm getting all sorts of these sorts of videos from my friends in Israel who right now are

00:04:19.000 in their shelters and are just basically aiming their camera at the sky and seeing the exact same

00:04:25.000 President Biden has put out a statement says this morning the Vice President and I convened our national security team to discuss Iranian plans to launch an imminent missile attack against Israel.

00:04:31.000 We discussed how the United States is prepared to help defend Israel against these attacks and protect American personnel in the region.

00:04:37.000 All that is about is lukewarm a statement as I've ever heard.

00:04:41.000 That really does not give us a lot of information other than Kamala Harris is apparently the acting president of the United States.

00:04:46.000 Now would be an excellent time for the United States to make clear that they're going to back whatever play Israel makes to take out the giant terror state that is Iran. 0.99

00:04:54.000 Not that the United States needs to go to direct war with Iran, nobody's interested in that, but they simply will not get in the way. 0.98

00:04:59.000 They've been slow-walking aid to the Israelis in the middle of all this. 1.00

00:05:02.000 Israel, again, has already said that they are not going to go quietly after this one.

00:05:06.000 President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social as well, said, look at the world today, look at the missiles flying right now in the Middle East, look at what's happening with Russia, Ukraine, look at inflation destroying the world.

00:05:15.000 None of this happened while I was president.

00:05:17.000 And of course, he is totally correct about that.

00:05:19.000 If the president, the former president of the United States had remained the current president of the United States, the Abraham Accords would have been signed long ago.

00:05:26.000 Now, meanwhile, what is Israel going to do in retaliation?

00:05:30.000 Well, my guess is they're going to do something pretty severe.

00:05:32.000 There are a couple of different options that are on the table from what I hear.

00:05:36.000 And again, I'm not hearing anything that is specifically classified or anything like that, but these options have been widely discussed in the Israeli press as well as by Israeli officials.

00:05:44.000 Option number one is striking at Iran's nuclear facilities.

00:05:47.000 Iran, of course, has been in the business of developing a nuclear weapon for the better part of 20 years. 0.64

00:05:51.000 They are apparently at threshold levels of uranium development.

00:05:55.000 If Iran were to go nuclear, that would totally change the math in the Middle East.

00:05:58.000 Simply because, as you can see, there's great willingness by the Iranians to use ballistic nuclear technology. 0.88

00:06:03.000 They could possibly fire a ballistic missile at Israel tipped with a nuclear weapon.

00:06:06.000 And that, of course, would be an existential threat to the state of Israel. 0.75

00:06:11.000 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made this the centerpiece of his campaign against Iran for the better part of his entire career.

00:06:17.000 And so the severe possibility exists here that Israel will go and attempt to blow up or take out nuclear facilities in Iran.

00:06:24.000 The other thing that would be much easier for them to do, militarily speaking, because the nuclear facilities are largely underground.

00:06:29.000 Some of them have been hardened.

00:06:30.000 Now, again, is that going to stop Israel? 0.88

00:06:32.000 The place where they killed Hassan Nasrallah was also 60 meters underground and was hardened and apparently Nasrallah simply died from the pressure of the bomb blast.

00:06:41.000 So could Israel do something similar in Iran?

00:06:44.000 Possible.

00:06:45.000 We don't know the Israeli capacity to use bunker busters, for example, to go after say the Natanz nuclear facility.

00:06:50.000 However, the easier move would be to go after the Iranian oil and gas fields.

00:06:56.000 Here is a map of the Iranian oil and gas fields.

00:06:58.000 If you take a look at where this is on the map, you'll notice that this is in Western

00:07:01.000 Iran, right?

00:07:02.000 This is just the other side of the border with Iraq.

00:07:05.000 So that makes it much more close territorially to Israel than if they were located on the

00:07:09.000 other side of the country.

00:07:11.000 Obviously, if Israel were to strike at those oil fields, it would basically throttle the

00:07:14.000 Iranian economy completely.

00:07:16.000 It would lead to the significant possibility of some sort of actual internal revolution

00:07:20.000 inside Iran because they simply would have no money coming in.

00:07:23.000 The only working industry that Iran has at this point is the oil and natural gas industry.

00:07:28.000 By Israel blowing those up, it would effectively be imposing by military force what the Biden 0.99

00:07:33.000 administration has refused to do through economic sanctions.

00:07:36.000 So meanwhile, while all this is happening, there's a major shooting attack in Tel Aviv.

00:07:41.000 It was actually on the Tel Aviv is a series of cities.

00:07:44.000 Actually, the main center of Tel Aviv is Tel Aviv.

00:07:46.000 You go a little bit south and you get into Jaffa in Jaffa.

00:07:49.000 There was a major shooting attack This is just before the missiles launch.

00:07:53.000 Apparently, up to 10 people have been killed.

00:07:56.000 Two terrorists walked off the light train there and just started shooting everybody in sight.

00:08:01.000 There's a massacre on the street.

00:08:02.000 Here's a little bit of what that video looked like.

00:08:04.000 You can see the bodies lining the streets here.

00:08:13.000 here. The terrorists were killed on sight. There were rumors of a second terror attack.

00:08:20.000 There were rumors of a second terror attack.

00:08:23.000 Apparently that has not happened as of yet.

00:08:26.000 There is a rumor that perhaps another hotel in Herzliya, which again is located just outside of kind of traditional Tel Aviv, that there was an attack happening there.

00:08:34.000 That apparently has not happened.

00:08:36.000 According to the IDF, there were no casualties in that heavy Iranian barrage.

00:08:41.000 And there is in fact footage that we are gathering right now of the remains of an Iranian missile near Susia.

00:08:47.000 I would recommend, by the way, that if you want more footage and more real-time updates, that you check out Amit Segal.

00:08:52.000 Amit Segal is one of the best reporters in Israel.

00:08:54.000 You can go to his Telegram.

00:08:55.000 He does have a Telegram account in English.

00:08:57.000 He also has one in Hebrew that you can pay to have translated as well.

00:09:01.000 A Palestinian was killed in Jericho because, again, As Saddam Hussein once said when he was firing cruise missiles at Israel, he doesn't separate beans from beans.

00:09:07.000 This idea that the Iranians care deeply about the Palestinians is a lie.

00:09:10.000 They just see them as a weapon to destroy the Israelis, the Zionists, whatever they wish to call them. 0.88

00:09:14.000 That day, several were injured by shrapnel from an Iranian missile.

00:09:18.000 Again, the Iranians do not have the exactitude necessary to simply strike at military sites, nor do they really have the interest. 0.97

00:09:25.000 The skies of Ramallah have also been covered in missiles as well.

00:09:30.000 Iran apparently launched a simultaneous launch from the Tabriz area.

00:09:34.000 You can assume that any area from which there was a massive launch will be the target of some sort of Israeli retaliatory response at this point.

00:09:43.000 The refugee camp in Nablus, which is a major city, it's not a refugee camp, it's a major Palestinian city, that Palestinian city.

00:09:48.000 Also, there's footage of rockets flying over there as well, demonstrating once again that when it comes to the Iranian terror regime, their proxies, other terrorist groups in the region, they do not care about civilians.

00:09:57.000 They don't care if they're Palestinian, they don't care if they're Israeli Arab, they don't care if they're Israeli Jew, they

00:10:02.000 don't care about any of that. All they care about is putting pressure on the state of Israel and avoiding the 0.71

00:10:07.000 humiliation of the fact that Israel has thoroughly clocked two of their greatest assets in the region, Hamas and Hezbollah. 0.90

00:10:14.000 That is the current state of affairs right now.

00:10:16.000 We're bringing you real-time updates obviously as we receive them.

00:10:20.000 There's also a White House press briefing that is going to start in a fairly short order.

00:10:24.000 You can see the screen of Tel Aviv here as well.

00:10:28.000 We have Tel Aviv and Jerusalem live feeds so you can see right now things are fairly quiet.

00:10:33.000 There's expected to be a second round of major missile attack on Jerusalem, on Tel Aviv.

00:10:39.000 And the extent to which Israel has prepared itself for attacks like this is truly an astonishing thing. 0.75

00:10:45.000 The suggestion that You would have 500 missiles dropping at one time onto Israel without any significant damage done on the ground is almost unthinkable.

00:10:57.000 Again, 450 ballistic missiles launched Israel.

00:11:00.000 Most of them were intercepted.

00:11:01.000 No serious injuries in Israel.

00:11:03.000 Citizens have been asked to stay in the shelters at this point.

00:11:08.000 So that is the latest.

00:11:10.000 And again, this is a real risk for Iran. 0.96

00:11:13.000 Iran was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

00:11:16.000 Effectively speaking, if they had not responded to Israel completely destroying and decimating the upper echelons of Hezbollah, going into southern Lebanon and wiping out the remaining Hezbollah forces, Iran would have lost all regional influence and regional sway.

00:11:28.000 If they go too hard at Israel, and this looks like too hard, then Israel is going to retaliate in kind or more so.

00:11:35.000 The IDF has now announced the citizens can leave their shelters throughout the country.

00:11:38.000 They don't see any more launches from Iran at this time.

00:11:41.000 Apparently that is just breaking.

00:11:42.000 So we'll see if there's a second round again.

00:11:44.000 There have been rumors that there would be a second round, but Iran, of course, is suggesting that they will up the ante again if Israel responds.

00:11:51.000 Now, the chances that Israel does not respond Are effectively zero Israel is not going to listen to Joe Biden anymore when the Biden Harris administration suggested that Israel quote-unquote take the win in the aftermath of the last round of massive missile attacks Israel instead fired effectively a very

00:12:07.000 New technology at the Iranian territory.

00:12:11.000 They hit a target that was just outside one of the nuclear facilities, a sort of an intimidation move.

00:12:15.000 But this time, Israel is not going to sit still. 0.83

00:12:18.000 There's great unity on both sides of the Israeli aisle.

00:12:21.000 The left to the right, the Labour Party all the way over to Vassalos Motsrich and Tamar Ben-Gavir.

00:12:27.000 There's great unity in Israel for the possibility of doing severe damage to the Iranian regime's economic capabilities and nuclear capabilities.

00:12:34.000 Those, of course, are the real levers.

00:12:36.000 And because Israel doesn't have the power to topple the Iranian regime, the big problem in Iran, of course, is that the population of Iran is very much against the Iranian regime.

00:12:48.000 You've seen the videos, we played them on the show, of Iranians refusing to stomp on the Israeli flag or burn the Israeli flag, for instance, despite the Iranian regime encouraging them to do so.

00:12:57.000 The problem, of course, is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a supremely corrupt, paid And bought and paid for operation by the Ayatollah Khamenei. 0.64

00:13:09.000 Now Israel does have significant intelligence on the ground in Iran.

00:13:12.000 We reported on the show today, for example.

00:13:15.000 That the former president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dramatically evil anti-Semite, he had even suggested that within Iran they had launched a full-scale mole hunt for Mossad agents throughout the government of Iran.

00:13:27.000 They put together a special task force to do it and it turns out that the head of the Iran Mossad mole hunt was himself Mossad.

00:13:34.000 Israel has tremendous levels of intelligence penetration in Iran so There will be operations in response.

00:13:40.000 The IDF, I'm sure, is going to be holding some sort of press conference very shortly to explain what exactly is happening.

00:13:47.000 Israeli airspace was closed for a grand total of half an hour over all of this.

00:13:51.000 Israeli airspace, Ben Gurion Airport, are going to reopen momentarily, apparently, as well.

00:13:57.000 People exiting their shelters, people going back to their daily lives.

00:14:00.000 And it is worth noting here because, again, it is rather astonishing How people live under fire like this.

00:14:07.000 I was calling up friends as the missiles were falling.

00:14:10.000 Called up a close friend in Jerusalem.

00:14:12.000 And his first remark was, this is so annoying.

00:14:15.000 I was just getting out of the shower.

00:14:17.000 That is how people live over there.

00:14:19.000 And people are used to this level of tension.

00:14:22.000 They go about their daily lives.

00:14:23.000 They continue to live.

00:14:25.000 The IDF spokesman says there were a few injuries.

00:14:27.000 He says there will be consequences for this event.

00:14:30.000 Amichai Shikly, who's a member of the Israeli parliament, He tweeted out in Persian, big mistake, which, again, there are members, I've been told, of senior officials who suggest that there is going to be a severe retaliation for all of this.

00:14:46.000 The IDF says, again, that following situational assessment, it was decided it's now permitted to leave the protected spaces in all areas across the country, but they will continue to follow the Home Front Command's guidelines.

00:14:59.000 The IDF also said that the shooting will have consequences.

00:15:01.000 They don't detect any additional threats.

00:15:03.000 Now, again, very high chance that that shooting that happened in Jaffa was in fact coordinated with the rocket launch.

