Up to 450 missiles fired from Iran are being shot down across the state of Israel, from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, from the north to the south. No casualties have been reported so far. Iran says this is in retaliation for the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, which has been devastated by the Israeli Air Force and the Israeli military in Lebanon. Iran claims these are not military strikes, but an act of revenge for the assassination of a prominent Hezbollah leader in Lebanon, and says they are in response to an Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon. Israel says it will respond in kind, but it's not clear what kind of response it will be, or what it will do to deal with the Iranian missiles that are dropping over the city of Tel Aviv and over the suburbs of Ashdod, near the border with the West Bank and the Golan Heights. Israel's response is still not clear, and there's no word yet on what Israel will do in response, but there's a good chance it's going to be more severe than what's being talked about so far, and that could be a response that's not likely to be as severe as the one Israel has previously responded to in the past, and could be even more severe, and a much more severe one than what has been talked about in the media and on social media and the media. Here's a look at the latest on that. response to the Iranian missile barrage and what Israel is doing to defend itself. (1:00:00 - Iran launches a massive missile barrage toward Israel (2:15:00) - What's being done so far? (3:30 - What is being done? Is there a military response? ) (4:30: What will be the most effective response (5:30) (6:40) - Is Israel s response to Iran's response? (7:15) - How Israel will respond (8:00): What are the most severe response What are we going to do now (9:30): What will Israel will be next (11:00-11:20) - Does Israel have a plan (14:30 ) (16:00 Does Iran have a strategy ? 17:15 - What will we do next? 16:00 +16:15 Do we have a response ? (17:00 )
00:00:39.000That is a safe room that people have in their homes.
00:00:42.000People are hiding in Essentially, bomb shelters, places like malls, places in their buildings.
00:00:50.000And 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.
00:00:58.000Some of the video, again, is pretty amazing.
00:01:00.000Here is some of the video of missiles dropping near Tel Aviv.
00:01:05.000These bright flashes that you're seeing in the sky are Iranian missiles.
00:01:10.000Okay, guys, we gotta get off the roof.
00:01:12.000These are coming down right next to us here.
00:02:27.000We're still awaiting what Israel's response will be.
00:02:29.000Senior officials in Israel say it will be severe.
00:02:32.000This 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.
00:02:43.000There will be a much heavier response.
00:02:44.000We'll get to that in a little bit what that response could be.
00:02:47.000Here's some more video of the missiles coming down and you can hear the sirens in the streets obviously.
00:02:51.000You hear the voice of children obviously.
00:03:01.000And these are coming over populated areas.
00:03:04.000In spite of Iran trying to pretend that these are military strikes, these are not in fact military strikes.
00:03:08.000They do not have the capacity to actually launch at specifically military areas.
00:03:12.000These are all flying directly over civilian areas.
00:03:15.000Here is some of the footage of the impact in southern Israel.
00:03:49.000Mass gatherings were canceled earlier today.
00:03:51.000Here are some interceptions over the Kotel in Jerusalem.
00:03:54.000And 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.
00:04:02.000and of course anything that's above the western wall is also above the dome of the rock and the
00:04:07.000I'm getting all sorts of these sorts of videos from my friends in Israel who right now are
00:04:19.000in their shelters and are just basically aiming their camera at the sky and seeing the exact same
00:04:25.000President 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.
00:04:31.000We discussed how the United States is prepared to help defend Israel against these attacks and protect American personnel in the region.
00:04:37.000All that is about is lukewarm a statement as I've ever heard.
00:04:41.000That really does not give us a lot of information other than Kamala Harris is apparently the acting president of the United States.
00:04:46.000Now 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.
00:04:54.000Not 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.
00:04:59.000They've been slow-walking aid to the Israelis in the middle of all this.
00:05:02.000Israel, again, has already said that they are not going to go quietly after this one.
00:05:06.000President 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.
00:05:15.000None of this happened while I was president.
00:05:17.000And of course, he is totally correct about that.
00:05:19.000If 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.
00:05:26.000Now, meanwhile, what is Israel going to do in retaliation?
00:05:30.000Well, my guess is they're going to do something pretty severe.
00:05:32.000There are a couple of different options that are on the table from what I hear.
00:05:36.000And 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.
00:05:44.000Option number one is striking at Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:05:47.000Iran, of course, has been in the business of developing a nuclear weapon for the better part of 20 years.
00:05:51.000They are apparently at threshold levels of uranium development.
00:05:55.000If Iran were to go nuclear, that would totally change the math in the Middle East.
00:05:58.000Simply because, as you can see, there's great willingness by the Iranians to use ballistic nuclear technology.
00:06:03.000They could possibly fire a ballistic missile at Israel tipped with a nuclear weapon.
00:06:06.000And that, of course, would be an existential threat to the state of Israel.
00:06:11.000Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made this the centerpiece of his campaign against Iran for the better part of his entire career.
00:06:17.000And so the severe possibility exists here that Israel will go and attempt to blow up or take out nuclear facilities in Iran.
00:06:24.000The other thing that would be much easier for them to do, militarily speaking, because the nuclear facilities are largely underground.
00:06:30.000Now, again, is that going to stop Israel?
00:06:32.000The 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.
00:06:41.000So could Israel do something similar in Iran?
00:08:02.000Here's a little bit of what that video looked like.
00:08:04.000You can see the bodies lining the streets here.
00:08:13.000here. The terrorists were killed on sight. There were rumors of a second terror attack.
00:08:20.000There were rumors of a second terror attack.
00:08:23.000Apparently that has not happened as of yet.
00:08:26.000There 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.
00:08:55.000He does have a Telegram account in English.
00:08:57.000He also has one in Hebrew that you can pay to have translated as well.
00:09:01.000A 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.
00:09:07.000This idea that the Iranians care deeply about the Palestinians is a lie.
00:09:10.000They just see them as a weapon to destroy the Israelis, the Zionists, whatever they wish to call them.
00:09:14.000That day, several were injured by shrapnel from an Iranian missile.
