When you fire 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles at another sovereign nation, you are now in a state of war. And herein lies the conundrum for the State of Israel, because after you are attacked with 170 drones (including those fired near the Dome of the Rock), you are going to respond in kind to the country that just attacked you in this way? We ll get to that in just a second. First, a quick recap of what happened on Saturday night and early Sunday morning in response to Iran's attack on Israel. Second, a look at the Israeli response. Third, a brief history of Iran's attacks on Israel over the past decades. And finally, an explanation of why Israel is the only country in the Middle East that can actually defend itself against Iranian drones and missiles fired at Israel from other sovereign nations, including Jordan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Finally, an update on the situation in the south of Israel after Iran's latest attack on the state of Israel and Israel's response to the Iranian attack. Listen to find out what Israel is doing and what it is doing to defend itself. Thank you for listening and share this with your friends, family and family! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, Eruv - Eren and Joe Biden - The Best Fiends - Tom Bell (Music: Fair Weather Fans by The Good Wife) Music: "Goodbye" by Fountains and "Good Morning America" by Cairo Braga (featuring: "The Goodfellows" by SZA (feat. and "Outtrope by Fade by Sisyphus) - "Outro: "In Need of a Friend" by Ian Davenport "Thank you for Your Support" by Jeff Perla (Isaac) (Solo: "I'll See You Soon" by John Singleton ( ) & "Thank You For Your Support, My Words" by Roberta ( ) - "I'm With Love & Blessings" by Emanual "A Little More Than This" by Chacho ( ) & "I Can't Say Yes Yes Yeshiv ( ) ( ) -- , "A Message From You ( ) and "A Good Morning" by Keren ( ) by Eddings ( ) , -- Thank You For This Is My Name?
00:00:07.000When you fire 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles at another sovereign nation, you are now in a state of war.
00:00:14.000Now, this has been a long time coming.
00:00:16.000The fact is that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been using all of its proxy terror groups to attack Israel repeatedly for literally decades at this point.
00:00:24.000From Hezbollah in the north of Israel, to Hamas in the south of Israel, to now the Houthis in Yemen.
00:00:29.000They've been using all of their proxy groups because they do not want Israel to take direct action against the Iranian regime itself.
00:00:36.000They also understand, over in Iran, that the rest of the world is not interested in an Israel-Iran direct war.
00:00:42.000And herein lies the conundrum for the state of Israel, because after you are attacked with 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles, Typically, you are going to respond in kind to the country that just attacked you this way.
00:00:53.000We'll get to Israel's response in just a second.
00:00:55.000First, the actual news was that on Saturday night in Israel, suddenly people started waking up one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning to the sounds of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles being shot down.
00:01:09.000It was Israeli weaponry, by the way, that was actually taking down missiles that had been fired near the Dome of the Rock.
00:01:16.000If it were not for Israel's defensive capacity, many holy sites in Islam would have been destroyed because, again, the only defender of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the Middle East would actually be the state of Israel.
00:01:26.000Here is some of the dramatic footage as literally hundreds of drones and cruise missiles and ballistic missiles were shot over the state of Israel on Saturday night.
00:02:23.000Israel's success right here was even more shocking.
00:02:25.000So, in what can only be described as a technological miracle.
00:02:29.000And if you're a religious person, obviously, when you see the miraculous in real life, you attribute that to the hand of God as well as to the hand of technology.
00:02:37.000But it can only be described as miraculous that 99% of all ordnance emanating from Iran here was shot down by the Israelis and the UK and the United States.
00:02:47.000Here's Clarissa Ward of CNN explaining just how successful the defensive measures were put forward by the State of Israel as well as Jordanian forces.
00:02:55.000Jordan's revealed preference, by the way, is now for the State of Israel.
00:02:59.000Revealed preference is when you say that you're for a thing, but what you're actually for is another thing.
00:03:03.000Jordan has been proclaiming that it's very, very much pro-Hamas and the Palestinians.
00:03:07.000And then when it comes down to it, they really, really don't like Iran at all.
00:03:11.000And so they're shooting down incoming ordinance over Jordan, the United States, the UK, even France got involved in shooting down much of this material in an attempt to avoid an escalatory war in the region.
00:03:22.000Here's Clarissa War explaining the success rate.
00:03:25.000President Biden has urged Israel not to escalate further, but one Israeli official telling CNN that they will respond.
00:03:34.000It's simply a matter of the scale and scope of what that response will be.
00:03:38.000This after, as you mentioned, 300 Cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones fired towards Israel last night.
00:03:49.000But tellingly, the IDF has said that a number, they won't give the specific number, of ballistic missiles did make impact at the Neva team air force base in southern Israel.
00:04:00.000That is where those F-35 fighter jets are based.
00:04:06.000It did very minor damage at the air force base in the south of Israel.
00:04:12.000Not enough damage to actually stop that base from working.
