 The radical, fundamental principles of freedom, rational self-interest, and individual rights. This is The Iran Book Show. All right, everybody. Welcome to Iran Book Show on this Saturday, April 13th. I am, as you can see, those of you in video, I am back home, back in our regular studio. And looking forward to a regular schedule minus travel. I do have a poll up in terms of the schedule that I foresee going forward. So let me explain the poll because the description of the poll is not exactly accurate, because it didn't have enough characters in the poll to lay it out exactly. But I am curious about what you guys think. I think I'm going to eat. Anyway, so two options really on the table right now. One is keep the current schedule, which is generally a news roundup at around 1 or 2 PM East Coast time. And then two evening shows at 8 PM East Coast time on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and another show like today on Saturday. The alternative is Tuesday through Friday, Tuesday through Friday, 2 to 4 or 5 PM. Could be a week or three hours, depending on your questions, depending on the financial support you show. So it depends on super chats. But we could go until 5 PM those days. And then on Monday, it would be probably a 2 o'clock news roundup and an 8 o'clock interview. So that would be the day I do interviews. Also, just to give you more information about the 2 to 4 on every weekday, that show would be comprised of the first hour being a news roundup. That is, we would still keep the news roundup, first hour being the news roundup, second hour being some more broad topics. So we would actually get more hours of shows this way and more broad topics. So we would be doing four broad topics, not just three like we do right now. And we'd still keep the news roundups every day. So there would be five days a week news roundup. But it means no shows on Saturday and no shows in the evening except Monday. So I am curious what you guys think. And if you're watching live, please consider voting in the poll as we move through the show. I was going to do a different topic and was planning to do something in economics. And I will do that later in the week. It's not an urgent topic. I will cover it. But on looking through Twitter, where you get breaking news, it has become evident that the US and Israel are anticipating an Iranian attack on Israel after midnight Israel time tonight. So right now, it is 10 PM in Israel. And the anticipation is that anytime, sometimes after midnight tonight in Israel, Iran will launch an attack on Israel. The current projection is that Iran is going to launch ballistic missiles. And who knows what else? Maybe swarms of drones from Iran. That is, the Iran will use its own territory to attack Israel in spite of the threats and the warning by the Israelis that that would mean that Israel would then strike Iran in retaliation. So as we speak, if you look at what's going on, I'll just give you a few of just what's happening right now. Israel is canceled. All school for the next couple of days. Tomorrow is Sunday. Sunday is a regular school day in Israel. Friday and Saturday are the weekends. Sunday is a work day. And it appears that Israel has canceled all school on Sunday and Monday. Israel is also, they've also the demonstrators who have been demonstrating for the Al-Stab Netanyahu and for demonstrating against the government have called off all demonstrations in the next few days and urged everybody to go home. The Israeli Ministry of Health is holding an emergency meeting right now to determine levels of emergency operation acquired given an attack which they anticipate would result in a large scale, large scale, basically war, but more war in the air than war on the ground. Beaches and parking lots around the Sea of Galilee have been closed, at least. Again, and this is all, I will say, none of this is 100% confirmed, right? None of this is unequivocal. Some of this is going to be fog of war rumors, but it is no question schools have been closed and preparations are intensified. The last Sea Netanyahu is heading towards the Army military headquarters in Tel Aviv, basically to go with the war cabinet underground and manage whatever happens from there. So the war cabinet, security cabinet, are meeting after midnight tonight. So, you know, all of this is going on right now. Also interesting are the signals that the United States is sending, right? The United States is sending clear signals that it will and has been for a while. That if you want to attack Israel, the United States will stand behind Israel. It is now also saying, at least it seems that way, it is now also saying that the United States will shoot down whatever it can that is launched out of Iran. That is that the U.S. Navy and its air defense systems in Jordan, Syria and Iraq will participate, that is, will defensively shoot down Iranian missiles targeted at Israel. Let's see, again, U.S. officials have said that they expect an attack early hours of Sunday and they expect it to be large-scale, launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in Iran and by Iran-backed groups in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. So you could see Hezbollah participate, which means the entire north of Israel, really almost all of Israel is in target. This is going to be a major, major test of the Israeli defense systems. Let's see, as we said, Israeli officials. I think I said the other day Israel has a squadron of its air force, F-35s, in the air constantly. I suspect there's more than one squadron in the air right now. And let's see what else is happening. There are guidelines, intense guidelines as of tonight in terms of mass gatherings. Mass gatherings are not allowed or heavily discouraged with the anticipation of bombs are going to be falling from the sky. Let's see, supposedly U.S. defense secretary in a phone call today with Israeli defense secretary. Again, we iterated that the United States would stand by Israel and would, supposedly, would participate in dropping any missiles launched against Israel from the sky. The United States has a number of aircraft up in the air, monitoring aircraft, intelligence aircraft up in the air around Iraq and Jordan. Jordan just a few minutes ago suspended all commercial air space, air flights, commercial flights in its airspace. If you look at a map, anything Iran launches is likely to go over Jordan. They don't want to get any planes stuck in the way. Israeli intelligence officials still believe that tonight's attack by Iran will primarily target military and security infrastructure, not civilian infrastructure. And they think it will primarily be focused on northern Israel, but it would avoid civilian population centers. We will see. We will see, particularly from Hezbollah. Hezbollah is not exactly in the past, be moderate. And it's not clear how accurate these missiles actually are, particularly the ones flown all the way from Iran. What is the level of accuracy of these ballistic missiles? So they're anticipating hundreds, maybe thousands of missiles launched from Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. But this could all be a false alarm. I've been arguing that I don't expect Iran to launch from Iran because I think they fear the retaliation, but maybe they're more suicidal than I think. That is obviously quite possible. The other thing that seems to be happening is that Israel seems to be jamming a GPS. This is something the Russians have done in Ukraine. And this is something that most drones and many ballistic missiles use GPS in order to navigate, in order to figure out where they are and where they're heading and what their targets are. Israel seems to have the capabilities, and the Russians certainly have, and Israel I think has the capabilities to jam the incoming GPS. So another reason why it's not clear that even if the Iranians are targeting only military installations, that they would actually only hit military installations. All right, so that's a quick overview. I'm keeping track of the best that I can of what is actually happening. The Jordanian airspace is closed from 11 o'clock local time, which is about consistent with this idea that something happens after midnight. So again, we will follow this and see if this is actually going to happen, if the Iranians decide it's not worth it. How to really navigate and tell. So that's kind of what is going on on the ground right now. We'll talk a little bit about more broader implications and everything else in a minute. Let me just remind you, okay, so this is the poll. The poll is about two different options for future Iran bookshows. One is to keep it the way it is right now. That is generally five days a week, a 1 to 2 p.m. east coast time news roundup, and then Tuesdays, Thursdays at 8 p.m. east coast time, a broader topic for discussion, and also Saturday at 3 p.m. like today. The alternative is to shift to two to four or maybe even two to five, depending on the topic and depending on the number of questions we get. Basically Tuesday through Friday, and that will include an hour, first hour of news roundup, and then the second hour of some other broader topic. Again, that could easily go for two and a half, three hours on those shows. On Monday, 2 p.m. news roundup, and then an evening interview. We'll try to have interviews every week. We will see. That is the poll. I hope everybody votes. The more people vote, the more meaningful the result is. Feel free to vote either way. We will see. This would actually begin this week. If I make the change, I would actually make it this week. As I said in the beginning of the show, Iran is thought to be on the verge of launching a massive missile strike and drone strike on Israel. All the signs point at happening over the next few hours. All the signs are indicating that that's actually going to happen. That includes Israel's own civil defense. It includes telling people to stay home. It includes shutting down the schools. But it also includes Jordan closing out its airspace and just generally Israel being on super high alert in the United States with whatever assets it has in the Middle East in terms of air defense systems all on high alert in anticipation of an Iranian strike. What would an Iranian strike mean? I have to admit that, God, I hate to say it because I know how it's going to sound, but I have to admit that I actually think that an Iranian strike is in the long run a good thing. It will finally provide the Israelis with the opportunity, excuse, cover and maybe even international support to actually strike at the Iranians where it counts. An Iranian strike on Israel would actually, particularly from Iran, would allow Israel to go after the Iranian nuclear program. The Iranians must be very confident about their ability to prevent such a strike, but they must be very, very confident in that to launch a strike against Israel today. But it's, you know, this is opened up, it opens up kind of the feasibility of a significant, massive strike on the nuclear capabilities, on, you know, what I would do and I think what Israel would do in this Ukraine, the Ukrainians would celebrate this, is destroy the drone manufacturing capability of the Iranian regime, take out every drone manufacturing facility they have. It would provide Israel with a reason to destroy their ballistic missile production capability, again, their production capability and maybe whatever they have on the ground. Now, none of that will be easy. Iran is far away from Israel, but supposedly Israeli planes are in a position to be able to make it to Iran and back without refueling. I don't know what kind of load they can carry, what kind of bombs they can carry to do that, but supposedly they have been retrofitted to be able to make that trip there and back. But, you know, this, I think Israel has the missile defense capabilities particularly with regard to ballistic missiles that the Iranians might send to knock those out of the sky. I'm less sure of what Israel, how many of the missiles Israel can knock out of the sky launched on it by Hezbollah. It's just, they could be very well just overwhelmed by the numbers and, of course, it's just not clear that Israel has just enough anti-missile capabilities to stop everything launched against it. So, taking out Iranian, if this ultimately leads to taking out of the Iranian nuclear capabilities, if this ultimately leads to retorting the Iranian military industrial complex, if you will, significantly, then this will be a massive, unbelievable strategic mistake by the Iranians and a huge opportunity for Israel to actually do what it should have done anyway, what it should have done a long time ago, years ago. But, you know, this Iran will open it up so that this could actually get done. You know, Iran will then launch more missiles and unleash Hezbollah even more aggressively. So this could turn into a pretty prolonged conflict. I don't think Israel would sit back if Hezbollah launches significantly. I think Israel would enter into Lebanon and try to drive Hezbollah to the north. I also think that if Hezbollah launches massive strikes against Israel, Israel will attack Hezbollah where it hurts, which means in Beirut at its headquarters. I think Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah right now, is in a deep, deep, deep, deep bunker somewhere underneath Beirut so that nothing can touch him. I think he knows exactly what is going to actually happen. He knows that he is a target. He has a big bullseye on his back if Hezbollah attacks Israel. So, again, this is going to be broad, regional. I mean, if the Iranians then decide to attack American military bases in the Middle East, which they might, you know, also that will also give the United States an excuse to participate in any counterattack against Iran. Now, all of this is kind of a best-case scenario that Israel responds in this way. It is quite possible that the Americans will tell the Israelis to hold back, not to respond, to let it pass, particularly if Israel knocks down most of the missiles and there's not a lot of damage. It could be the United States pressures Israel into not broadening the conflict. You know, for some reason, people value stability as a stability of some virtue, particularly when the stability means the continued existence of evil in the world, continued existence of evil regimes in the world. Okay, just so you know, well, just another piece of news that just struck, not surprising, this was pretty clear to me. But the cabinet meeting that Israel is, the Israeli war cabinet meeting that Israel is putting together after midnight is not going to be in the Prime Minister's office where the office is in Prime Minister's office in Tel Aviv, but actually in what's called the hole, which is a deep, deep, deep bunker in the middle of military installation in Tel Aviv. I have, you know, somewhere I have been, I've been in that hole. So, but that, you know, a very old version of that hole, it's, I'm sure, it's dramatically modernized and I think they might have moved it since I was there. But anyway, they're taking this very, very seriously, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it. It's not the most convenient thing, not the most convenient thing to do. You know, just to be clear, because we have at least one Iranian sympathizer who's just joined the chat, Iran has no rights here. Iran is the initiator force. Iran has been the initiator force for decades. Iran, the Iranian regime is unequivocally an evil regime that should be eliminated, and should have been eliminated years ago, decades ago. Iran has no right to self-defense, given its inherent illegitimacy and the evil that it inflicts on its own people. Never mind the evil, it is inflicted on the rest of the Middle East by funding Hezbollah and Hamas and Islamic jihad and every single one of Israel's enemies. The Iranians have been a war with Israel for decades and the only reason they have not suffered even more than they have is because Israel has been restrained primarily by repeated American administrations. You know, going back to Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama and Trump and now Biden have all reigned Israel in whenever Israel has wanted to retaliate against the Iranians for the evil. Iran has no right of self-defense. No right of self-defense because of its nature as an evil regime. Evil regimes have no rights, period. Evil regimes are illegitimate regimes. It should not exist. Iran, the Iranian regime, should not exist and it should not exist for one simple, straightforward reason. It should not exist because it is a massive unequivocal violator of its own people's rights and, of course, it is a massive promoter of war and violence, the worst kind of wars, the worst kind of violence all over the Middle East from Syria to Iraq to Lebanon to Israel. So, you know, hopefully, hopefully, I mean, I don't expect this, but one can hope that whatever Iran does tonight is the beginning of the end of the Iranian regime, that the mistake is a massive strategic mistake. And Iran is, this is the opportunity, finally, for the United States and for Israel to end, end the Iranian regime. If you, you know, this was a call made by Lena Pekov right after 9-11 to end the Iranian regime. It was a call made by Lena Pekov, actually, also. In 1989, I believe, with the Solomon Rusty Fatwa to end the Iranian regime, well, it's time. And maybe, maybe, maybe the Iranians are going to give everybody the excuse to do it, the excuse to do it. So, we will see. It is though scary, right? It is scary, particularly for anybody who has family in Israel, for anybody who has loved ones in Israel. It is a very scary time. My parents, my sister, my brother, I'd say, all, if civilian areas are targeted, all in the, what you'd call the sweet spot for a Hezbollah, you know, within Hezbollah range, very easy, in the northern part of Israel. So, a massive Hezbollah attack on Israel that includes civilian population centers could be truly devastating. It could be truly devastating. But we will see. And, of course, again, that Israel does have the capacities, and will focus those capacities, I think, primarily on protecting civilian parts. You know, there's also vast civilian infrastructure. But, you know, again, we will see what is happening. One of the freemen says the Iranian regime is a legitimate. Absolutely. It's illegitimate. It has no sovereignty. You gain sovereignty from the protection of your citizens' rights. Israel is a sovereign country, because it basically protects the rights of its citizens. Iran is not a sovereign country, because it does not protect the rights of its citizens. It indeed is dedicated, dedicated through and through to the violation of the rights of its own citizens. Interestingly enough, and I don't think unrelated. This is very related. News reports today out of Iran. News reports today out of Iran suggests that the morality police, the Iranian morality police is out in force in Tehran to control, to control, right, the massive threat of women who are not covering their hair. So, you know, at the same time as Iran seems to be any minute now about to launch a massive attack on Israel, the Iranian regime is launching a massive attack of its own on its own women. And so the morality police is out in force. The Aitullah Hamini, the supreme leader of Iran, any country that has a supreme leader, who is also a religious figure, is an illegitimate country. I think that is by, is an illegitimate regime, is an illegitimate government. I think by definition, by definition. So Hamini said, I guess yesterday, that mandatory hijab laws must be enforced at all costs, including the cost of the lives of the women who are not wearing the hijab. That is, their lives are forfeit because they show a strand of hair. This is the Iranian regime. This is the barbarism, the primitivism, and the illegitimacy of the Iranian regime. This is, this is the disgusting nature of this regime. I mean, this is just one little element of it. And he, and this is, and you know, we will see, we will see maybe, maybe, maybe, it is taking the first small suicidal step on the way to its eradication. So let's see, let's see what happens later tonight. Let me see if there's anything, anything being updated. I'm just watching the news. I apologize for looking away from the camera, but I'm trying to track news while I'm doing the show. Yeah, just as a side note, Hamas also announced today, and I think again, this is consistent because Hamas gets much of its orders from Iran. Hamas announced today that it is rejecting the latest Israeli compromise with regard to the hostages and with regard to a ceasefire. So everything's aligning for a significant, for an acceleration of an intensification of the existing conflict around. Iran has just grounded all planes except from military emergency and special operations over the Iranian capital. So all air traffic over to Iran has just been suspended. So everything looks like it is set up for an attack from Iran, on Israel, by ballistic missile, drone, whatever else they can muster. And it looks like it's happening tonight. Again, it is possible this is all a fake out, but I think it is unlikely. I think the bigger risk, of course, is whatever Hezbollah does. I think that's a much bigger risk to Israel than anything the Iranians actually launch. Of course, who knows what else. And the real question now will be, morally, militarily, will Israel launch a retaliation? That is, what will Israel do in retaliation? What will America allow Israel to do in retaliation? And could this ultimately be the beginning of the end of an Iranian regime that is so being dedicated to destruction of human life and destruction of human freedom? Since 1979, this is a war, I think Iran has been a war with the United States and really with Israel since November 4th, 1979 and November 4th, 1979, the Iranian revolutionaries took the U.S. Embassy in Tehran hostage. They held those hostages really until when it was January of 1981. This is when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president. There were deals with Iran, an ideal to provide Iran with weapons in exchange for hostages. There were all kinds of other deals with Iran than American administrations. But Iran, from the rise of Khomeini as Supreme Leader of Iran in 1979, to this day, Iran has been dedicated to undermining any interest America had to killing Americans in 1983. An Iranian operative, really in the first terrorist operation of Khizballah, what came to be known as Khizballah, which is just an arm of the Iranians, blew up the American embassy in Beirut. Then a week later, drove a truckload of explosives into the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing I think it was 244 Marines. So again, 1983 is the beginning of this. Somebody's asking, what is the Biden policy? At least as of now, Biden is saying, and everybody in the Biden administration is saying, that they will stand with Israel, and they will use American assets, will use American defensive assets, air defense systems to knock down anything that Iran puts up in the air that is targeted at Israel. We'll see if that actually is the reality. And then what is the policy with regard to what happens once Iran strikes in terms of Israeli retaliation? I don't know. One thing you can be sure of, that Bibi Netanyahu will dither and postpone and wait as he always does. I mean, God. I mean, the plan should be already in force, in place, and the Israeli response should be within minutes of whatever Iran does. I mean, it should be instantaneous and immediate, and there should be no doubt about it. All right. The equivalent of Air Force One, which is I guess the military plane in which the leadership sits, just in case the ground is attacked, is in flight. I don't remember this ever happening, but it is up in the air. Not with Netanyahu. I don't know who's up there commanding, but with some obviously alternative command and control center is now in the air. So it's called that. Yeah. So that's somewhere in southern Israel. All right. I mean, one thing about this is interesting. It's worth thinking about is this is like war prep in real time. This is like minute by minute, second by second. We're getting updates play by play on literally what is happening on the ground. This is very unusual. And I have to say this is only made possible by the existence of Twitter. I don't know. I mean, the Israeli newspapers are behind on the news. They are also covering this and everything I see on Twitter is then repeated on the Israeli news websites. So, you know, I am getting some verification at some level of this. Whoops. What is frozen here? Did we