00:09:18.000Again, the Iranians do not have the exactitude necessary to simply strike at military sites, nor do they really have the interest.
00:09:25.000The skies of Ramallah have also been covered in missiles as well.
00:09:30.000Iran apparently launched a simultaneous launch from the Tabriz area.
00:09:34.000You 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.
00:09:43.000The refugee camp in Nablus, which is a major city, it's not a refugee camp, it's a major Palestinian city, that Palestinian city.
00:09:48.000Also, 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.
00:09:57.000They 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
00:10:02.000don't care about any of that. All they care about is putting pressure on the state of Israel and avoiding the
00:10:07.000humiliation of the fact that Israel has thoroughly clocked two of their greatest assets in the region, Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:10:14.000That is the current state of affairs right now.
00:10:16.000We're bringing you real-time updates obviously as we receive them.
00:10:20.000There's also a White House press briefing that is going to start in a fairly short order.
00:10:24.000You can see the screen of Tel Aviv here as well.
00:10:28.000We have Tel Aviv and Jerusalem live feeds so you can see right now things are fairly quiet.
00:10:33.000There's expected to be a second round of major missile attack on Jerusalem, on Tel Aviv.
00:10:39.000And the extent to which Israel has prepared itself for attacks like this is truly an astonishing thing.
00:10:45.000The suggestion that You would have 500 missiles dropping at one time onto Israel without any significant damage done on the ground is almost unthinkable.
00:11:10.000And again, this is a real risk for Iran.
00:11:13.000Iran was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:11:16.000Effectively 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.
00:11:28.000If they go too hard at Israel, and this looks like too hard, then Israel is going to retaliate in kind or more so.
00:11:35.000The IDF has now announced the citizens can leave their shelters throughout the country.
00:11:38.000They don't see any more launches from Iran at this time.
00:11:42.000So we'll see if there's a second round again.
00:11:44.000There 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.
00:11:51.000Now, 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
00:12:07.000New technology at the Iranian territory.
00:12:11.000They hit a target that was just outside one of the nuclear facilities, a sort of an intimidation move.
00:12:15.000But this time, Israel is not going to sit still.
00:12:18.000There's great unity on both sides of the Israeli aisle.
00:12:21.000The left to the right, the Labour Party all the way over to Vassalos Motsrich and Tamar Ben-Gavir.
00:12:27.000There's great unity in Israel for the possibility of doing severe damage to the Iranian regime's economic capabilities and nuclear capabilities.
00:12:34.000Those, of course, are the real levers.
00:12:36.000And 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.
00:12:48.000You'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.
00:12:57.000The 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.
00:13:09.000Now Israel does have significant intelligence on the ground in Iran.
00:13:12.000We reported on the show today, for example.
00:13:15.000That 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.
00:13:27.000They 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.
00:13:34.000Israel has tremendous levels of intelligence penetration in Iran so There will be operations in response.
00:13:40.000The IDF, I'm sure, is going to be holding some sort of press conference very shortly to explain what exactly is happening.
00:13:47.000Israeli airspace was closed for a grand total of half an hour over all of this.
00:13:51.000Israeli airspace, Ben Gurion Airport, are going to reopen momentarily, apparently, as well.
00:13:57.000People exiting their shelters, people going back to their daily lives.
00:14:00.000And it is worth noting here because, again, it is rather astonishing How people live under fire like this.
00:14:07.000I was calling up friends as the missiles were falling.
00:14:10.000Called up a close friend in Jerusalem.
00:14:12.000And his first remark was, this is so annoying.
00:14:25.000The IDF spokesman says there were a few injuries.
00:14:27.000He says there will be consequences for this event.
00:14:30.000Amichai 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.
00:14:46.000The 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.
00:14:59.000The IDF also said that the shooting will have consequences.
00:15:01.000They don't detect any additional threats.
00:15:03.000Now, again, very high chance that that shooting that happened in Jaffa was in fact coordinated with the rocket launch.
00:15:09.000That 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.
00:15:19.000And in that particular attack, we are looking at double digits dead, and there will presumably be a response.
00:15:25.000Again, the numbers are still coming in.
00:15:27.000It's unclear exactly how many ballistic missiles have been fired.
00:15:30.000I'm hearing anywhere from 150 ballistic missiles, according to the Times of Israel, to 450 ballistic missiles fired at Israel.
00:15:37.000Sirens sounded all the way across the country.
00:15:39.000Now, the White House did say that President Biden has directed the U.S.
00:15:42.000military to aid Israel's defense against the Iranian attacks and shoot down the missiles.
00:15:46.000Presumably, 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.
00:15:56.000Well, very unlikely that Israel is going to, quote-unquote, take the win in the face of, again, a massive barrage from foreign soil.
00:16:04.000Obviously, this is the second act of war in the last six months directly by Iran.
00:16:08.000The fact that Iran has been forced to fire ordnance from its own state into Israel demonstrates the weakness of their current position.
00:16:14.000Typically, Iran would use its proxies.
00:16:16.000It would activate Hamas in order to perform October 7th, or to activate Hezbollah on October 8th to fire rockets into northern Israel.
00:16:22.000Because 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.
00:16:33.000And Israel's been preparing for this for absolutely years.
00:16:37.000Again, all of this is coming amid new evidence that Hezbollah was ready to invade en masse after October 7th.
00:16:42.000According 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.
00:16:51.000The Galilee is the northern part of Israel.
00:16:53.000Strikes drove them away, and commandos then carried out 74 aces into Lebanon to seize weapons.
00:17:00.000So they were ready to go, even in recent days.
00:17:03.000The IDF briefed reporters on the new information.
00:17:05.000Before, 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.
00:17:16.000So that was again immediately upon October 7th.
00:17:20.000Apparently 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.
00:17:34.000Their plan, they found maps showing what they were planning to quote-unquote occupy in the Galilee.
00:17:40.000The Northern Command at the time expected an invasion from Lebanon.