00:15:09.000 That just as the rockets were going off, just as the sirens were sounding, terrorists were unleashed by Iran in an attempt to shoot as many Jews as possible.

00:15:19.000 And in that particular attack, we are looking at double digits dead, and there will presumably be a response.

00:15:25.000 Again, the numbers are still coming in.

00:15:27.000 It's unclear exactly how many ballistic missiles have been fired.

00:15:30.000 I'm hearing anywhere from 150 ballistic missiles, according to the Times of Israel, to 450 ballistic missiles fired at Israel.

00:15:37.000 Sirens sounded all the way across the country.

00:15:39.000 Now, the White House did say that President Biden has directed the U.S.

00:15:42.000 military to aid Israel's defense against the Iranian attacks and shoot down the missiles.

00:15:46.000 Presumably, that will be paired with the same sort of utter nonsense you hear from the Biden-Harris administration on a regular basis about how Israel should take the win and calm down and what's the big deal.

00:15:56.000 Well, very unlikely that Israel is going to, quote-unquote, take the win in the face of, again, a massive barrage from foreign soil. 0.54

00:16:02.000 There's no other way to put this.

00:16:03.000 This is a direct act of war.

00:16:04.000 Obviously, this is the second act of war in the last six months directly by Iran.

00:16:08.000 The fact that Iran has been forced to fire ordnance from its own state into Israel demonstrates the weakness of their current position.

00:16:14.000 Typically, Iran would use its proxies.

00:16:16.000 It would activate Hamas in order to perform October 7th, or to activate Hezbollah on October 8th to fire rockets into northern Israel. 0.50

00:16:22.000 Because Israel has so wildly degraded the power of those proxy groups, Iran has been forced now twice in the last six months to fire direct ordnance from its home territory into Israel.

00:16:33.000 And Israel's been preparing for this for absolutely years.

00:16:37.000 Again, all of this is coming amid new evidence that Hezbollah was ready to invade en masse after October 7th.

00:16:42.000 According to the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, this is the Times of Israel reporting, The army revealed that 3,000 terrorists were in position to storm the Galilee.

00:16:51.000 The Galilee is the northern part of Israel.

00:16:53.000 Strikes drove them away, and commandos then carried out 74 aces into Lebanon to seize weapons.

00:17:00.000 So they were ready to go, even in recent days.

00:17:03.000 The IDF briefed reporters on the new information.

00:17:05.000 Before, IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Haggari held a briefing in Hebrew and English, presenting images and maps from the foiled mass invasion plan and elaborating on the subsequent covert commando missions in southern Lebanon.

00:17:16.000 So that was again immediately upon October 7th.

00:17:20.000 Apparently there were some 2,400 Radwan terrorists and another 500 Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists trained by Radwan who had been waiting in southern Lebanon villages to attack Israel in the days after Hamas carried out the October 7th attacks.

00:17:34.000 Their plan, they found maps showing what they were planning to quote-unquote occupy in the Galilee.

00:17:40.000 The Northern Command at the time expected an invasion from Lebanon.

00:17:42.000 They had bolstered their defenses.

00:17:44.000 And then they ended up carrying out a bunch of strikes on Hezbollah operatives in targeted fashion at the time.

00:17:50.000 Again, we are bringing you live updates from another massive missile barrage that was launched against Israel by Iran right now.

00:18:02.000 I'm bringing you as much data as I can in real time.

00:18:05.000 And there are a couple of feeds that I recommend.

00:18:08.000 Amid Sehgal's being one of them.

00:18:12.000 Apparently, several, the IDF again updating, they say that there were several individual falls of particular missiles, but no casualties.

00:18:21.000 And apparently the shooting this evening from Iran was broader than it had been in the past.

00:18:28.000 We're still awaiting word from the White House.

00:18:31.000 You would assume that the White House is going to try to call for some level of calm, of course.

00:18:36.000 I want to show you again some of the footage of the missiles that have been coming down.

00:18:40.000 Here's an image of some of the missiles.

00:18:42.000 There's four.

00:18:43.000 Here's an image of some of the missiles that fell.

00:18:46.000 You can see what that looked like.

00:18:49.000 You can also see what one of the missiles looks like after it hit.

00:18:52.000 And it is enormous.

00:18:53.000 I mean, these are large ordnance weapons.

00:18:56.000 These are not small weapons at all.

00:18:59.000 Here's a video of one of the missiles.

00:19:01.000 It traveled all the way from Iran just to fall without harm in Israel.

00:19:09.000 We also have more footage of the shooters exiting the train.

00:19:12.000 These are the shooters in Jaffa who apparently have killed 10 people.

00:19:16.000 Unclear from where they came.

00:19:19.000 In Israel, Israel of course is 20% Israeli Arab, lives cheek-by-jowl with large Palestinian areas. 0.98

00:19:27.000 These could have been people who transited over from the West Bank.

00:19:30.000 They could be like-minded Israeli Arabs, although that's rarer.

00:19:34.000 We'll find out their identities in the near future, obviously.

00:19:37.000 Here is some raw footage of Iranian missiles raining over the old city of Jerusalem.

00:19:42.000 Of course, this is a holy site for all religions, Muslims, Christians, as well as Jews.

00:19:47.000 is taken from the Kotel Plaza.

00:19:54.000 The biggest sortie of missiles fired from Iran so far in this war.

00:20:02.000 more.

00:20:03.000 Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, Israeli paramedics have been deployed to search several sites where reports of rocket strikes have been received according to Magin David Adom.

00:20:11.000 That is the Israeli Red Cross.

00:20:14.000 MDA says there are currently no reports of injuries from the fire toward Israel except for two light injuries from shrapnel in the Tel Aviv area and some injuries and anxiety from people who are trying to run to the shelters.

00:20:25.000 The White House says that President Biden met Tuesday morning with the national security team.

00:20:29.000 According to the White House statement, they reviewed the status of U.S.

00:20:31.000 preparations to help Israel defend against these attacks and protect U.S.

00:20:34.000 personnel in the region.

00:20:37.000 So all of this is a way of Iran attempting to signal that it does have the capacity to do Israel serious damage. 0.88

00:20:45.000 Now, when you fire this many missiles at a sovereign state, it's easy to say, as I'm sure the media will, that there was no real risk.

00:20:51.000 It was all pre-planned.

00:20:53.000 It was never meant to do any harm.

00:20:56.000 If you are going to fire that many missiles at a sovereign nation, you of course have to assume that there will be casualties.

00:21:03.000 The goal would be casualties.

00:21:04.000 Iranian incompetence does not mean Iranian decent intent. 0.88

00:21:12.000 Hard to imagine a more obvious act of war than what has currently occurred.

00:21:15.000 When people say that Israel is quote-unquote escalating the war, understand this war has been escalated since October 7.

00:21:22.000 Israel's in a seven-front war currently with Iranian proxy groups and Iran directly, ranging from the Houthis in Yemen in the south, to Hamas in Israel's south, to the West Bank where Iranian proxy groups have been trying to perform attacks, to southern Lebanon with Hezbollah, to Iraq, to Syria, and to Iran directly.

00:21:41.000 Again, what you're watching here is footage from Jaffa, which is a major city in Israel.

00:21:48.000 It's near Tel Aviv, where terrorists exited the light train and proceeded to open fire on civilians.

00:21:57.000 This is a declaration of war by Iran, obviously.

00:22:02.000 And Israel is not going to stop short. 0.65

00:22:05.000 Noah Rothman, who writes for National Review, he correctly says, Biden's fear of escalation is what begets escalation.

00:22:12.000 That is exactly right.

00:22:14.000 Again, if Joe Biden had made it clear that the United States was basically going to say, Israel's going to do what it wants to do, we got no say, they're going to do what they want to do, Iran probably wouldn't have done this in the first place.

00:22:24.000 But this is a badly played hand.

00:22:26.000 Iran is making a very bad move. 1.00

00:22:28.000 If Israel leaves the nuclear facilities in Iran intact, it will be a grave strategic error.

00:22:36.000 A grave strategic error.

00:22:37.000 Senior Israeli officials again saying there will be a quote-unquote extreme reaction to this attack.

00:22:43.000 Meanwhile, other media networks like CNN, CNN has turned over its coverage apparently to the ex-global Christiane Amanpour, who's effectively an apologist for Iranian terror regime.

00:22:53.000 She always has been.

00:22:54.000 She's radically anti-Israel, radically pro-terror regimes in the Middle East.

00:23:00.000 The possibility that Israel holds back this time, basically nil. 0.56

00:23:05.000 According to other sources, Israel, Jordan, and Iraq have now closed their airspaces, the perfect path for Israeli aircraft headed to Iran. 0.87

00:23:15.000 So Israel had already suggested that unlike back in April when Iran fired this first barrage of missiles, Israel's response will not depend on the level of casualties suffered.

00:23:23.000 They were announcing that before they found out how many casualties had been suffered because nobody should have to even risk all of this.

00:23:33.000 At this point, it is worth reminding everybody that the Biden National Security Advisor said one year ago that the Middle East is quieter today than it has been in two decades.

00:23:40.000 Yes, it was, actually.

00:23:41.000 I just want to show you a map of what it looked like when the red alerts went off across Israel.

00:23:46.000 So there is an app, it's called Red Alert, and it lights up on your phone when there is a missile overhead.

00:23:52.000 And here is that map.

00:23:54.000 Here's what that map looked like.

00:23:57.000 In Israel, when it lit up.

00:24:00.000 I mean, it really is insane.

00:24:01.000 This is five.

00:24:02.000 You can see the map of Israel with the red alerts.

00:24:05.000 The entire country.

00:24:06.000 I mean, the entire country just lit up with red alerts.

00:24:09.000 Miraculous that nobody was hurt in a serious fashion or killed in this missile attack, obviously.

00:24:18.000 Meanwhile, and here is Israeli Minister Ami Chayshigli, who I mentioned before.

00:24:22.000 Here's his tweet in Persian saying, big mistake.

00:24:27.000 That is indubitably correct.

00:24:28.000 And we're still awaiting some sort of word from the White House. 0.87

00:24:32.000 But the notion that the Israelis are listening to the Americans at this point is ridiculous.

00:24:37.000 They're not going to preemptively surrender to Iran this time.

00:24:40.000 And we are showing you now the live view of Tel Aviv.

00:24:44.000 You can see the skies are clear.

00:24:46.000 No missiles falling right now.

00:24:50.000 Let's just suggest that if that map, that Red Alert map, happened, say, in the state of New York or Florida, the country that did it would not exist the next day.

00:25:01.000 So they actually went after, apparently, the West Bank as well, which is pretty incredible, by the way. 0.96

00:25:06.000 Here is another, there's another map that I have been provided from Red Alert, a more recent map provided by Red Alert.

00:25:12.000 I'm going to have my team pull it right now.

00:25:15.000 And you can see.

00:25:16.000 Now, why does that matter?

00:25:17.000 Why does that matter?

00:25:18.000 Well, because the West Bank is largely Palestinian. 0.88

00:25:21.000 About 2 million Palestinians live in the West Bank compared to about 500,000 Jews.

00:25:25.000 And the map that we showed before was basically clear in the West Bank, meaning that the Iranians were presumably trying to target Jewish populations or populations inside the so-called Green Line.

00:25:37.000 That was no longer the case by the end of the missile barrage.

00:25:40.000 By the end of the missile barrage, the entire map is covered in red dots.

00:25:45.000 Because that is exactly- again, the Iranians do not care how many Palestinians die.

00:25:50.000 They are perfectly willing for Palestinians to die. 1.00

00:25:52.000 They're perfectly willing for Arabs to die. 1.00

00:25:56.000 Now again, Iran is trying to claim that they were aiming at three Air Force bases. 0.83

00:26:00.000 Well, if so, bad aim.

00:26:03.000 Bad aim.

00:26:05.000 We'll see how quickly we can pull that map, because until you see it, you really don't believe it.

00:26:08.000 It's basically the entire map of Israel covered in red dots.

00:26:11.000 Those would be places where the red alert went off.

00:26:16.000 Certain politicians globally are saying the right things.

00:26:19.000 One of the best politicians on planet Earth, Geert Wilders, over in the Netherlands, he tweeted out, Stay safe, Israel.

00:26:24.000 We love you.

00:26:26.000 Apparently, there were reports of celebrations in Gaza as well.

00:26:30.000 So the Gazan population has not learned the lesson that when you support terrorism, it doesn't go well for you.

00:26:33.000 They were out there partying while all this was falling.

00:26:38.000 There's also the possibility of a targeted strike against Ayatollah Khamenei.

00:26:42.000 He has been in hiding since the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.

00:26:46.000 If he were to be killed, there is no great chain of command in Iran.