00:04:14.000It did no damage to Israel's F-35 fleet.
00:04:17.000Again, this was not just an Israeli effort.
00:04:19.000The United States, Britain, Jordan, and France all helped intercept the massive barrage of
00:04:24.000drones that Iran fired at Israel overnight on Saturday, according to the Times of Israel.
00:04:29.000The United States and Israel, of course, have been bracing for an attack for days after Iran said that it would retaliate for a suspected Israeli strike this month on what Tehran claims is a consular building in Syria killing 12 people, including the two senior Iranian generals and the Revolutionary Guard's elite Quds Force.
00:04:42.000According to the Pentagon, the United States forces intercepted dozens of missiles and drones launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen that were headed toward Israel.
00:04:49.000Again, this is a testament to the technological superiority of Israel and its allies here.
00:04:55.000Israel has a wide variety of defensive measures that it took against these particular incoming...
00:05:04.000Most of it was actually shot down before it ever reached the state of Israel.
00:05:08.000Israel has what's called the Arrow 3, which intercepts ballistic missiles and handles longer range and higher altitude interceptions, including exo-atmospheric.
00:05:15.000In fact, there was some film that was pretty astonishing of Israel using what looks like essentially Reagan-esque Star Wars to shoot down a missile in the higher atmosphere.
00:05:25.000They have the Arrow 2, which is for endo and exo-atmospheric interception capabilities.
00:05:29.000They have David's Sling, which is for surface-to-surface missiles.
00:05:31.000And then, of course, Iron Dome, which is for short-range rockets.
00:05:35.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:06:36.000Now Iran, for its part, is saying that they are done, and they are threatening to hit American bases if Washington backs an Israeli counterattack.
00:06:45.000According to the Times of Israel, top Iranian commanders warned Israel on Sunday the country would face a bigger attack if it retaliates against overnight drone and missile strikes.
00:06:52.000Adding that Washington has been told not to back any military action from its ally, Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri told state TV, quote, Our response will be much larger than tonight's military action if Israel retaliates against Iran.
00:07:04.000Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said if the Zionist regime, that'd be Israel, or its supporters demonstrate reckless behavior, they'll receive a decisive and much stronger response.
00:07:13.000Now, Iran's been trying to play this off as a victory.
00:07:14.000On Iranian TV, they've been showing Footage of fires from Chile, pretending that it's actually fires from Israel, they're propagandizing to their own population that this was not, in fact, a humiliating evening for the Iranian forces.
00:07:27.000When you fire off that much ordnance, and nearly all of it gets shot down, and the only person who is severely wounded happens to be an Israeli-Arab girl, seven-year-old girl, who may die because of the Iranian assault, it turns out that that is a signal military failure.
00:07:44.000So the question becomes here, what happened?
00:07:46.000In order to understand what's about to happen going forward, you have to understand how we got here.
00:07:51.000So the first thing to understand, obviously, is that Iran was in a catch-22.
00:07:55.000That catch-22 is a catch-22 of its own making.
00:07:57.000So Iran, the way this whole conflict started on October 7th, is that Iran was deeply afraid that Israel was about to sign a new Abraham Accord with the Saudi government.
00:08:34.000And so Iran activated through This General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, who is the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, at least its terror operations in Syria, Lebanon, and via Hamas.
00:08:45.000They greenlit the October 7th attacks.
00:08:47.000They killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostage, 133 Israelis still missing, most presumed dead, dozens still held hostage in Hamas terror tunnels.
00:08:56.000That was specifically designed in order to elicit a military response from Israel that would supposedly put the nascent Sunni-Israeli alliance On hold.
00:09:06.000That was the entire goal, was to reorient the Middle East.
00:09:08.000And the Biden administration, acting as cowards, decided to basically go along with that.
00:09:13.000Instead of doing what the Biden administration should have done, which is say to Israel, do what you need to do to finish off Hamas.
00:09:21.000And then, if you need to make a move against Hezbollah in the north, which has been threatening Israel for years, then do that as well.
00:09:27.000Because only strength works in the Middle East.
00:09:29.000And the only way you're ever going to get a Saudi-Israeli deal is if the Saudis believe that the Israelis are militarily powerful to rebut all attempts to destroy them and or do significant damage to their civilian base.
00:09:39.000What the Biden administration should have done in the aftermath of October 7th is given Israel the green light to do what it needed to do with Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:09:47.000Continued funding to the Israeli military, which of course means buying from American sources.
00:09:53.000Move forward and demonstrate strength.
00:09:55.000Instead, the Biden administration, over time, began to put more and more shackles on the Israeli Defense Force in Israel's attempt to extirpate Hamas and also to counter Hezbollah.
00:10:07.000The reason that this latest attack happened is because Iran saw the gap.
00:10:11.000Israel took out the general who had greenlit the October 7th attacks.
00:10:16.000And Iran was faced with this geopolitical prospect.