00:20:03.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:20:14.000MDA 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.
00:20:25.000The White House says that President Biden met Tuesday morning with the national security team.
00:20:29.000According to the White House statement, they reviewed the status of U.S.
00:20:31.000preparations to help Israel defend against these attacks and protect U.S.
00:21:04.000Iranian incompetence does not mean Iranian decent intent.
00:21:12.000Hard to imagine a more obvious act of war than what has currently occurred.
00:21:15.000When people say that Israel is quote-unquote escalating the war, understand this war has been escalated since October 7.
00:21:22.000Israel'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.
00:21:41.000Again, what you're watching here is footage from Jaffa, which is a major city in Israel.
00:21:48.000It's near Tel Aviv, where terrorists exited the light train and proceeded to open fire on civilians.
00:21:57.000This is a declaration of war by Iran, obviously.
00:22:02.000And Israel is not going to stop short.
00:22:05.000Noah Rothman, who writes for National Review, he correctly says, Biden's fear of escalation is what begets escalation.
00:22:14.000Again, 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.
00:22:37.000Senior Israeli officials again saying there will be a quote-unquote extreme reaction to this attack.
00:22:43.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:22:54.000She's radically anti-Israel, radically pro-terror regimes in the Middle East.
00:23:00.000The possibility that Israel holds back this time, basically nil.
00:23:05.000According to other sources, Israel, Jordan, and Iraq have now closed their airspaces, the perfect path for Israeli aircraft headed to Iran.
00:23:15.000So 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.
00:23:23.000They were announcing that before they found out how many casualties had been suffered because nobody should have to even risk all of this.
00:23:33.000At 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.
00:24:50.000Let'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.
00:25:01.000So they actually went after, apparently, the West Bank as well, which is pretty incredible, by the way.
00:25:06.000Here is another, there's another map that I have been provided from Red Alert, a more recent map provided by Red Alert.
00:25:12.000I'm going to have my team pull it right now.
00:25:18.000Well, because the West Bank is largely Palestinian.
00:25:21.000About 2 million Palestinians live in the West Bank compared to about 500,000 Jews.
00:25:25.000And 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.
00:25:37.000That was no longer the case by the end of the missile barrage.
00:25:40.000By the end of the missile barrage, the entire map is covered in red dots.
00:25:45.000Because that is exactly- again, the Iranians do not care how many Palestinians die.
00:25:50.000They are perfectly willing for Palestinians to die.
00:25:52.000They're perfectly willing for Arabs to die.
00:25:56.000Now again, Iran is trying to claim that they were aiming at three Air Force bases.
00:26:26.000Apparently, there were reports of celebrations in Gaza as well.
00:26:30.000So the Gazan population has not learned the lesson that when you support terrorism, it doesn't go well for you.
00:26:33.000They were out there partying while all this was falling.
00:26:38.000There's also the possibility of a targeted strike against Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:26:42.000He has been in hiding since the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.
00:26:46.000If he were to be killed, there is no great chain of command in Iran.
00:26:50.000Again, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is a giant terror organization.
00:26:53.000They do have an internal infrastructure.
00:26:56.000It would take somebody inside the IRGC probably leading a revolt in order to overthrow the government of Iran.
00:27:03.000With 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.
00:27:14.000So, 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.
00:27:27.000So, Iran was more successful this time.
00:27:30.000They are more successful this time in actually getting the missiles from their own territory into other people's territory.
00:27:35.000Last time they did this, half of them actually didn't rain on Israel, half of them rained down on Iran.
00:27:41.000But, again, there's going to be a claim that is now made.
00:27:44.000It's being retailed by people like Ian Bremmer.
00:28:06.000And 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.
00:28:15.000And to his credit, President Biden directed the U.S.
00:28:17.000military to aid Israel's defense against Iranian attacks and shoot down missiles that were targeting Israel.
00:28:24.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:28:33.000It 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.
00:28:45.000We now have news on the two terrorists who launched this mass attack, this mass casualty attack in Jaffa.
00:28:53.000Apparently, they were Palestinians from Hebron, which is Hebron.
00:28:58.000Security forces did kill both of them.
00:29:00.000So they were from the West Bank, they were coming from an area that is particularly radicalized.
00:29:08.000Again, 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.
00:29:21.000A 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.
00:29:32.000Simply 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.
00:29:43.000They are playing the same game that Hassan Nasrallah was playing just before his head imploded.
00:29:48.000It 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.
00:30:04.000And 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.
00:30:12.000That is not a thing that is going to happen.
00:30:15.000Again, Jordan and Iraq have now closed their airspace.
00:30:19.000Israeli aircraft are almost undoubtedly headed to Iran.
00:30:26.000Dan Signore, who reports for the region.
00:30:28.000Another great podcast people should give a listen to.
00:30:30.000Call Me Back Podcast does an excellent job with that.
00:30:44.000Look at the video of these rockets falling in Israel.
00:30:51.000The 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.
00:31:03.000You can see all of these hitting, many of them hitting in the sea.
00:31:06.000By the way, these are people on the beach who are just filming all of these rockets falling into the sea.
00:31:12.000Again, 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.
00:31:26.000Again, that casualty count in the Jaffa shooting that was coincident with the missile attack is now up to eight.
00:31:34.000In Beirut, people are firing fireworks as well.
00:31:40.000Apparently there are some people who have not yet found out the lesson of FAFO.
00:31:48.000So 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.
00:31:56.000Pretty spectacular footage of what was happening in Israel just moments ago.
00:32:01.000Again, if you have friends in Israel, you can call them up.
00:32:29.000By the way, some of these are hitting inside the Gaza Strip.
00:32:31.000I 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.
00:32:40.000Iran 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.
00:32:51.000We attacked military bases in Israel with dozens of missiles.
00:32:53.000If Israel reacts, we'll strike with force.
00:32:56.000Well, I mean, what would you just call it?