00:26:50.000 Again, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a giant terror organization.

00:26:53.000 They do have an internal infrastructure.

00:26:56.000 It would take somebody inside the IRGC probably leading a revolt in order to overthrow the government of Iran.

00:27:03.000 With that said, Israeli officials are now saying that Israel's response to the Iranian missile attack will be unlike anything we've known until now.

00:27:10.000 As according to official outlets.

00:27:14.000 So, um, you know, everybody who's a friend of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib should pray for all of their friends, because those friends are going to do quite badly in the Middle East over the course of the next few hours.

00:27:27.000 So, Iran was more successful this time.

00:27:30.000 They are more successful this time in actually getting the missiles from their own territory into other people's territory.

00:27:35.000 Last time they did this, half of them actually didn't rain on Israel, half of them rained down on Iran. 0.72

00:27:41.000 But, again, there's going to be a claim that is now made.

00:27:44.000 It's being retailed by people like Ian Bremmer.

00:27:47.000 Again, I've had Ian on the show.

00:27:49.000 Sometimes his takes are good.

00:27:50.000 This is a particularly bad take.

00:27:51.000 It says, looks like next to no casualties from Iranian strikes on Israel.

00:27:54.000 Telegraphed significantly in advance to the Americans.

00:27:56.000 Iran hoping to reestablish the minimal level of deterrence while avoiding escalation.

00:27:59.000 You don't avoid escalation by shooting 450 ballistic missiles at your neighbor. 0.98

00:28:02.000 That's a ridiculous take. 1.00

00:28:04.000 A totally ridiculous take. 0.96

00:28:06.000 And the White House says that Vice President Harris and President Biden, presumably the real President Jill, are monitoring the Iranian attack against Israel from the White House Situation Room. 0.57

00:28:15.000 And to his credit, President Biden directed the U.S.

00:28:17.000 military to aid Israel's defense against Iranian attacks and shoot down missiles that were targeting Israel.

00:28:24.000 Meanwhile, parents are finally exiting the safe rooms where they were gathered with their children, reading them books and showing them movies as the sirens went off.

00:28:33.000 It is just astonishing that a modern Western state, Israel is a modern Western state, is forced to undergo this at the hands of a terror regime that has been handed billions of dollars by the United States and its allies.

00:28:45.000 We now have news on the two terrorists who launched this mass attack, this mass casualty attack in Jaffa.

00:28:53.000 Apparently, they were Palestinians from Hebron, which is Hebron.

00:28:58.000 Security forces did kill both of them.

00:29:00.000 So they were from the West Bank, they were coming from an area that is particularly radicalized.

00:29:08.000 Again, if you haven't been following, we're bringing you continuous updates on the mass attack on the State of Israel from the Terror Republic of Iran. 0.93

00:29:21.000 A senior Pentagon official trying to forestall Israeli action has now told Sky News in Arabic, Tehran informed international officials about the size and timing of the expected attack on Israel.

00:29:30.000 That doesn't change one thing.

00:29:31.000 It does not change one thing.

00:29:32.000 Simply announcing to the Americans that you're going to, you know, just shoot a few missiles at Israel does not make it not a crime, does not make it not an act of terror. 0.99

00:29:41.000 It is a fool's errand. 0.97

00:29:43.000 They are playing the same game that Hassan Nasrallah was playing just before his head imploded. 0.96

00:29:48.000 It turns out that if you continue to think that you can tug on Superman's cape, so to speak, and spit into the wind, in the words of Jim Croce, tug the mask on that old Lone Ranger, well, you don't mess around with the Israeli Air Force. 0.76

00:30:01.000 That is a very, very bad idea.

00:30:04.000 And this bizarre notion that you can continue to push and push and push and push and Israel will just not respond in kind because the Americans will hold them back, those days have now ended.

00:30:12.000 That is not a thing that is going to happen.

00:30:15.000 Again, Jordan and Iraq have now closed their airspace.

00:30:19.000 Israeli aircraft are almost undoubtedly headed to Iran.

00:30:26.000 Dan Signore, who reports for the region.

00:30:28.000 Another great podcast people should give a listen to.

00:30:30.000 Call Me Back Podcast does an excellent job with that.

00:30:33.000 He says, it appears the U.S.

00:30:35.000 had more firepower deployed in the region today than it had back in April in anticipation of the April Iranian strike against Israel.

00:30:42.000 So there was preparation for all this.

00:30:43.000 Again, the video is astonishing.

00:30:44.000 Look at the video of these rockets falling in Israel.

00:30:51.000 The Islamic Republic is still pretending this is a first wave, but again, Home Front Command in Israel would not be telling people they could leave their bomb shelters unless they were fairly certain that they were done at least for the moment.

00:31:03.000 You can see all of these hitting, many of them hitting in the sea.

00:31:06.000 By the way, these are people on the beach who are just filming all of these rockets falling into the sea.

00:31:12.000 Again, the big reminder here is that if Iran actually had nuclear weapons, this would be a very, very different conversation we're having right now, which is presumably why you're going to see, in the very near future, an attempt by Israel to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons centers.

00:31:26.000 Again, that casualty count in the Jaffa shooting that was coincident with the missile attack is now up to eight.

00:31:34.000 In Beirut, people are firing fireworks as well.

00:31:38.000 We'll see how that goes for them.

00:31:40.000 Apparently there are some people who have not yet found out the lesson of FAFO.

00:31:48.000 So there has been some talk in Israel about what to do with families of terror members in the West Bank, the possibility of deporting them to places like Gaza.

00:31:56.000 Pretty spectacular footage of what was happening in Israel just moments ago.

00:32:01.000 Again, if you have friends in Israel, you can call them up.

00:32:03.000 You can hear the sirens on the phone.

00:32:06.000 It is amazing that people live like this.

00:32:09.000 Here is the new map.

00:32:11.000 I mentioned earlier that there's an updated map of what these missile strikes looked like.

00:32:17.000 What the red alerts looked like.

00:32:19.000 And that map is the entirety of the territory of the state of Israel.

00:32:23.000 Except for the north, because there are no people in the north.

00:32:26.000 It's basically been depopulated.

00:32:29.000 By the way, some of these are hitting inside the Gaza Strip.

00:32:31.000 I mean, you can actually look at the map and you can see fairly close up that some of these red alerts are going off in the Gaza Strip, which is kind of incredible.

00:32:40.000 Iran did issue a statement in response to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, who is the political leader of Hamas, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, and Abbas Nifroshan, who is an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps member, I believe.

00:32:51.000 We attacked military bases in Israel with dozens of missiles.

00:32:53.000 If Israel reacts, we'll strike with force. 0.87

00:32:56.000 Well, I mean, what would you just call it?

00:32:58.000 What just happened?

00:32:59.000 And Israel will, of course, react.

00:33:03.000 So meanwhile, CNN's Arlette Saines is apparently declaring that the Biden-Harris administration is in control of the situation in the Middle East.

00:33:12.000 Okay, we'll find out about that.

00:33:15.000 Apparently Iranian media are still saying this is just the first wave, so we're awaiting the possibility that there will be a second wave.

00:33:20.000 That apparently is not the case at this exact time.

00:33:25.000 We have yet to hear anything directly from the Vice President and...

00:33:31.000 We have yet to hear directly from the Vice President of the United States and the current Democratic presidential candidate.

00:33:36.000 Just a few vague statements.

00:33:40.000 We are still waiting to hear from the President of the United States as well.

00:33:46.000 The Israeli government is making clear that this is not going to go without an answer.

00:33:52.000 People, by the way, who are arguing that because no one died, Israel should not respond.

00:33:54.000 It's like saying if someone comes into your house and tries to stab you and they fail, then you should probably let them go.

00:34:00.000 And once again, the only confirmed casualty from the Iranian missile attack is a Palestinian man from a West Bank village near Jericho who was killed, according to Avi Meir, when missile fragments fell on him following their interception.

00:34:15.000 Presumably, Israel is already in the air. 0.94

00:34:21.000 So, there was an earlier report, by the way, of a possibility of terrorists in another hotel in the city of Herzliya.

00:34:27.000 That turned out not to be true.

00:34:29.000 Again, just to rewind, so people know the timeline here.

00:34:32.000 Iran had earlier attacked Israel after Israel killed Ismail Khaniya, who's the political head of Hamas.

00:34:41.000 They had killed Haniyeh.

00:34:42.000 Iran responded by then firing off 300 drones and missiles at the state of Israel.

00:34:48.000 Israel shot down virtually all of them or they dropped into Iranian territory.

00:34:52.000 Israel then proceeded to, over the course of the last two and a half weeks, completely eviscerate the forward operating base for Iran in the region.

00:34:58.000 That would be Hezbollah in the most spectacular military operation perhaps of our lifetimes. 0.99

00:35:06.000 Completely eviscerating and destroying the upper echelons of Hezbollah.

00:35:13.000 Because Israel, just within the last 48 hours, has now unleashed troops in southern Lebanon to perform specific operations.

00:35:20.000 They have not lost anyone in southern Lebanon, thank God, so far.

00:35:23.000 Hezbollah, by the way, did, at the same time that Iran was launching missiles, launch a barrage of Fadi-4 missiles at the Stadov Air Base located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

00:35:34.000 It then proceeded to land in the ocean.

00:35:37.000 So, again, the lack of success by Israel's enemies does not mean that Israel's enemies are somehow harmless. 0.91

00:35:44.000 Apparently Defense Minister Yoav Galant, he's the defense minister in Israel, spoke with the American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

00:35:51.000 The two apparently discussed Iran's intentions to attack Israel, the military cooperation for joint defense, and the right of the state of Israel to defend itself and act against its enemies, which is a very interesting readout.

00:36:02.000 Again, the idea there being that Israel is not going to sit still. 0.74

00:36:08.000 Again, I'm waiting for the moment when Apparently, the Biden administration tries to call for some level of restraint from Israel.

00:36:15.000 Just waiting for it.

00:36:16.000 Because that has been their habit throughout this war.

00:36:18.000 Perhaps because they realize Israel isn't going to do it.

00:36:20.000 They're not going to call for it.

00:36:23.000 So, again, why is Iran coordinating these attacks? 0.81

00:36:28.000 Why is Iran warning of these attacks in advance? 1.00

00:36:30.000 Presumably because they're still playing the same stupid game. 1.00

00:36:33.000 Now, Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst. 0.99

00:36:35.000 He's been suggesting, again, that there's a lot of pre-coordination of these attacks.

00:36:39.000 Yes, and?

00:36:41.000 And the idea here is that Israel will be deterred from further action by an attack like this as a game of tit-for-tat.

00:36:49.000 As Israel's attacks on Hezbollah have shown, the game of tit-for-tat is now over.

00:36:53.000 Israel is tired of this.

00:36:54.000 Israel is no longer going to allow its population to live underground on a semi-permanent basis, nor are they going to live under the imminent threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon.

00:37:04.000 And so any attempts to pre-coordinate this in the hopes that would buy off the Israeli military Very very very unlikely at this point in time.

00:37:16.000 And for those for those just joining us about one see trying to figure out the time change here.

00:37:25.000 About an hour and a half ago, two hours ago, these missile attacks started.

00:37:28.000 President Trump has now issued a statement, quote, No one is in charge.

00:37:30.000 It's not even clear who is more confused, Biden or Kamala.

00:37:32.000 leadership, no one running the country. We have a non-existent president in Joe Biden and a

00:37:36.000 completely absent vice president Kamala Harris who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco,

00:37:39.000 a city which she and Gavin Newscombe totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one

00:37:44.000 is in charge. It's not even clear who is more confused, Biden or Kamala. Neither has any idea

00:37:48.000 what is even going on. When I was president, Iran was in total check.

00:37:51.000 They were starved for cash, fully contained, desperate to make a deal.

00:37:54.000 Kamala flooded them with American cash, and ever since, they've been exporting terror all over, unraveling the Middle East. 1.00

00:37:59.000 Under President Trump, we had no war in the Middle East, no war in Europe, harmony in Asia, no inflation, no Afghanistan catastrophe.

00:38:05.000 Instead, we had peace.

00:38:07.000 Now, war or the threat of war is raging everywhere, and the two incompetents running this country are leading us to the brink of World War III.

00:38:12.000 You wouldn't trust Joe or Kamala to run a lemonade stand.

00:38:14.000 Let alone the free world.

00:38:16.000 It is no surprise.

00:38:17.000 Iran desperately wants Kamala Harris to be president.

00:38:19.000 They know as long as she's in power, they can take advantage of America. 1.00

00:38:21.000 That is why they've tried to target me.

00:38:22.000 By the way, that part is 100% true.

00:38:25.000 Iran clearly is begging for a Kamala Harris presidency.