00:10:20.000One, the possibility that it would be seen as weak by its own people for not responding to Israel taking out General Mohammad Reza Zahedi in Syria.
00:10:29.000They can't be seen to look weak in the face of this.
00:10:32.000And two, they saw an opening with the Biden administration.
00:10:34.000They saw that because the Biden administration had been putting so much pressure on the Israeli government, they felt maybe there's a gap there that we can exploit.
00:10:43.000Maybe we can demonstrate to the Saudis and to the Israelis that we can flex some muscle and show our power.
00:10:48.000The problem they had is they weren't sure just how far they could go in attacking Israel without the United States either directly responding or unshackling Israel.
00:10:59.000They needed to do something in response to the killing of General Mohammed Reza Zahedi, who of course was killed in response to October 7th.
00:11:18.000It sounds very much as though the United States was approached via channels by the Iranians.
00:11:23.000And the Iranians basically said, we're going to do something.
00:11:26.000And we just want to make sure that what we do is not enough for you to take the chains off of Israel.
00:11:31.000That's what it sounds very much like at this point.
00:11:34.000According to the Jerusalem Post, in a stunning report, Iran apparently informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Sunday, adding that Washington had then responded to Tehran via Ankara that any action it took had to be within certain limits.
00:11:50.000You wanna talk about a betrayal of an American ally?
00:11:53.000That is a betrayal of an American ally.
00:11:56.000One, the United States can use its military might and billions of dollars in military weaponry in order to shoot down Iranian threats.
00:12:02.000Second, the United States apparently, according to this report, actively greenlit a limited attack on its own ally from the Islamic terror regime of Iran.
00:12:15.000That's what this report is effectively saying.
00:12:19.000And the reason that Biden would do that is because he knew that Iran had to show its own people that it was going to stand up muscularly against the evil Zionist regime.
00:12:27.000And at the same time, Biden did not want this escalating into a full-scale Israeli retaliation.
00:12:33.000And so the happy medium for Joe Biden was a green light and attack that would cost America significant military resources and Israel significant military resources, literally billions of dollars in military resources, allow Iran to get away with a massive We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:14:02.000The Turkish source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, had spoken both to his U.S.
00:14:09.000and Iranian counterparts in the past week to discuss the planned Iranian operation, adding that Ankara had been made aware of possible developments.
00:14:17.000Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke directly to Fanon to make clear that escalation in the Middle East was not in anyone's interest.
00:14:23.000Quote, Iran informed us in advance of what would happen.
00:14:25.000Possible developments also came up during the meeting with Blinken, and the United States conveyed to Iran that the reaction must be within certain limits.
00:15:01.000Iran, in this particular case, did not see it as a full-scale go-ahead, mainly because, in this particular case, Israel is not the inferior military power.
00:15:09.000Israel actually does have the aerial power to wreck Iran's oil refineries as well as its atomic facilities.
00:15:17.000So that'll be the question as to what comes next here.
00:15:19.000But, it appears that the Biden administration effectively brokered this attack.
00:15:42.000It's signal evidence of the efficacy of Israeli defense mechanisms and the amazing power of the American military, as well as our allies in the UK and France.
00:15:51.000The United States can project power to such an extent that it can shoot down missiles and drones in an area 8,000 miles away.
00:16:29.000If you are Iran, and you are firing directly at Israel, this is a massive lead time.
00:16:34.000The fastest ballistic missile technology that you have might be 2,000 miles an hour.
00:16:40.000Which means that if you're 1,000 miles away in Iran, that's still a half hour warning time.
00:16:45.000There's literally no warning time for a rocket fired from southern Lebanon into Israel.
00:16:49.000So, if Iran had wanted to create a mass casualty attack in Israel, A mass casualty attack that would have forced Israel to not only respond directly to Hezbollah and take it off the board, but also to respond directly to Iran.
00:17:03.000It would not have fired directly from Iran.
00:17:06.000And you can see it directly from the map.
00:17:08.000The vast majority, virtually all of the ordnance that was fired was from Iran.
00:17:13.000There were some that was fired from Yemen, which again is very far away, but very little was fired from Iran's number one proxy in the region, which is Hezbollah, not Hamas.
00:17:26.000Because again, if they were coordinating with the United States to allow a limited attack on Israel to save face, that would make sense.
00:17:33.000Now again, that does not mean that Iran wouldn't have been happy if they'd killed more Jews.
00:17:36.000They certainly would have been happy if they killed more Jews and demonstrated more technological capacity.
00:17:41.000It is in fact a humiliation for Iran to have all of its ordnance knocked down as much as they are playing up the fact that it appeared in the sky over Israel.
00:17:51.000But what Joe Biden is mainly focused on right now is no conflict in the Middle East, even if that means green lighting attack on American allies.
00:18:01.000Joe Biden said that Donald Trump would get America into war with Iran.
00:18:05.000Now the United States is actually having to use its material to shoot down actual ordnance from Iran.