00:33:03.000So meanwhile, CNN's Arlette Saines is apparently declaring that the Biden-Harris administration is in control of the situation in the Middle East.
00:33:40.000We are still waiting to hear from the President of the United States as well.
00:33:46.000The Israeli government is making clear that this is not going to go without an answer.
00:33:52.000People, by the way, who are arguing that because no one died, Israel should not respond.
00:33:54.000It's like saying if someone comes into your house and tries to stab you and they fail, then you should probably let them go.
00:34:00.000And 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.
00:34:15.000Presumably, Israel is already in the air.
00:34:21.000So, there was an earlier report, by the way, of a possibility of terrorists in another hotel in the city of Herzliya.
00:34:42.000Iran responded by then firing off 300 drones and missiles at the state of Israel.
00:34:48.000Israel shot down virtually all of them or they dropped into Iranian territory.
00:34:52.000Israel 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.
00:34:58.000That would be Hezbollah in the most spectacular military operation perhaps of our lifetimes.
00:35:06.000Completely eviscerating and destroying the upper echelons of Hezbollah.
00:35:13.000Because Israel, just within the last 48 hours, has now unleashed troops in southern Lebanon to perform specific operations.
00:35:20.000They have not lost anyone in southern Lebanon, thank God, so far.
00:35:23.000Hezbollah, 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.
00:35:34.000It then proceeded to land in the ocean.
00:35:37.000So, again, the lack of success by Israel's enemies does not mean that Israel's enemies are somehow harmless.
00:35:44.000Apparently Defense Minister Yoav Galant, he's the defense minister in Israel, spoke with the American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
00:35:51.000The 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.
00:36:02.000Again, the idea there being that Israel is not going to sit still.
00:36:08.000Again, I'm waiting for the moment when Apparently, the Biden administration tries to call for some level of restraint from Israel.
00:36:54.000Israel 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.
00:37:04.000And 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.
00:37:16.000And for those for those just joining us about one see trying to figure out the time change here.
00:37:25.000About an hour and a half ago, two hours ago, these missile attacks started.
00:37:28.000President Trump has now issued a statement, quote, No one is in charge.
00:37:30.000It's not even clear who is more confused, Biden or Kamala.
00:37:32.000leadership, no one running the country. We have a non-existent president in Joe Biden and a
00:37:36.000completely absent vice president Kamala Harris who is too busy fundraising in San Francisco,
00:37:39.000a city which she and Gavin Newscombe totally destroyed, and staging fake photo ops. No one
00:37:44.000is in charge. It's not even clear who is more confused, Biden or Kamala. Neither has any idea
00:37:48.000what is even going on. When I was president, Iran was in total check.
00:37:51.000They were starved for cash, fully contained, desperate to make a deal.
00:37:54.000Kamala flooded them with American cash, and ever since, they've been exporting terror all over, unraveling the Middle East.
00:37:59.000Under President Trump, we had no war in the Middle East, no war in Europe, harmony in Asia, no inflation, no Afghanistan catastrophe.
00:38:07.000Now, 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.
00:38:12.000You wouldn't trust Joe or Kamala to run a lemonade stand.
00:38:36.000Iran desperately wants Kamala Harris to be president of the United States.
00:38:39.000They 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.
00:38:59.000Trump says if I was in charge, October 7th never happens, Russia-Ukraine never happens, Afghanistan botched withdrawal never happens, inflation never happens.
00:39:05.000If I win, we'll have peace in the world again.
00:39:07.000If Kamala gets four more years, the world goes up in smoke.
00:39:13.000The price of crude oil has jumped on the expectation, presumably, that Israel is going to act against, you would imagine.
00:39:21.000The 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.
00:39:31.000Just checking the latest headlines at this point.
00:39:37.000Apparently, a Gazan worker who was staying in Jericho was the person killed by shrapnel from a missile.
00:39:45.000So it was a person who was illegally moving from Gaza to the West Bank and was killed by the shrapnel from that particular missile.
00:39:54.000We are still seeing the jump in the crude oil prices, by the way, is in fact fading a little bit.
00:40:05.000Celebratory gunfire is sounding in South Beirut as Iran attacks Israel.
00:40:09.000South Beirut is of course a Hezbollah stronghold.
00:40:12.000This is an attempt to show some sort of solidarity with Hezbollah.
00:40:15.000Well, soon there will be a lot of members of the Iranian government who are showing solidarity with Hezbollah in hell.
00:40:20.000That is a very real possibility at this point.
00:40:26.000Apparently 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.
00:40:37.000So again, we'll have to see how all of this plays out.
00:40:42.000We're still awaiting a press conference that was supposed to happen from the White House a little while ago.
00:40:45.000It was delayed presumably because of the current events that are happening right now.
00:40:52.000Again, the videos, if you haven't seen them, we'll play them again.
00:40:55.000The videos that are happening right now are absolutely incredible of these missiles falling across the state of Israel.
00:41:04.000The videos demonstrate just the extent of the level of the firing.
00:41:10.000That's striking on the ground in Israel.
00:41:15.000It is amazing that more people were not killed.
00:41:18.000Apparently the number is zero, which is a testament to the incredible technological capacity of the Israeli government.
00:41:24.000This 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.
00:41:32.000It is a very, very sophisticated missile defense system.
00:41:36.000We also have Mike Pence, former Vice President of the United States, saying the U.S.
00:41:46.000Navy assets in the Middle East, and as you can see, those naval assets are stacked up in the Mediterranean.
00:41:52.000There aren't a lot of assets in the Persian Gulf.
00:41:54.000The 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.
00:42:03.000We have the USS Bulkley, the USS Oak Hill, the USS New York, the USS Arleigh Burke.
00:42:08.000All of those are staffed in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the USS Cole.
00:42:13.000Down 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.
00:43:22.000Again, 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.
00:43:33.000Meanwhile, a missile apparently has allegedly landed in Jordan as well.
00:43:44.000Jordan, of course, is not a country at war with Iran at the moment.