just? Whoops. All right. I don't know if you guys can hear me. Can you hear me? All right. I think we're back. All right. I think we're back. We'll try to hopefully, hopefully we can stay online. I am in Puerto Rico, not in Jordan or somewhere like that. So hopefully we are not blanked out by something. We will see. All right. It does look like, you know, all right. So I am on. Good. Yeah. So as I said, I am keeping this as kind of minute by minute, second by second, play by play of what is going on. And my guess is, my guess is that this will continue. This will continue at least through midnight. So it's already, what is it, 1030, 1040 p.m. The expectation is something will happen in about two hours. And we will see. All right. In the meantime, so I was just giving you a quick history. Again, in 1983, the Hezbollah, which, which was then, these were the first actions of the Hezbollah, but completely funded and organized and commanded by the Iranians blew up the American embassy in Beirut, then blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing over 200 American Marines and embassy personnel, including the CIA chief for, for Lebanon and for the whole district. The Iranians then went on to kill Americans in Lebanon throughout the 1980s, whether they were CIA operatives, whether they were just eight people with a variety of different people killed, at least one CIA operative was tortured brutally and his body mutilated. And ultimately the body was retrieved by the Americans. I mean, Iran has been waging a war against the United States and Israel again since the regime came to power in 1979. Following that, let's see, that was 79. That was 883 following that. Of course, we had during the 80s, the attacks. We had Iranian funding of a variety of different terrorist attacks around the world. In 1989, we had the famous Fatwa against Solomon Roushti for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. And as a consequence, bookstores in the United States carrying Solomon Roushti's books were firebomb. This is a Fatwa from Khomeini. During the 1990s, Iran helped a variety of different terrorist groups, including terrorist groups, associated with the Sunnis, while Iran is Shiite, Hamas is Sunni, Al Qaeda is Sunni. That has not stopped the Iranians from supporting them. That is the difference between Sunni and Shiite is not as big as the difference between the Islamist agenda and the rest of the Western world. So Iran has felt comfortable and promoted and funded terrorist organizations all over the world. They literally used to have a line item in their budget called terrorism, which they took out after they were sued in the United States and lost the lawsuit in the United States because they used their budget as proof that they were responsible for terrorism and therefore should be held liable for that terrorism. So that brings us up. Iran again, while not directly involved in 9-11, did give a safe harbor to a number of Al Qaeda operatives, including some of the Al Qaeda operatives during the war in Afghanistan. And throughout the period, Iran had ongoing relations. Of course, Iran supported, funded, trained, and armed the Shiite insurgents within Iraq that were killing Americans during the Syrian Civil War. The Iranians supported the brutal, brutal, brutal regime of Assad in the killing of his own population and established their own Shiite militias within Syria to attack Americans, to attack ISIS, which is Sunni which they did not like, and of course to attack anybody who objected to the Syrian regime that they were supporting. So initial reports, again, are speculative. Nothing is confirmed. But initial reports by U.S. and Israeli officials are dozens of Iranian drones airborne heading towards Israel. So this is real time. Israeli airspace has been closed to all commercial flights. This is the first. Arriving, departing, and transiting in the country started at 1 a.m. 1 a.m. is still a couple of hours away, so I don't know how consistent that is with the drone reporting. But, yeah, I mean, scary. It is scary, and it is going to be interesting to see how this all develops and whether that is confirmed. I, for one, do not have confirmation for the drones, for the drones being in the air. Let me close this. Yeah, it looks like, yeah, I know it's causing problems on my browser is that I've got a window open with one of the Israeli newspapers on it, and my guess is that that website is just being crushed with people checking it out to see what's happening. So I will leave that alone. I've closed that window so we don't get more interruptions. Anyway, the bottom line is that, oh, I need to add. Iran, of course, funds, supplies, arms, Hezbollah has been engaged in overt and covert operations against Israel since the bombings of the American Embassy. And, you know, in 1983, I will add that Hezbollah has often targeted Israeli targets outside of Israel. So, for example, I was just in Argentina, but famously Hezbollah, bombed the Israeli Embassy in the Jewish Community Center where dozens and dozens of people were killed. This was probably 15, 20 years ago. And it became very, very clear that that operation was funded by the Iranians. It also became very, very clear that the Kushner administration of the time, former president of Argentina, was receiving suitcases full of cash from the Iranians to keep silent about the connection between the bombing of the embassies and the Jewish Community Center and the Iranian regime. And the prosecutor, this is not a conspiracy theory, this is all, you can go check this out. The prosecutor, who is about to reveal all this, the connection between Kitzner, the Iranians, the bombing, literally was killed the night before he was about to testify in front of the Argentinian parliament. So this is what, this is six, seven, eight years ago. I don't get my timing exactly right. I don't have it in front of me. But this happened years ago. So you can, again, look it all up. It made pretty much the newspapers every way. So I think it's a great opportunity in every way. So Khizballah, with the backing of Iran, has been responsible for complete instability in Lebanon. Lebanon is a dysfunctional state, to a large extent, a dysfunctional state because of Khizballah. It has an ongoing, basically it has an ongoing civil war within Lebanon. It has been part of various Lebanese governments. The Khizballah is committed to Sharia law. It is committed to imposing Islamic law on Lebanon. Lebanon used to be a multi-religious place. Most of the Christians now have left, but it used to be a multi-religious place. And even as it is, Sunni Muslims don't want to be run by Shiites. Christians who still live there don't want to be run by theocracy. And the Druids don't want to be run by Khizballah. So there are various factions within Lebanon who do not want Khizballah to win. The Shiites are not a majority inside Lebanon, yet they have. Lebanon is an interesting country. It has an army, and it has Khizballah. Khizballah is a lot. I mean, it's not even close, more powerful than the Lebanese army. Khizballah basically runs Lebanon. Lebanon clearly does not want a war with Israel. And various politicians in Lebanon come out over the last week saying they do not want a war with Israel. And it Khizballah is about to launch a massive offensive against Israel from Iranian territory. All right, breaking news, some more breaking news. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just addressed the nation during which he stated, they are now prepared for a direct attack by Iran against Israel with defense systems being deployed and unalloyed. He further states that they are prepared for any scenario, whether that be defensive, defense, or attack. So yes, Netanyahu has actually addressed the people. I don't think he would be addressing the Israeli people if this was not imminent, given that that's a lot of political capital. That's a lot of political capital to deploy if the attack doesn't actually happen, right? So again, Israel closed its S-face starting at 1 a.m. although one suspects that it might be closing it even sooner if it's true that there are inbound drones flying in. Although, you know, it's hard for me to believe that they will actually reach Israel without being intercepted on the way. Just again, another report on Twitter. Iran has launched dozens of drones towards Israel. It will take around nine hours before they reach Israel and can be intercepted by various defense systems and fighter jets, both Israeli and Americans. Israeli F-35s have already downed drones, but this is likely only the beginning. So yes, my guess is Israel is already, if the drones are really in the air, Israel is already into the Jordanian airspace and trying to hit those drones as close to Iran as possible and away from Israeli airspace. Again, if this is true, again, none of this has been verified, at least not by me. So Iran funds Hezbollah. There's been a war with Israel through Hezbollah, you know, now for really for decades. Iran also funds Hamas and is responsible for providing them with weapons, with money, and one could argue with political cover. Iran is the number one support of Hamas. It's a question whether Iran literally, literally gave a thumbs up for the October 7th operation or did not, where they knew about it in advance or not. That is, it's very hard to tell, but it does seem like, but it's likely that they knew about it at the very least. Let's see. Yeah, another report. One way suicide drones likely launched from Iran have been spotted over southeastern Iraq. So if that's southeastern Iraq, they'll be flying over Lebanon, not over Syria. And that, you know, they could talk it anyway in Israel. Israel is such a small country. You can't track them from here. It will be interesting to see whether the United States deploys its anti-drone and anti-missiles from whatever resources it has on the ground, in the air, and on ships in the region. So that would be something to watch or whether it lets Israel handle it. You know, I am not an advocate for the United States intervening or going to war with Iran on Israel's behalf. I am an advocate for the United States going to war on America's behalf. I do think America has a strong, vested interest and a strong, strong reason to go to war with Iran and should have done so after 9-11, should have done so in 1989, should have done so in 1979 when Iran declared war on the United States by taking the American embassy. Iran was responsible for the bombing of, again, military barracks in Doha in Saudi Arabia in the 1990s, which killed, I can't remember, dozens and dozens of American troops. This is on Saudi territory. In other words, the bottom line is Iran has been killing Americans and Israelis have been supporting the enemies of American Israel for years and years and years, really for decades now, and Israel and the United States have done little. Somebody in the check asked, why did Israel bomb the Iranian embassy in Syria? They bombed one building in the embassy compound, and they did it because the leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were meeting there, meeting there to plot violence against Israel. They were meeting there in order to basically initiate force against the Israelis. These leaders of the Iranian militias and the Iranian command in Syria, in Lebanon, and in Iraq, the only purpose of such a meeting is to arrange offensive operations. Why are they meeting at Damascus? This is a completely legitimate military target for Israel to attack. The fact that it was an embassy compound, who the hell cares? Again, the Iranian regime is an illegitimate regime. There's no such thing as rules of war, rules of diplomacy. In any case, but certainly when you're dealing with an evil regime, you destroy what you need to destroy. You kill whomever you need to kill in order to protect your own civilians, in order to protect your own people from people plotting to destroy you, people plotting to kill you, people plotting to cause you harm. Israel was absolutely 100% legitimate in bombing the Iranian regime, the Iranian embassy. Again, I continue to say, I've said for years and years and years, for 20 plus years now, too little. They should have been bombing Iran itself. They should have taken out the Iranian nuclear facilities a long time ago. Imagine if today, here's the thought experiment, and then I'll go to super chat. Imagine if today, Iran had nuclear capabilities. Imagine if the fear in Israel right now was that some of the ballistic missiles launched by Iran, or if they're going to be launched by Iran, actually have nuclear warheads. I mean, basically, that's the end of Israel. It doesn't take more than one nuclear bomb to end the state of Israel. It's such a tiny place. So imagine that is true, right? I mean, what does Israel do? Does it launch a retaliatory? Does it start an immediate nuclear attack against Iran? Do we enter World War III? What does it do with a nuclear warhead on the way? Or not knowing if the warhead is nuked or not. There is no way in hell that the United States or Israel can allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. And the fact that both the United States and Israel have been sitting on their hands while Iran has been developing those nuclear weapons and have done nothing to stop it. Nothing is an exaggeration, but have done little to stop it is pathetic. The fact that Iran is supplying everybody with drones and that the Americans and the Israelis have not taken out the drone factories. The drone factories have not been eliminated, destroyed. Israel has the intelligence on where these drone factories are. All right, just another. Israeli sources are reporting that the drone swarm, a drone swarm launched from Iran will take approximately eight hours to reach Israel and was detected earlier this afternoon, causing the massive increase in alerts and warnings regarding an Iranian attack. So it sounds like the drone attack was launched in the afternoon, will reach Israel anytime after one o'clock, it sounds like. And, you know, from this video from Iraq now we have a list of low-flying drones, low-flying drones, more footage showing Iranian one-way suicide drones believed to be Shahad 131 and 136. These are the drones the Russians are using in Ukraine, flying west towards Israel. And interesting, if they're flying at low altitudes, that'll make it, of course, more difficult for airplanes to knock them down. But yes, so a drone swarm, it looks like, left Iran this afternoon. Okay, we're going to get a statement from the spokesman of the IDF any minute now. There will be a statement from them. So it sounds like Israel's on top of this. They know exactly what's happening now. We haven't heard anything about ballistic missiles launched. We haven't heard anything about Hezbollah launching anything. They might wait until the Israelis are overwhelmed by these suicide drones and only then launch. Hard to tell. This is the real suspense at this point. This is the real suspense is, will Hezbollah launch? Because with Iranians, you've got eight hours until these drones hit. With Hezbollah, it's seconds and minutes before they hit. We will see. And we will see again what Israel does in retaliation if it does anything in retaliation. What Biden allows Israel to do in retaliation if Biden allows anything in retaliation. All right, let me remind you of a couple of things and then I'll go to super chat quickly while I keep watch on what is going on. But again, Iraqi sources are reporting the dozens of additional Iranian one-way suicide drones have crossed into southern Iraq airspace. So, yeah, hard to tell again what is true and what is not and what it means when they say dozens. And is this the previous swarm? Is this a new swarm? Very, very, very difficult to tell what exactly is going on. Russia has an alliance with Iran, but Russia will not come to Iran's defense. It's not that kind of alliance. Russia will not come to Iran's affairs. This is not going to become a World War III. It could have if Iran had nukes, but they don't. So, at this point, I hope Israel has already launched an attack on the Iranian because they know Iran's attacking them. I hope this is what I would do. For what it's worth, not worth much because I'm not Israeli Prime Minister or Defense Minister, I would have already launched both ballistic missile and airplanes. I would have sent a squadron of airplanes to attack the Iranian nuclear facilities. I would be bombing and bombing every known drone factory in Iran who would be up in smoke so that when those drones arrive in Israel, if they arrive in Israel, every single Israel will have already struck back. Turkey will not be involved. I'll bet you anything, Turkey does not get involved in this. Turkey is in no position to get involved in this. It will make a lot of declarations and stuff like that. And Israel, of course, will not fly over Turkey airspace, but Turkey wants it to have 16s that the Biden administration has offered them. Turkey is a member of NATO. Turkey does not want to be kicked out of NATO, which it might be if it gets involved in this on the other side of the United States. Turkey will stay very far away from this other than from the bully pulpit. It will yell and scream as it always does in support of Israel's enemies. But be aware of who you get in bed with. NATO and Israel has had very close relationships with Turkey over time. It's always been a mistake. They're expecting now, again, Kavya. Nobody knows anything. They're also expecting cruise missiles or ballistic missiles to be sent from Iran. Of course, cruise missiles are faster than the drones. They will be launched after the drones. This is, again, why Israel should be already in attack mode and attacking sites and attacking whatever they can. Again, I don't know what Israel's capabilities are, so I don't know what is possible and what is not in terms of defense. But this is happening as we speak, as we speak. All right, remind you, this show, and we've got a lot of people watching right now, well over 200 people are watching right now. 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I really appreciate the support you guys are showing and keep it up. Let's see. Iraqi forces on high alert, not sure what they have to worry about although Israeli planes will be flying over Iraq. I don't think Iraq has significant air defense systems that Israel really has to worry about. According to a U.S. official, between 50 to 75 one-way suicide drones have been launched on Iran against Israel. Again, I think this will only be one prong of whatever offensive they have. You'll probably see ballistic missiles and cruise missiles being launched in a few hours so that they reach their target at about the same time. 50 to 75 one-way suicide drones does not strike me as that effect of what I expect Israel to do is to go deep into Jordanian territory, maybe even to Iraqi territory, and start knocking them down way before they reach Israel way early so that they still have time to go after cruise missiles when they'll show up. Israel can do that with both F-16s, probably F-15s more likely than F-16s, and the F-35s that have significant range in order to reach. Q2Santo says, and I answered this question a few minutes ago, but I'll try again, morally speaking, was Israel justified to attack Iran's embassy in Syria? Was it in retaliation to their support to Hamas? Should Israel also attack other Arab countries that support Hamas? As I've said pretty much from the beginning of the show today, this goes far beyond their support for Hamas. They justified in attacking the embassy because the embassy was being used to plot attacks on Israel. The embassy was being used for military operations against Israel. Iran has been scheming and attacking Israel through proxies since, at least, the rise of Khomeini, well, not at least, since the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. That support has intensified during the 1980s with their support for Hezbollah and in the 2000s through the support of Hamas. Iran is Israel's enemy. Iran is in a state of war with Israel. Anything Israel chooses to do, anybody it chooses to bomb, any place it chooses to bomb that kills Iranians is 100% justified. Israel has been killing Iranian scientists for years and years and years in an attempt to stall the Iranian nuclear program and that is completely being justified by the fact that Iran has said that its nuclear program is meant to eradicate the state of Israel. Iran has threatened, which is a use of force, but is actually executed on the threat by funding, supporting, arming, and directly attacking Israel. Israel is really interested in Israel. You know, as I mentioned in Argentina with the bombing of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center and numerous dozens of other terrorist attacks in Israel and all over the world. The Iranians have been plotting against Israel and the people in the embassy, in that building, the people who were meeting there and who died in this attack were the plotters. Were people plotting for these attacks? Therefore, they deserve to die. You know, again, the sad thing about that attack is it's too little and it should be done earlier and it should be done constantly. Every single leader within the Iranian Revolutionary God should know that his life is forfeit. Every single one of those leaders should know that they will die. Now, should Israel attack other Arab countries? Yes, if they support the terrorists, if they support direct attacks on Israel. Should, for example, every single one of the Hamas leaders who are now in Qatar be killed? Yes, they should all be killed, even if that means killing them in Qatar, even if that means taking down whatever building they live in in Qatar. The Qatari regime is again a regime that has funded, supported attacks against Israel and therefore is illegitimate, and Israel is morally justifying going after them. I don't think they will and the Americans won't let them. Remember, America has its largest military base in the Middle East in Qatar, so I don't expect that Israel would ever attack Qatar directly because of the Americans. But morally, of course, they're legitimate. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy, particularly not, sorry, the friend of my enemy, the support of my enemy, the fund of my enemy, is my enemy. And of course, you're legitimate in attacking you, in defending yourself by attacking them. Thank you, Donna, really appreciate the support. First, Super Chat at $50, thank you, Donna. Means a lot, really does. And let's see. Oh, there's already Booked Earrangement Syndrome detected in the chat, that's fun. All right, what else do we have here? I don't see the Booked Earrangement Syndrome. Maybe I'm not scanning the chat closely enough. All right, so now we have clear confirmation across the board of one-way suicide drones heading over Iraq in the direction of Israel. So that is definitely happening and the question is, how many of them will actually reach? How proactive will Israel be in knocking them down and will they knock them down over Jordanian and Iraqi territory or wait? Jonathan, I know you want to ask about China's economy. Let's wait with questions about China for another show. There'll be plenty of opportunities to talk about the future of China's economy on a future. So again, Tom, thank you for the $100. Really, really appreciate it. Let's see, Glenn for $100 says, you are on the analysis of this situation. It's fantastic. Your historical background over these past months has been enlightening to what this entire conflict is all about and why this is happening. Much appreciate your perspective. You know, let's remember that these slumists, these slumists, what we called after 9-11, Islamic totalitarianism. That constitutes Iran. It constitutes Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic jihad. Many of the, you know, different groups of Iranian-supported terrorists in the Middle East. It includes the Houthis. It includes elements within the regime of Saudi Arabia, elements within the regime of Qatar, elements within the regimes of most Arab countries. It includes the Muslim Brotherhood. All of these people, all of these groups, all of these regimes are dedicated to establishment. Their primary goal, their purpose, their long-term strategy is the creation of a sharia state over the entire world. They are true globalists. They want one state, one state that is Islamic, one state in which the Islamic law sharia law rules, one state in which women wear hijabs, one state in which thieves get their hands chopped off, one state in which adultery is penalized by death, by stoning. One state, wonderful, it says not a state and empire. I don't know exactly what the difference is, but okay, an empire. They take global jihad. Seriously. They do not limit their attacks to Israel, although Israel is a primary target because they're Jews and because they're in the Middle East and because, most importantly, they are free. They hate liberty. They hate freedom. They hate individualism. They hate right-suspecting. They hate women's hair. They hate women who dare to show a piece of hair in the mind of shoulder or knee. They hate sex. They hate the individual. And everything that is involved in that. This is an ideology that wants to take over the world. Saudi is not included. Elements within Saudi Arabia definitely included. Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia have not given up on this goal. Maybe right now they're all laying low because MBS doesn't like them. But elements in Saudi Arabia, significant elements, non-trivial elements within Saudi Arabia are completely supportive of this agenda. This is the agenda of Oguwan in Tokyo, although he plays it moderate. This is the agenda of many Muslims around the world who accept this often silently, but accept this as an agenda. This, by the way, is the agenda of all the people out there demonstrating in London and in New York and on our university campuses. This is their agenda. River to the sea, you think it ends with Palestine. It does not. Their goal is ocean to ocean. They might be fools who don't know exactly what they're advocating for, but that is the intention. That is a leader's wish. Sharia law on the entire world. And yeah, you can still be a Christian as Sharia law. You can still be a Jew under Sharia law, pay special tax, but how many will survive that? How many people will actually survive that? That is their agenda. That's what they want. Now, they're weak. They won't get it. They can't achieve it. They can't be successful. But what really makes it possible for them to do anything is the West weakness, is the fact that they're allowed to continue the way they are. All right. Spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces has now confirmed that Iran has launched an attack against Israel, consisting so far of dozens of one-way suicide drones, currently passing through Iraq. He states that it will take hours of drones to reach Israel, and the GPS jamming and other measures from the United States, as well as other allied countries, are already in place to result in their interceptions. So this is why the GPS jamming was already in place a while ago above Jordan. This is why your mapping software, if you live in Israel right now, might not be working, because the GPS jamming is probably affecting GPS reception by some Israelis. And yeah, the war is on. The war between Israel and Iran is on officially. And now the question is, how contained will it be? How broad will it be? What is going to be the damage? What is going to be the casualties? To what extent was Israel really ready for this? And to what extent will Israel be able to drop these, you know, basically cause maximum damage to these drones before they ever reach Israel? Which is, I think, the goal of the jamming and the goal of the Israeli Air Force at this point will be to drop these drones over the desert in Jordan before they ever reach Israeli territory. I think Israel has the capabilities of doing that, but the more stuff you throw at it, the more thinly stretched the Israeli Air Force will be, the more challenging it will be to actually have this kind of effort. According to another website here, it takes the drones nine hours to reach Israel. It takes cruise missiles two hours to reach Israel. It takes ballistic missiles 12 minutes to reach Israel. So, again, we don't know the full scale of this attack and we won't know until we see whether the Iranians launch cruise missiles or ballistic missiles. I believe that that is one reason Israel will try to get rid of the UAVs as quickly, as effectively as they can, so they can focus their entire attention on ballistic and cruise missiles. Israel has very, very well-developed missile defense systems that have never been tested, never thoroughly been tested. The Iron Dome is primarily focused on short-range rockets and missiles. Israel has anti-ballistic and anti-cuse missiles defense systems, the Arrow and other. They sell them. They are known in the world as excellent, but they have never really been used. They've never really been used, so it'll be interesting. I also expect that the Iranian drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles are not very good, not very accurate, and some of them will drop in the Mediterranean or in Jordan, but we will see. That's what happens when authoritarians build weapons systems. But, you know, it's still, you put an explosive on a rocket. It will and can do damage, and Israel's defense systems are going to be tested for, if indeed, Iran launches ballistic and cruise missiles, which as far as we know, it has not yet. As we said, Israel confirmed that the drones have launched. It basically is the drones that can hover around a target and then, although after flying nine hours, I don't know how much fuel they have left. I don't know what the capacity of these drones are in terms of range and how many hours they can stay up in the air once they are launched. I do not know. All right. Let's see. Let's do some of these superchats. I'm only going to do superchats related to this for now. Michael says, you say there's no such thing as a war crime because war itself is a crime, but let's suppose an Israeli officer orders his soldiers to shoot a group of civilians he didn't need to kill. Should that officer be held accountable criminally? He should be held accountable criminally by the military authorities. He has disobeyed orders. He has violated rules of engagement imposed on him by his own forces, and he should be condemned. It's not a war crime. It's a crime. It's a violation of his responsibilities vis-a-vis a military commander in a war. There's no separate thing as an internationally recognized and international law vis-a-vis war crimes. The army in which he did this does not want to encourage this and therefore would penalize it themselves. It doesn't need some criminal court in some foreign country to declare it a war crime. The Hague has no authority. The Hague has no moral status. The Hague has no moral or legal standing. It is an artificial creation that stands for nothing. And as Tom says on the chat, the Hague can pound sand and should. There's a reason why the United States has never signed the international criminal court documents, never signed up for it. It's sad that Israel has unto international pressure. It did. It should have never done so. Again, the Hague has no legitimacy, has no standing, you know, and no authority over the individual rights of Israeli citizens, the individual rights of Israeli citizens of the responsibility of the Israeli government, not of some group of so-called judges in the Hague who have, supposedly, some moral authority over what happens in a foreign country. More drones, supposedly, have come in to the east of Baghdad, so that's further north. Originally, the sightings were to the south. The Israeli cabinet is already in session, in meetings, in a deep, deep bunker in Tel Aviv. And there is at least one Air Force, KC-135R, aerial refueling tanker, currently airborne over Western Iraq, likely providing support to US and Allied, fighter aircraft that will attempt to intercept the Iranian one-way suicide drone. So it's... Don't know who is launching the Air Force to try to take out their drones. You would expect if the United States was involved, that they would be launching out of Qatar. Qatar, the same Qatar, by the way, the same Qatar. They were launching out of Qatar in an attempt to down the drones. There's a refueling plane there, which would allow F-35s or F-15s or whatever, I don't think there are any F-22s, but maybe in that region to be able to refuel, go back, destroy drones, refuel, and stay up in the air for a very long time. But the real question is, will the United States use its military assets in the region for this, or will it just leave Israel to do it? It might be a combination. They might not use American fighters, but they might use the American refueling plane and allow Israel to use it for refueling. I don't know. It is certainly going to be interesting and have profound, I think, political and diplomatic effects, whether the United States is going to help Israel drop these various offensive attack craft launched by the Iranians. Iraqi space does not be close to commercial flights. I would have expected that hours ago. President Biden is in the White House situation room with the fence and military officials while monitoring the Iranian attack against Israel, with President Biden having just spoken with Netanyahu. So everybody is on high alert. All right, let's see, James. Let's see. All right, I'm not going to do that. James, we'll talk about that later. We're just doing war right now. Okay, John, since you're on, what would any Islamic utopia look like? If there was no one left to kill, would they just create more enemies or just torture women constantly? It sounds like hell on earth. Well, more enemies, of course. The Sunnis and Shiites hate each other. There are, there's no reason to believe that they will stop hating each other. If Islam wins, there's no reason to believe that there won't be other sects created. Just think about ISIS and al-Qaeda. ISIS and al-Qaeda are both Sunni and yet they both hate each other and they were killing each other. That is, again, one of the reasons why they cannot and will not win because they hate each other's guts. They can't work together. They continuously kill each other. I mean, Hamas, when the day of reckoning comes, Hamas and Iran are mortal enemies because one is Sunni and one is Shiite. So there is no circumstances in which really they can cooperate and get anything done. So, look, I mean, this is good news for all of us, right? The reality is that Islam cannot win. It cannot muster the resources. It cannot bond together in a way that can actually lead it to any kind of victory. The West is so much richer, so much more powerful. Again, the only sense in which they are successful at all, right now, even in launching these drones is the West's weakness. The West gives them the space in order to continue doing this. So if the West ever got attacked together, maybe right now is the time, who knows? Maybe not. If the West ever got attacked together, then this would be over very, very quickly. The Muslim world wouldn't have a chance, would not have a chance, right? But the West has not been able to get attacked together. That is the reality. All right, let's see. Yeah, thank you. I've got a lot of people watching, 245 people watching here on YouTube. I think there are 459 people watching on Twitter. Thank you all for watching. If you enjoy the show, please feel free to use the chat, Super Chat feature to support the show. 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I'm just looking for questions that relate to the topic that's going on right now. That's another off topic. Off topic. All right. Michael says, are we seeing the beginning of the end of Iran and the former Soviet Union? You mean Russia. But Putin and the Islamists of Iran may collapse from the over-reaching mystical militarism. I mean, God, I really hope so. I can't tell you it's happening, but I really hope so. I mean, one of the things that could happen, which I would hope would happen, which I would encourage to happen, is that part of the counterattack against Iran is focused on the regime, is focused on the Ayatollah, is focused on the political leadership of Iran. It would be great to destroy it, and by doing so, encourage Iranians to rise up and replace this regime. If the Israelis and all the Americans take out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, then that takes out the capacity of the Iranians to use military force to suppress their own population. It takes out their capabilities to suppress their own people. And then one would hope it is an opportunity. You know, it is a really opportunity to, you know, to ultimately being about regime changes was what I think the whole world would benefit from. And the biggest beneficiary of regime change in Iran would be the Iranian people. As I said earlier today, they launched a huge clamp down against women, not wearing their, you know, hijab. So the launch about women against women showing a little bit of hair. So it would be a great opportunity, a great opportunity to take out this regime once and for all. Eli, you're asking a question in the chat. Please don't do that. If you want to ask a question, the Super Chat feature, you can ask it for $1. I'll answer it, but I cannot keep track of questions in the chat. It's too, there's too much overwhelming. Plus people have actually put dollars behind the questions that they've asked. So they have to get priority over anything in the chat. All right, let's just refresh the screen and see if there's anything, any news happening. All right, Northern Iraq Airport has been closed again. So this is in the north. Maybe there are more drones being sent out from the north which would fly through Syria. All right, Israeli sources to IDF. They estimate that Iran attack will also include cruise missiles and arches drones. We talked about that. Yeah, and then of course the real question is what does Hezbollah do? That is the, that is a million dollar question. I think Israel can easily handle an attack from Iran because of the distance, because of the slowness, and because of the types of missiles. An attack from Hezbollah which takes seconds, seconds, literally is going to be much, much more difficult to handle. So whether Hezbollah enters this or not will be huge and whether that leads to all out war with Hezbollah. And what will the Lebanese army do in circumstance like that? Will it attack Israel or will it attack Hezbollah? It's up in the air. So there's a lot, a lot going on. All right, regime changes our business when the regime is a regime that's attacking you. When the regime is a regime that wants to kill Americans, then it's the responsibility of the American government to change the regime of countries which are enemies of the United States clearly trying to kill Americans, which the Iranian regime is actually doing. The Prime Minister of Israel just tweeted, we have determined a clear principle. Whoever harms us, we will harm them. We will defend ourselves against any threat and will do so level-headedly and with determination. Iranian telegrams are claiming that land attack cruise missiles and one-way suicide drones have also been launched by the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen at Israel. You'd expect the United States to be able to take out those with its ships in the Red Sea. So also attacks from the south probably focused on the southern tip of Israel in Elat, which is a city in the southern tip closest to Yemen, closest to the Houthis. Yeah, all right. Let's go back to the super chat. So yeah, let's hope that it's the end. Andrew says, how does the proportionality of punishment on the principle of justice differ if at all in war as against regular crime? Well, I mean, the proportionality in war needs to be that proportion which leads to victory. That is, the war is not about justice. War is about victory. War is about ending the threat. And therefore, the proportionality of your response has to be that which is necessary to end the threat, to eviscerate the enemy, to stop them from attacking you. And that could be small proportional. It could be very large proportional. It could be a nuke like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is whatever is necessary to end the threat as quickly, as effectively, and as possible with the least casualties on your side. That's the only proportionality consideration, victory. Victory at the smallest cost in lives to yourself. And that's different than a criminal which has, the whole criminal system is targeted. It's something very different than the military. It's not about defeating some enemy. It's about, you know, bringing about justice. All right, Michael says, I've never heard the word genocide used falsely so many times in my life. The left is blatantly Orwellian. Yes, they are. And it truly is unbelievable. All right, just a reminder, the show, which might go on for quite a while, a quick break in a minute, because I think we'll just keep going to see what the consequences are going to be. And I'll keep reporting on them. The show is funded from support from you guys. Again, we've got 250 people watching live on YouTube right now. You can support the show right now by asking a question on a super chat or doing just a contribution. You don't have to ask a question. 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But it's going to be interesting how this ends, because who tires out first, in a sense, the Iranians or the Israelis, and what kind of targets are targeted during this back and forth. So very, very hard to tell exactly how this evolves, how this develops. I said a few days ago, the Iranians are crazy to attack from Iranian soil, because they've now opened it up for the Israelis. Now here is the real danger. Here is the bad news, right? The bad news could very well be that the United States has cut a deal with Israel. And that deal is that the United States will help Israel shoot down all these drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles. And in exchange, Israel will not attack Iran without American permission. Now that would be a horrible deal for the Israel to take. I hope they have not agreed to that. Let me give you an example where that deal was actually made. Israel did it and suffered massive, massively for it. In 1991, during the first Gulf War, Israel was directly attacked by the Iraqis. They launched missiles after missile after missile. This is before Israel had a fully functioning missile defense system. Israelis spent days in air raid shelters. There were massive missile attacks. The Americans prohibited Israel from attacking Iraq. That was America's job. America did a very lousy job at it because they never took out the missile launchers. But Israel was prohibited from actually doing it. Israel could have stopped the missile attacks on its soil. It had the capabilities. I know it had the capabilities. To take out those missile launchers, it did not because the Americans told them not to. Imagine if the Biden administration has basically told the Israelis, you cannot retaliate. We will help you, but you cannot retaliate. Now that would be a massive disaster. This has to be something that Israel retaliates over and uses as a reason, as an excuse, if you will, to eviscerate the Iranian nuclear program, the Iranian drone building program, and much of Iran's military capabilities. Iranian state media now is reporting, this is the state media of Iran, that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have launched an extensive drone attack against Israel. So far they've only admitted to drones. If it's just drones, I think it'll be minimal damage. We will see if they also launch cruise missiles or worse ballistic missiles, whether they don't want to escalate it. This could be a small attack with your drones without cruise and ballistic missiles in order to keep this from escalating and save the cruise and ballistic missiles for retaliation once Israel strikes them. Israel has never bombed properly the Iranian nuclear facilities. They've hacked into their computers and caused their centrifuges to be broken. They have killed scientists. They've blown up certain facilities from the ground. They have never launched an all-out attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities if they had. Those facilities wouldn't exist anymore, but they have not, and I've been urging them to do so for 20 years, and like everybody else in the world, they've been ignoring me. All right, Islam Ali writes, Iran, amongst others in the region, is a culture whose values modern. Its complete annihilation, the only way to subdue this religious suicidal ideology. I don't think so because while certain people in Iran might value martyrdom, I mean the bottom line is I don't think the leaders do, and I certainly don't think the people do. That is the best hope for Iran is that Israel or the United States or both annihilate much of Iranian's military capabilities and the people rise up and replace the nihilistic, suicidal, martyrdom culture that exists among certain parts of the Iranian Revolutionary God. But I don't see Hamani or the various politicians in Iran wanting to die. They talk the talk. They'll send children to die for them. They'll fund suicide bombers all around the world, but not a single one of them is strapping on a suicide vest and blowing themselves up for the cause. They don't believe in the virgins that consistently. So I just don't think... Yeah, I think victory doesn't mean annihilation. Yeah, this is just foreign policy related. Ben Shapiro praises Trump's foreign policy because he was surrounded by competent people but fails to mention the same people called Trump incompetent. I mean that's a little mild. They called him much worse than incompetent. And the reality is that there's no reason to believe that Trump will surround himself with competent people next time around. No reason to believe that. Because all the competent people who he surrounded with the first time turned against him. And he's learned his lesson. This time he will not hire competent people. He'll hire people who are loyal. Loyalty is the number one value for Trump, just as an aside. That should turn a bunch of people off. All right. Hopper Campbell, if the Iranian regime feels like it's going to collapse, will it fear military engagement with Israel or go full nihilism and launch everything they have? I don't know. I mean I don't know what it means for them to think they are going to collapse. Who are the people in charge of the Iranian Revolutionary God, the same people making the political decisions? I don't know. I don't think it's that simple. And I don't think it's that possible. The fact that they were willing to launch from Iran suggests to me that they're either not afraid because they think that the Israelis will not respond, they think that the Americans won't let them respond, or that they are desperate and they have to take a stand and they're hoping that what this will actually do is rev up Iranian nationalism and distract the Iranians from how bad the economy is and how offensive the morality police are and all of that stuff. So let's see what happens. Let's see what happens in the next few hours, and let's see how... But I don't know. Okay, so a lot of airplanes are flying to Turkey instead of to Iraq because Iraq is closed off scene. Israeli Defense Forces have evacuated several bases, launched aircraft and placed air defense systems on high alert to intercept what is believed to be a one-way suicide drone launched from Western Iran and Iraq. US officials have also stated they believe the drones reaching Israel will be synchronized with launch of cruise and ballistic missiles from Iran. We'll see. That would mean significant escalation, so we'll see if they also... I see a number of people posting. Palestine will be free soon. No, Israel's going to win this. There's no doubt about that. It's more a question of the extent of casualties on both sides and the extent of the Israeli response and potentially an Israeli response. Okay, it looks like the drones are now approaching Jordanian and Syrian airspace. It's going to be interesting. I mean, this is where I think they will start... Israeli airplane will start intercepting them as once they cross into Jordan and into Syria. I don't know who's going to be reporting on that because I don't know who will observe that and actually see that. Ali says Iran government are worst actors in the area thanks to U.S. war in Iraq. Not true, Ali. They are the worst actors in the area, but they were the worst actors in the area starting in 1979. They destroyed Lebanon. It had nothing to do with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The thing that it did do is U.S. weak, pathetic invasion of Iraq, and Iraq should have never been a target that America had no business in Iraq. But that invasion gave Iran a lot more power. So it wasn't that their intentions were any different. It was that now it gave them the opportunity to actually have real political influence in Iraq itself. Then the Syrian civil war played right into Iranian hands