00:18:09.000That is because Joe Biden is a weakling.
00:18:11.000It is because his foreign policy on the Middle East is idiotic.
00:18:14.000The only thing that works in the Middle East is a perception of actual force.
00:18:19.000You know what would have happened if Donald Trump had been president and Iran had approached and said, by the way, we want to issue a limited attack on your ally, Israel, so what do we greenlight?
00:18:29.000You know what Donald Trump would have said?
00:18:30.000He would have said, what I'll greenlight is I will kick your ass if you do that.
00:18:35.000That's what Donald Trump would have said.
00:18:37.000He certainly would not have tacitly, according to the Jerusalem Post and multiple other reports, winked and nodded.
00:18:45.000At a 170 drone attack on a sovereign nation, including another, again, 120 ballistic missiles and some 30 to 60 cruise missiles.
00:18:59.000But here is Joe Biden suggesting that Trump was going to get us into war in the Middle East.
00:19:43.000So he doesn't box us in with these threats that, such that only options left for Iran are increasingly damaging strikes and counter-strikes.
00:19:54.000Okay, that is literally what Joe Biden has done.
00:19:56.000Joe Biden has done all of those things because he is a weakling on foreign policy and when it comes to foreign policy, foreign policy is a fifth, it's a fifth grade Mr. President, what is your message to Iran in this moment?
00:20:07.000to call the rules. Trump knew that Joe Biden is a weakling and so he doesn't.
00:20:11.000It was just last week, in fact, that Joe Biden said don't to Iran. He keeps saying don't to
00:20:15.000people and then they just do. You may have noticed that.
00:20:33.000He also had suggested don't to Hezbollah attacking Israel.
00:20:36.000Hezbollah has been continuously firing rockets into Israel, which means 60,000 Israelis are not living in their homes in Northern Israel.
00:20:43.000Meanwhile, the Biden administration, which is a continuation of Obama, this is Obama part three, Ben Rhodes, the idiot foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama, whose foreign policy experience involved sitting and writing crap short stories in an apartment in Brooklyn.
00:20:56.000Ben Rhodes was effectively defending Iran over the weekend.
00:21:01.000Whether this is part of a multi-pronged attack that's really focused at trying to hit Israel and try to potentially take Israeli life, potentially hit Israeli military targets, or whether it's a kind of more symbolic effort.
00:21:15.000uh... to to scare israel or did just demonstrate that they're doing something
00:21:18.000in response i think as has been discussed here
00:21:22.000of the rain is feel the need to respond they believe their sovereign territory
00:21:56.000The Ben Rhodes and the Obama administration.
00:22:00.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:23:07.000Meanwhile, John Kirby continues to play both sides.
00:23:10.000Again, this is about the Biden administration playing both sides.
00:23:13.000It turns out that if you show an intransigent face to Iran, it boxes them in.
00:23:17.000And when you simultaneously unfreeze tens of billions of dollars to Iran, Allowing them to use that money for ballistic missile technology, then fire an American ally, and it turns out that America now is paying to knock down those ballistic missiles.
00:23:30.000It turns out you're a weakling and a coward.
00:23:33.000He says that Joe Biden told Israel it's an incredible military achievement.
00:23:37.000By the way, the Biden administration then promptly leaked to Barak Ravid, who is their stenographer over at Axios, that they had told Israel they shouldn't retaliate in any way, shape, or form to a massive military attack on Israel.
00:23:48.000Here's John Kirby, the national security spokesperson.
00:23:53.000The purpose of the call was to check in with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the end of the operations.
00:23:58.000Not everything had finished getting into Israel in terms of the drones were still on the way, but we felt like we were near the end.
00:24:06.000The President wanted to congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu for an incredible military achievement.
00:24:11.000The Prime Minister was very grateful for the support that President Biden offered and demonstrated in supporting Israel.
00:24:19.000That the self-defense of Israel is something we take seriously, and we will continue to take that seriously.
00:24:26.000Well, they'll take it seriously, except when Israel actually has to defend itself by taking on, say, Hamas, when you'll rip into them for an error involving a truck convoy.
00:24:35.000Or when you suggest that if Israel goes up against Hezbollah, which is currently aiming 200,000 rockets at Israel, including 50,000 that have targeting capability, then you'll really get on Israel's case.
00:24:45.000Meanwhile, John Kirby says they'll continue to provide Israel counsel.
00:24:48.000I'm sure that's what Israel needs at this point.
00:24:51.000Do you trust his judgment in deciding how to respond to these attacks?
00:24:57.000He's the elected leader of their government.
00:25:00.000We're going to continue to work with him, advise him, provide counsel and perspective, as well as make clear he knows, and I think he does certainly from last night, that the United States will continue to help them defend themselves.
00:25:13.000Meanwhile, Senator Chris Coons, who's of course on the left of the Democratic Party, he's out there saying that the big thing is to tell Israel to take a breath.