00:43:51.000Now, as you can imagine, the squad is particularly upset about everything that is happening.
00:43:55.000We await their statements of angst and dismay that this terror attack failed from Iran.
00:44:02.000Congresswoman 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.
00:44:10.000The escalating violence must end in Lebanon and Gaza across the region.
00:44:14.000Well, I have an easy way for that to happen.
00:44:16.000That'd be for Iran to stop spreading terrorism throughout the region.
00:44:20.000Not a giant shock that we are seeing all the usual suspects emerge to defend their terrorist friends.
00:44:26.000Meanwhile, Rashida Tlaib doing what she does and defending Jeremy Corbyn.
00:44:31.000She's retweeting Jeremy Corbyn, arch-anti-Semite who is so anti-Semitic who was kicked out of the Labour Party in Britain.
00:44:35.000You have to be pretty anti-Semitic to do that.
00:44:37.000Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, Israel's decision to send troops into Lebanon, a sovereign nation, is not a limited ground invasion.
00:44:46.000It's a retaliatory response to 7th and Lebanon being used as launching ground for rockets.
00:44:52.000The attempt by all fans of the Iranian terror regime to switch The arrow in terms of blame here is quite astonishing.
00:45:00.000Outgoing 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.
00:45:08.000Lebanon. Countless American citizens are trapped with their lives endangered.
00:45:11.000Commercial flights are next to non-existent. State Department must
00:45:13.000recognize this and immediately begin evacuating US citizens.
00:45:16.000And none of this is shock from Rashida Tlaib. Again all this comes
00:45:23.000amid an incredibly fraught election. This election is incredibly close.
00:45:28.000Exogenous circumstances do affect elections.
00:45:32.000The 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.
00:45:38.000This is the awkward part for the Biden-Harris administration.
00:45:42.000Douglas Murray is going to join us live in just a few moments to discuss what's happening in Israel.
00:45:49.000Again, we are covering live the latest events from the mass missile barrage targeted at the State of Israel.
00:45:54.000We are awaiting any sort of word from the IDF on the next stage of the combat.
00:46:02.000IDF has imposed a new closed military zone along the border with Lebanon as well.
00:46:06.000They closed these military zones to prevent civilians from getting in.
00:46:08.000Those are largely staging areas for further raids into Lebanese territory to finally, once and for all, break the Hezbollah stranglehold on southern Lebanon.
00:46:21.000Army 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.
00:46:31.000Netanyahu 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.
00:47:40.000Syria does not want to have a hostile Israel on their border ready to take out large armed divisions.
00:47:47.000Iran's projective power is all ballistic missiles.
00:47:50.000They've lost their projective power in terms of immediate borders by losing Hamas and losing Hezbollah.
00:47:56.000It's very difficult to see what they could do other than larger missile barrages like this one that has been unsuccessful thus far.
00:48:02.000So when people say it's going to broaden how, which countries are not involved that will become involved at this point?
00:48:09.000It'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.
00:48:18.000I need an explanation of what that larger war looks like that has not already been unleashed at this point.
00:48:22.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:48:31.000Baerbock said, we have urgently warned Iran about this dangerous escalation.
00:48:35.000Iran must stop the attack immediately.
00:48:36.000It's driving the region further to the brink of the abyss.
00:48:39.000Meanwhile, Antonio Guterres, the awful and terrible Secretary General of the United Nations,
00:48:46.000he put out a statement reading, I condemn the broadening of the Middle East conflict
00:49:33.000Again, 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.
00:49:40.000There has never been a permanent, workable peace agreement that has emerged from diplomacy alone.
00:49:46.000The 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.
00:50:03.000That'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.
00:50:10.000It remains a symptom of insanity that people believe that the way that you actually solve problems with Iran is to talk with the Ayatollahs.
00:50:22.000Please name me a time when this has worked ever in human history.
00:50:26.000I'm still awaiting an answer on that one.
00:50:31.000Now again, Palestinians in Hebron were actually picking up the rockets.
00:50:40.000There is footage of them picking up the rockets.
00:52:16.000Joe Biden in 1986 told the National Press Club, quote, Star Wars is Ronald Reagan's missile defense system.
00:52:22.000Star Wars represents a fundamental assault on the concepts, alliances, and arms control agreements that have buttressed American security for several decades.
00:52:28.000And the president's continued adherence to it constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.
00:52:35.000Man, Joe Biden is undefeated when it comes to being wrong.
00:52:38.000Just absolutely undefeated when it comes to being wrong.
00:52:44.000So, again, is this a miscalculation by Iran?
00:52:54.000What were they attempting to accomplish?
00:52:56.000Now, 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.
00:53:09.000I mean, a launch of this size against another sovereign state will be responded to, in kind or worse.
00:53:18.000Avi 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.
00:53:23.000Iranian missiles were visible overhead.
00:53:31.000Eli 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.
00:53:43.000It's quite possible that Israel is going to bomb that island, break the Iranian supply of oil.
00:54:05.000I 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.
00:54:18.000If 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.
00:55:26.000And 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.
00:55:32.000Speaker Mike Johnson apparently has been briefed on the situation in Israel.
00:55:34.000So has Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
00:55:37.000According 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.
00:55:48.000So 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.
00:55:58.000And as Jake Sherman responded, or it demonstrates Iron Dome and David Sling worked.
00:56:04.000By the way, how much of a comfort would that be to you?
00:56:06.000Let'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.
00:56:18.000You're watching missiles fly over your city.
00:56:20.000If afterwards somebody was like, well, clearly they weren't aiming at you.
00:56:28.000What exactly would your response be to any of this?
00:56:34.000So, 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.
00:56:42.000You just aren't able to blurt the simple words, I condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran,
00:56:46.000who just shot roughly 180 deadly ballistic missiles toward the citizens of Israel, quit.
00:56:50.000True enough, the United Nations, the Mos Eisley of international politics.
00:57:30.000I really do not think that Israel is going to sit around on this at this point.