00:38:27.000 There's a reason that Iran hacked the file on J.D. 0.93

00:38:31.000 There's a reason that Iran has been projecting its attempts to assassinate President Trump. 0.94

00:38:31.000 Vance. 0.94

00:38:36.000 Iran desperately wants Kamala Harris to be president of the United States.

00:38:39.000 They want advisors like Phil Gordon in the White House and Ben Rhodes in the White House telling the West and telling the American regime that the Biden-Harris administration or the Harris administration should put the kibosh on Israeli ability to defend itself.

00:38:56.000 Iran is begging for Kamala Harris. 0.91

00:38:59.000 Trump says if I was in charge, October 7th never happens, Russia-Ukraine never happens, Afghanistan botched withdrawal never happens, inflation never happens.

00:39:05.000 If I win, we'll have peace in the world again.

00:39:07.000 If Kamala gets four more years, the world goes up in smoke. 0.85

00:39:11.000 And that, of course, is correct.

00:39:13.000 The price of crude oil has jumped on the expectation, presumably, that Israel is going to act against, you would imagine.

00:39:21.000 The oil fields in Iran, which of course is something that they should do, and not all that many points of leverage with regards to Iran, the oil fields are definitely one of them.

00:39:31.000 Just checking the latest headlines at this point.

00:39:37.000 Apparently, a Gazan worker who was staying in Jericho was the person killed by shrapnel from a missile.

00:39:45.000 So it was a person who was illegally moving from Gaza to the West Bank and was killed by the shrapnel from that particular missile.

00:39:54.000 We are still seeing the jump in the crude oil prices, by the way, is in fact fading a little bit.

00:40:01.000 We'll see if it continues to grow.

00:40:05.000 Celebratory gunfire is sounding in South Beirut as Iran attacks Israel. 0.58

00:40:09.000 South Beirut is of course a Hezbollah stronghold.

00:40:12.000 This is an attempt to show some sort of solidarity with Hezbollah.

00:40:15.000 Well, soon there will be a lot of members of the Iranian government who are showing solidarity with Hezbollah in hell. 0.87

00:40:20.000 That is a very real possibility at this point.

00:40:26.000 Apparently people in central Israel have been told they should remain near bomb shelters just in case at this point and Israel is waiting for a second round is the possibility.

00:40:37.000 So again, we'll have to see how all of this plays out.

00:40:42.000 We're still awaiting a press conference that was supposed to happen from the White House a little while ago.

00:40:45.000 It was delayed presumably because of the current events that are happening right now.

00:40:52.000 Again, the videos, if you haven't seen them, we'll play them again.

00:40:55.000 The videos that are happening right now are absolutely incredible of these missiles falling across the state of Israel.

00:41:04.000 The videos demonstrate just the extent of the level of the firing.

00:41:08.000 Tons of firing.

00:41:10.000 That's striking on the ground in Israel.

00:41:15.000 It is amazing that more people were not killed.

00:41:18.000 Apparently the number is zero, which is a testament to the incredible technological capacity of the Israeli government.

00:41:24.000 This is why when President Trump says that he would like an Iron Dome in America, what he really means is just a missile defense system as sophisticated as the one that the Israelis have.

00:41:32.000 It is a very, very sophisticated missile defense system.

00:41:36.000 We also have Mike Pence, former Vice President of the United States, saying the U.S.

00:41:42.000 Navy stands by to engage.

00:41:45.000 There is a map of U.S.

00:41:46.000 Navy assets in the Middle East, and as you can see, those naval assets are stacked up in the Mediterranean.

00:41:52.000 There aren't a lot of assets in the Persian Gulf.

00:41:54.000 The Persian Gulf would be the place that's closest to those Iranian oil fields, but we do have the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group in the Mediterranean Sea.

00:42:03.000 We have the USS Bulkley, the USS Oak Hill, the USS New York, the USS Arleigh Burke.

00:42:08.000 All of those are staffed in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the USS Cole.

00:42:13.000 Down in the Red Sea, which is an area that they've been fighting the Houthis, we have the USS Frank Peterson, the USS Michael Murphy, the USS Stockdale, the USS Spruance, and we have a bunch of ships in the Gulf of Oman as well.

00:42:26.000 So the U.S.

00:42:26.000 Navy is well positioned to provide support if necessary.

00:42:30.000 Although again, I think very unlikely that Israel is going to require support in whatever retaliatory attack they're about to unleash.

00:42:39.000 We do have some video of the aftermath of the missiles hitting.

00:42:43.000 Here's what it looked like.

00:42:45.000 Some sites were in fact struck.

00:42:53.000 Some damage was done.

00:42:56.000 Because everybody was in the Mamad, the safe room, or underground. 0.92

00:43:00.000 There were no human casualties, but damage, of course, was on property damage.

00:43:06.000 Meanwhile, here's some video of Palestinians doing what they very frequently do, rejoicing at the sight of human suffering, unfortunately. 1.00

00:43:13.000 Here are Palestinians who are very excited in the Gaza Strip.

00:43:19.000 Chanting in favor of Iran. 0.95

00:43:22.000 Again, if these are folks who wanted a better future, at some point they might want to stop siding with Iranian terrorists and Iranian terror proxies.

00:43:33.000 Meanwhile, a missile apparently has allegedly landed in Jordan as well.

00:43:37.000 Here's what that missile looks like.

00:43:39.000 And these are these are large ordnance.

00:43:40.000 I mean, these are not these are not small weapons.

00:43:43.000 This one landed in Jordan.

00:43:44.000 Jordan, of course, is not a country at war with Iran at the moment.

00:43:51.000 Now, as you can imagine, the squad is particularly upset about everything that is happening.

00:43:55.000 We await their statements of angst and dismay that this terror attack failed from Iran. 0.75

00:44:02.000 Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, who is the Ringo star of the squad, she tweeted, Netanyahu's invasion of Lebanon is putting millions of people at risk, forcing thousands to be displaced and inciting a regional war.

00:44:10.000 The escalating violence must end in Lebanon and Gaza across the region.

00:44:14.000 Well, I have an easy way for that to happen.

00:44:16.000 That'd be for Iran to stop spreading terrorism throughout the region. 0.81

00:44:20.000 Not a giant shock that we are seeing all the usual suspects emerge to defend their terrorist friends.

00:44:26.000 Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib doing what she does and defending Jeremy Corbyn.

00:44:31.000 She's retweeting Jeremy Corbyn, arch-anti-Semite who is so anti-Semitic who was kicked out of the Labour Party in Britain.

00:44:35.000 You have to be pretty anti-Semitic to do that.

00:44:37.000 Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, Israel's decision to send troops into Lebanon, a sovereign nation, is not a limited ground invasion.

00:44:42.000 It is a limited ground operation.

00:44:44.000 It's an invasion.

00:44:45.000 Well actually, no.

00:44:46.000 It's a retaliatory response to 7th and Lebanon being used as launching ground for rockets.

00:44:52.000 The attempt by all fans of the Iranian terror regime to switch The arrow in terms of blame here is quite astonishing.

00:45:00.000 Outgoing congressman Jamal Bowman, who is defeated in a primary because he's awful despite his roid rage press conferences, he tweeted, And none of this is shock from Rashida Tlaib.

00:45:08.000 Lebanon. Countless American citizens are trapped with their lives endangered.

00:45:11.000 Commercial flights are next to non-existent. State Department must

00:45:13.000 recognize this and immediately begin evacuating US citizens.

00:45:16.000 And none of this is shock from Rashida Tlaib. Again all this comes

00:45:23.000 amid an incredibly fraught election. This election is incredibly close.

00:45:28.000 Exogenous circumstances do affect elections.

00:45:32.000 The reality is that, as President Trump says, if he were the president, none of this ever would have happened, and pretty much everyone knows this.

00:45:38.000 This is the awkward part for the Biden-Harris administration.

00:45:42.000 Douglas Murray is going to join us live in just a few moments to discuss what's happening in Israel.

00:45:49.000 Again, we are covering live the latest events from the mass missile barrage targeted at the State of Israel.

00:45:54.000 We are awaiting any sort of word from the IDF on the next stage of the combat.

00:46:02.000 IDF has imposed a new closed military zone along the border with Lebanon as well.

00:46:06.000 They closed these military zones to prevent civilians from getting in.

00:46:08.000 Those are largely staging areas for further raids into Lebanese territory to finally, once and for all, break the Hezbollah stranglehold on southern Lebanon. 0.52

00:46:18.000 Meanwhile, retired three-star U.S.

00:46:21.000 Army General Keith Kellogg on Fox News, he says that he believes that Israel is going to, at this point, go in for the kill with the Iranian regime.

00:46:31.000 Netanyahu has basically said to the world, he said to the United States, we've given you repeated opportunities to bring this thing to a conclusion, to shut this down.

00:46:41.000 And the world has turned another eye.

00:46:43.000 They've said, no, I think he's going for the kill.

00:46:45.000 And what I mean by that, he's going to respond quite forcefully.

00:46:48.000 And I think if I was Iran right now, I'd say I think where he'd probably end up going, he's going to make a real key shot.

00:46:55.000 He's either going to have some nuclear facilities, or he's going to have the Supreme Leader.

00:46:59.000 And that's going to set everything in motion for a much wider war in the Middle East.

00:47:03.000 But I think they've just said, the Israelis have said, we're done with this, enough. 0.70

00:47:07.000 Same thing they've done with Hezbollah, same thing they did with Hamas. 0.76

00:47:10.000 And you know, to be very candid with you Sandra, you know, it's probably about time.

00:47:15.000 This is time and it needs to be brought to some type of conclusion.

00:47:18.000 If we're not going to help them conclude it, then they're going to have to do it on their own.

00:47:22.000 That's probably what they're going to try and do.

00:47:24.000 And again, that last point where he says that Israel's going to conclude it on its own.

00:47:27.000 Of course, they're a state.

00:47:28.000 They should have the ability to defend themselves.

00:47:30.000 The idea that this is going to turn into a quote-unquote wider war.

00:47:33.000 Wider than what?

00:47:34.000 That is my big question here.

00:47:35.000 Wider than what?

00:47:36.000 Who's going to get in who hasn't already gotten in?

00:47:39.000 Syria doesn't want in. 1.00

00:47:40.000 Syria does not want to have a hostile Israel on their border ready to take out large armed divisions.

00:47:47.000 Iran's projective power is all ballistic missiles. 0.94

00:47:50.000 They've lost their projective power in terms of immediate borders by losing Hamas and losing Hezbollah.

00:47:56.000 It's very difficult to see what they could do other than larger missile barrages like this one that has been unsuccessful thus far.

00:48:02.000 So when people say it's going to broaden how, which countries are not involved that will become involved at this point?

00:48:09.000 It's the reason why I sort of oppose many of the talking points that are being put out about how this is going to escalate into a larger war.

00:48:17.000 How?

00:48:17.000 Escalate?

00:48:18.000 I need an explanation of what that larger war looks like that has not already been unleashed at this point.

00:48:22.000 Meanwhile, the German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, on Tuesday said she condemned the Iranian missile attack on Israel in the strongest possible terms, saying that Iran must stop the attack immediately.

00:48:31.000 Baerbock said, we have urgently warned Iran about this dangerous escalation. 0.72

00:48:35.000 Iran must stop the attack immediately. 0.92

00:48:36.000 It's driving the region further to the brink of the abyss.

00:48:39.000 Meanwhile, Antonio Guterres, the awful and terrible Secretary General of the United Nations,

00:48:46.000 he put out a statement reading, I condemn the broadening of the Middle East conflict

00:48:49.000 with escalation after escalation.

00:48:50.000 This must stop.

00:48:51.000 We absolutely need a ceasefire.

00:48:53.000 Well, I mean, thanks for that, bud. 0.99

00:48:54.000 And all these moron diplomats who go out there like, we need a ceasefire. 0.99

00:49:00.000 Well, congratulations to you. 0.99

00:49:01.000 I'm pretty sure that Israel would also like a ceasefire, not one that preserves the terrorist groups that are aiming weaponry at them.

00:49:09.000 Meanwhile, the Associated Press doing yeoman work on behalf of terrorists, they put out a headline.

00:49:15.000 That headline is, quote, breaking.

00:49:17.000 The Israeli military says Iran has fired missiles at Israel and air raid sirens are sounding across the country.

00:49:23.000 We mean says.

00:49:25.000 I mean, says Iran.

00:49:26.000 Like, everyone can see the missiles being launched and dropping.

00:49:32.000 Absolute absurdity.

00:49:33.000 Again, there's this misperception that the West has about the Middle East, which is that the way that things get done over there is with temporary peace agreements.

00:49:40.000 There has never been a permanent, workable peace agreement that has emerged from diplomacy alone.