00:25:19.000Israel really needs to be convinced to take a breath.
00:25:20.000Again, I've never seen something like this in all my life, where an American ally takes 300 incoming high-tech pieces of ordinance from a sovereign state, and the main focus is on how do we, the United States, tell our ally that they need to back off.
00:25:36.000In response to that, let's just be clear about something.
00:25:38.000If Mexico decided tomorrow that they were going to fire 170 drones across the border to attack American sites, and we shot all of them down, Mexico City would not be occupied by the Mexican government tomorrow morning.
00:25:51.000There is no sovereign state on planet Earth That should be told by America that it cannot defend itself against a state that just fired 120 ballistic missiles at it.
00:26:12.000I think we should take a breath and analyze what the consequences might be of an attack back on Iran by Israel or of any other escalation.
00:26:22.000So I understand that there are those who think that's the only way for us to restore deterrence.
00:26:27.000I think the most important deterrent action that Congress can take, and this is what former Secretary Mike Pompeo is calling for, this is what Republican leader Mitch McConnell is calling for, is for Speaker Johnson to not take days or weeks to try and come up with some other package, but to pass the supplemental tomorrow.
00:26:48.000So we'll get to the aid package in a second because it does appear that that is going to probably be pushed forward in some form or fashion over the course of the next week.
00:26:56.000The reality is that that should have been negotiated weeks ago.
00:26:59.000Which is, you know, there are lots of questions to be asked about how much aid, the accountability for the aid, what aid is necessary, whether should we give it as a loan or not a loan.
00:27:08.000But the reality is that the complete dysfunction of Congress has in fact been a problem.
00:27:11.000However, the point here with the Biden administration is that the real reason they're doing all of this is because they're afraid of losing the election in 2024.
00:27:16.000There are two things that they are aiming for in terms of their foreign policy.
00:27:20.000One is please the disgusting pro-Hamas contingents in Dearborn, Michigan.
00:27:27.000And the second is that they want to avoid a broader war.
00:27:30.000But they think that the way to avoid a broader war is to force America's allies into conciliation as opposed to intimidating America's enemies into obeisance.
00:27:48.000It made for a pretty damned safe world under Donald Trump.
00:27:52.000Joe Biden's idea has been, feed the alligator and maybe it will be nice to you, eventually.
00:27:57.000You know who understands this better than anybody, shockingly, is John Fetterman.
00:28:00.000Here is John Fetterman over the weekend, the senator from Pennsylvania, who says it's astonishing that the United States is not standing more firmly with Israel.
00:28:07.000I think it really demonstrates how it's astonishing that we are not standing firmly with Israel and there should never be any kinds of conditions on all that.
00:28:17.000When a nation can launch hundreds of drones towards Israel, I'm not going to be talking about conditions.
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00:30:37.000He is obviously exactly correct about this.
00:30:39.000Senator Marco Rubio, he points out that Joe Biden leaked his conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu to the press, in which he told Netanyahu to stand down and back away.
00:30:47.000He says the only reason to do that is please your pro-Hamas base.
00:30:49.000There is a second reason, which is to signal to Iran that the United States is holding Israel's chain.
00:31:13.000There's only one reason they leak that.
00:31:14.000And that is that so when Israel does respond, the White House can say, we told them not to do it, and at least somehow, in some way, appease these so-called peace activists, by the way, these so-called ceasefire now people, who were out yesterday cheering the launch of hundreds of rockets and drones and missiles against Israel.
00:31:30.000People that are out there cheering military attacks of this scale and scope are not peace activists.
00:31:35.000These are anti-Semites, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist elements out there.
00:31:40.000Rubio, of course, is exactly right about all of this.
00:31:42.000Okay, so where does this leave Israel right now?
00:31:45.000So, Israel has suggested that they're going to exact a price when the time is right.
00:31:51.000So, first of all, a few things to understand about Israel's response here.
00:31:54.000What is amazing is the media and the Biden administration have been so focused on painting the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, as some sort of wild-eyed extremist, desperate for conflict, that they are completely misreading the room.
00:32:06.000Netanyahu, according to virtually every Israeli, right, left, and center, is at best an incrementalist.
00:32:12.000The big rap on Bibi is that Bibi didn't do enough to stop Hezbollah from gaining 200,000 missiles.
00:32:17.000The big rap on Bibi is that Bibi did not do enough to hamper the rise of Hamas.
00:32:22.000The big rap on Bibi is that he has been talking about taking out the Iranian nuclear facilities for legitimately decades and has not done it.
00:32:28.000The rap on Bibi, in other words, is that he moves too slow and he is too incremental.
00:32:32.000And yet the United States and the media keep saying, well, I hope Israel has restraint because that wild-eyed crazy person, Bibi Netanyahu, is going to get Israel into a regional war.