00:57:33.000Now again, Iranian press TV claimed over 400 missiles were launched at Israel.
00:57:36.000You're hearing from Israeli sources 180 missiles.
00:57:38.000So 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.
00:57:46.000Half of them may have fallen on the way, fallen inside Iran, and all of the rest.
00:57:53.000The idiots of the squad, we are awaiting comment from them.
00:57:59.000But, presumably, they will have to wait until Israel responds to then declare that Israel is very, very bad.
00:58:05.000Vitellos Smotrich, leader of one of the right-wing parties, he says,
00:58:08.000I will now demand in the cabinet discussion that the family members of the abominable
00:58:11.000terrorists from Hebron who carried out the heinous attacks in Jaffa be deported to Gaza
00:58:15.000tonight and their homes should be turned into ruins for them to see.
00:58:18.000Again, that is in response to a terror attack that happened in Jaffa, which is just south of Jerusalem.
00:58:27.000I mean, just south of Tel Aviv, rather, that killed some eight people.
01:01:40.000Again, for those who are just joining late, Iran did launch a barrage missile. We've heard a bunch of
01:01:45.000different numbers and again we'll update you as new numbers come in. The numbers from Jaffa have
01:01:49.000been apparently six dead, six Israelis dead, two assailants shot and killed as well. The Israeli
01:01:54.000military has said that for the moment the Iranian attack is over. Israel is estimating 180 missiles.
01:01:59.000The Iranians had actually announced 400 missiles. Israel has already signaled that they will
01:02:04.000retaliate. Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said this attack will have consequences. We have plans. We'll
01:02:09.000operate 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.
01:02:17.000It 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.
01:02:32.000Meanwhile again, President Trump has put out a statement at this time saying the world is on fire and spiraling out of control.
01:02:39.000We have no leadership, no one running the country.
01:02:40.000We 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.
01:03:09.000You're watching the sausage being made.
01:03:10.000being made this is what happens when you go live so producer Justin you have just
01:03:19.000been sent a contact information Thank you.
01:03:27.000So let's see if we can grab Amit Sehgal.
01:03:31.000Again, 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.
01:04:07.000He 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.
01:04:18.000A journalist asked him, Israel may now launch a limited ground operation in Lebanese territory.
01:04:40.000Now, in the meantime, what Israel has uncovered in Lebanon in the current operation is truly stunning.
01:04:46.000According 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.
01:04:59.000Some operations lasted two to three consecutive days within southern Lebanon.
01:05:02.000Numerous IDF special units were involved in those missions.
01:05:04.000During 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.
01:05:13.000IDF 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.
01:05:20.000Hezbollah did not detect the operations.
01:05:22.000No encounters or battles occurred with the terrorists.
01:05:26.000The missions were carried out within two to three kilometers of the Israeli border in the surrounding village zone.
01:05:32.000That, 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.
01:05:42.000Or in the aftermath of Operation Grim Beeper.
01:05:47.000Now Kamala Harris is nowhere to be found on all this, by the way.
01:06:13.000Ian Bremmer was wrong a few minutes ago, he's right on this one.
01:06:15.000He says, last month has been a repeated demonstration of Israeli military dominance in the region.
01:06:19.000Offense and defense, intelligence and technology.
01:06:23.000Iran and proxy have no effective way to reestablish deterrence.
01:06:25.000Iranians are deeply concerned about the Americans joining the war.
01:06:29.000As 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.
01:06:40.000Again, we are awaiting a couple of guests.
01:06:44.000We're still awaiting word from Douglas Murray.
01:06:46.000He should be joining us sometime in the near future to discuss what is going on on the ground over there.
01:06:52.000Also trying to get in touch with some Israeli journalists to get in touch with them as well.
01:06:58.000And if I pause while I'm talking, once again, it's because I'm trying to figure out live
01:07:03.000exactly how to contact some of the prospective guests.
01:07:15.000Here again is the map of what these rocket strikes looked like in Israel.
01:07:20.000These missile strikes all over Israel.
01:07:22.000You 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.
01:07:36.000It's um, you know, that particular area is rather unpopulated.
01:07:42.000Every 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.
01:07:55.000Once again, the latest situation is that we are awaiting word from the Israelis on what's
01:08:16.000We have no word from Joe Biden on what's going to happen next.
01:08:18.000We 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.
01:08:30.000Couple of months have shown particularly is that October 7th was an outlier.
01:08:34.000October 7th was not a rejiggering of power in the region.
01:08:37.000October 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.
01:08:46.000Israel is now changing the balance of power in the aftermath of October 7th.
01:08:50.000As 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.
01:09:01.000First world nations are sometimes surprised by third world barbarians.
01:09:05.000It 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.
01:09:12.000Senator 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.
01:09:21.000He'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.
01:12:47.000Thanks God and the Israeli Defense Forces.
01:12:51.000So, I mean, you know, there's been a lot of talk in the Western press.
01:12:54.000I'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.
01:13:03.000This was basically their way of trying to reestablish deterrence with Israel after Israel has absolutely devastated Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and in Lebanon.
01:13:11.000More generally, that this somehow should forestall an Israeli response.
01:13:14.000What are you hearing in terms of an Israeli response to this Iranian attack?
01:13:19.000What do you make of the argument that Iran wasn't really attempting to hurt anybody, it was just sort of a fireworks show?
01:13:26.000It's the most expensive and the dramatic firework in the Middle East history.
01:13:31.000What 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.
01:13:46.000So they actually tried to cause a huge damage.
01:13:50.000And 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.
01:14:25.000And 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.
01:14:37.000And I think it's quite clear which part of the Middle East he means.
01:14:41.000So, I mean, there's been a lot of discussion about what exactly that strategy looks like.
01:14:44.000Obviously, Iran's two major assets Alright, it's nuclear facilities and it's oil refineries.
01:14:50.000There'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.
01:15:01.000That, of course, has been the talk of Israel for the better part of two decades at this point.
01:15:05.000It 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.