because they supported the president in the civil war. They supported the oppressive regime of Assad and Bashir al-Assad. So Iran has always been the horrible regime. But what the Iraq war has opened up in the entire of Iraq for its influence, thus allowing them basically to have huge influence on Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and to have land connection from Iran all the way to Lebanon. So Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. Of course Lebanon they've had influence there since the 1980s since the creation of Hezbollah. And of course it's not the one Iraq that created the connection between Iran and Hamas. All right, let's see. I'll just refresh the page in the meantime. Do Hamas fighters ever run away or do they fight to the last man like Japanese in World War II? I think some run away. We've seen a lot of Hamas fighters surrender to Israeli forces. Many of them fight to the death because they believe that they'll go to heaven if they do. But many of them surrender. Most people don't want to commit suicide. Most people don't fight to the very end. Most people do not believe in their cause that much. All right, initial reports regarding the launch of land attack cruise missiles and possible ballistic missiles from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards in Iran towards Israel. If they've indeed launched ballistic missiles, those ballistic missiles will reach Israel within minutes. So within the next 20 minutes they would reach Israel. So we will know about that very, very quickly. Cruise missiles probably take a couple of hours and they would probably reach Israel just a little ahead of the drones. So we will see. We will see if this report is right about launch of cruise and ballistic missiles. Kirk says, but what about CIA over through a setting? This is the Prime Minister of Iran in 1956, if I remember right, helped install the Shah in place because the Prime Minister of Iran was moving Iran towards the Soviet Union and being part of the Soviet block and the British and Americans and some Iranian forces overthrew him. And that was a long time ago. And that is not the cause of the problems we face today. The cause of problems we face today is the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is Aitullah Khomeini, Khomeini, and the Islamists, the Islamist ideologues in Iran. They are the cause. They are the reason for what we are experiencing today and how Iran has become. Gail says be safe and courageous Iranian women. Absolutely. Frank says, can Iran invade a lot by going up the Red Sea? No. I mean, it's far for them. Very unlikely. Israel has a navy in the Red Sea. I'm not sure the Saudis would be supportive of that. I'm not sure the Egyptians would allow that to happen. The Iranians coming up the Red Sea, the Saudis are not exactly Iran's friend and neither really, at the end of the day, are the Egyptians. Matt, Iran shouldn't be capable of doing this attack. They shouldn't be, but they are. They are because they have had advisers from Russia. They've stolen Western technology, and the West has sat back and allowed Iran to build up these kind of capabilities. And if we'd waited a few years, these cruise missiles and ballistic missiles could have nuclear warheads on them. Luckily, these don't, but they could have in a few years. Ed says, if Israel does what you say, bombing the nuke sites, et cetera, what do you think the reaction will be the power players, the United States, Soviets, China? Well, I mean, the United States, I think everybody is going to be, everybody will, the United States would say the Iranians deserved it. I think the United States will stand by Israel. Everybody else will condemn it. The UN will condemn it. Everybody will condemn it. But I think at the end of the day, does the Soviet Union in China want Iran to have nukes? I think the answer is no. I don't think Russia wants, I don't know why you call it the Soviet Union, but Russia does not want Iran to have nukes. Russia has its own problems with Muslims, as you saw with the attack of ISIS on them. And they have a number of regions in Russia, which are dominantly Muslim. So the Russians do not want, the Russians do not want Iran to have nukes. Neither is China. China has big problems with Muslims in its West, right? The Uighurs are Muslims. This is why they have these camps for the Uighurs, that's to try to control their Muslim problems. They don't want China to have, they don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons. So while they will condemn it, they're not going to defend Iran. Russia and China do not want to get in and don't want to get into a war over this. This is not their issue. All right, let's see. Andrew says, I like the current schedule. One, friendly to schedules of workers. Two, division between current events and deeper subjects. Three, positive show Saturday. My support for the show continues regardless. I mean, there will still be a positive show. So like today's Saturday and it's not a positive, so it still would be a positive show. It'll just be on a different day. I'll have to figure out exactly when. You guys can vote on the new schedule. So far, keeping the current schedule has a majority. That'll definitely be something I consider, but please continue voting. We have a lot of people watching over 250 live, so please continue voting. Jordan has declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing Iranian attack against Israel. And again, in terms of flights, Iranian airspace closed. Jordan airspace closed. Israel airspace closed. And let's see. Air defense systems in Jordan are high alert and prepared to intercept any hostile target, which entered the Jordanian airspace. So Jordanians might be knocking down these drones even before they reach Israel. You know, and Jordan has some capabilities, particularly I think American capabilities right there. Again, the U.S. area refueling tanker over Iraq is maybe has been attacked. So supposedly it's squawking some kind of emergency. So hard to tell what's going on. Everything is fluid, fog of war. Hard to tell if any of this is true. I mean, we know that an attack has been launched. Everybody's acknowledged that. But whether it's something like this, the fueler has been attacked by something or somebody, hard to tell. But if that is true, if it has been attacked, that is an attack on an American asset. That could be an excuse for America to enter into whatever is going on here. It could be quite substantial. Reminded everybody that I am encouraging, supporting the show. We're going to continue doing this until, I don't know who knows until when, but I will continue to be here telling you, giving you a commentary on what is happening and how it is going through the rest of this afternoon, this evening. So feel free to keep supporting the show and to make it make sense. All right, I'm going to take a two-minute break. I'm not going to cut the video stream. It's going to be right here. Two-minute break. You can use stickers. You can use the super chat. You can use any means to support the show. Two-minute break, and I will be back with you. All right, I am back. We are updating you live on everything going on with the launch of an attack on Israel by the Iranian regime. So far we know that there are dozens of drones heading towards Israel, probably as we speak, crossing into Jordanian and Syrian territory. By my estimate, if they're crossing into Jordanian territory, U.S. assets in Jordan as well as Jordanian assets are probably trying to knock them down. As we speak, I would also not be surprised at all if Israeli Air Force is operating in Syria right now and in Jordan right now in order to take down drones. There's also reports that Iran has also already launched, both coups and ballistic missiles from Iran towards Israel. We will know whether ballistic missiles were launched very, very quickly here because ballistic missiles, they, of course, go up and down. They are very fast. They will reach Israel within minutes. Given when the announcement was made, I would expect them to reach Israel within the next 10 minutes, and we will know that very quickly. If you like what I do, if you want to support the kind of commentary that you receive on this show, then please consider providing financial support. I'm going to keep this going until we have clarity in terms of what is going on here and the extent of this attack, the amount of damage that it inflicts and whether, of course, it is a wider... I will be back, of course, if Israel retaliates, we'll be back later with that, whether that is tomorrow or later today. Let's see, Jordan has declared a state of emergency due to the Iranian attack on Israel. Again, no friend of Israel, but Jordan is also no friend of the Iranians, so divided alliances for sure here. As I told you a second ago, now we're getting reports of Israeli aircraft are reported to be intercepting one-way suicide drones over Syrian airspace. More pictures being posted online of the Iranian drones over Iraqi airspace, but Israel is shooting down drones over Syrian airspace. As we know, Israel has operated pretty freely. By the way, if Russia wants to get involved, just so we understand, if Russia wants to get involved, Russia has assets in Syria. Russia has its most advanced air defense system in Syria. Russia could launch missiles against Israeli airplanes, ground-to-air missiles from Syria. I don't know how they would do against an F-35. I think the reason they've never launched against Israel is they don't want the world to see how incompetent they are. But if Russia wanted to enter this war, if Russia wanted to side with Iran, they could do so from Syria. Russia has significant, again, significant military assets. It has ships in the Mediterranean off the coast of Syria. It has aircraft in Syrian air force bases, and it has significant ground forces on the ground in Syria, including, as I said, batteries, air defense batteries, air defense batteries. I do not think that the Russians could take down an F-35, an Israeli F-35. I don't think they could even take down an Israeli F-15. It is why they have never launched against Israel because they do not want to show the world that the missile defense systems are actually pretty futile and impotent versus American Israel's most advanced weapons. Just to give you a sense, the F-35, which is probably the best aircraft in the world today, together with the F-22, Israel has F-35s, but it takes the American F-35s and improves it. So Israel uses its own technology in order to upgrade the American F-35, and particularly in terms of air defenses, defending against ground-to-air missiles, and other capabilities. Israel is a very technologically advanced country, as I think many of you know. Much of that technology is used for defense purposes, and it is using that in those F-35s. Israel probably has the world's most advanced F-35s, probably more advanced or at least as advanced as the top-of-the-line U.S. versions. All right, let me see if I can find any other breaking news. Let me refresh that. All right, let's see. Rafael says, why Iran is launching drones if they know they will never reach Israel's territory? What am I missing? Well, they don't know that. Look, a lot of what Iran is doing is part of domestic policy. They need to show that they're not going to stay quiet as Israel attacks their own people, the embassy bombing in Damascus. They have to show the domestic population that they are tough, that they are strong, that they can stand up to Israel. Even if the drones don't land, they can claim all kinds of things. They control the media in Iran. They can invent anything. And, you know, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, has just posted in English on Twitter, the malicious Zionist regime will be punished. All right? So they believe the drones will reach Israel, right? I mean, this is all an issue of strategy and tactics. And, you know, again, we don't know if they've launched ballistic and cruise missiles. That could create real havoc for Israel to both shooting down drones and have to deal with ballistic and cruise missiles. And we don't know what Ghizballah is going to do. We won't know for several hours what Ghizballah is going to do. But that is the key. Ghizballah can do a lot more damage to Israel, a lot more damage on a completely different scale than anything that Iran can launch against Israel. Israel can handle, I believe, what the Iranians are launching right now. They can handle that. Ghizballah, a whole different story. Also, Iranians are probably targeting military targets. Ghizballah will target everything. So we're going to have to wait and see. We're going to have to wait and see. Ghizballah does not have airplanes. Public bomb shelters have begun to open in northwest Israeli city of Haifa. Haifa is my city. It's where my parents live, where my brother lives, and his kids. My parents would be going, they live in a high-rise, so they would be going to secure room within their apartment. So they have one room in their apartment, a small room, which is concrete on all sides. It doesn't have a window. It's got a steel-plated window. But it is on the sixth floor of a multi-rise building. My father is 89 years old. My mother is 80. He just turned 89. My mother is 83. She just turned 83. They both had birthdays in the last week. And they would be going to the airhead shelter soon. I don't know if airhead sirens have gone off yet. But clearly, public airhead shelters have opened. My brother, I think, has a defensive... He lives in a house. I think he has a defensive room like that in the house. My sister lives in the Galilee, so she would be even closer to the Lebanese border. And I'm not sure what they have. They probably have a communal public shelter over there. The Syrian army has placed air defense around the capital of Damascus on military bases across the country on high alert. They're always on high alert. That means zero zilch. Israel operates pretty freely in Syria, in spite of their defense systems. All right, so... But it does sound like northern Israel is the target. That means that the drones probably come off of... Syria, not off of Syria. Or the other reason they could be opening up bomb shelters in Haifa is that they anticipate Hezbollah entering into this. And if that's the case, then Haifa is the target. There's no question. Haifa is the imminent, immediate city right in front of where Hezbollah is. You can... On a clear day, you can basically see Lebanon, from Haifa, with the naked eye. So it's not far away at all. Again, source. Who knows if it's right or not? Of course, so far, the source has been pretty good, right? We called the drone attack wall before any official source said it. So here's another source. So far, the Israeli military has identified more than a hundred drones launched from Iran. The Israeli Air Force is tracking the drones and is preparing for the launch. It's tracking the drones. And it's preparing for additional waves of attack, which may also include missiles. So far, no confirmation the missiles have been launched towards Israel. Let's hope that stays the case. I really hope they don't launch missiles. Because I think that's where it really, really, really can get damaging. Right? Yeah. Okay. Trying to just check in the news feeds. Remember that the Biden administration unfosed significant money for the Iranians. The Biden administration has been negotiating in the background with the Iranians. They reduced the sanctions on the Iranians. The Biden administration should share significant responsibility in what is going on here. Again, at the same time, it's not like Trump did much in terms of Iran. All right. I see that stream is mostly just. All right. Let's see. What else do we have? All right. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard has named the operation against Israel true promise. Supposedly, a third wave of Iranian one-way suicide drones has entered Iraqi space. Well, over 100, 150 drones have now been launched by Iran at Israel. So three waves of drones so far, no real verifiable evidence that cruise missiles or ballistic missiles have been launched by the Iranians towards Israel. All right. Let's see. Let's keep on going with the questions. By the way, again, a lot of people watching, don't forget, if you're not a subscriber, to subscribe to the channel. 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Did Hamas make a huge strategic mistake to not wait until now to carry out a multi-front attack? Well, you know, sure, there's no question that if they could have arranged it and launched the October 7th attack at the same time as Iran at the same time as Hezbollah, a lot more damage would have been inflicted on Israel and it would have been a lot worse. But this is the issue. The issue is that bad guys, evil powers, evil powers in and of itself, right, are incompetent and coordination and figuring all this out and coordinating it all and working to coordinate it all, is requires effort and strategy and thinking and stuff that generally evil in the world does not have the capability of fighting and does not know how to do. Should Hitler have opened a second front against the Soviets when he did before beating, before taking the United Kingdom? Obviously not from a strategic perspective of what would be required for Germany to win. But he's Hitler, so of course he did the irrational. So you can't expect these people to be strategic in the way they do the stuff. Iran right now be launching 150 drones. What about ballistic missiles? What about cruise missiles? The drones have given Israel hours of prep time to defend itself. A ballistic missile would have given them 12 minutes. So, you know, why start with drones? Why give Israel all this prep time? Jordan is now reporting that it will shoot down any drone that enters its airspace, right? Most drones heading towards Israel are going to go through, probably going to go through Jordan or at least parts of Jordan, although I think they're going to try to target them primarily through Syria where they will be allowed to fly. But, you know, yes, Iran has sent between 100 and 150 drones towards Israel. Suicide drones, one-way drones. So Jordan is now saying that it will shoot down. And that's why Haifa is on alert because if you're coming in from Syria, the north of Israel is the most likely to be hit. Most likely to be hit, right? So bad guys almost never execute the evil plan effectively. All that nonsense about evil geniuses on superhero movies or movies generally, James Bond movies and so on. Just not true. Evil people tend to be pretty stupid. It's not what I want. This is what I want. Okay, more questions. I see Sarasen. Should we just let Israel and Iran take it out and leave the U.S. out of it? I mean, I think that's fine if that happens, but the reality is that the United States has clear unequivocal interests here. The United States has been a war with Iran since 1979. It's just the U.S. administration, Haifa administration has refused to admit it. The United States should take part in this. It should have never left it to Israel. This is primarily an American war, and the United States should have taken them out. I have no problem in keeping the U.S. out of it. If that'll make you guys feel better, but it's wrong. The reality is, the reality is that it is America that should be taking out the Iranians and should be decimated the Iranian nuclear program. It is the Americans through appeasement that have made possible this attack. So, American Israel's interests right now are the same. The end of the Iranian regime. And if America can help end that regime, then it should help end that regime. You know, it's kind of sad. It's pathetic, really, not just sad. It's pathetic that, you know, the United States hasn't done this alone that it requires the United States to do it. All right, there's pictures coming out of the meeting of the Israeli war cabinet where people are pretty pissed off and angry. Israel, Israeli aircraft are now reported to be in Jordan airspace, conducting more interception of Iranian one-way suicide drones. So that's happening. Israel is preparing for several days of fighting against Iran and the Israeli response expected soon. Let's see. Yes, it's a few days they expect of ongoing defensive operations to be followed by offensive operations. So we'll see how that goes. Okay, thank you. I see. So this is an American war, even though America won't admit it. And that is just a sign of America's cowardice and America's public's inability anymore strategically and long-term. And to a large extent because of the betrayal that the American public has been betrayed by its politicians and by its intellectuals who never explained, who never explained, you know, why go to Afghanistan? Why go to Iraq? Why stay in Afghanistan? Why stay in Iraq? Why these wars were necessary? Why they were valuable? And some of them weren't. So it is the failure of America to actually go out there and defend itself, crush its enemies and come home that has created all this angst in the Middle East. America could have ended this a long time ago. And it's chosen not to. All right. Andrew says, do you think people are misapplying the value of human life and establishment, life established during the Enlightenment to the issue of protecting innocent lives in Gaza or are there more nefarious ideas at work? No, I mean, I think that they are misapplying the value of human life. Certainly that's part of it. But it is, it is more nefarious. Certainly some people hate Israel. They hate the Jews. They hate self-defense. Certainly Christianity has this idea of turning the other cheek and anti-self-defense. So there are lots of different ways in which, there are lots of different ways in which the ideas that the left has, the ideas that the right have, are anti-self-defense and prevent, and prevent making the difference, making the differentiation. Although we live in a culture that's anti-moral judgment. So who are you to say one party's evil and one party's good? Who are you to make that kind of judgment and to talk about evil and good and evil? And as a consequence, there is, yeah, as a consequence, you know, the whole idea of innocent lives, how do you define innocent? And who is innocent? And who is good? You don't have to have an opinion about that. So that's definitely misapplying, but it's more than that. It is the lack of moral judgment, the lack of morality by what standard? What standard of morality do you use in order to describe some people as good and some people as evil? All right. Interesting. Egypt has closed its airspace to commercial flights, and that, I assume, means that the Houthis have launched something against Israel. The Houthis, in order to get to Israel, would come close to Egypt. Any one of their drones or any one of their other type of weapon systems could easily cross into Egyptian airspace. I don't see any reason why Egypt closed their airspace, if not for the Houthis launching something against Israel, whether it's drones or whether it's some kind of cruise missile. Iran is reportedly threatened to attack any country in the Middle East that opens its airspace to an Israeli attack against Iran. That means Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, which is where Israel would fly. I don't think anybody's really threatened by that on the part of the Iranians. U.S. President Biden is expected to address the nation from the Oval Office later today. That, I think, for sure means that the Americans are participating in whatever self-defense actions are involved. So to the extent that drones are being knocked down, I wouldn't be surprised if American assets are involved. Otherwise, I don't see why Biden would be addressing. He is addressing this in the context of supporting Israel. One more source. In the coming hours, the U.S. expects missile launches from Iran and southern Lebanon. That's Hezbollah. That's really bad. And maybe even the Houthis. I think the Houthis have already launched. The Iranians are trying to overwhelm the Israeli air defense per Israeli official. I think that's right. That makes the most sense for the Iranians to do is to launch more funds and try to completely overwhelm Israel's self-defense capabilities. That is definitely what's going on. Senior U.S. official has told ABC News that they expect Iran to launch between 400 and 500 one-way suicide drones and missiles against Israel in an attempt to overwhelm their air defense systems. So again, this is probably a... This is just numbers. How long can the pilots stay up there? How many anti-drone missiles do they have? The thing about these drones is they're pretty cheap. You know, it is questionable whether Israel should be deploying all its air defense systems to go after drones or whether it should be keeping them in reserve to go after ballistic and cruise missiles. I don't know. Not an expert here. I don't know what Israel's... what its total capabilities are and how long it can sustain a defensive effort in this regard. It really is hard to tell. 