00:33:04.000Again, this kind of bizarre notion that you call for restraint on the state that was just attacked by an Islamic terror state is totally insane to me and immoral at a deep root level.
00:33:17.000Zinov Telly Bennett, who's the former prime minister of Israel, he put out a tweet thread explaining what he thinks is the situation.
00:33:23.000He said, contrary to what pundits are saying, this wasn't designed merely as bells and whistles with no damage.
00:33:27.000When you shoot 350 flying objects, time to hit Israel at the same moment, when you use three fundamentally different weapon types, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and UAVs, you are looking to penetrate Israel's defenses and kill Israelis.
00:34:46.000If these crazy fanatic Islamic terrorists get away with murder by hiding among civilians, this method will be adopted by terrorists worldwide.
00:34:52.000We're not asking anyone to fight for us.
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00:36:41.000Okay, so Israel basically has three options in retaliation for what Iran just did, which is effectively declare war directly on the state of Israel with an attack directly on the state of Israel from Iranian territory.
00:36:52.000Israel could, in fact, deliver a devastating blow to Iran directly.
00:36:56.000Israel's been preparing for that for 20 years.
00:36:57.000They have F-35s, they have F-16s, they have F-15s.
00:37:00.000Israel could theoretically fire missiles directly at Iran.
00:37:04.000Israel could target the oil refineries, devastating Iran's economy.
00:37:09.000Israel could do serious damage to the Natanz nuclear base over in Iran.
00:37:13.000Even if Israel did not have the bunker busters necessary to completely destroy those nuclear facilities, Israel could do enough damage to the surrounding areas that the nuclear facilities would not be reachable or usable for the foreseeable future.
00:37:29.000Option number two is that Israel could turn north and strike the actual most serious military threat it currently faces, which is Hezbollah.
00:37:35.000Hamas is no longer the chief military offensive threat that Israel faces.
00:37:40.000As I mentioned a thousand times on the show already, Hezbollah, which is an Iranian-backed terror group, which has tens of thousands of troops in Israel's north on the southern border of Lebanon, has some 200,000 rockets pointed at Israel.
00:37:51.00050,000 of those have smart technology capable of hitting serious targets in Tel Aviv, in Haifa.
00:37:57.000It could theoretically kill tens of thousands of Israelis.
00:37:59.000So Israel could take this opportunity and say, listen, we are no longer going to Pay homage to the Iranian threat.
00:38:06.000We understand that you guys were trying to do something symbolic by sending stuff directly from Iranian territory, but the real military threat that you're holding over our heads here is Hezbollah.
00:38:12.000And we're going to preemptively knock out Hezbollah.
00:38:39.000That seems to me the most likely scenario here.
00:38:42.000There's one major city left to go in the Gaza Strip that is currently holding four brigades of Hamas fighters.
00:38:49.000That's not going to end whatever terror threat exists in Gaza, but it is going to establish effective military control over the entirety of the Gaza Strip once Israel takes Rafah.
00:38:58.000The United States has been whining about an accidental strike on an aid convoy that was obviously accidental by every available piece of evidence.
00:39:09.000In fact, as we talked about last week, when it comes to that World Central Kitchen convoy, not only was it accidental, Israel saw actual armed fighters on top of the World Central Kitchen convoy and then went under an overpass of some sort.
00:39:40.000So in any case, obviously an accident.
00:39:42.000What Israel could do right now is they could say, listen, the best policy here is just finish what we are doing.
00:39:47.000And then when we finish what we're doing, we'll turn to the Saudis and we'll say, listen, you can see what Iran is doing.
00:39:53.000You can see the true threat regionally here is Iran.
00:39:56.000And we are back to the pre-October 7th geopolitics that Iran wanted to avoid in the first place.
00:40:02.000If Israel finishes off Hamas and then Israel swivels and makes an Abraham Accord deal with the Saudis, Iran will have completely lost whatever it was attempting to gain on October 7th.
00:40:12.000I think that's the most likely scenario, by the way.
00:40:14.000I think that Israel always intended on going into Rafah.
00:40:17.000I think Israel always was intending on finishing off the conflict because as even Benny Gantz and members of the left in the cabinet have said, you don't put out 80% of a house fire, you finish it off.
00:40:28.000And I think then Israel will swivel and try to broker a deal with the Saudi Arabian regime in order to establish that Sunni-Israeli alliance that Iran had so desperately attempted to forestall with the October 7th attacks in the first place.
00:40:41.000And all Joe Biden has to do is shut the hell up.
00:40:46.000All Joe Biden has to do is recognize the reality.
00:40:49.000Hamas is an Iranian-backed terror group.
00:40:51.000When you force Israel to not do things to protect itself, even in the most immediate sense, while Hamas is rejecting hostage deals, by the way, Iran is currently rejecting hostage deals.
00:41:03.000They literally did this over the weekend.
00:41:05.000On Saturday, they rejected the latest attempt to exchange hundreds of terrorists in favor of hostages.