01:15:12.000And obviously, tonight goes very differently for Israel if there's a nuclear warhead on one of those missiles.
01:15:18.000So the question is, does Israel have the ability to attack Iran's nuclear program?
01:15:54.000i think the iranian regime as we see from their comments tonight
01:15:58.000date think this is the revenge for killing for assassinating the follow-up
01:16:02.000ania interest of the a terrorist leaders But they don't understand that Israel will and must retaliate.
01:16:10.000So they, once again, they don't understand how Israel has changed dramatically since October 7th, 2023.
01:16:20.000When you look at the possibility of further action, obviously Israel has tremendous intelligence penetration inside Iran as well.
01:16:26.000There's a reason that Ayatollah Khomeini went into hiding after the killing of Hassan Nasrallah.
01:16:31.000There are a lot of dissidents on the ground in Iran.
01:16:33.000There are a lot of intelligence assets that Israel's been able to work up inside Iran.
01:16:36.000The 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.
01:16:54.000The 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.
01:17:12.000It's difficult to see regime change without any sort of internal uprising led by somebody inside IRGC, for example.
01:17:20.000No, but I think, first of all, we don't know.
01:17:23.000No one has foreseen the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 80s.
01:17:30.000But what we know is that this is a corrupt administration, very weak in terms of economy, and we see now the pilots in Lebanon.
01:17:41.000Israel attacked Nasrallah and Hezbollah, and we see the uprising in Lebanon as it happens.
01:17:47.000So maybe, perhaps it might happen not in tiny Lebanon, but in bigger Iran.
01:17:53.000But for sure, suffering a huge economic damage due to the desire of the Iranian regime to attack Israel without any reason.
01:18:02.000I mean, there is no reason for this conflict.
01:18:04.000When I was a child, there were still flights from Tel Aviv to Tehran.
01:18:12.000So 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.
01:18:22.000Well, there is a developing incident apparently in the Gaza Strip.
01:18:25.000There'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.
01:18:32.000It looks as though they're a bunch of coordinated kind of local terror attacks, Iranian proxy groups.
01:18:38.000It 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.
01:18:51.000Those are people who are under Palestinian rule.
01:19:01.000I think they don't have to coordinate killing Jews.
01:19:04.000I 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.
01:19:19.000And that's the reason why Gazans celebrated tonight the pictures in Tel Aviv of the missiles fired at Israel.
01:19:29.000By 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.
01:19:41.000So the only victim of the Iranian regime is someone who fled from Gaza because of the results of the Iranian terror fueling.
01:19:49.000So when you look meanwhile at the action that Israel has taken in Lebanon, Israel is re-establishing
01:19:56.000not only its deterrence, it's demonstrating the full weight of its might in the aftermath
01:20:03.000Watching very closely what was happening in Israel in the era after October 7th, there's
01:20:07.000a lot of doubt worldwide, particularly in the region, but also even within Israel about
01:20:11.000the capacity of the intelligence, why did October 7th happen, capacity of the IDF, all
01:20:15.000sorts of questions being asked about why the response on October 7th wasn't better, why
01:20:19.000weren't things going better in the Gaza Strip.
01:20:21.000Now, almost a year out, what we can see is that the performance of the IDF and the IAF has been absolutely astonishing.
01:20:27.000The operation in the Gaza Strip, has cost too many young people their lives, it's cost too
01:20:33.000many young people their limbs, but the total number of Israeli dead in the Gaza Strip
01:20:38.000right now, numbers in the relatively low hundreds,
01:20:41.000the total number of Palestinian terrorists who have been killed by the Israelis,
01:20:44.000numbers in the well over 20,000 range.
01:20:47.000Meanwhile, in the course of the last two and a half weeks...
01:20:51.000Israel has basically eviscerated the entire upper echelon of Hezbollah.
01:20:54.000They'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.
01:21:03.000They 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.
01:21:09.000Can you speak to Israel's position in the Middle East right now, during and after all this action?
01:21:17.000On October 7th, 2024, Israel was in its weakest point ever, I think.
01:21:22.000The 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.
01:21:41.000And then Hezbollah started firing, and the Houthis from Yemen and Iran.
01:21:46.000I think that that was on October 7th, 2023.
01:21:49.000On 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.
01:22:14.000And 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?
01:22:26.000And the answer is that here is the proof.
01:22:28.000For the first time in its history, In 2024, Iran had to attack Israel in itself, without hiding behind its proxies.
01:22:41.000So, 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.
01:22:53.000People all over the Middle East wondered over the last few days Israel killed Nasrallah.
01:23:49.000So let's talk about what's going on in Israel.
01:23:51.000Obviously, you've spent large swaths of the last year in Israel covering the conflict on the ground in Gaza.
01:23:58.000What we watched tonight was yet another mass Iranian assault on Israel.
01:24:02.000Israel said about 180 missiles were fired at Israel.
01:24:05.000Iran 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.
01:24:15.000Well, 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.
01:24:27.000It 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.
01:24:41.000The 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.
01:24:54.000It was a truly astonishing final act of that.
01:24:59.000Hezbollah's top levels of command have all been killed.
01:25:05.000Second level of command have all been killed.
01:25:07.000The lower levels have all been killed.
01:25:12.000Already, by last week, half of their munitions were destroyed.
01:25:17.000That's going to be much more in the days ahead as the land attack on Hezbollah continues.
01:25:27.000It 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.
01:25:38.000And there's one other very important thing that should be said about this, of course.
01:25:41.000As 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.
01:25:57.000Their deaths were never avenged by America.
01:26:01.000America put out bounties for them, but nothing was done to find these people.
01:26:06.000It 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.
01:26:19.000And 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.
01:26:34.000And I think this is a reminder of that.
01:26:36.000Israel's current and ongoing victories are also America's victories.
01:26:42.000Yeah, 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.
01:26:57.000At Israel, I'm fully expecting that you will hear some sort of language like that coming out of the Biden administration shortly.