00:49:46.000 The only durable peace agreements that have ever been achieved in the history of the Middle East are ones where either the parties were not at war in the first place, like the Abraham Accords, or ones where Israel beat the living hell out of its enemies so badly that basically the other side just gave up and decided that they'd rather sign a treaty than continue with warring.

00:50:03.000 That'd be Egypt and Jordan, who have both been taken off the table as Israeli enemies, even though they were the lead Israeli enemies from 1948 to 1973.

00:50:10.000 It remains a symptom of insanity that people believe that the way that you actually solve problems with Iran is to talk with the Ayatollahs.

00:50:22.000 Please name me a time when this has worked ever in human history.

00:50:26.000 I'm still awaiting an answer on that one.

00:50:31.000 Now again, Palestinians in Hebron were actually picking up the rockets.

00:50:40.000 There is footage of them picking up the rockets.

00:50:42.000 We'll get that as soon as possible.

00:50:43.000 It's somewhat funny, darkly funny that people are simply just going up to these fired pieces of ordnance and picking them up.

00:50:52.000 But look at the kinetic imagery here of these missiles that have been falling near the state of Israel.

00:50:58.000 Absolutely unbelievable.

00:51:00.000 No state worth its salt should be forced to undergo anything remotely like this.

00:51:06.000 Democrats keep trying to appease Iran and it keeps failing over and over and over.

00:51:10.000 Remember that time Barack Obama tried to airlift billions of dollars in cash on pallets to Iran?

00:51:14.000 Remember that?

00:51:15.000 That did not work out particularly well.

00:51:18.000 Marco Rubio tweeted, large-scale not symbolic missile attack from Iranian regime against Israel.

00:51:22.000 A large-scale Israeli retaliatory response inside Iran is certain to follow.

00:51:27.000 That of course is correct.

00:51:29.000 Meanwhile, again, the Israelis are apparently preparing some sort of serious response.

00:51:43.000 People are out and about in Israel at this point.

00:51:45.000 They have canceled the home defense alert.

00:51:50.000 It is worth noting, Hen Mazig, another Twitter account, he points out, do you remember when the UN called for a ceasefire for Ramadan?

00:51:55.000 Tomorrow night begins Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and the High Holidays, the holiest part of the Jewish year. 0.96

00:51:59.000 Where are the calls for a ceasefire now as the Islamic Republic in Iran prepares to attack Israel?

00:52:03.000 This would be an excellent question.

00:52:08.000 Also, by the way, worth noting that all of the technologies that Israel is currently using were rejected in the 1980s by one Joe Biden.

00:52:15.000 Dan McLaughlin points this out.

00:52:16.000 Joe Biden in 1986 told the National Press Club, quote, Star Wars is Ronald Reagan's missile defense system.

00:52:22.000 Star Wars represents a fundamental assault on the concepts, alliances, and arms control agreements that have buttressed American security for several decades.

00:52:28.000 And the president's continued adherence to it constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.

00:52:35.000 Man, Joe Biden is undefeated when it comes to being wrong.

00:52:38.000 Just absolutely undefeated when it comes to being wrong.

00:52:44.000 So, again, is this a miscalculation by Iran?

00:52:49.000 Or is this merely a desperation play?

00:52:50.000 That's the real question here.

00:52:52.000 What exactly was the goal?

00:52:54.000 What were they attempting to accomplish? 0.87

00:52:56.000 Now, they had to demonstrate some sort of flex here, because if they just keep getting their ass handed to them on the international stage, presumably that creates some sort of pressure for them inside Iran.

00:53:06.000 However, They're miscalculating here.

00:53:09.000 I mean, a launch of this size against another sovereign state will be responded to, in kind or worse.

00:53:18.000 Avi Meir says, emerging from my bomb shelter here in Jerusalem, I stepped out briefly during the barrage and heard explosions reverberating all over the place.

00:53:23.000 Iranian missiles were visible overhead.

00:53:28.000 Now, there is an island apparently.

00:53:31.000 Eli David, who is a commentator in Israel, He points out that virtually all Iranian oil exports go through a tiny island in the Persian Gulf called Karga Island.

00:53:43.000 It's quite possible that Israel is going to bomb that island, break the Iranian supply of oil. 0.87

00:53:53.000 So, again, pretty amazing stuff.

00:54:00.000 I've been talking with people in the IDF, in the IAF, they're not going to go quietly on this one.

00:54:04.000 They're very tired of this.

00:54:05.000 I keep checking my phone, by the way, because again, I have friends and family, actually, in Israel, and they have been telling me what's going on on the ground over there.

00:54:16.000 Borderline miraculous.

00:54:18.000 If you're a religious person, it's a miraculous thing that you can have 450 ballistic missiles fired at your country, if you're Israeli, and somehow escape with zero casualties or one casualty, thanks to the amazing technology that Israel has unleashed here. 0.99

00:54:35.000 Very little damage.

00:54:37.000 Again, Iran's friends. 1.00

00:54:38.000 Yeah, I'm waiting for it.

00:54:39.000 I'm just waiting for it.

00:54:40.000 I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

00:54:41.000 You know it's gonna drop.

00:54:42.000 You know Joe Biden's gonna come forth and say, now we need a ceasefire.

00:54:44.000 Israel should take the win, take the win. 1.00

00:54:49.000 But that is not going to happen.

00:54:52.000 That is simply done.

00:54:57.000 By the way, amazingly, there were weddings that were going on in Israel, and those weddings continued just at the bunker underground.

00:55:08.000 Apparently U.S.

00:55:08.000 officials are stating that Israel will absolutely retaliate against Iran.

00:55:11.000 By the way, this would be good for Biden.

00:55:12.000 It would be good for America, period. 0.83

00:55:15.000 It would be excellent for Israel to take out the single worst regime in the Middle East. 0.99

00:55:23.000 That would be a very useful thing.

00:55:26.000 And it is amazing, frankly, that the Biden administration has taken so long to get on board, if in fact they're already getting on board.

00:55:32.000 Speaker Mike Johnson apparently has been briefed on the situation in Israel.

00:55:34.000 So has Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

00:55:37.000 According to Jake Sherman, as I say, the narrative you're going to hear in the next couple of hours before Israel retaliates, which they will, is that Iran was being kind.

00:55:48.000 So you have a journalist for DropSite News saying, if this is true, it would suggest they did not target populated areas and the attack was for demonstration effect.

00:55:58.000 And as Jake Sherman responded, or it demonstrates Iron Dome and David Sling worked.

00:56:03.000 Missiles were raining over Tel Aviv.

00:56:04.000 By the way, how much of a comfort would that be to you?

00:56:06.000 Let's say that you're a resident of New York City or Miami or LA or Chicago and you are told that you need to go into your basement and you need to wait until the missiles are done falling and you look up in the air and you are seeing missiles being shot down.

00:56:18.000 You're watching missiles fly over your city.

00:56:20.000 If afterwards somebody was like, well, clearly they weren't aiming at you.

00:56:23.000 It's all fine.

00:56:24.000 No need for retaliation.

00:56:25.000 What would you say to that?

00:56:28.000 What exactly would your response be to any of this?

00:56:34.000 So, as Naftali Bennett just said, Naftali Bennett, former Prime Minister, popular Israeli figure, he was responding to Antonio Guterres, he said, True enough, the United Nations, the Mos Eisley of international politics.

00:56:42.000 You just aren't able to blurt the simple words, I condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1.00

00:56:46.000 who just shot roughly 180 deadly ballistic missiles toward the citizens of Israel, quit.

00:56:50.000 True enough, the United Nations, the Mos Eisley of international politics.

00:56:55.000 Truly bad.

00:56:58.000 So meanwhile, Israel has been deterring Iranian resupply planes from reaching Lebanon.

00:57:05.000 Earlier today, a cargo plane from the Islamic Republic of Iran was headed for Beirut.

00:57:11.000 And the Israelis said, if you do that, we're going to shoot it down.

00:57:13.000 It turned around and went back.

00:57:18.000 Meanwhile, again, if this attack had been more successful, it would have led to a broader response, but I think Israel's done with that. 0.67

00:57:28.000 The math is different now.

00:57:30.000 I really do not think that Israel is going to sit around on this at this point. 0.54

00:57:33.000 Now again, Iranian press TV claimed over 400 missiles were launched at Israel.

00:57:36.000 You're hearing from Israeli sources 180 missiles.

00:57:38.000 So that does raise the possibility that just as in the last round of attacks, only about half of the missiles actually fell where they were supposed to fall.

00:57:46.000 Half of them may have fallen on the way, fallen inside Iran, and all of the rest. 1.00

00:57:53.000 The idiots of the squad, we are awaiting comment from them. 1.00

00:57:59.000 But, presumably, they will have to wait until Israel responds to then declare that Israel is very, very bad. 1.00

00:58:05.000 Vitellos Smotrich, leader of one of the right-wing parties, he says,

00:58:08.000 I will now demand in the cabinet discussion that the family members of the abominable

00:58:11.000 terrorists from Hebron who carried out the heinous attacks in Jaffa be deported to Gaza

00:58:15.000 tonight and their homes should be turned into ruins for them to see.

00:58:18.000 Again, that is in response to a terror attack that happened in Jaffa, which is just south of Jerusalem.

00:58:27.000 I mean, just south of Tel Aviv, rather, that killed some eight people.

00:58:33.000 So, again, we are awaiting more word.

00:58:36.000 We're supposed to have Douglas Murray on shortly.

00:58:41.000 There's some other sources on the ground that we should probably reach out to.

00:58:44.000 Sorry, I'm coordinating with my producers in real time.

00:58:46.000 This is live coverage, of course.

00:58:48.000 So, you know, we are, it is, it is amazing that we are now, what,

00:59:01.000 two hours into this and Joe Biden is still asleep.

00:59:03.000 Where is he, precisely?

00:59:07.000 Where is he?

00:59:09.000 And meanwhile, Israel is still active in Lebanon.

00:59:13.000 Jordan Schachtel, another excellent commentator, should go check out his substack today.

00:59:17.000 He says, Israel is not going to take the win here.

00:59:18.000 Iran has grossly miscalculated. 0.98

00:59:20.000 These are unimpeded ballistic missiles raining down on civilian population centers.

00:59:24.000 These events could very well result in the toppling of the Islamic Republic regime that rules Iran.

00:59:28.000 From his mouth to God's ears.

00:59:32.000 Elon Musk added, having a weak president is dangerous to world security.

00:59:37.000 That is correct.

00:59:38.000 That is absolutely correct.

00:59:41.000 A strong president, Donald Trump, would have already said at the very October 7th,

00:59:45.000 no, it never would have happened and all the rest.

00:59:46.000 Katie Pavlich points out that just today in the Biden-Harris administration, we have

01:00:03.000 We have a dock strike not seen in 40 plus years that could cripple the economy, Katrina-level devastation in a number of southern U.S.

01:00:09.000 states, war raging and a stalemate between Russia and Ukraine, and now hundreds of missile launches from Iran.

01:00:13.000 Yeah, but at least Joe Biden is getting his tan on over at Rehoboth Beach.

01:00:18.000 That's the really important thing.

01:00:21.000 We need to keep that in mind.

01:00:28.000 Again, we are considering to show you on a loop some of the footage that we have seen.

01:00:35.000 It's pretty, pretty amazing footage.

01:00:39.000 There are, by the way, some new election polls out in the meantime.

01:00:45.000 Arizona, Trump is up one.

01:00:46.000 Nevada, Trump is up one.

01:00:47.000 North Carolina, Trump is up one.

01:00:53.000 We are still waiting to see what Israel's retaliatory response is going to be at this point.

01:01:00.000 We are waiting word.

01:01:00.000 the IDF is supposed to give an update in the very very near future.

01:01:06.000 Again you're watching TV being made in real time folks because again I'm

01:01:16.000 actually texting prospective guests to talk about what's going on right now

01:01:22.000 seeing if they if we can get some voices from on the ground over there.

01:01:29.000 Thank you.

01:01:40.000 Again, for those who are just joining late, Iran did launch a barrage missile. We've heard a bunch of 1.00

01:01:45.000 different numbers and again we'll update you as new numbers come in. The numbers from Jaffa have

01:01:49.000 been apparently six dead, six Israelis dead, two assailants shot and killed as well. The Israeli

01:01:54.000 military has said that for the moment the Iranian attack is over. Israel is estimating 180 missiles.

01:01:59.000 The Iranians had actually announced 400 missiles. Israel has already signaled that they will 0.82

01:02:04.000 retaliate. Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said this attack will have consequences. We have plans. We'll

01:02:09.000 operate at the place and time we Now again, that should scare the hell out of the Iranians, considering that Israel has such extraordinary intelligence penetration into Iran. 0.56

01:02:17.000 It may not happen tonight, may not happen immediately, and it may be that one day Ayatollah Khamenei decides to light up his vibrator and explodes.