00:41:14.000Claiming that Israel should completely pull out of the Gaza Strip, which of course is not going to happen.
00:41:20.000The only further step that Israel could take here, and they should take it right now, while the iron is hot, while the rest of the world sees what Iran is and what its proxies are, Israel should finish off its business in Rafah, finish the war, move to low-level cleanup operations and counterinsurgency operations in the Gaza Strip, and then turn and make a deal with the Saudis to box in the Iranians.
00:41:40.000I have a feeling that's exactly what Israel is going to do.
00:41:43.000The reason being, if Israel is unwilling to take a serious swipe at the Iranian regime by completely destroying its oil refineries and its nuclear facilities, if Israel is not willing to do that, a pinpoint hit-the-camel-in-the-ass attack is not going to serve Israel any purpose.
00:41:58.000All it does is tick off Joe Biden and the White House.
00:42:02.000If Israel is unwilling to go to full-scale war with Hezbollah and finish it off right now because they're afraid that Joe Biden will not provide the support necessary for that militarily, not in terms of direct American strikes, but in terms of the sort of offensive aid necessary for Israel to finish off Hezbollah in the north, then there's no point in doing it.
00:42:21.000And the last aspect of go big for Israel is finish off the Gaza Strip, solidify that position militarily, and then turn to the north with presumably some foreign aid.
00:42:32.000So this, of course, the latest attack on Israel underscores the fact that the United States does in fact have a significant geopolitical interest in granting Israel the capacity to militarily defend itself, and yes, to vitiate threats from abroad.
00:42:49.000That is a good thing for the United States.
00:42:51.000Because American allies that are turned weak force the United States to stand in directly.
00:42:56.000That's actually the history of American foreign policy in the post-World War II era.
00:42:59.000It turns out that when America's allies are strong and can defend themselves, the United States is less required to do things.
00:43:04.000When American allies are weak and cannot defend themselves, the United States is forced to provide things like a nuclear umbrella in Europe.
00:43:10.000The reason that happened is because the United States in 1956 during the Suez Canal crisis
00:43:14.000took the opposite side from America's own allies, thus undermining their credibility
00:43:40.000He said, in light of Iran's unjustified attack on Israel, the House will move from its previously announced legislative schedule next week to instead consider legislation that supports our ally Israel and holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable.
00:43:50.000The House of Representatives stands strongly with Israel.
00:43:52.000There must be consequences for this unprovoked attack.
00:43:54.000More details on the legislative items to be considered will be forthcoming.
00:43:58.000Lindsey Graham is saying the same thing.
00:43:59.000So the question becomes, what exactly that foreign aid looks like?
00:44:03.000Because obviously, the question about foreign aid at this point is whether it's a giant foreign aid bill that also includes Ukraine, whether it's an Israel standalone bill, or anything else.
00:44:14.000And that's going to be the calculation for the House this week.
00:44:16.000Are they looking for Israel for aid alone, or are they looking for aid for Israel with regard to Ukraine?
00:44:22.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
00:44:23.000First, the people of Israel are once again under attack.
00:44:26.000Over the weekend, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched a wave of suicide drones followed by ballistic and cruise missiles at Israel.
00:44:32.000The situation in northern Israel has been tense for months.
00:44:34.000Tens of thousands of people are now living in their homes thanks to Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists operating out of Lebanon.
00:44:40.000Now the situation is coming to a head.
00:44:41.000Israel needs your prayers and your support now more than ever.
00:44:44.000The entry of Iran into the war is a serious development.
00:44:46.000It means Israel could be fighting with Hamas terrorists in the south, Iran back to Hezbollah in the north, and Iran itself, which has military capabilities beyond either Hamas or Hezbollah.
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00:45:25.000According to Politico, Speaker Johnson is vowing to take up aid to Israel
00:45:28.000following the drone attacks and renewed bipartisan pressure.
00:45:31.000The question is what he's going to do about Ukraine.
00:45:33.000In an interview on Fox News' Sunday Morning with Maria Bartiromo, Johnson said he wants to move forward with Israel aid bills this week.
00:45:40.000When asked about Ukraine, Johnson did not say when it would be taken up or whether it would, in fact, be tied to Israel funding.
00:45:46.000One of the possibilities is a Donald Trump-approved idea that there would, in fact, be Ukraine funding, but it would be done as a loan.
00:45:52.000He said that Trump has introduced the loan-lease concept, which is a really important one, which I think has a lot of consensus, as well as the other ideas, the Repo Act, which is the seizing of corrupt Russian oligarchs to help pay for this resistance.
00:46:04.000The drone attacks mark a dramatic escalation, and of course, you have seen a wide variety of Republicans now come out and say that it's unclear exactly what's going to happen.
00:46:12.000Are they going to bring up the Senate-passed bill to move with expediency?
00:46:16.000Are they going to bring up an Israel-only aid bill to move forward?