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So yeah, make it even bigger. Let's make it much bigger. Let's get all this up to thousands of views while we're doing this live and for that I need your help in sharing. All right, Mark, are we headed towards World War III? If so, what do you think that would look like? No, I don't think we're heading towards World War III. You know, World War III is a confrontation between the United States and Russia or the United States and China and it probably would entail both. But Iran is insignificant. Iran is not important. This is the thing. Everybody thinks Iran is important. Everybody makes a big deal out of Iran. Everybody is afraid of Iran. But the reality is that Iran is not important. China and Russia are not going to go to war over Iran. China and Russia do not want to go to war with Israel. China and Russia are the only things that would make this a world war and there is no world war here. There is no world war here. So I encourage... So don't be worried about World War III. Now World War III, a real World War III with China and or Russia is a nuclear war at the end of the day or at least a constant terror of nuclear confrontation. So let's say China and the United States get involved in a confrontation in the Pacific, a naval confrontation. The United States is not invading China. But imagine if the United States is trying to get into confrontation in the Pacific Ocean. We would all be afraid that it would turn nuclear. But that would not mean that it was... Well, how do I phrase this? That would not mean that it does turn nuclear. It would just mean that we would be very, very afraid. And in that sense, it's a very scary scenario. That's what a World War III would look like. If the United States, I don't know, enters into Ukraine with ground forces or Russia invades Finland or Poland and thus brings in NATO, ground forces are deployed, American ground forces, European ground forces. Well, that in and of itself wouldn't be horrific. Well, would be horrific. I mean, it would also mean the end of Russia. But what would be horrific is the risk now of nuclear war. And that is what is really scary about those scenarios. This here, as long as you run, does not have nuclear weapons and is not using nuclear weapons. This here is not nuclear war and is not what do you call it, a world war. This is not going to lead to world war. Again, the Chinese and Russians do not have an incentive. Look, I should caveat that by saying I did not think Putin had an incentive to invade Ukraine. I didn't think he would do it. I did not think Iran had an incentive to use its territory to attack Israel. I thought they would allow Hezbollah and other militias to do it. These are irrational actors. Who knows what they're willing to do? They're insane, right? Yeah, somebody, one of the freemen says, the Western GDP, GDP of Western countries, I don't even know that that includes India, Japan, Singapore. I think Australia is $40 trillion. The GDP of Russia is $0.8 trillion. These countries, even with China, they're not a serious threat. Other than nuclear weapons. They know it. They know that. They know how small they are. They're not going to launch a nuclear war over Iran, which represents Islam, which is a threat both to Russia and to China. All right, let me just thank Stephen Hopper. Thank you for the stick up. Paul Azuz, thank you. Simon, his first super chat. So you too can be a first time super chatter. Simon, thank you. Really appreciate the support. John, thank you. Michael, thank you. John, of course, started us off with $20 and is given throughout the afternoon. So thank you, John. Thanks, Mike. And yes, you too can support the show through the, if you're listening live through the super chat, please support the show also by just sharing, sharing the show on Twitter and letting people know that it's going on so that we can get as many people over here. All right, let me quickly look at the news. Let me just update the screen. And we've still got a bunch of questions. All right, Bonnie says, why hasn't Israel launched missiles? You know, again, I don't know. I don't know what Israel's strategy exactly is here. But my expectation is two. One, right now Israel's, all of its energy, all of its focus is geared towards self-defense. This is going to be difficult. It's not going to be difficult because of the sophistication of the Iranian weapon systems. It's going to be difficult because of the sheer number of projectiles thrown at Israel. In particular, in particular, you know, if Hezbollah enters, we're talking about thousands, thousands of missiles launched towards Israel. Now, the Israeli Air Force will take out the launchers as quickly as they appear, but they will still get off hundreds, if not thousands of missiles towards Israel and that could easily be targeted at Israeli population centers. For example, there is now a red alert over the town of Sneer, which is in northern Israel, northern Galilee. And that is probably a launch from Hezbollah from Lebanon. So maybe Hezbollah is already launching. And remember, when Hezbollah launches, it's not going to be military facilities they're launching at. They'll launch at anything, at anything. So it's just a sheer number. So Israel's just focused. You want to deal with this. There's a limit to how much they can launch at. You want to take care of that. And then you want to retaliate. You want to retaliate with what you have. Now, for all we know, Israel has launched missiles. We don't know that they haven't. So I don't know. You don't know. I haven't seen any reports on it. Israel hasn't admitted it certainly, but might not admit it. So we just don't know, fog of war, what the details of what's happening there. All right, here we go. This is bad. So land attack cruise missiles have been spotted flying over the western region. No, over the region of eastern Iraq towards Israel. Eastern Iraq. Okay, so it's hard to tell if it's north or south. So now you've got cruise missiles. So Israel now has to take down cruise missiles. So it's got to deploy aircraft for the drones. It's got to deploy aircraft for the cruise missiles. And then this will be a real test for Israel's arrow defense system. So the arrow anti cruise missile defense system will be stretched now to take care of these sources of reporting that both US and British aircraft are airborne over Syria and Jordan assisting Israeli Air Force with interception of Iranian one-way suicide drones. Good for the Americans. Good for the Brits. Now is the time, guys. Anybody who wants to support Israel now is the time. Germany, if you want to send some airplanes. France? France? Anybody there? France? You want to send some airplanes to support? This is civilization, guys. What Iran represents is the end of the West. What Iran represents is global sharia law. This is the time to step up, step up. So far it looks like US and British aircraft are helping Israel to intercept Iranian one-way suicide drones. Okay, also Lebanon has announced a closure of its airspace to any further commercial flights until further notice. Very much not surprising there. I'm surprised it's taken them so long. All right, let's see. Across the Middle East, the airspace of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, parts of Iran are now closed to commercial flights. Okay, we've announced all that. Okay, we're going to skip that. Let's see. Okay, we'll follow up there in a minute. Okay, Adam says, no question, just dollars and disagree. After losing Libya, Hitler had to stop the battle of Britain for lack of fuel. Trying for the Baku oil fields was the only chance. Look up Stalingrad on the map. No, I know where Stalingrad is. It was the last obstacle before Baku. Maybe, but my guess is, and maybe this is not a good example, maybe we can find other examples, that Hitler made a lot of strategic mistakes during World War II. And that's what evil does. That's what evil does. So whether opening a second front was the only alternative he had to get to Baku once he couldn't get to the oil fields in Saudi Arabia through Northern Africa, maybe that's the case. I don't know. But what I do know is that evil is, at the end of the day, impotent and incapable and will lose. And, you know, I don't trust any of this stuff, right? That is, I trust that the bad guys will lose and show their incompetence over and over again, both strategically and tactically. Shrug life. Thank you. $20, really, really appreciate that. Thank you, Adam, for the support, even if you disagree. Really appreciate it. Thanks, Adam. John Skogan, thank you for the $20 first Super Chat on a live stream. So we're getting a lot of first-time Super Chats support. So I really, really appreciate all of you guys. Thank you. U.S. officials have stated that they expected Israel to respond, whether they are casualties or not, and that this response will directly target the Iranian armed forces. Well, I hope it targets the nuclear facilities. I really hope it targets the nuclear facilities. If it doesn't target the nuclear facilities, this will go down as the biggest historical missed opportunity ever, at least in the Middle East, biggest, right? And just, again, imagine this happening right now with all of us worried that one of those Kuzma cells has a nuclear tip warhead. Just imagine. David Chadd, $50, also a first-time Super Chat. Thank you. Really, really appreciate it. You guys are fantastic. Really appreciate the support. Thank you. Let's see. Again, I'll remind everybody to like the show before you leave. If you want to support the Iran Book Show, you can use a sticker. You can use a Super Chat. You can be a first-timer, multi-timer. 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So let's get mine over 1,000 at least, a little bit of competition for Mario for the rational side, the pro-reason side of this particular equation. Also, if you're watching on Twitter and you don't follow me, please consider following me on Twitter and I'm going to be following my follow numbers to see if I'm getting any additional follows so far, a few, but let's try to see if we can get significant numbers while I run this on Twitter. Let's see. There's footage now showing cruise missiles over eastern Iraq. Okay, so definitely Iran has, almost definitely Iran has launched cruise missiles against Israel. Here's another one, pictures of Iran. Iran has just shared a video of its drones and missiles and the missiles used in its attack against it. It's already shooting its own horn and posting videos of scary-looking drones and they're tiny, these drones, but they have explosives in them and they can do real damage as the Ukrainians know well. Glad to see that America is saying that whether their casualties are not, they anticipate an Israeli response and I guess support it. As such, Apollo Zeus, thank you for the support. Again, David and John, Superchats, that's amazing and David did $50. That's very, very generous, thank you. All right, let's keep going with the questions. Bonnie asked about launch missiles. I think they'll wait and do it separately. I see, Saracen, you think this is the break that Netanyahu needs. The U.S. wanted him out of the government. It feels like the U.S. has to backtrack and have BB stay. Well, I mean, BB was not going anyway until the end of what's going on in Gaza. I think it's clear. He hopes that he can win, that he can somehow score some form of victory whether in Gaza versus Iran or whatever and that will somehow save his political career. I think he's doomed. I don't think Israel, the Israelis will attribute a victory to him. I think any Israeli Prime Minister will do very much the same things as Netanyahu has done that are positive. And I do think he's finished politically in the long run, but in the short run I don't see anybody getting rid of him, right? I don't see anybody getting rid of him. By the way, this video that the Iranians have put out about their drones and their missiles also show explosions and you can see the kind of damage that these can do, at least in a propaganda video. You can imagine hundreds of these being fired. Now again, most of them won't make it because the Israeli Air Force will knock them out of the sky and now if this is true, it sounds like both American aircraft and British aircraft are helping the Israelis knock these drones out of the sky. So it is going to be interesting. All right, that is still the video. All right. Thank you, Aisi. J.J.Jigby's, how likely is it I'll get out of Israel this week really chose a great time to come visit. Yeah, stay safe. Stay safe. It's going to be difficult to get out of Israel this week. Now, they might have some charter flights that they put out especially to get Americans who are stuck there out, but it will probably be difficult to get early in the week. Maybe later in the week, you might be able to get out between Iranian offensives and Israeli offensives. There might be a window of opportunity to get out of Israel. But yeah, you're right in the thick of things right there. I don't know, it'd be interesting to hear from you, J.J.Jigby's, of air raid sirens gone off where you are. You're probably more in the center of Israel. And my understanding is that none of the drones have yet approached, but it will be interesting if you want to let us know here in the chat if you hear air raid shelters and if you evacuate it to an air raid shelter. All right, here we go. Iranian state media is now claiming that the Iranians have launched ballistic missiles. Now ballistic missiles would only take, I think, a few minutes to reach Israel. So we're talking about less than 20 minutes. So it's, I mean, we heard about the launch a few minutes ago. We haven't heard anything hitting Israel. It's 5.42 when this was posted. This is assumed that 10 minutes. So within the next 10 minutes, we should hear of either impact in Israel or something coming down. I don't expect Jerusalem to be hit. Jerusalem's a holy place for Islam, so it's unlikely they will target Jerusalem. So you're probably safe in Jerusalem. It will be interesting to see Jejejebi says he's not heard any air raid shelters, Sirens, and he is in Jerusalem. But if they've launched ballistic missiles, again, the arrow defense, the arrow system will be, I think this is the first ballistic missiles fired at Israel. Their air defense systems will be challenged. They, I believe, have the best in the world. They have both patriot systems. An arrow, Israeli-made systems and American-made systems. This is, you know, test time for Israeli-Israel's defensive capabilities. Scary stuff, ballistic missiles, scary stuff. Again, these are the kind of missiles that could be in a different world or in a few years. They could include a ballistic nuclear weapon, tipped by a nuclear weapon. Check my message in the U.S. KC-135 just a few minutes ago. I was monitoring different feeds for alternate information. Where did you write this? Luca, where did Luca write this? Did you write it on the chat or is that in Twitter? Oh, there's Luca. The U.S. KC-135 tanker has electric failure and has been heard speaking with Kuwaiti air traffic control and is returning to the air base in Qatar. Three people on board, nothing more related. Looks like. Okay, good. That's good. Thank you, Luca. I really appreciate you tracking that. You know, there's a lot going on, so it's hard to track everything. But, yes. All right. Let's see what else is going on. I mean, a number of people are saying they did not expect Iran to respond because that would give Israel a license to hit inside Iran, which include nuclear targets. Israel should do that as quickly and as soon as possible before the Iranians have a chance to move whatever precious stuff they have. I hope Israel has the intelligence to be able to flag that and to be able to track it and be able to attack it no matter where it is, no matter where the nuclear materials are located. People are saying 4 to 500 drones launched. Most of them are already being shot down, so don't worry too much. I mean, it is pretty insane that we have so much real life information. I mean, we're following the war as it happens in real time because primarily it's an area war. Andrew says, America is still just enough to support Israel over its enemies, but its wavering support recently is disturbing. If America ever turned against Israel, it would be a new low of the trained principles of justice, yes. And you can see that possible, both on the right and on the left. America is slowly but steadily turning away from Israel. And it's super, super scary. I see Saracen, with the anti-Nitinian protests, a BB attempt for judicial reform and now the attack from Iran, do you fear Israel may come under military rule? No, I don't think so. There's no appetite. There's no body in Israel who would want that. There's no inclination towards that. So no, I don't think that is going to happen. All right, this is interesting. The first wave of Iranian one-way suicide drones expected to enter Israeli airspace in about 15 minutes. That would actually place them at about the same time as the ballistic missiles hit. So it looks like that was coordinated, that the drones would hit at about the same time as the ballistic missiles. Again, we'll know within 10 minutes, we'll know by 6 p.m. east coast time whether the ballistic missiles in Dejua launched and either hitting Israel or being knocked out of the sky by the Israelis. You would expect any minute now, air raid shelters, air raid sirens, I would have expected them already a little while ago because as soon as Israel detected a ballistic missile launch, you would expect that air raid sirens would have gone off in parts of Israel in anticipation of, you know, give people enough time to prepare and to get into the air raid. So, you know, I just don't know that I believe that the ballistic missiles have been fired yet. It just seems, all right, maybe no, maybe I'm wrong. Okay, footage appearing to show Iranian ballistic missiles at high altitudes as they fly towards Israel. All right, maybe, maybe. But that, I mean, we'll know very, very quickly. Very quickly. Let's see, Iranian one-way suicide bombers, land attack cruise missiles and ballistic missiles have now all been spotted airborne over Iraq, heading towards Israel. All right, Iran's air defense forces, the Iranian, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, airspace forces deployed, their Qvant IL-222, whatever, systems around strategic government and military sites in Tehran and other cities for fear of Israeli counter-attack. I'm not too worried about that. I think Israel knows how to overcome all that stuff once they decide to attack and hopefully they'll attack again. Sooner rather than later, timing is important. Israel don't dither like you did in Gaza. Attack, attack, attack, attack soon and with full force, don't hold anything back. Destroy the bastards. All right, Andrews says, after 9-11 America could have established the principle of rational self-defense in action instead of pursuit a naive self-sacrificial Christian policy of evading, destroying the enemy to help Iraq, to bring them democracy and to bring civilization to Afghanistan. Absolutely. And that has blown up in America's face. You need to win wars. You need to win wars decisively, thoroughly and equivocally. You need the enemy to know that you will destroy them and this is why Israel needs to respond quickly and with massive force. Massive force targeted at command and control, everything in Iran from nuclear facilities on down. The Iranians need to feel like they could be attacked anywhere at any time and those drone factories need to be destroyed. Yeah. All right. Let's see. James says, always the best news. So, Shiran, thanks for hosting this. Appreciate it, James. Didn't even know I had a plan for 3 o'clock. Didn't know this was happening. You know, it kind of broke as I was starting, you know, just minutes before I started and that's why I shifted to this topic and I've been going on since. Let's see. Chicken Wing says America must not betray Israel and Ukraine. I agree. I agree, but I fear, I fear. Daniel, should Israel flatten southern Lebanon preemptively? Not right now. Right now needs to focus on defense, but it should have months ago. It should have years ago and it certainly should have after October 7th. I can't believe that Israel has put itself in a position where Hezbollah can attack while the Iranians attack all at the same time. Really horrific. Okay, I'm going to... Oh, here we go. We've got pray for Iran, victory, MAGA. Make America great again. There you go. There's your MAGA friends. I'm going to block this. We don't need... We don't need pro-Rinians on this channel. All right. Yeah. All right, let's see. Where are we? Israel already is Israel without the help of from any country. It would be hard for Israel, very hard. I mean, Israel relies on global supply chains. It relies on ammunition and weapons systems from the United States. It does not produce all the weapons and certainly not all the ammunition that it uses. Right now, you know, it is being overwhelmed by the sheer number of drones and missiles being launched at it. And I think the consequence of that is the Brits and the Americans are helping out. They are shooting down what they can that is targeted at Israel. The extent of that, I don't know. Again, these are just rumors. Fog of war. We don't know what's actually happening. We don't know if the American Air Force has been deployed. But the fact that the Biden is going to address the nation soon, then that suggests that... Tricycle just said CNN confirming first wave of ballistic missiles. So you hear it on your own book show first and then on CNN. Why do I only have 300 people watching live? Why aren't they several thousand people watching live? I mean, I'm breaking news before CNN. And I'm not the only one breaking that news because I'm getting it from somewhere. But so far, everything I've reported has been confirmed a little later on. Developing sources over the years helps. All right. Does shrapnel rain down when drones are knocked out? Yeah, probably, but most of these drones are being knocked out over the desert in Syria or in Jordan. So very little reason to think. Israeli intelligence officials have reportedly detected the launch of dozens of one-way suicide drones. So that land attack cruise missiles from Iran, as well as you walk towards Israel, the drones and missiles, are believed likely to target an Israeli Air Force base in the negative desert and locations in the Golan Heights. All right. That is interesting. Okay. We will see if that pans out. So Golan Heights and the Israeli Desert, the Golan Heights are way in the north and the negative is way in the south. It will be interesting. Biden is returning to the White House and is supposedly addressing the nation in a little bit. We will see if that happens. Martin Anderson, thank you. Really appreciate that. I know in the currency that's a lot in dollars, but it's not so much, but I appreciate the support very much. Frank, $50. Thank you. Iran with this journalistic hat in these trying times. Thank you, Frank. I really appreciate it. I try to bring both commentary and journalism to it. Luca, thank you. Thank you, Iran. I'm Israel Chai. That means the people of Israel live. All right. Let's see. Andrew asked, what are the ideas that lead to leftist pacifism? Well, it's the idea that you cannot judge others. It's Christianity, basically. Christianity has a huge impact on the left. It's the morality that says, talked about it before, all lives have value to some extent that comes from Kant. But it's really the lack of self-esteem, the lack of self-assertion, the lack of moral standing, the lack of being able to say, I'm right, they're wrong. I'm good, they're evil. Okay. Several more videos of Iranian ballistic missiles spotted over the southern Iraqi city. So if that's a southern city, then it's probably targeted towards the Negev. Israel, by the way, in the Negev has its nuclear facility. So Israel does have a nuclear reactor in the Negev. So I can't believe that Iran would target that, but that is probably the most protected facility in the world. So I can't believe that anything could penetrate that. It's more likely that they're attacking an air force base there, but whether