01:02:27.000 That is a possibility.

01:02:29.000 You never know.

01:02:29.000 Middle East is a strange place.

01:02:32.000 Meanwhile again, President Trump has put out a statement at this time saying the world is on fire and spiraling out of control.

01:02:39.000 We have no leadership, no one running the country.

01:02:40.000 We have a non-existent president, Angel Biden, a completely absent Vice President, Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a city in which she and Gavin Newsom totally destroyed, staging fake photo ops.

01:02:50.000 No one is in charge.

01:02:51.000 It's not even clear who is more confused, Biden or Kamala.

01:02:53.000 Neither has any idea what exactly is going on.

01:02:59.000 Let's see.

01:03:01.000 I am going to try to... Producers!

01:03:07.000 I have a guest for us.

01:03:09.000 You're watching the sausage being made.

01:03:10.000 being made this is what happens when you go live so producer Justin you have just

01:03:19.000 been sent a contact information Thank you.

01:03:27.000 So let's see if we can grab Amit Sehgal.

01:03:31.000 Again, President Trump's statement goes on, quote, Again, I think it's important to point out that Joe Biden this week, I mean yesterday, was telling the Israelis to back down.

01:03:38.000 Like, just moments ago.

01:03:39.000 In fact, he said we need a ceasefire.

01:03:40.000 ever since they've been exporting terror all over and unraveling the Middle East. 0.99

01:03:43.000 Again, I think it's important to point out that Joe Biden this week, I mean yesterday,

01:03:48.000 was telling the Israelis to back down, like just moments ago.

01:03:54.000 In fact, he said we need a ceasefire.

01:03:55.000 It's a comment that not all their president made literally yesterday.

01:04:01.000 He's obviously very ticked at the Israelis for having the temerity to defend themselves.

01:04:05.000 Thank you.

01:04:06.000 .

01:04:07.000 He had suggested also, by the way, that Israeli strikes on Yemen were actually dock worker strikes because he doesn't know what's going on on a regular basis.

01:04:18.000 A journalist asked him, Israel may now launch a limited ground operation in Lebanese territory.

01:04:21.000 Are you aware of this?

01:04:22.000 Are you comfortable with their plans?

01:04:24.000 And Biden replied, this is a direct quote, I'm more aware of that than you think.

01:04:27.000 I'm comfortable with them stopping.

01:04:29.000 We need to cease fire now.

01:04:31.000 That is not exactly the way that it works over there. 1.00

01:04:34.000 Again, but President Biden is a very, very foolish man. 1.00

01:04:39.000 No shock there. 0.99

01:04:40.000 Now, in the meantime, what Israel has uncovered in Lebanon in the current operation is truly stunning. 0.75

01:04:46.000 According to Open Source Intel, which is an account on Twitter, More than 70 special operations have taken place over recent months with IDF forces spending some 200 nights inside enemy territory in southern Lebanon.

01:04:59.000 Some operations lasted two to three consecutive days within southern Lebanon.

01:05:02.000 Numerous IDF special units were involved in those missions.

01:05:04.000 During the operations, forces entered Hezbollah tunnels, destroyed weapons on site, rigged explosives, and brought back weapons and intelligence documents to Israel in two operations over the past few months.

01:05:13.000 IDF forces sustained casualties, one due to an explosion of their own rigged explosives and another from the detonation of an old unexploded bomb left in the area.

01:05:20.000 Hezbollah did not detect the operations.

01:05:22.000 No encounters or battles occurred with the terrorists.

01:05:26.000 The missions were carried out within two to three kilometers of the Israeli border in the surrounding village zone.

01:05:32.000 That, of course, is one of the reasons why you didn't see a broader Hezbollah attack from southern Lebanon in the aftermath of the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.

01:05:42.000 Or in the aftermath of Operation Grim Beeper.

01:05:47.000 Now Kamala Harris is nowhere to be found on all this, by the way.

01:05:50.000 A massive hurricane?

01:05:51.000 Nowhere to be found.

01:05:52.000 Massive Iranian attack on Israel? 0.69

01:05:54.000 Nowhere to be found.

01:05:56.000 Huge, huge strike on the ports?

01:05:58.000 Nowhere to be found.

01:06:00.000 Nowhere to be found.

01:06:05.000 Meanwhile, again, the IDF is not going to stop at this point.

01:06:08.000 They're not.

01:06:09.000 They have no interest in stopping.

01:06:13.000 Ian Bremmer was wrong a few minutes ago, he's right on this one.

01:06:15.000 He says, last month has been a repeated demonstration of Israeli military dominance in the region.

01:06:19.000 Offense and defense, intelligence and technology.

01:06:23.000 Iran and proxy have no effective way to reestablish deterrence. 0.99

01:06:25.000 Iranians are deeply concerned about the Americans joining the war.

01:06:29.000 As far as that last point, whether the Americans join the war or not, it is difficult to see exactly how that is going to impact things.

01:06:40.000 Again, we are awaiting a couple of guests.

01:06:44.000 We're still awaiting word from Douglas Murray.

01:06:46.000 He should be joining us sometime in the near future to discuss what is going on on the ground over there.

01:06:52.000 Also trying to get in touch with some Israeli journalists to get in touch with them as well.

01:06:58.000 And if I pause while I'm talking, once again, it's because I'm trying to figure out live

01:07:03.000 exactly how to contact some of the prospective guests.

01:07:15.000 Here again is the map of what these rocket strikes looked like in Israel.

01:07:20.000 These missile strikes all over Israel.

01:07:22.000 You can see basically the Negev, what you're looking at here, if you're not familiar with the map of Israel, you can see that the largely unpopulated region in the south, that'd be the Negev desert.

01:07:32.000 Not a lot there.

01:07:36.000 It's um, you know, that particular area is rather unpopulated.

01:07:42.000 Every other part of the state of Israel, except for the north, which of course was under sort of Hezbollah rocket fire, that area was basically left alone, but that's because they figured that Hezbollah was going to handle it, effectively speaking.

01:07:55.000 Once again, the latest situation is that we are awaiting word from the Israelis on what's

01:08:16.000 We have no word from Joe Biden on what's going to happen next.

01:08:18.000 We have no word from anybody on what's going to happen next, except that the world is waiting with bated breath to see what Israel will do next, because presumably Israel had prepared for just this sort of eventuality. 0.56

01:08:30.000 Couple of months have shown particularly is that October 7th was an outlier.

01:08:34.000 October 7th was not a rejiggering of power in the region.

01:08:37.000 October 7th was a signal awful failure by Israeli intelligence and the IDF and it did not change the balance of power in any way in the Middle East.

01:08:46.000 Israel is now changing the balance of power in the aftermath of October 7th.

01:08:50.000 As I've mentioned before, When you look at the amount of damage that Israel has done to its enemies in the aftermath of October 7th, it is very much like what the United States did after 9-11 or after Pearl Harbor. 0.68

01:09:01.000 First world nations are sometimes surprised by third world barbarians. 0.97

01:09:05.000 It turns out that what happens next is indicative of what happens when a first world nation goes directly at a third world group of barbarians. 0.90

01:09:12.000 Senator John Fetterman, who again is the great shock of our political age, He was perceived by me and others as a far leftist on virtually every issue when he was running for Senate in Pennsylvania.

01:09:21.000 He's put out a tweet, quote, any move Iran makes against Israel, my voice and vote follows Israel to ensure they have whatever resources they need, whether it's military, financial or intelligence to prevail over terror.

01:09:32.000 Man, John Fetterman, amazing.

01:09:35.000 Truly amazing.

01:09:36.000 It's kind of incredible, frankly, how wrong you can be about somebody like John Fetterman.

01:09:44.000 Now, I am talking with friends, you know, in real time in Israel.

01:09:47.000 They are all fine.

01:09:47.000 Thank you for asking.

01:09:48.000 I see people who are commenting and asking about it.

01:09:51.000 And they are all so far good.

01:09:53.000 Nobody has been hurt in Israel except for in this awful shooting in Jaffa, which undoubtedly was coordinated with the Iranian government. 0.81

01:09:59.000 The timing was too close for it not to have been coordinated with the Iranian government.

01:10:06.000 Again, we have footage of people who are literally picking up these rockets.

01:10:10.000 I mean, again, these are large weapons, folks.

01:10:12.000 This is not, you know, small, cheap $50 rockets that were shot at the State of Israel from Hezbollah territory or from the Gaza Strip.

01:10:21.000 It's something very, very different.

01:10:25.000 Again, look at the size of this rocket.

01:10:29.000 Now, they're cheering, presumably.

01:10:30.000 I'm not sure why they're cheering.

01:10:32.000 Are they cheering that the rocket fell?

01:10:35.000 Because it's in their area.

01:10:37.000 Kind of weird they seem excited about the rocket.

01:10:39.000 But you know, this is a strange area of the world.

01:10:44.000 Lindsey Graham has also put out a tweet at this point.

01:10:49.000 Senator Graham?

01:10:51.000 He says, this is a moment of choosing for the free world regarding Iran. 0.89

01:10:54.000 The Ayatollah and the Iranian regime are religious Nazis who want to destroy the state of Israel. 0.96

01:10:58.000 Their words, not mine. 0.99

01:10:59.000 They want to purify Islam and attack the United States again. 1.00

01:11:01.000 Their words, not mine. 0.55

01:11:03.000 This missile attack against Israel should be the breaking point.

01:11:05.000 I would urge the Biden administration to coordinate an overwhelming response with Israel, starting with Iran's ability to refine oil.

01:11:10.000 Those oil refineries need to be hit and hit hard because that is the source of cash for the regime to perpetrate their terror. 0.91

01:11:16.000 My prayers are with the people of Israel.

01:11:17.000 May God continue to bless Israel.

01:11:22.000 Again, there are people who are suggesting that the American troops in the region are into a vulnerable position for this sort of thing.

01:11:31.000 Again, I don't think the United States is going to actively coordinate a response with Israel.

01:11:34.000 I think this is going to be Israel on its own doing what it wants to do. 0.94

01:11:39.000 In just a moment, we're going to be joined by Amit Segal.

01:11:41.000 He is a reporter for Channel 12 in Israel.

01:11:44.000 Again, I recommend highly that people check out his telegram, he has an English telegram as well as a

01:11:49.000 Hebrew telegram that can get translated into English. He's going to be joining us right now. Here

01:11:56.000 he is. Do we have a meet?

01:11:58.000 Yeah, hi Ben. Hey, how are you? So it seems like you guys have been having a fun night over there,

01:12:03.000 why don't you give me the update on the ground from the latest you're hearing?

01:12:05.000 So what we see now from here, from Israel, is that almost 200 ballistic missiles have been fired

01:12:16.000 from Iran to Israel.

01:12:19.000 None of them caused any serious damage.

01:12:23.000 95% of the missiles, give or take, I think more than 95% were actually fell or got by our air defense systems.

01:12:36.000 And the dramatic photos and videos that you actually see is just the remains of the missiles.

01:12:44.000 But no injuries, no casualties.

01:12:47.000 Thanks God and the Israeli Defense Forces.

01:12:51.000 So, I mean, you know, there's been a lot of talk in the Western press.

01:12:54.000 I'm sure you're going to see some from the Biden administration suggesting that Iran had pre-coordinated this with the West, that they basically given big warning, that they didn't mean to kill anybody.

01:13:03.000 This was basically their way of trying to reestablish deterrence with Israel after Israel has absolutely devastated Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and in Lebanon.

01:13:11.000 More generally, that this somehow should forestall an Israeli response.

01:13:14.000 What are you hearing in terms of an Israeli response to this Iranian attack?

01:13:19.000 What do you make of the argument that Iran wasn't really attempting to hurt anybody, it was just sort of a fireworks show? 0.94

01:13:24.000 No, no, no.

01:13:26.000 It's the most expensive and the dramatic firework in the Middle East history.

01:13:31.000 What they really tried to do is to actually attack and destroy three different Air Force bases in Nevatim, Ramat David, and Hazarim, and the Mossad headquarters in Gelilot, five minutes from Tel Aviv.

01:13:46.000 So they actually tried to cause a huge damage.

01:13:50.000 And therefore, I think the response would be, should be, and must be, the most dramatic attack made by the Israeli Air Force on Iran's soil.

01:14:03.000 And I'll explain.

01:14:04.000 In the past, Israel was frustrated because for many, many years it was attacked.

01:14:09.000 It has been attacked by the arms of the Octopus.

01:14:12.000 But the Octopus itself never suffered from a direct Israeli hit.

01:14:18.000 There were mysterious incidents, but Israel has never taken any responsibility.