00:46:20.000Not clear at this point exactly what gets pushed forward at this point.
00:46:26.000Suffice it to say that if they pass forward even the Senate-passed bill right now, it would pass in the House.
00:46:31.000It would in fact get passed in the House.
00:46:33.000And we should point out at this point as well that when it comes to the Ukrainian aid, one of the questions that, again, I cannot get an answer to from even people who I generally like in the Republican caucus, when they say that they don't want to give any aid to Ukraine, does that mean that you are okay with Russia just walking into Kiev?
00:46:53.000Because that is the predictable result if you give no aid.
00:46:55.000Again, you want to argue about whether it's a loan or whether it's not a loan, that's fine.
00:46:58.000You want to argue about the amount, that's fine too.
00:46:59.000You want to talk about actual anti-corruption facilities?
00:47:05.000But this bizarre notion that it's in the United States' interest to provide so little aid to Ukraine that Russia simply walks into Kiev and takes the rest of Ukraine?
00:47:19.000Vance, of course, is one of the more isolationist members of Congress.
00:47:22.000And he was asked repeatedly by Jake Tapper, are you willing to basically allow Ukraine to just be overrun by Russia?
00:47:28.000And Vance simply wouldn't answer the question.
00:47:31.000My solution to the problem is to rebuild our own country.
00:47:34.000The reason that we're in this position, Jake, is because we're stretched way too thin.
00:47:38.000We're stretched way too thin in the number of weapons systems that we need, that Ukraine needs, that Taiwan needs, that Israel needs, and we can't do all of these things at once.
00:47:47.000So when you're stretched too thin, you've got to focus and you've got to rebuild your own country.
00:47:52.000Let's take just one of those weapon systems that we're talking about.
00:48:30.000But when you're talking about foreign aid sufficient to allow our allies to withstand predations from American enemies, and yes, Russia is an enemy of the United States.
00:48:38.000They do not have America's best interests at heart.
00:48:40.000They're not an allied nation to the United States in any way, shape, or form.
00:48:43.000It turns out that is a bad foreign policy.
00:48:46.000So I think very likely this week some form of aid gets passed in the aftermath of all this.
00:48:50.000I think very likely that Israel goes into Rafah and finishes off what is happening in the Gaza Strip and then swivels and makes a deal with Iran.
00:48:57.000And you end up with a Trump-like foreign policy promoted in spite of the Biden administration, which has a significantly higher body count that would have been necessary if Joe Biden were not a foreign policy coward.
00:49:08.000Okay, meanwhile, The Donald Trump trial begins today in New York City on the Hush Money trial.
00:49:15.000According to Politico, former President Trump's criminal trial in New York begins on Monday with an immediate and fundamental challenge, selecting a jury that can fairly judge one of the most famous and polarizing figures alive.
00:49:26.000Now, the reason that, of course, Democrats are very much focused on this particular trial is because they have to do something to really harm Trump's candidacy.
00:49:34.000According to a brand new poll from the New York Times, many more Americans fondly remember the Trump years than remember the Biden years.
00:49:44.000Well over 60% of Americans believe that Donald Trump's handling of the economy was good.
00:49:51.000Almost 50% of Americans believe that Donald Trump left the country better off than he took it.
00:49:58.000More than 50% believe today that they liked his handling of law and order.
00:50:05.000Again, these are numbers that are significantly better than Joe Biden's.
00:50:09.000The question asked by the New York Times, do you generally remember the years that this candidate was president?
00:50:13.000Is mostly good years for America, mostly bad years for America, or not really good or bad?
00:50:18.00046% of Americans say that Joe Biden's years have been mostly bad for America.
00:50:22.000Another 27% say not really good or bad.
00:50:27.000For Donald Trump, 42% say mostly good for America.
00:50:31.000Only 33% say mostly bad for America, which means that Donald Trump has a pretty easy candidacy if all he does is just stand there and point at Joe Biden, which is why, again, they are focusing in like a laser beam on this criminal trial in New York.
00:50:45.000According to the Wall Street Journal, The case of People vs. Trump is itself a mixed bag, with the lowest stakes of the four prosecutions he faces.
00:50:51.000Trump would have no mandatory prison time if convicted.
00:50:54.000Despite the salacious backstory, the case at its core is about documents, whether Trump falsified business and financial records accounting for hush money.
00:51:01.000The political fallout could theoretically be severe.
00:51:05.000Some voters show that they would change their votes, but it could also be met with a shrug.
00:51:09.000And this particular case is incredibly stupid and it does look as though it is a political prosecution of all the cases against Trump.
00:51:15.000This is the one that most looks like a political prosecution at this point.
00:51:20.000So, media are going to focus a lot on this trial.
00:51:22.000I'm not sure that that is going to work.
00:51:24.000Because again, the world seems to be in flames thanks to Joe Biden's absolutely awful presidency.