01:27:05.000Perhaps they're waiting for Israel to take the action and then say the thing.
01:27:07.000Joe Biden keeps repeating the word ceasefire as though it's the word Betelgeuse and suddenly Betelgeuse is going to appear.
01:27:12.000If he says ceasefire enough times, then magically everything will heal in the Middle East and he can go back to sleep in Rehovot Beach.
01:27:18.000But 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.
01:27:27.000The 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.
01:27:38.000These sorts of things become possible when Western powers stand up for themselves.
01:27:43.000Yes, and this, I mean, everyone had hoped that the Americans would be among the most
01:27:48.000important allies would be alongside Israel all the way in this.
01:27:52.000And as you mentioned, they haven't been.
01:27:54.000We've had the situation now for a year, which, for instance, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
01:27:59.000have said you're allowed to retaliate, but not too much.
01:28:02.000We had, of course, Kamala Harris saying Israelis shouldn't go into the Hamas stronghold of
01:28:08.000Rafa because if you remember, she said she'd studied the maps, something which I'm sure
01:28:15.000And then we have this call for a ceasefire now, and it's flat out wrong.
01:28:20.000When you are winning, you have to push for total victory.
01:28:24.000And that's what the Israelis, I hope, are doing at the moment, what they should be doing.
01:28:28.000The Iranian ballistics being hurled at Israel as we speak are a demonstration, as we just heard, of Iranian revolutionary government weakness.
01:28:39.000All of their proxies have now been destroyed.
01:28:41.000Their proxies of Hezbollah are totally destroyed.
01:28:44.000Their proxy in Yemen, almost totally destroyed.
01:28:47.000The proxy in Hamas, almost totally destroyed.
01:28:51.000This 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.
01:29:02.000And 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.
01:30:28.000Go check out all of his work, of course, over at Douglas K. Murray on Twitter.
01:30:32.000And, 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.
01:30:38.000Douglas, thanks so much for taking the time.
01:31:33.000I was getting WhatsApps from all my friends in Israel talking about having to run to the shelters, take their kids into the shelters.
01:31:40.000Iran announced this was in retaliation for the death of Hassan Nasrallah, the terror head of Hezbollah, that is the Iranian proxy arm in Lebanon.
01:31:49.000Israel has thoroughly eviscerated Hezbollah.
01:31:57.000It turns out they've been performing extraordinary operations in southern Lebanon for the last year to empty out terror capacity in southern Lebanon.
01:32:05.000And now they're moving full scale into southern Lebanon, presumably over the course of the
01:32:09.000next few days to rid it once and for all of Hezbollah presence.
01:32:12.000Iran, in an attempt to demonstrate that they have some level of a credible force left in
01:32:17.000the Middle East, fired this very large barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel.
01:32:23.000Because of Israel's defense capacity, because of its allies, zero people have died.
01:32:28.000The only person who was killed in all of this, one person has died, not zero, one person died.
01:32:33.000The one person who was killed in all this was a Gazan refugee in the West Bank city of Jericho.
01:32:39.000So, the Iranians were aiming at the Jews and they hit a Gazan Palestinian.
01:32:42.000The entire map, again, of Israel lit up red.
01:32:45.000That includes the West Bank, in which two million Arabs live.
01:32:49.000And of course, there are two million Arabs who live inside the state of Israel as well.
01:32:52.000Once again, when it comes to Iran, they do not care one fig about their supposed Palestinian allies.
01:32:57.000All they care about is using those Palestinian allies as a weapon against the state of Israel.
01:33:02.000Israel at this hour has announced that there will be a massive retaliation.
01:33:07.000This 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.
01:33:20.000This time Israel has said they are going to go after whatever they need to go after.
01:33:24.000Presumably 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.
01:33:42.000So, what we are watching right now is Israel flex muscle.
01:33:45.000That's the reason they had to get invested in this thing directly.
01:33:48.000The 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.
01:33:59.000They are now a low-level counterinsurgency.
01:34:01.00023 out of 24 Hamas battalions in the Gaza Strip after October 7th have been completely wiped out and destroyed.
01:34:08.000Hezbollah, which was the gravest threat, the biggest, most well-armed terror group in the region, has now been thoroughly handled.
01:34:17.000Hezbollah will continue to be degraded en masse by the Israelis.
01:34:21.000Tens of thousands of members of Hezbollah have been fleeing across the Lebanese-Syrian border to get away from Israeli fire.
01:34:27.000And Iran, feeling that it was losing grip on all of these proxies, had to fire directly.
01:34:33.000Of 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.
01:34:41.000So 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.
01:34:59.000Apparently, Ayatollah Khomeini is once again in hiding.
01:35:02.000He 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.
01:35:13.000All 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.
01:35:21.000Six people killed on the street, plus the two terrorists.
01:35:24.000There 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.
01:35:37.000So what we are watching again is the Iranians gasp against the dying of the light.
01:35:43.000They can see that they're no longer in control of events in the Middle East for too long.
01:35:46.000Their tentacles have surrounded Israel, have attempted to strangle Israel.
01:35:50.000Israel has broken each one of those tentacles in turn.
01:35:54.000And now the head of the octopus is trying to strike at Israel and Israel is going to strike the head of the octopus back.
01:35:59.000President Trump, of course, has issued a statement pointing out that none of this would have happened were he the president of the United States.
01:36:05.000Right now, of course, he's exactly Correct.
01:36:08.000About that, his statement read, The world is on fire and spiraling out of control.
01:36:11.000We have no leadership, no one running the country.
01:36:13.000We 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.
01:36:42.000Now, war or the threat of war is raging everywhere.
01:36:45.000The two incompetents running this country are leading us to the brink of World War III.
01:36:48.000You wouldn't trust Joe Ocamla to run a lemonade stand, let alone the free world, says Donald Trump.
01:36:52.000It'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.
01:36:57.000That is why they've tried to target me if I was in charge.
01:37:00.000October 7th never would have happened.