01:14:24.000 Now it changed.

01:14:25.000 And three minutes ago, the IDF spokesperson said, Ben, and I never heard him speaking like this, that the Israeli Air Force will act all over the Middle East this night.

01:14:37.000 And I think it's quite clear which part of the Middle East he means.

01:14:41.000 So, I mean, there's been a lot of discussion about what exactly that strategy looks like.

01:14:44.000 Obviously, Iran's two major assets Alright, it's nuclear facilities and it's oil refineries.

01:14:50.000 There's been a lot of talk about the possibility of Israel either bombing the oil fields, bombing the oil refineries, essentially throttling the Iranian economy in response to this, or possibly going in directly after the Iranian nuclear facilities.

01:15:01.000 That, of course, has been the talk of Israel for the better part of two decades at this point.

01:15:05.000 It seems like there's not going to be a better opportunity for Israel to actually destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities if they have the capacity to do so.

01:15:12.000 And obviously, tonight goes very differently for Israel if there's a nuclear warhead on one of those missiles.

01:15:18.000 So the question is, does Israel have the ability to attack Iran's nuclear program?

01:15:18.000 Exactly.

01:15:23.000 I doubt it, and I don't think this is the case for tonight.

01:15:26.000 But I do think it's going to be something focused on Iran's economy, a.k.a.

01:15:33.000 the fossil fuel, etc.

01:15:35.000 And therefore, I think that Iran me 0.77

01:15:40.000 they understood israel exactly the way

01:15:43.000 uh... not messala you once pop it misunderstood israel

01:15:48.000 he was sure israel will never attack and will never invade lebanon and we never

01:15:51.000 kill him anything happened

01:15:54.000 i think the iranian regime as we see from their comments tonight 0.96

01:15:58.000 date think this is the revenge for killing for assassinating the follow-up

01:16:02.000 ania interest of the a terrorist leaders But they don't understand that Israel will and must retaliate. 0.56

01:16:10.000 So they, once again, they don't understand how Israel has changed dramatically since October 7th, 2023.

01:16:20.000 When you look at the possibility of further action, obviously Israel has tremendous intelligence penetration inside Iran as well.

01:16:26.000 There's a reason that Ayatollah Khomeini went into hiding after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.

01:16:31.000 There are a lot of dissidents on the ground in Iran.

01:16:33.000 There are a lot of intelligence assets that Israel's been able to work up inside Iran.

01:16:36.000 The funniest story of the week was ex-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying that there was actually an anti-Masad Yeah, Brad was created inside the IRGC and it turns out that the head of that unit, according to him, was actually a member of Mossad, which is inherently hilarious.

01:16:54.000 The Iranian regime, the problem, obviously, that faces Israel is that while the Iranian regime is vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks, from the oil fields to the taking out of Iranian nuclear scientists and upper-level members of the Iranian regime, Is there the possibility, there's been kind of loose talk about the possibility of regime change there.

01:17:12.000 It's difficult to see regime change without any sort of internal uprising led by somebody inside IRGC, for example.

01:17:20.000 No, but I think, first of all, we don't know.

01:17:23.000 No one has foreseen the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 80s.

01:17:30.000 But what we know is that this is a corrupt administration, very weak in terms of economy, and we see now the pilots in Lebanon.

01:17:41.000 Israel attacked Nasrallah and Hezbollah, and we see the uprising in Lebanon as it happens.

01:17:47.000 So maybe, perhaps it might happen not in tiny Lebanon, but in bigger Iran.

01:17:53.000 But for sure, suffering a huge economic damage due to the desire of the Iranian regime to attack Israel without any reason. 0.95

01:18:02.000 I mean, there is no reason for this conflict.

01:18:04.000 When I was a child, there were still flights from Tel Aviv to Tehran.

01:18:09.000 Some... too many years ago.

01:18:12.000 So there's no reason for it, and at least half of the Iranian population doesn't see any point for such a war that is going to be a full-scale war soon.

01:18:22.000 Well, there is a developing incident apparently in the Gaza Strip.

01:18:25.000 There's a report right now, Amit, that a mob, about 80 Gazans, some of them armed, are trying to overwhelm IDF forces in the Netzerim access.

01:18:32.000 It looks as though they're a bunch of coordinated kind of local terror attacks, Iranian proxy groups.

01:18:38.000 It would be surprising, for example, if the attack in Jaffa tonight was not coordinated with the Iranian government, that apparently was two terrorists who came from Hebron, which is in the West Bank.

01:18:51.000 Those are people who are under Palestinian rule.

01:18:55.000 What is Israel's response to that?

01:18:56.000 Do you think that these are coordinated with the Iranian regime?

01:19:00.000 I think it's more disturbing. 0.54

01:19:01.000 I think they don't have to coordinate killing Jews. 0.98

01:19:04.000 I think that the two murderers that came to the light train, to the tram in Jaffa and killed six Jews, six Israelis, They did it because they want to kill as many Jews as they can. 0.53

01:19:19.000 And that's the reason why Gazans celebrated tonight the pictures in Tel Aviv of the missiles fired at Israel.

01:19:29.000 By the way, the most amazing fact from tonight is that the only victim of the Iranian attack is a Gazan, Palestinian, who fled to Jericho, the Palestinian city of Jericho.

01:19:41.000 So the only victim of the Iranian regime is someone who fled from Gaza because of the results of the Iranian terror fueling. 0.96

01:19:49.000 So when you look meanwhile at the action that Israel has taken in Lebanon, Israel is re-establishing 0.98

01:19:56.000 not only its deterrence, it's demonstrating the full weight of its might in the aftermath

01:20:01.000 of October 7th.

01:20:02.000 Yes.

01:20:03.000 Watching very closely what was happening in Israel in the era after October 7th, there's

01:20:07.000 a lot of doubt worldwide, particularly in the region, but also even within Israel about

01:20:11.000 the capacity of the intelligence, why did October 7th happen, capacity of the IDF, all

01:20:15.000 sorts of questions being asked about why the response on October 7th wasn't better, why

01:20:19.000 weren't things going better in the Gaza Strip.

01:20:21.000 Now, almost a year out, what we can see is that the performance of the IDF and the IAF has been absolutely astonishing.

01:20:27.000 The operation in the Gaza Strip, has cost too many young people their lives, it's cost too

01:20:33.000 many young people their limbs, but the total number of Israeli dead in the Gaza Strip

01:20:38.000 right now, numbers in the relatively low hundreds,

01:20:41.000 the total number of Palestinian terrorists who have been killed by the Israelis,

01:20:44.000 numbers in the well over 20,000 range.

01:20:47.000 Meanwhile, in the course of the last two and a half weeks...

01:20:51.000 Israel has basically eviscerated the entire upper echelon of Hezbollah.

01:20:54.000 They've taken out virtually all, apparently, of their long-range munitions, and they are currently clearing southern Lebanon, which is something that we're now finding out they were doing for the past year.

01:21:03.000 They were doing small-scale operations into southern Lebanon in an attempt to sort of set up the preliminaries for the operation that's taking place right now.

01:21:09.000 Can you speak to Israel's position in the Middle East right now, during and after all this action?

01:21:17.000 On October 7th, 2024, Israel was in its weakest point ever, I think.

01:21:22.000 The deterrence, this invisible thing that you can't see it, but you can smell it, was hindered by the fact that the weakest enemy of Israel, Hamas, massacred 1200 Israelis, broke the entire Israeli army for a day, which is amazing. 0.93

01:21:41.000 And then Hezbollah started firing, and the Houthis from Yemen and Iran.

01:21:46.000 I think that that was on October 7th, 2023.

01:21:49.000 On October 1st, 2024, Israel's deterrence, I think, has recovered dramatically due to the fact that it actually cuts off Hamas's lifeline destroyed Hamas as a terror army, and in two weeks took from Hezbollah the abilities that were built for 20 years, that have been built for 20 years. 0.92

01:22:12.000 And I think the whole world sees it.

01:22:14.000 And I would like to offer an explanation, because maybe your audience might wonder if Israel's deterrence is stronger than ever, how come Iran tried to attack Israel tonight?

01:22:26.000 And the answer is that here is the proof.

01:22:28.000 For the first time in its history, In 2024, Iran had to attack Israel in itself, without hiding behind its proxies. 0.92

01:22:41.000 So, because we broke one proxy, and we are on our way to break yet another proxy, and we're attacking the Houthis in Yemen, which is the third proxy, it means necessarily that they have to act. 0.64

01:22:53.000 People all over the Middle East wondered over the last few days Israel killed Nasrallah.

01:22:59.000 Israel destroyed Hamas.

01:23:01.000 And you and Iran do nothing? 0.98

01:23:03.000 So perhaps you are not as strong as you thought.

01:23:06.000 And I think it shows something which is not very Persian.

01:23:12.000 They are very well known for their patience.

01:23:15.000 And all of a sudden, I don't know, they look to me like Israelis are Americans. 0.98

01:23:20.000 Well, that's Amit Segal.

01:23:21.000 Go check out all of his work over at Channel 12 and also on his Twitter feed and also on his Telegram.

01:23:25.000 I've recommended everybody check out your Telegram, which is the best source for information in the Middle East.

01:23:29.000 Amit, really appreciate the time.

01:23:30.000 Thank you so much.

01:23:30.000 Stay safe out there.

01:23:32.000 Thank you so much.

01:23:33.000 And now joining us on the line is my friend Douglas Murray.

01:23:35.000 Douglas, of course, is the number one bestselling author of seven books, including The War on the West.

01:23:40.000 He also writes, of course, for The Spectator, The New York Post, The Sun, The Free Press.

01:23:44.000 Douglas, where are you right now?

01:23:47.000 I'm now in New York.

01:23:49.000 So let's talk about what's going on in Israel.

01:23:51.000 Obviously, you've spent large swaths of the last year in Israel covering the conflict on the ground in Gaza.

01:23:58.000 What we watched tonight was yet another mass Iranian assault on Israel. 0.99

01:24:02.000 Israel said about 180 missiles were fired at Israel.

01:24:05.000 Iran had earlier claimed about 400, which wouldn't be shocking if a bunch of those missiles fell inside Iran, since they are wildly incompetent, apparently, at everything. 0.99

01:24:12.000 What do you make of the situation?

01:24:15.000 Well, I think, as your previous caller was saying, The most important thing is that as we come up to the first anniversary of October 7th, Israel's deterrent capability in the region has been re-established. 0.81

01:24:27.000 It has shown itself to be able to reach wherever it wants to reach, to a degree that even its greatest admirers and indeed its greatest enemies didn't expect it to be capable of.

01:24:41.000 The destruction of the entire leadership of Hezbollah, which was completed last Friday Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the UN, where I was in attendance as well.

01:24:54.000 It was a truly astonishing final act of that.

01:24:59.000 Hezbollah's top levels of command have all been killed.

01:25:05.000 Second level of command have all been killed.

01:25:07.000 The lower levels have all been killed.

01:25:12.000 Already, by last week, half of their munitions were destroyed.

01:25:17.000 That's going to be much more in the days ahead as the land attack on Hezbollah continues.

01:25:24.000 It's astonishing.

01:25:25.000 An astonishing success.

01:25:27.000 It is, as I say, just shortly before the anniversary of the 7th of October demonstration that Israel has not just deterred her enemies, but is in the process of destroying them.

01:25:38.000 And there's one other very important thing that should be said about this, of course.

01:25:41.000 As you know, Ben, and many of your listeners will know, The people who have been killed, the senior Hezbollah commanders who have been killed in recent weeks, include the people who killed 241 American Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983.

01:25:57.000 Their deaths were never avenged by America.

01:26:01.000 America put out bounties for them, but nothing was done to find these people.

01:26:06.000 It took the IDF, decades later, to finally Get revenge and get the people who killed American servicemen in the line of duty in Beirut in 1983.

01:26:19.000 And to my mind, this points to something very important that Benjamin Netanyahu said when speaking in Congress in front of the joint sessions in July, where he said, our fight is your fight, and our victory will be your victory.

01:26:34.000 And I think this is a reminder of that.

01:26:36.000 Israel's current and ongoing victories are also America's victories.

01:26:42.000 Yeah, Douglas, one of the most astonishing things about this conflict has been the bizarre desire by the Biden administration to basically hold the leash on Israel, tell them they shouldn't go into Rafah and finish off Hamas, tell Israel should take the victory the last time that Iran shot a wide barrage of missiles.

01:26:57.000 At Israel, I'm fully expecting that you will hear some sort of language like that coming out of the Biden administration shortly.

01:27:03.000 So far, they've been silent.

01:27:05.000 Perhaps they're waiting for Israel to take the action and then say the thing.