they could actually aim it well enough to actually hit it is hard to tell. We will see how good these weapons are. And again, if this is out of southern Iraq, then this is traveling over Jordan, it'll be interesting to see whether Jordan has the wherewithal to knock some of these down. Jordan certainly is not interested in seeing Iran be successful here, I don't think. An Italian news channel has a Chewbacca saying that U.S. and French fighter jets have taken off. Yeah, good for the French. I mean, this would be amazing if the French are participating. That would be incredibly exciting and unusual for the French to actually side with somebody with the good guys for a change. But the French have been very good on Ukraine, so good for them. Louis, thank you. First time, super chat, really appreciate it. She writes, victory for Israel, keep them safe. Thank you, Iran. Thank you. Thank you. Let's see if there's anything. I mean, I'm curious. Yeah, we should be hearing about ballistic missiles hitting Israel very, very soon, if not now. And I don't see anything around that. But ballistic missiles travel very, very fast. They should be there. The first drones should be hitting Israeli airspace any minute now. So that is something to watch for, particularly in the Golan Heights. That would mean Israel is knocking them down over Syria. Those would be flying in from Syria. So we will see now it's saying first Iranian drones in 10 to 20 minutes. That was 8 million minutes ago. So again, yeah, any minute now from 6 p.m. on, yeah, really from 6 p.m. on, we should start seeing significant action over the skies of Israel. So Israel shooting down stuff, Israel taking hits, whatever happens. It's going to happen in the next 10 or so minutes. James says, my understanding is that ballistic missiles are way in modern welfare. Could they be nuclear? No, they're not nuclear. They do not have, they do not have the nuclear capabilities. The Iranians do not. So no, they're not nuclear. They're not, the Russians have used ballistic missiles against Ukraine. Cruise missiles are much more common. They are, these are medium range. Remember, Iran is far away. If you want to hit something quickly, the only way they can do it and get to the target quickly is ballistic missiles. So it's not, it's not that unusual for them to be using a ballistic missile. All right. Thank you. Who asked that? That was James. Thank you. James really appreciate it. Let's see, Rafael. Mele went back to Argentina to form a crisis committee guarding this war. I will try to coordinate actions with Western leaders. Interesting, very interesting. I mean, again, one of the things I like about Mele the most is that he's not one of these crazy libertarians who thinks everything is Israel's fault and Israel are the bad guys. And we should side with the Palestinians and side with Hezbollah and side with everybody else. And the fact that he's supporting Ukraine and not Russia, the fact that he's supporting Israel and not Hamas is a huge thumbs up from me to Mele. And of course, as you know, I met Mele last week, got to shake his hand, got photos taken with him and handed him a copy of my book, Free Market Revolution, which he promised to read. We'll see. Jennifer, thank you. Thank you for all of your work, Iran. My thoughts are with the Israeli people and your family. Thank you. I appreciate that. My thoughts are with my family as well. I hope they're safe. I assume they are. I haven't heard anything about Israeli-Israeli sirens going off yet, which is good news because they go well in advance of the actual attack of anything hitting. As I said already, Russia will not get involved. Don't worry, Russia will not get involved. All right, Israeli Ministry of Defense will hold a situational assessment in roughly five hours at 6 a.m. to decide how to respond. So, yes, I don't expect Israel to respond before they have that meeting. That meeting is at 6 a.m. Israel time. So sometime around 1 a.m., so 1 a.m. East Coast time. So, yeah, Russia will not get involved. Russia has no vested interest here. Russia is not going to sacrifice its interests for the Iranians. Russia would like to continue buying Iranian drones, but Russia probably has now the manufacturing capability to build the Iranian drones themselves. And they're not rushing to Iran's support. At the end of the day, Russians don't want to see Islam win. They don't want them to lose, but they don't want them to win. They want them to lose because this distracts the Americans. Just like China, China supports the Iranians only in the sense that this is distracting the Americans, but it's not anything they want to get involved in. Iranian is not using Russian drones. It's using their own drones. It's using Shahad drones. Indeed, Russia is using Iranian drones. It's the other way around, but the drones are clearly Shahad drones. These are cheap, and they have hundreds of them. They've already sent any between 100 to 500 drones Israel's way. Michael asks, I wonder if this drone attack is a diversion for a larger strike? There is no larger strike. Iran is very far from Israel. There's nothing else they can do. Remember that they're also launching cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. That might be the largest strike. The really bad one, right? The really bad one is the possibility of Hezbollah strike. That could be the largest strike. That could be the really, really dangerous strike. Lukas says what I said earlier. He says, be careful with forecasts about Russia, you know, because I forecast that Russia would not invade Ukraine. So I was wrong about Russia because I didn't expect Putin to be as stupid as he turned out to be, or as suicidal as he turned out to be. So I agree, Lukas, it's hard to predict the irrationality of people like Putin. But again, the incentive is not there. Putin is distracted by Ukraine. He's busy. He's busy. You know, if Russia wanted to intervene, they could have activated their defense systems of their troops in Syria. They have not, as far as we know. Again, I'm going to make the prediction knowing that sometimes my predictions are false. I don't know what other people are thinking. I cannot predict the future. But I do not expect Russia to get involved. I think it doesn't make any sense for them. Again, they're irrational, so who knows. But if they would have wanted to get involved, if they get involved, they are going to reveal how weak they really are. Plus, does Russia really want a confrontation with America and America's planes in the air shooting down drones? I don't think so. All right, U.S. defense and intelligence officials have now stated that this ongoing attack by Iran is the worst-case scenario that Israel had been preparing for, and that this could cause a major war across the Middle East. Okay, these are the kind of predictions that the Americans like to make. And you know, what is the major war? Iran is far from Israel. Yes, they can continue to launch missiles and drones for days, and the Houdis can do the same, and the proxies can do the same. But, you know, and Hezbollah can, that is the real risk. Let me say again, the number one risk for Israel right now, the number one risk for Israel right now, is that Hezbollah joins this. That Hezbollah launches against Israel. Hezbollah has 130,000 missiles, 130,000 rockets that they can launch. That is a major escalation. That would be horrific. That would involve a land war, which Israel would invade southern Lebanon and try to destroy Hezbollah. It hasn't happened yet. We haven't heard yet of any launches, maybe one from Hezbollah into Israel. So that is what I really, if there's any real, I mean, stress and tension, real fear, that would be the fear. I don't think Iran can do that much damage to Israel. We'll see in the next few minutes. We haven't heard anything yet. It's already 606 and the drone should have entered Israeli space and cruise missiles. Alright, so multiple Israeli KC 707. These are airplanes that are used to refuel other airplanes in the air. So there are several of these are over the country. As the Israeli Air Force is trying to down the drones and cruise missiles. It's like the Battle of Britain in World War II. I mean, the stakes are not quite as big, but the Battle of Britain where the Air Force was just up there. They would land, refuel, back up to fight against the Germans. It's what really changed the dynamic of the war in a sense of aerial superiority, which was German and shifted to British American after the Battle of Britain. And somebody who's World War II buff will correct me if I'm wrong. But multiple, so as the Air Force is up there, they are refueling in real time. So in real time. I still have not heard of launches, and I'm not sure we will, and I'm not sure when we will, of launches of the Abo missile system, anti-drone and anti-ballistic missile and anti-cruise missile system. They've been used in a lot against stuff that the Houthis has sent over, but I still haven't heard here that any of those have been used. It would be really interesting to see if they are used. It's too bad Israel has not yet deployed its laser missile defense system. They need it right now. They need it right now. The laser missile defense system would be super cheap and super easy and super fast in attacking something like that. All right, let's see. All right, nothing there. I'm just checking different channels to see if there's anything super relevant as we scan this. All right, what's that? Yeah, we saw that. That's not new. All right, Jacob, thank you. Chris, thank you. E-flat major, thank you. E-flat major, that's the first super chat. Really appreciate that. Don't forget, guys, if you're watching, there's about 350 people watching right now, like the show. Don't forget to like the show. It's pretty easy. It doesn't cost you anything. Hopefully we can have hundreds of likes for this show. And don't forget to support the show. Support the show with the sticker here if you're watching live. If you're on Twitter, if you're listening to this later, you can support the show on Patreon. You can also support the show on Patreon as well as my sister, just WhatsApp me. I'm on live now. My sister who's in central Israel, WhatsApp me. We are a bit scared from your perspective, should we be? And I said, yes, they should be. Let me just add something comforting here. Probably military, not. All right, I still think the target's a military, and I think that almost all of these cruise missiles and drones and everything else are going to be knocked out of the air. There is also a, yeah, let's see. Supposedly President Biden warned Iran not to escalate, and we will see what happens now as a response. Iranians in Tehran are celebrating the aggression against Israel, so the people on the street, not that many from the video I'm seeing with Iranian flags. You know, just let's see what else, anything breaking news here. Initial reports, ballistic missiles. Oh, so now ballistic missiles launch from Yemen as well. So you've also got the Houthis getting in on the action with Yemen. And, you know, that'll, again, just stretch the air defense systems that Israel, you know, the air defense systems that Israel has. So you've got drones, probably several hundred, launched from Iran, which are crossing over both Jordan and mainly Syria. Israel sounds like the Israeli Air Force is knocking those out of the sky, although it does sound like we have rumors that the both the British and the American Air Forces probably aircraft carrier-based, so really Navy, pilots are shooting down drones with the Israelis. The Houthis do have ballistic missiles, not the most advanced, not the most sophisticated, but they do have ballistic missiles. Israel's already shot some down. That is what the Arrow defense system is for. I'm not too worried about the Houthis ballistic missiles. They're more likely to hit the desert. They're more likely to be shot down. I'm much more worried about just the sheer quantity. And again, my main worry, I will repeat this and I'll repeat this throughout the night. My main worry will continue to be is continues to be the Hezbollah, the Hezbollah, 130,000 warheads, missiles, rockets of various types, all targeted at Israel. That could be an overwhelming, overwhelming attack against Israel. That would be very difficult for the Israeli defense system to manage. Of course, they can't launch 130,000 warheads, but hundreds at a time, thousands at a time, is certainly possible. And the Israeli Air Force is distracted right now, knocking down drones, knocking down cruise missiles. What happens if Hezbollah unleashes their rockets? That's what the Iron Dome is for. And there is an Iron Dome in the north of Israel. I don't think it's got the capacity of the Iron Dome in the south, but it has significant capacity. And then the question will be, will it be able to cope with the sheer volume that Hezbollah could unleash if they decide to do so? Nebulisks, thank you. Appreciate the support. Jacob, thank you. Appreciate the support. Anonymous user says, thank you for the objective and informative news. See Britain, Dragonfly, interesting technology. I will look into that. Thank you, anonymous user. I appreciate the support. Yeah, let me just say, I mean, as many of you know, I often make predictions that don't come true. My analysis of why I don't think Russia will get involved, I think will pan out. But I was wrong about Putin invading Ukraine. So who knows? Hey, Lior, it's nice to see you on my chat. Thank you for being here. All right, let's see if there's anything new. As I said, if the Iranians launched ballistic missiles and those ballistic missiles actually succeeded in entering Israeli airspace, they would have already done so. So we are now way beyond the time that that would happen. Also, if drones were going to hit Israel, then now is when they would be hitting. And I see no indication that arid sirens have gone off in Israel, in northern Israel, or that they have been drone hits. I suspect, okay, here's, yeah, residents in northeastern and southeastern Israel. So this is Haifa area have been told to remain near bomb shelters until further notice. Let's notice near bomb shelters. So if the drones had penetrated Israeli airspace, then they would have been told to enter the area shelters. So the fact that the drones have not suggest to me that so far, the Israeli Air Force as well as whoever else is helping the Israeli Air Force have succeeded in, you know, shooting down the drones that have been sent towards Israel. That's right. I'm confusing east and west. Thank you, Leo, for correcting me. We're talking about the Golden Heights and the negative, the south of Israel. So the south of Israel probably from the Houthis, particularly Elat, and any military bases in that area in the north of Israel over the Iranian drones that are crossing through Syria. Again, I still don't see any suggestion that anything hit the ground. That suggests to me that at least the first wave has been mostly shot down. J.J. Jigbi says he was in Haifa earlier this week. Stay in Jerusalem. I think you're safe in Jerusalem. Don't leave Jerusalem the next few days. You're much safer over there. Yes. I mean, the difference between east and west in Israel is 30 miles. That's it. From the river to the sea is 30 miles. Let's see. Yeah. So, again, I'm surprised nothing has hit yet or we haven't got any reports of Israel launching arrows or an dome or anything like that to shoot down these rockets and missiles that are coming across. Also, I mean, I really am happy so far to say, happy is maybe strong, that so far, Hezbollah is staying out of this. I mean, again, that is the big deal. The big deal is will Hezbollah stay and if they do for how long will they stay out of it? All right. Jacob says, what's the best Twitter feed to follow for this news? I'm following OSINT Defender. That I think they have so far over the last few months have had the fastest news that I've seen. Israeli TV reporting 2 a.m. is the time they should be here. 2 a.m. All right. What I got was now that is ballistic missiles should have already arrived. I don't quite understand that ballistic missiles should not take very long. Cruise missiles take a couple of hours. They also should have arrived or should be arriving very, very soon. I think 2 a.m., 2 a.m. is what? So there's a 7-hour difference. God, so 6 plus 7 is 1. So we're talking about another 40 minutes. It could be that they arrive in 40 minutes. We'll see what arrives because my guess is that the Israeli Air Force is busy knocking them down over Syria and that few of them will actually arrive. It's 1 a.m. in Israel now. Yeah, I did the math. I'm pretty slow. Particularly when I'm trying to read this and that and do everything else. But yes, it does look like, according to Israeli news at least, we've got another 40 minutes. Maybe that's why they've been told to stay close to area shelters and not being encouraged to go to area shelters. So maybe everything is a little slower than I expected it to be in terms of the projection. That's useless information. That is, let's see if anything here. We've got a bunch of congressmen standing with Israel, this congressman, that congressman. And then of course Israel. Israel has significant ballistic missile capabilities and significant cruise missile capabilities. I mean significant. These are big missiles, unbelievably accurate missiles. Missiles that would be very hard for the Iranians to knock out of the sky. I really don't know what the Iranians are thinking by doing this attack. If Israel really wants to punish them, they will punish them. So I guess I missed this, but Israel officials have stated that they so far have seen no confirmation of ballistic missiles launched by Iran towards Israel. Thank you, James, for pointing that out. Yes, I mean that makes sense, because if the ballistic missiles had been launched, they would have already arrived. My guess is that the videos that we saw were not ballistic missiles, but cruise missiles and old videos. You never know, of course, on the web what you're seeing when you're seeing a video when it was actually shot, who shot it, whether it's a video game. Sometimes you see videos that are claimed to be from a war zone and they're just video games, people playing on the video. All right, let's go back to questions. Robert Nicias, spoiler alert, the good guys win. Well, most likely by far. Yeah, I think the good guys win. It's, you know, two things are the question. One is how badly are the good guys hurt? And the second question is how decisive is the response? Israel needs to be unbelievably decisive, overwhelming and strategic in their response. It needs to hit thoroughly. I mean, systematically. Every single thing in Iran that involves nuclear, the nuclear program needs to be hit and destroyed. And beyond that, they need to take out drone, any kind of military facilities that produce any kind of warfare that can hurt Israel. They need to destroy the drone factories. They need to destroy the missile factories. They need to destroy the capacity of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard to gauge in war. And they need to do it, in my view, on a massive scale. I do not know what Israel's capabilities are, right? I mean, this is far away. They do have a massive cruise and ballistic missile capacity. But how many of those missiles do they have? I don't know. They can reach Iran easily. They can even reach Iran by plane. What kind of payload can they drop on Iran if they fly all the way there? I don't know. So it's, you know, again, it's, you know, but that's what Israel needs to do. It needs to thoroughly... I mean, it needs to cause so much pain to the Iranians that the Iranian people might think, consider overthrowing this regime. Overthrowing this regime. All right. Let's see. All right, we got more questions here. Anonymous user, thank you for the objective and informative news. See Britain's... Oh, you already did that. Thank you. Troy, Troy just came in with $500 Australian. Thank you, Troy. Really, really, really, really appreciate the support. And thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you particularly for a show like this. Appreciate it. Ali says, why Iran haven't used full force in these attacks, including Hezbollah? Iran don't want to correct you in this, but Hezbollah is with an H. I thought it was a kh, Hezbollah. Don't they pronounce it with kh, Hezbollah? I don't think it's a kh, Hezbollah? The Arabs say Hezbollah, I don't think so. But you know more than I do with a name like Ali. You know Arabic better than I do. Why? I think for a couple of reasons. One is maybe they're waiting for Hezbollah for the second round. Maybe Hezbollah is a strategic card to prevent Israel from going all the way out. Maybe they hold Hezbollah as a knife, kind of as a sword. And yeah, I know you're Arabs, so that's why I said you know more than I do. He says it's with an H. So I will start calling it Hezbollah, okay Hezbollah. It is Hamas, right? And not Hamas, but I think that's right. But anyway, they could be using it to restrain Israel from crushing the Iranians. That's what they could be waiting for most strategic time to use the Hezbollah. It's also possible that internal politics inside Lebanon are dictating that Hezbollah now be used. That is that Hezbollah might really suffer in terms of its political standing within Lebanon if it got involved, that the Christians and the Sunnis and the other Shiites in Lebanon have told Hezbollah to stand down, that they will take a significant political hit here. That is all possible. It really is hard to tell. Of course, we don't know yet that Hezbollah is not involved. If this is a coordinated effort and if the drones and the missiles are not due to reach Israel for another 35 minutes, then we won't know until 35 minutes. If the missiles from Hezbollah have instant impact, they're within minutes because it's so close. It could be that Hezbollah is afraid. It could be Hezbollah has told the Iranians, yeah, we don't want to do this because we don't want to be completely and utterly destroyed. Israel has made it clear that if Hezbollah launches full throttle, Israel will attack it including in Beirut and that could be a significant disservice. Home front command instructions to residents in the northern Golan Heights, the Netavim area, Demona and Elat, so that's Demona and Elat, that's southern Israel, and they is that they should stay near shelters until further notice and wait the compulsory 10 minutes in case of alarm. Footage earlier showed what a P2B to be, a high-altitude ballistic missile over Iraq could have been cruise missiles attached with additional rocket boosters for longer range. I guess that makes sense. That is the commentary about the cruise missiles. All right, what are we doing here? Stated by the Iranian mission to the UN regarding tonight's attack is Article 51 of the UN Charter pertaining to legitimate self-defense, so this is an act of self-defense. Who cares? The UN should be abolished. Somebody asked about the UN, I thought. Maybe not. Let's see. A U.S. official has confirmed that U.S. forces in the Middle East are involved in the interception of Iranian one-way suicide drones. All right? Hopefully that is true. And from what I saw earlier, the Brits are helping as well. So that is good. And maybe the French. Maybe there's somebody out of Italy said that French fighters were leaving a NATO base there. All right, these updates. Update is basically that the ballistic missile videos that were shown earlier probably cruise missiles with boosters to get them all the way to Israel. Let's see. Yes. Andrew, what do you think of the line of reasoning from the right that isn't that it's the Biden administration's weakness that is causing global chaos and that during Trump there was relative peace? Well, I mean there's certainly some truth to it. Weakness doesn't encourage violence. And the retreat from Afghanistan was about as weak and pathetic as you could imagine. And Biden's attitude towards Iran was weak and pathetic. I know that many of you don't believe me, but I don't believe the world viewed Trump as strong. They might have viewed him as unpredictable, but not as strong. And what I do think, I mean remember that it is Trump that signed a peace deal. Peace deal. Can you imagine? It's about weakness with the Taliban. And it's that peace deal that Biden was actually implementing by withdrawing. And behind the scenes, the Trump administration was actively negotiating with Iran to try to get a better deal. But he wasn't against negotiation. So I think at the end of the day, I think it's American weakness. Going back to Reagan in the Middle East. Remember, Reagan saved Yassir al-Faz in Beirut. Remember, Reagan did nothing when 244 Marines were killed by an Iranian planned and financed Hezbollah in 1983. Reagan did nothing but lob a few bombs into the Baka Valley, which did nothing, impacted nobody, and had zero and basically fled Lebanon with tail between his legs. So going back to Reagan, every single American administration has been weak. Weak. So weakness is America. And therefore, I think that that is the cause of our problems. There's no question. If America was strong, a lot of this would not be happening. And that's true of Israel as well, by the way. Israel is strong. The problem with Israel is that its deterrent capabilities have been weakened. It's not the capabilities. It's the willingness to use it. Why hasn't Iran taken out the, why hasn't Israel taken out the Iranian nuclear capabilities years ago as they promised, as BB promised? Over and over and over and over again. Why should Iran believe that they'll do anything now? Why did Israel not destroy Hamas? 