01:27:07.000 Joe Biden keeps repeating the word ceasefire as though it's the word Betelgeuse and suddenly Betelgeuse is going to appear.

01:27:12.000 If he says ceasefire enough times, then magically everything will heal in the Middle East and he can go back to sleep in Rehovot Beach. 0.97

01:27:18.000 But the simple fact of the matter is that what Israel is doing through its massive escalation against Hezbollah is actually making the region significantly more peaceful for the foreseeable future.

01:27:27.000 The possibility of reopening the Abraham Accords to Saudi Arabia, the possibility of Lebanon itself actually being turned into something livable, the possibility even of something as dramatic as an Iranian revolution.

01:27:38.000 These sorts of things become possible when Western powers stand up for themselves.

01:27:43.000 Yes, and this, I mean, everyone had hoped that the Americans would be among the most

01:27:48.000 important allies would be alongside Israel all the way in this.

01:27:52.000 And as you mentioned, they haven't been.

01:27:54.000 We've had the situation now for a year, which, for instance, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

01:27:59.000 have said you're allowed to retaliate, but not too much.

01:28:02.000 We had, of course, Kamala Harris saying Israelis shouldn't go into the Hamas stronghold of

01:28:08.000 Rafa because if you remember, she said she'd studied the maps, something which I'm sure

01:28:11.000 no idea Colonel has ever done.

01:28:15.000 And then we have this call for a ceasefire now, and it's flat out wrong.

01:28:20.000 When you are winning, you have to push for total victory.

01:28:24.000 And that's what the Israelis, I hope, are doing at the moment, what they should be doing.

01:28:28.000 The Iranian ballistics being hurled at Israel as we speak are a demonstration, as we just heard, of Iranian revolutionary government weakness.

01:28:39.000 All of their proxies have now been destroyed.

01:28:41.000 Their proxies of Hezbollah are totally destroyed.

01:28:44.000 Their proxy in Yemen, almost totally destroyed.

01:28:47.000 The proxy in Hamas, almost totally destroyed.

01:28:51.000 This means that Iran, the Iranian revolutionary government, which is holding that country hostage, should now be in the sights of every country that values freedom.

01:29:02.000 And I'd just add one other thing to that, which is You know, we have heard routinely in the last year from Biden and others, they always do the same thing.

01:29:10.000 Ceasefire.

01:29:11.000 Important not to escalate and much more flat out wrong.

01:29:15.000 You don't have a ceasefire when you're winning.

01:29:18.000 You don't have a ceasefire when your enemies are on their knees.

01:29:23.000 You do not have a ceasefire when your enemies are on the brink of total destruction.

01:29:29.000 It is not the case that peace is always the answer.

01:29:32.000 I would cite the book of Ecclesiastes for that very, very important moment.

01:29:37.000 There is a time for all things upon the earth.

01:29:40.000 There is a time for war and a time for peace.

01:29:43.000 This is a time for war and it should be a war to annihilate the enemies of Israel and 0.99

01:29:49.000 the United States and I at any rate hope that that war can end.

01:29:55.000 Douglas Goldstein, financial planner & investment advisor, interviewed Shepard on Arutz Sheva

01:29:58.000 Radio.

01:29:59.000 He said, what Israel is doing right now is a complete rejiggering of the Western way 0.99

01:30:02.000 of war back to what the Western way of war used to be decades ago, which is actually

01:30:07.000 pursuing victory.

01:30:08.000 It's been a very long time.

01:30:09.000 since anyone in the West actually even mentioned the word victory.

01:30:12.000 Netanyahu has said over and over and over, we will win, the Israeli public is behind him

01:30:17.000 in his attempts to win so they don't have to fight this again tomorrow.

01:30:21.000 If the West would take the lead from that, the world would be a much better place.

01:30:24.000 Absolutely, and I'm into that.

01:30:27.000 Well, that's Douglas Murray.

01:30:28.000 Go check out all of his work, of course, over at Douglas K. Murray on Twitter.

01:30:32.000 And, of course, check him out at the New York Post, The Sun, check him out at the Free Press, and also check out, of course, his great book, The War on the West.

01:30:38.000 Douglas, thanks so much for taking the time.

01:30:40.000 Really appreciate it.

01:30:40.000 It's a great pleasure.

01:30:42.000 Thank you.

01:30:43.000 So, meanwhile, the U.S.

01:30:46.000 is holding a press conference.

01:30:46.000 The White House is holding a press conference right now.

01:30:48.000 Apparently, according to the press conference, the U.S.

01:30:51.000 did help shoot down some of the missiles via the Navy.

01:30:54.000 So that is a good thing.

01:30:54.000 And it's good that the United States is shooting down missiles from a terror power aimed at an ally.

01:30:59.000 That is a very good thing.

01:31:00.000 And we'll wait for their news on that.

01:31:02.000 So, just to recap what we know at this point.

01:31:05.000 About 6 p.m.

01:31:06.000 tonight, Iran began firing Hundreds of ballistic missiles at the State of Israel.

01:31:14.000 The State of Israel estimates that's 180 ballistic missiles.

01:31:16.000 Iran apparently has suggested up to 400 ballistic missiles.

01:31:19.000 That was 6 p.m.

01:31:21.000 local time in Israel.

01:31:22.000 The footage was astonishing.

01:31:24.000 You can see the footage in the two box here falling all over the State of Israel.

01:31:29.000 The entire map of the State of Israel was covered in red alerts.

01:31:32.000 It's getting calls.

01:31:33.000 I was getting WhatsApps from all my friends in Israel talking about having to run to the shelters, take their kids into the shelters.

01:31:40.000 Iran announced this was in retaliation for the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the terror head of Hezbollah, that is the Iranian proxy arm in Lebanon.

01:31:49.000 Israel has thoroughly eviscerated Hezbollah.

01:31:51.000 They've taken out Hassan Nasrallah.

01:31:52.000 They've taken out nearly the entire upper echelon of Hezbollah.

01:31:55.000 They've moved into southern Lebanon.

01:31:57.000 It turns out they've been performing extraordinary operations in southern Lebanon for the last year to empty out terror capacity in southern Lebanon.

01:32:05.000 And now they're moving full scale into southern Lebanon, presumably over the course of the

01:32:09.000 next few days to rid it once and for all of Hezbollah presence. 0.99

01:32:12.000 Iran, in an attempt to demonstrate that they have some level of a credible force left in 0.80

01:32:17.000 the Middle East, fired this very large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel.

01:32:23.000 Because of Israel's defense capacity, because of its allies, zero people have died.

01:32:28.000 The only person who was killed in all of this, one person has died, not zero, one person died.

01:32:33.000 The one person who was killed in all this was a Gazan refugee in the West Bank city of Jericho.

01:32:39.000 So, the Iranians were aiming at the Jews and they hit a Gazan Palestinian.

01:32:42.000 The entire map, again, of Israel lit up red.

01:32:45.000 That includes the West Bank, in which two million Arabs live.

01:32:49.000 And of course, there are two million Arabs who live inside the state of Israel as well.

01:32:52.000 Once again, when it comes to Iran, they do not care one fig about their supposed Palestinian allies.

01:32:57.000 All they care about is using those Palestinian allies as a weapon against the state of Israel. 0.97

01:33:02.000 Israel at this hour has announced that there will be a massive retaliation.

01:33:07.000 This will not go unchallenged, unlike the first time back in April when the Biden administration talked Israel out of a harsher action and Israel fired a piece of high-tech ordinance that was designed to deter Iran. 0.76

01:33:20.000 This time Israel has said they are going to go after whatever they need to go after.

01:33:24.000 Presumably they'll mean going after the oil refineries in Iran or after nuclear facilities in Iran or perhaps using intelligence capabilities to do something unexpected the way that they used Operation Grim Beeper in Lebanon to defenestrate half of the Iranian, half of the Hezbollah upper echelon in Lebanon and then used the radios to blow up the other half. 0.63

01:33:42.000 So, what we are watching right now is Israel flex muscle. 0.83

01:33:45.000 Iran is desperate. 0.95

01:33:45.000 That's the reason they had to get invested in this thing directly. 0.95

01:33:48.000 The reason they have now fired twice massive missile barrages directly at the state of Israel is because their proxies are being taken completely off the board.

01:33:56.000 Hamas is losing in the Gaza Strip.

01:33:57.000 They've effectively lost.

01:33:59.000 They are now a low-level counterinsurgency.

01:34:01.000 23 out of 24 Hamas battalions in the Gaza Strip after October 7th have been completely wiped out and destroyed.

01:34:08.000 Hezbollah, which was the gravest threat, the biggest, most well-armed terror group in the region, has now been thoroughly handled.

01:34:17.000 Hezbollah will continue to be degraded en masse by the Israelis. 0.95

01:34:21.000 Tens of thousands of members of Hezbollah have been fleeing across the Lebanese-Syrian border to get away from Israeli fire.

01:34:27.000 And Iran, feeling that it was losing grip on all of these proxies, had to fire directly.

01:34:33.000 Of course, the Houthis, another Iranian proxy group, had fired a cruise missile at Israel a little bit earlier this week, and Israel proceeded to blow up two ports that the Houthis were in control of.

01:34:41.000 So Israel right now is saying to the entire Middle East that they are not going to be made subject to the whims of evil terrorist groups backed by Iran, and they are now making clear, and I'm sure they will make clear in coming hours and coming days, that they are perfectly willing to make clear to the Iranians that if they want it, they're gonna get it. 0.93

01:34:58.000 F-A-F-O. 1.00

01:34:59.000 Apparently, Ayatollah Khomeini is once again in hiding. 0.82

01:35:02.000 He is correctly afraid that Israel will assassinate him the way that Israel assassinated Ismail Kania in Tehran, the way that Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. 0.92

01:35:13.000 All of this missile fire was coincident with a large-scale shooting attack in the Israeli city of Jaffa that is located just south of Tel Aviv.

01:35:21.000 Six people killed on the street, plus the two terrorists.

01:35:24.000 There was also an attempt in the so-called Netzarim Corridor, which is an area of central Gaza, by some 80 terrorists to storm in an IDF position The threat was neutralized and no Israelis were hurt there.

01:35:37.000 So what we are watching again is the Iranians gasp against the dying of the light. 1.00

01:35:43.000 They can see that they're no longer in control of events in the Middle East for too long.

01:35:46.000 Their tentacles have surrounded Israel, have attempted to strangle Israel. 0.92

01:35:50.000 Israel has broken each one of those tentacles in turn.

01:35:54.000 And now the head of the octopus is trying to strike at Israel and Israel is going to strike the head of the octopus back.

01:35:59.000 President Trump, of course, has issued a statement pointing out that none of this would have happened were he the president of the United States.

01:36:05.000 Right now, of course, he's exactly Correct.

01:36:08.000 About that, his statement read, The world is on fire and spiraling out of control.

01:36:11.000 We have no leadership, no one running the country.

01:36:13.000 We have a non-existent president in Joe Biden, a completely absent Vice President Kamala Harris, who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco, a city which she and Gavin Newscombe totally destroyed, staging fake photo ops. 0.59

01:36:22.000 No one's in charge.

01:36:23.000 It's not even clear who's more confused, Biden or Kamala.

01:36:25.000 Neither has any idea what is even going on.

01:36:27.000 When I was president, Iran was in total check. 0.99

01:36:29.000 They were starved for cash, fully contained, and desperate to make a deal.

01:36:31.000 Kamala flooded them with American cash ever since.

01:36:33.000 They've been exporting terror all over, unraveling the Middle East. 1.00

01:36:36.000 Under President Trump, we had no war in the Middle East, no war in Europe, harmony in Asia, no inflation, no Afghanistan catastrophe.

01:36:41.000 Instead, we had peace.

01:36:42.000 Now, war or the threat of war is raging everywhere.

01:36:45.000 The two incompetents running this country are leading us to the brink of World War III.

01:36:48.000 You wouldn't trust Joe Ocamla to run a lemonade stand, let alone the free world, says Donald Trump.

01:36:52.000 It's no surprise Iran desperately wants Kamala Harris to be president because they know as long as she's in power, they can take advantage of America. 1.00

01:36:57.000 That is why they've tried to target me if I was in charge.

01:37:00.000 October 7th never would have happened.

01:37:01.000 Russia-Ukraine never happens.

01:37:02.000 Afghanistan botched withdrawal never happens.

01:37:03.000 Inflation never happens.

01:37:05.000 If I win, we'll have peace in the world again.

01:37:06.000 If Kamala gets four more years, the world goes up in smoke. 0.85

01:37:10.000 He is totally correct about that, obviously.

01:37:12.000 And that should be what J.D.

01:37:13.000 Vance says in the vice presidential debate tonight.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 01, 2024

Breaking News: Iran Attacks Israel

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