20 years ago, and in all the opportunities since. Well, what message did I send Hamas, other than we can keep killing Israelis and they won't do anything to us? So it is Israeli and American weakness that emboldens evil. The good when it's weak emboldens evil. Always, everywhere. Go back to Hitler, but you can go to Alter at the beginning of time. When the good is weak, evil takes advantage of it, always. If you want to stop war, then the good needs to get aggressive. It needs to end war. All right, let's see. Bree says, are your parents and friends safe? Well, nobody's safe. I don't know. Again, it depends what Hezbollah decides to do. As you know, I have family in northern Israel, not in the Golan Heights, but in the Galilee and in Haifa and in central Israel. It doesn't look like central Israel is the target. It looks like the target is southern and northern Israel, particularly the Golan Heights. I don't have any family there, but if Hezbollah enters, all of Israel is a target, particularly the north. So there was so far, they were safe as they can be, but the night in Israel is still young and I'm sure I know because my sister was on here a minute ago. They are worried. They are scared. It is a very, very scary situation. And you feel helpless. You feel helpless because it's nothing you can do. You've got your family. You've got your kids. There's nothing you can do other than listen to the news and watch everything that's happening around you and hope for the best. But it's the hopelessness, I think, that is most debilitating. My sister is still on the chat, so she is still here. I think hearing me talk is distracting at this point and distraction is good at this point. So, oops, I keep missing this. No, not that. Yeah. Let's see. No questions. Don't forget you can ask questions. Focus the questions on what we're talking about now. I do have, I don't know, 10 questions on other topics. Maybe I will do them afterwards or maybe I will do them tomorrow, next time we do a show. It's a little difficult to focus on unrelated questions right now. All right. Fuituks. I don't know what Fuituks is. Anyway, Iran's attack is designed in several stages and this is translated from Arabic. Iran's attack is designed in several stages and each stage will be more intense than the previous stage depending on the conditions. A source tells Iran's semi-official, falsely news agency. All right. I mean, my thoughts are going out to those pilots who are up in the air, who are going to spend many, many hours up in the air shooting drones. It's like a video game. I mean, a video game with lives at stake, but they are going to be shooting drones for many hours and cruise missiles which are not easy to shoot down. The air defense crews that are going to be on alert, the missiles, according to what we heard from Israel, missiles are supposed to hit in 25 minutes. So all of those air defense batteries are going to start working right now. You know, they're full alert and we'll start deploying anytime in the next 25 minutes. All right. A source with the Israeli defense force has stated that Israeli Air Force with assistance from the United States, Britain and other allies, that's great to hear, has already intercepted at least 100 Iranian one-day way suicide drones that were en route towards Israel. The problem is that these are very cheap, very easy to make drones. They can launch, they can continue to launch hundreds of these, at least for a while. This is why I think number one priority for Israel should be, and they should be launching in my view, if they can, destruction of whatever drones the Iranians already have and the destruction of all drone factories in Iran. So I would like to hear about explosions all over Iran happening in the net, starting in a few hours from Israeli crews and ballistic missiles. They should, you know, again Iran is holding back on ballistic missiles, they're holding back on, partially because I don't know how well they'd work, and they're holding back on Hezbollah and their efforts, their ability to attack on the north, holding back I think in order to give them just strategic options in case they need to kind of force Israel to do something differently. All right. Just to remind you, what I do is funded from listeners like you, and you know, you guys make this show possible. We have 340 people watching right now live. It would be great if we got more likes. Likes really help the algorithm. They really help attract more people. Also, if you want to share the show, that would be great. I'm going to be on here for at least another 20 minutes to see what happens with that first strike, probably longer than that. Any support you guys can provide financially would be greatly appreciated for the continuation of the show, and for the continuation of shows like this would be greatly appreciated. So please consider that. You can use a sticker. You can ask a question. I'm answering questions. Anything to do with this war. I'm happy. Happy is the wrong term, but I'm available to answer any of those questions. So please feel free to ask away. So far, I'd say the information I've been receiving has been accurate, except for the timing of the drone attack, which I expected a while ago, about 15, 20 minutes ago, but it could be that that first wave of drones has already been knocked out of the air by the Israeli Air Force. So they never reached their target. That's why we're not hearing about them. But I think this becomes, I mean, if we don't hear anything hitting the ground in a half an hour, then, yes, the Israelis have knocked down the first round of this, and let's hope that is indeed the case. Yeah, basically these are the same drones that are being used in Ukraine that Russia is using. These are Iranian drones that they have sold to Russia, but also that they have built production facilities in Russia to produce these drones. So Russia is using these drones against Ukrainian civilians. All right, let's see. There's somebody on the ground in Israel in terms of civilians. All right, as it turns out, right now as we talk, Russia is using Iranian suicide drones to attack Khalkiv, the city in the east of Ukraine. So Russia is attacking Ukraine as Iran is attacking Israel. We're seeing traffic jams in Tehran as people are rushing to buy gasoline ahead of an expected escalation in the conflict with Israel over the coming days. So good. I'm glad to see that the Iranians are also scared and panicking. And it's long past due that the Iranians do something, that the Iranian people do something about this horrific regime that they have in Iran. It would be unbelievable if this was what led to ultimately the fall of the Iranian regime. All right, so let's see. All right, we've got celebrations of Hezbollah supporters in the streets of Beirut. Maybe a little prematurely. And maybe the fact that they're going out into the streets of Beirut, maybe that suggests that Hezbollah will not attack Israel tonight, given that this is a pretty easy target if they're all celebrating. Palestinians are celebrating. Let me see if there's any indication on where the Palestinians are celebrating. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. We'll check that in a minute. Andrew says, is there a connection between Christianity and a lack of self-esteem that leads the impairment to the willingness to self-defense? Well, yeah, of course. I mean, Christianity is an ideology, a religion that basically bars self-esteem. It basically says, I mean, Christianity, at least if you follow Augustine and you follow Luther and Calvin, basically Christianity says you're sinful. You're sinful. Every single human being is sinful. Sinful for the very act of being conceived, for the very fact of being born. You are a sinner. And indeed, you're predetermined to go to hell or heaven. That's also predetermined. So how can you have self-esteem when you are a sinner and where you might go to hell and you don't even know when the whole religion is about humility? Humility, you're not in the sense of, look, I don't know everything and I can make mistakes. No, humility in the sense that I am worthless. I am nothing as compared to God's glory, whatever. Nonsense, that is. All right, according to the Israeli military, Iran has now shot ballistic missiles towards Israel. All right, so that is, that would make sense, right? So if they shoot it now, then the ballistic missiles, the cruise missiles and the drones will arrive at about the same time. So you've got, you've got a three-prong attack targeted at hitting Israel all at about the same time. So that Israeli defense, Israeli air defense systems are tested to the max. Also we're hearing that there are air raid, air raid sirens going off in southern Israel right now. So air raid sirens, Israelis hustling towards the air raid shelters, they might have them in their home, they might be others in the negative, in the southern south of Israel. So it is happening real time right now. Okay, I don't know what it says. It's already over. I don't know what that means. All right. All right, Iran is saying to the UN that their mission is that the military action against Israel is concluded. And it warns the United States to stay out. Sirens in the south, yes. All right, so it's done in the sense that this is it. So they want to say this was limited. Hezbollah didn't participate. Don't penalize us too much. This was just retaliation for you bombing the embassy. Israel, don't retaliate. That's the message coming out of Iran. Hopefully Israel retaliates massively, massively. I mean it's the only thing we'll keep Israel safe in the long run. Okay, hundreds of average sirens going off in Israel right now, all over the Beersheva, which is the major city in the south. And in the West Bank as well. So in the Chomron as well. Not yet in the Tel Aviv area. All right, so we've got, here we see a map. You've got red alerts in the northern Negev, Iran Beersheva, which is the major city in the south of Israel. And not far from Petah Tikva, a little bit east of Tel Aviv, not that far from Tel Aviv, a little bit east of Tel Aviv in the West Bank area, you've got sirens going off. What is this? All right, and then, okay, so my guess is that these are the remaining drones that the Israelis didn't shoot out of the sky, maybe second wave or third wave drones. Or maybe these are already the cruise missiles that are approaching. There's also a video now from Tehran of the launch of a ballistic missile. So we've also got ballistic missiles heading towards Israel right now that will take them 15 minutes. So by top of the hour, 2 a.m. Israel time, ballistic missiles should be entering the picture and then we will see how the Israeli defense system works against those and how many of those it manages to knock down. James G says, do we see Asia becoming more? Oh well, I don't want to answer that. So, guys, I'm not going to answer non-war related questions until later. So right now we're focused on, okay, in Jerusalem in Jerusalem sirens are going off. J.J. Gubi says he's hearing explosions. My guess is that that is anti missile defense systems. It's not explosions nothing hitting the ground. I hope Gilad says he's hearing explosions in the center of Israel. That would be in the area of Tel Aviv, Diora, everything okay. I hope everything is okay. My sister is in the center near Tel Aviv. So sirens going off everywhere. Yeah, I mean this is the these are the drones that have made it. Okay. Okay, seeing stuff in Israel. All right. Okay, let's see answered that. Okay. So my chat feed is more on top of the news than is Twitter right now. So, all right. Israel's under significant attack from Iranian ballistic missiles. So these are ballistic missiles so they were ballistic missiles. That's what this source is reporting that this is not the drones. She can hear clear explosions siren going off in Jerusalem. Okay. Okay. Let's see. So, yes Israel's clearly under attack. They're clearly explosions. They are clearly Eric sirens going off. And Israeli sources have confirmed the launch earlier of Iranian ballistic missiles against Israel. So this is now the test of the air defense system. The air defense system will be louder, I think than the iron dome because these are significant missiles that are being shot at other missiles. And so it will be quite loud and hopefully the explosions that all of you are hearing are actually the actually the, what do you call it, the okay, multiple interceptions reported over north east Israel. Okay, so that's on the golden height. It's not clear if that's the ballistic missiles or if that's the cruise missiles or if that's the drone. Remember, this is a three prong attack cruise ballistic and drones and it's coming from Iran and as far as we know the Houthis have also launched. So they are ballistic missiles heading from the Houthis in Yemen. So that will help, that will target a lot. That will target the very very, very south of Israel. That has not had a red alert yet. It's more Belsheva, that is more likely to be from Iran than from the Houthis. J.J. Jigby says sirens have gone off. I hear explosions. I think it's the air defense system J.J. Jigby's but you should be in an air raid shelter. If sirens have gone off, go to the nearest air raid shelter. Don't stay put. Anybody who's got, you know if there's a safe room in the house you're in or if there's an air raid shelter go to the air raid shelter. I know a bunch of you are listening that actually in Israel right now your primary concern should be right now is to keep yourself families anybody with you safe. Do not I mean there's no point not being in an air raid shelter right now. So Jigby's help go over there. Explosions are reported over the city of Jerusalem in eastern Israel. So over the city so these are likely to be interceptions of ballistic accrues missiles. This is this is the the arrow systems the arrow and Patriot I mean the Patriots and the arrows should be able to take care of pretty much anything heading towards Israel. It's just a question of quantity at this point. The there's no the Iranians do not have a ballistic missile that has the capacity to evade a Patriot evade an arrow. It's it really is an issue of have they overwhelmed Israel's capacity to launch it's a defense system but you know it's I think I think that is I think that is the explosions you're hearing. I don't think the explosions are missiles hitting the ground. I don't think it's explosions hitting the ground. I think it's the air defense system working right now. Let me see if this other website has some other stuff let's see let's see it's really warm. You see they're not bombing Jerusalem. I think these interceptions well above Jerusalem here's footage for Jericho swarms of Iranian drones are being intercepted by the Israeli defense defenses above Jericho. Jericho is not far from Jerusalem so you would hear those explosions. I doubt that these are targeting Jericho in Arab city. I doubt that they're actually targeting Jerusalem. They're probably targeting Tel Aviv and they have to pass through Jerusalem to get there. It's very very unlikely the Jerusalem was a target but you never know. You never know right I've been wrong before all right all right we're seeing more details let's see okay so we're looking at drones and cruise missiles and maybe maybe what do you call it ballistic missiles being taken down hopefully none of them have hit the ground yet let's see if there's any other updates okay live on western wall so they hit the western wall literally hit the western wall you're no I've just seen it live on western wall but does that mean they hit the western wall or that you know fragments is because they're intercepting these things. Interceptions by Iron Dome and other elements of Israeli air defense array seen over eastern Israel near the Jordan Valley okay that's consistent with the Jericho that's consistent with not far from Jerusalem I don't know what that's a channel no they didn't hit the western wall okay it's a channel it's live footage from western wall western wall is a channel yeah this is the price of appeasement people this is a price of Israeli appeasement this is a price of American appeasement this is the price of appeasement that I and others have been warning about God I've been warning about it for 30 years 30 years I mean as long as I've been active you know in this kind of stuff this is the consequence when you appease evil this is what happens when Iraq launched all those missiles towards Israel in 1991 and Israel did not respond what message were they sending Iran what message were they sending others when Israel did not take out Hamas in the many many many many many decade in the last two three decades where they could have done it what message were they sending when they didn't take out Hezbollah when all the opportunity Hezbollah not Hezbollah Hezbollah when they've had all the opportunities to do it and all the reasons to do it and they didn't do it this is the message what message did they send a message of weakness weakness only emboldens evil over and over and over again this is the reality Israel is in the Middle East and Putin led to its invasion of Ukraine see even in Europe you can get war weakness generates war explosions now over the city of Haifa in northwest Israel so some of those drones were targeting Haifa we heard that earlier and again it's over the city as long as it's over whenever they say over that is good so according to Israeli sources no casualties so far so far if the drones have hit they've hit unpopulated areas and most of these missiles drones and have been shot down but I am worried about the fact that they above Haifa that they're hearing explosions above Haifa alright okay cruise missiles and medium-range ballistic missiles have reportedly passed over northern Iraq city of Ibril heading towards Israel so it's not over yet they're still launching towards Israel they're going to test they're going to test the Israeli air defense system this is going to be the test if ever they want one Timmy thank you first super chat ever really appreciate that David Arsenault thank you and thank you guys let's see what do we have here Andrew says Christianity's an heresy anti-self-defense that's absolutely true Brian Prince thanks Iran thank you Brian James G White at Scotland becomes the work I'll do that another time Frank how can Israel destroy Iranian leadership forever well I don't think the Iranian people want this leadership I don't think the Iranian people want to be ruled by mullahs that don't allow women to show a strand of hair I think what Israel needs to do is incapacitate the Israeli sorry the Iranian revolutionary God am I doing that weaken the Iranian regime to the extent that the Iranians rise up and replace it so I think that's it Ali says you want do you do one-on-one chat for 15-30 minutes yes it's $500 for 30 minutes so $500 for 30 minutes for one-on-one Iran at youronbookshow.com let me know if you're interested so you destroy the leadership by replacing it and you replace it by weakening it so much that that their own citizens replace them replace them Apollo says stay strong thank you it's my sister who has to stay strong and my parents and my brother and my other sister they're the ones who have to stay strong I am in the absolute safety of of Puerto Rico James she says how does this attack on Israel impact Jewish people in western countries in the near future and over the next five years I mean I don't know that it has an impact I mean we've seen anti-Semitism increase in the western world both from the left and from the right I don't expect that to go away I will say this I think the only thing that will cause anti-Semitism to dissipate the only thing that can keep Jewish people safe all over the world is Israeli strength that is the only thing that can help is you know a massive Israeli retaliation making it clear what happens making it clear what happens when you attack Israel you destroy the enemy people they might hate Jews still but they won't go after you if you're strong if you're strong they will hate you but respect you from afar so what Israel has to do what it had to do in Gaza and it's only partially done is be strong not apologize crush the enemy and blame all deaths all destruction on the people who initiated the violence this video video I'm seeing that shows the interception of a lot of this but also it shows something striking the ground hard to tell if that's real or not this is from Jordan the sky over Jordan it looks like somebody is intercepting these drones above the Jordan it looks like an aerial combat over the city of Amman this video it could be the Israeli effort, the American effort it could be the Jordanians the Jordanians said they would shoot down anything that passed J.J. Jigbi asked how long with all this last well it could last for a few days in Israel and then if Israel retaliates then you could see the Iranians retaliate could last for a few days depending on how devastating Israeli retaliation is and how quick it is how quick it is you know so if the if the Iranians have just launched another set of cruise missiles then that's another couple of hours so yeah I would expect this to last through the night Israelis are not going to get any sleep tonight that is for sure Brian Prince asks I'm pleasantly surprised but confused that more politicians haven't condemned Israel for their attack in Syria I am also pleasantly surprised that they haven't I think they've been distracted by what's going on in Iran and look most American politicians realize that Iran is the real threat here and that the attack in Syria was necessary and legitimate unconfirmed reports of a drone attack on in al-Sad in Anbar I have no idea you know could Israel be attacking Iran right now in Iran yes I mean again Israel no that's in Iraq so that would mean that that's the American base in Anbar that means that somebody is attacking probably the Iranian affiliated affiliated groups attacking the American base in Anbar this is again American weakness attacks on Americans multiple impacts are being reported within the negative desert in southern Israel the question is are these impacts that are being allowed to happen because they're in the desert they won't hit anybody or these impacts because they overcame the air defense system or these just the air defense system shooting down the bad stuff let's see several successful interceptions above Jerusalem that's that Strangy Jigby is visiting Israel this week and he happens to be in Jerusalem right now and not easy not easy to be caught up in this I mean Israelis have some familiarity with what's going on but to be an American in Israel right now not easy pleasant but you get a little bit of a sense of what Israel goes through initial reports of an attack on U.S. forces at April International Airport in northern Iraq as well as at Al-Sad Air Force air base in western Iraq alright well now America is definitely part of this America is definitely involved and going on Eli says that the negative attack is nothing so good to hear I'm not surprised but good to hear is Jordan a lie to friendly with Israel it's got a peace deal with Israel it's not particularly friendly but Jordan does not want to be part of this so it is likely to be shooting down whatever it can over Jordan it does not want to be you know part of a conflict between Israel and Iran it is no vested interest in Iran succeeding in a conflict such as this James G says what is stopping Israel from taking action on legitimate Iranian targets across the Middle East I still do not understand how this is happening nothing, nothing is stopping Israel Israel is stopping Israel the very fact that Israel you know has been weak and non aggressive and that is but right now Israel could be and should be targeting massive targets in Iran and Iranian targets all over the Middle East of course you could say that this started when Israel took out an Iranian target at the Iranian embassy in Damascus of course that is a consequence of lots of iterations of violence last few minutes red alerts across the country which means sirens and potential launches oops what happened no reports have been received of casualties apart from cause of stress symptoms and injuries occurred while running to protected areas so people spaining their ankles while running and people being just emotionally distressed completely understandable and legitimate but no casualties from any kind of hits from the air as I said you know Israel has a very very robust air defense system it may be the best in the world given that it has Patriots which is the best defense system in the world for certain types of missiles it has the Arrow, it has Iron Dome it has others it is putting all of that to the test right now and so far so good we will see I'd say over the next hour we'll know a lot more about what is what is being hit or not hit, what is happening or not happening let me get a little bit of water here interceptions seen over the Jordan capital of Amman talked about that earlier nothing new there let's see let's try this that's such a silly headline the Iranians are bombing Jerusalem they were missiles shot over Jerusalem but I'm not sure the target was yours maybe it was as of this moment no reported impacts in Israel the Iranian aggression is failing well of course it's failing now that doesn't mean there won't be impacts that is a missile hitting it just means that it's not overly surprising that they have been none on television who do you trust more BBC who cares what the BBC has now if they had Douglas Murray on TV that would be of value alright this is just Senator Cortez Maestro stands firmly with Israel Steve Scalia house move with its previously announced legislative schedule next week to instead consider legislation that supports our Israel and holds Iran its terrorist proxies accountable the House of Representatives stands strongly with Israel and there must be consequences for this unprovoked attack more details on the legislative items to be considered will be forthcoming Steve Scalia is part of the leadership the Republican leadership in the in the House alright Leo says one 10 year old badly hurt and that's horrible it would be interesting you know hurt from what but let's see breaking President Biden alright we saw that but he hasn't spoken yet he's about to address at some point we're still awaiting President Biden's address to the nation about the situation everybody's awaiting it should happen any minute now let's see alright it looks like Ilan Juno is live right now talking about this as well on the Institute YouTube channel so you can check him out as well alright yeah ballistic missiles should have hit Israel by now so the only thing one could estimate is that they were shot down if it's true that ballistic missiles were shot then those ballistic missiles were shot down by Israel because they would have hit by now alright why is my feed not showing live on Twitter that's weird let's start that up again alright let's see what did I see here Leo said that the 10 year old boy that was badly hurt is in the south in the negative is a Bedouin so my guess is that the Bedouin often live in unpopulated areas in little villages or just in tents although that is more history than present so it might be that this is kind of one of those missiles that Israel let by because they expected it to land in an unpopulated area and the Bedouin happened to be there and this kid got hurt it just shows you a Bedouin means it's a Muslim an Arab it just shows you the casualties and the destruction all the residents of Israel including Muslims are the victims of what the Iranians are doing why is my live on X 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right yeah you have to keep refreshing to get the likes I don't know why the likes don't refresh automatically let's see what's going on so it says if you're curious about Haifa I saw two interception flares above the Krayot Krayot is before you get to the mountain hill that Haifa's on it's a flat area it's where a lot of Israeli industry is so that was two flares and heard a singular boom no sirens, no sirens is good thank you Sal for letting me know that is a relief that is a relief that that Haifa is not under sirens and not under direct attack um all right as I said you can keep asking questions okay Leila Leuan just did oh I missed it it was earlier how thin is Israel spread across multiple fronts now I mean it's spread thin there's no question you know I think it has the resources the ammunition as long as America is willing to resupply it that it needs it can do it again I've said this all night all afternoon for me the real issue is what is Hezbollah do the real issue is what happens in the northern front if Israel has to invade Lebanon if Israel has to go in there I mean I said Israel should have done that in October right because I think they should have preempted they shouldn't have waited but if they have to go in now with the troops committed in Gaza and trying to fend this off that is a challenge it's a challenge Israel can do it's a challenge Israel can live up to but it is a challenge there's no question and again if Hezbollah launches then Israel's defense system is really is really a challenge at that point so Israel's spread thin but it's doable right it's doable it does not face any kind of invading army Egypt is not going to drive tanks across the border Jordan is not going to drive tanks across the border Syria or Lebanon are not going to Lebanon are not going to do that the main threat Israel faces right now is Hezbollah missiles coming across the northern border that is the real risk and maybe Hezbollah fighters storming the gates now it gets on twitter a 10 year old boy in southern Israel is a serious condition and being treated by the end of the dawn that's the ambulance service in Israel after being injured from an Iranian strike on the town a Bedouin near Arad Arad is again a town in the negative in the south of Israel and the Bedouin live around in that area tragic I hope the kid is okay regional officials have told Reuters that aircraft of the Royal Jordanian Air Force have downed over a dozen of Iranian one way suicide drones over northern and central Jordan that is great great news to hear that the Jordanian Air Force is actually participating in this and taking them down I mean ultimately if you count the Jordanian Air Force the American Air Force the the British Air Force the French Air Force and the Israeli Air Force it's very little is going to get through very little is going to get through I don't know why this was allowed to get through maybe because they thought it would drop in an uninhabited area for the 10 year old and in his family alright somebody said from I'm not sure where in Israel heard noises overhead that I've not heard before and we are used to many types of jet and boom noises now gone quiet never thought I would see the day that Iran would actually attack Israel a new chapter is now open now the question is can we close it quickly can we close it quickly I see Israelis over over Twitter and social media thanking the Jordanians, thanking the Americans thanking the Brits it would be nice if we could see some some French participation that would be really nice alright images appearing to show medium-range ballistic missiles launches in Iran near the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran reports of sirens activated in Israel in Iraqi Kurdistan that's interesting who would launch against Kurdistan don't know maybe again some of these Iranian linked militias but I don't think they want to start a front with the Kurds I really don't think they want to start a front with the Kurds who knows Stanheim, Iran thank you for your shows what else can we do other than supporting you and AI well you can support any voice out there that's pro-reason pro-Israel not in a kind of obsessive religious sense but in the sense of defending western civilization you can speak up the most important thing you can do is speak up it's share material and you just take a stand it's so valuable to just take a stand plant a flag in it just let the world know where you stand on this issue and how you stand those are the things you can do obviously support financially the institute me but more importantly the moral support and just to know that people are standing on the right side of history Iran is going to do what well they've already done what they've done and they'll continue to do it more than this I don't know I don't know but I keep repeating this but it's really really really important to internalize it is so important that Israel finish this job before Iran gets nuclear weapons imagine this tonight with a nuclear Iran unimaginable so Israel has to finish it now finish it means completely and thoroughly retaliate maybe this answers this question completely and thoroughly destroy any remnant of Iranian nuclear capabilities thoroughly destroy the industrial military industrial capabilities of the Iranians destroy the drone factories the ballistic missile factories destroy the warehouses in which they keep this Israel has fantastic intelligence fantastic intelligence on Iran do it do it fast do it devastating quick and devastating don't pats around don't play games don't consult with Biden don't wait for Biden to fly over don't just launch and devastate I don't know if they've learned anything I doubt they've learned anything God I'm so frustrated because I mean everything that's happening October 7th and it's just everything I've told you would happen and it's just it's just frustrating that nobody learns from history that's the real frustration alright I'm going to take another 2 minute break we've been going 4 hours and 20 minutes I think that's right 4 hours and 20 minutes they're now showing parts of a fuselage of an Iranian missile this is not a drone guys this is a God that is a real that's a big missile that's either a cruise missile or ballistic missile that is being intercepted it's in Jordan somewhere in Jordan in the street a massive piece of metal Iranian ballistic missiles seen flying over Iraqi capital back that towards Israel a few minutes ago okay so yeah I mean they're being shot out of the sky the fact that nothing's really hit Israel in significant ways what a testament to Israeli technology to Western technology but mainly Israeli technology so far so good no real damage I'll be back in like 2 minutes right back sorry I'm going to be eating a little bit while we're doing this super hungry Frank says Iranian self-sabotage absolutely I mean Israel has everything it needs now no excuses I think it will have the world's support it has American support get the job done do the job the Americans should have done 20 years ago do it now Florida Nick says there wasn't 2 minutes how long was it anyway sorry I'm eating a powerball well I didn't want to make you wait 2 minutes 2 minutes of dead time is bad television or bad YouTube or bad podcasting or whatever Jerusalem was not hit everything sent towards Jerusalem was knocked out of the sky so Israel generally has not really been hit badly burning calories and also consuming them so I will eat and talk about the people doing that oops again feel free to ask questions that helps to keep the show going I'm trying to get a new news so I can update you on the news I'm not seeing much right now I have to say but we will see Israeli officials are confirmed to channel 12 that there will be significant retaliation against Iran I mean what does significant mean the only acceptable retaliation the minimal acceptable retaliation minimal acceptable retaliation it's a new term I think we should coin that minimal acceptable retaliation M-A-R M-A-R the M-A-R has to be taking out the nuclear facilities this is the the most important target in Iran the only really important target in Iran they have them and the Americans should do this because the Americans have to bunker bust the bombs they have the bombs that can do that if you don't want to do it in America please ship some bunker busting bombs today I don't know if Israel has a tool to deliver I think they can but that's it you gotta anything, anything that has to do with nuclear has to be demolished including that nuclear power plant that they're building that the Russians are building for the Iranians crush it destroy it level it just like they did with the Iranian nuclear power plant and then all those facilities where they've got the centrifuges are deep into the mountain get those bunker busted bombs level that mountain use whatever kind of ballistic missile you need to use in order to just demolish the place Eli says you hit it on the head with that Iran all Israeli TV interpreters and formers of the IDF are saying exactly that this is a golden opportunity for the IDF to rid of the nuclear plant the plant is not the problem it's where they've got the facilities it's where they've got the centrifuges is where they've actually got the uranium the uranium that's almost nuclear grade take it out all of it now every single facility the worst thing they can do is a half ass job the worst thing they can do is take out some of the stuff and not do it all you've gotta crush the entire infrastructure anything that has to do with Iranians nuclear capabilities have to be demolished demolished so just imagine again you know Richard said we have a process in place we pay them billions they slow down development works no it doesn't work that was what we did with North Korea exactly the same thing we did with North Korea then one day we woke up and they said whoops we have a bomb imagine if Iran does that again imagine what tonight would be like let's see yeah it looks like the debris in Jordan looks like a ballistic missile it doesn't look like a cruise missile it's really big yeah it's gonna be interesting if the Spanish Prime Minister condemns the Iranian attack that'll be interesting he's been pro Hamas the entire time will he also be pro Iran additional British fighters leaving the UK for the eastern Mediterranean wow so you've got a bunch of British fighters I wonder where they land where they take off of off of I mean Turkey has a NATO base you think they're flying out of Turkey I mean that would be pretty funny if if they're flying out of a Turkish air force base almost as funny as the fact that the Americans are probably flying out of a Qatari air force base that's a good point Jordan the Brits the Brits could be flying out of Jordan and they also have a base in Cyprus huh okay so they're flying to Cyprus and then out of Cyprus and maybe Jordan Jordan of course has a long history with the Brits the Brits was part of original Palestine part of the original mandate was Jordan ASA thank you for the first Super Chat the first Super Chat ever thank you really appreciate it don't forget if you're not a subscriber to the Iran Book Show please subscribe um please subscribe now alright let's see Andrew do you consider the American right as pro-Israel I interpreted Trump's statement about Israel doing whatever it can to end the war as pragmatic political expediency rather than be morally correct yeah I mean there's a sentence you won't I mean there is no morally anything with Trump everything is expedient morality doesn't apply to anything he stands for anything he says anything he believes in now is the American right pro-Israel or it depends Candace Owen is a part of the American right she's clearly anti-Israel she hates Israel is part of the American right he's clearly anti-Israel so those two representatives of the American right are anti-Israel and if you go and if you look at Twitter and you look at some of the streams about Israel you will find a lot of right-wingers a lot of right-wingers who are unbelievably anti-Israel anti-Israel while there's video of the Ayan Dome intercepting intercepting Ayan Dome I don't think would intercept accuse myself but these are drones and there's just you know 20 something lights in the air and it's pretty dramatic footage this is above Mount Javon so that's in the south of the West Bank and then you're seeing another video of Iranian missiles seen in the sky over the Knesset building you see the Knesset building and Knesset is the Israeli parliament and the missile above and it looks like it is it is that was intercepted yeah I mean there's pretty dramatic footage out there I'm sure if you're watching Israeli television they've got even more dramatic footage of what I'm seeing here all right let's see Flotanik says I remember when we used to joke about getting a three hour show now we have a four hour plus show no we're very close four and a half hours we're making it a five we will we will see I mean unless this really this stops being being news which is possible that this is over but I don't think so anybody in Israel over there will get sirens in Jerusalem again objects being shut down from the sky so we still got sirens in Jerusalem so it's not over all right let's see yeah channel 14 on YouTube is the most informative stream is that the religious channel 14 let's see so I don't believe the American right is I think the American right the large extent American right is anti is anti-Israel large segments other segments are very pro-Israel so most Republicans in Congress are very pro-Israel the evangelicals are generally very pro-Israel for the wrong reasons with the pro-Israel okay Jigby Jigby says he doesn't hear sirens Libella did hear sirens so I'm not sure what's going on maybe it's a time issue I'm making Libella hungry sorry but it's like it's 7.30 here and I haven't eaten dinner I was expecting to eat dinner at 5.30 and that hasn't happened we saw this one minute ago Israeli officials have stated there will be a significant response against Iran you know the problem with making such statements there's going to be a significant response there's going to be a significant response against Iran you better live up to it I remember shock and awe and then it wasn't shock and awe see you come across as weak you come across as weak who is pro-American the center left is pro who is pro-American not the new right they're not pro-American they don't know what America is you can't be pro-American if you don't know what America is that's true of Trump and that's true of the entire new right they're not pro-American because they have no clue what it is what's his name Tucker Carlson in my view is anti-American anti-American not pro-American and so is what's her name so yeah what's relevant is who is pro-American I agree but the new right is not pro-American the new right is pro some nationalistic un-American conception of America well the Catholics are the intellectual dominating the new right but they're still a new right I mean Tucker's not a Catholic as far as I can tell Mount Walsh I don't know what Mao says to do with this okay that was Andrew Florida Nick says oh yeah I already answered that one France Folk says what about the European right well Europe support Israel now I think the European right is probably more pro-Israel because they are directly facing an Islamic threat but remember that the European right is gonna can flip on a dime in terms of anti-Semitism right so European right can be very anti-Semitic we know that from history but right now it's also very anti-Muslim and right now I think the anti-Muslim Trump's anti-Semitism the American right it doesn't the threat doesn't really exist to the American right to America from Islam the way it does in Europe and in Europe people are confronted by it on a daily basis right I mean Muslims are everywhere in a lot of places and people are afraid of them so they see it everywhere so it's much more likely to be European right pro-Israel and anti-Muslim the American right some pro-Israel but clearly a significant number of the American right is anti-Israel and look the American people are anti-Israel a majority of Americans majority of Americans think Israel has gone too far in Hamas versus Hamas in Gaza too far they haven't gone far enough alright we just saw impact footage showing one of the impacts of an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile earlier in the negative desert this could be where this kid was hurt it's a big impact big source of light but it is in the middle of nowhere there's nothing there there's a lot of these videos you can see a lot of videos of missiles being intercepted in the air and striking in different places but so far it seems that we've got most of the strikes almost all the strikes are with no casualties except for the 10 year old boy who was hurt in the a Bedouin boy was hurt in the negative Martin, thank you Martin Martin has given a whole series of Argentinian, I think it's Argentinian right? Argentinian pesos unfortunately that Argentinian pesos was so little but really appreciate it Martin Steven thank you Apollo Zeus thank you thank you for all of you guys for the support really really really really appreciate it alright I think so we're going to give it a few more minutes see if there's if there's more news, I mean Ibril airport clearly US bases in Iraq have been hit hard so that is going to be, it's going to be interesting with the US response right? it hasn't really responded badly but the US respond I see photos online there was a photo online earlier today of a Muslim father with his kid his kid is dressed up like a Hamas fighter Hamas terrorist with a automatic machine gun around his neck I mean it's not a real one but a toy machine gun this is what you strive to be in this community you strive to be a suicide bomber and a murderer of Jews, I mean that is the ideal that's what you want your children to grow up into you want them to grow up to be terrorists I mean terrorists is even the worst kind of terrorists now in Toronto there's a picture of a little kid with a kafir all of his head military uniform drumming marching to a drum right? yeah Valdrin says I feel like it's a bluff from Iran it might have to do more with the Iranian regime wanting to squash protest of their own people against the theocratic regime Iran cannot win the war against Israel nor is it ready to escalate that was pretty bad I mean Israel just has an incredible defense system and knocked it all down but I know the Iranians cannot win but they are suicidal and crazy I do agree with you it's served significant internal domestic purposes for them this is primarily an attack that serves domestic purposes I said that earlier it's to show that they're strong in their command and it happened the same day that they sent out the Israeli police to go track down women who might be showing a strand of hair so they are committed to their barbaric ways and this is just one more way in which they're showing that the results are pathetic in terms of any impact they've had on Israel but they can say we did something they can pretend that they're scared now what happens when Israel retaliates where do they go from there I do not know and this is why Israel needs to retaliate in the harshest most overwhelming way really crush them okay funds what about oh we did that European rate Andrew did Iran want this attack to be successful well what does it mean to be successful kill people yeah I'm sure it did if it could destroy Israel tomorrow it would it just can't and it knows it can't so yes I thought it wanted yes it's just look it sent hundreds of drones as far as we know numerous ballistic missiles and cruise missiles Israel, the United States and the UK have just done and Jordanian Air Force have done a brilliant job shooting them all down shooting them all down that's pretty amazing you know that this is why I've always said in a direct confrontation between a western military and the military of any Arab country or the military of Russia and probably even the military of China the westish crushes them crushes them technologically, motivationally it's just no contest Raphael people oppose Israel regardless of facts because they are subjectivist opinions are created by the anti-life feelings not connected with reality yeah I mean I think that's that pretty much captures it thank you Raphael Christian will Israel do the necessary to end the Iranian threat I doubt it I mean but I always doubt it right I doubt it that they'll do what's necessary they'll do something whether they do what I suggested as a minimum I mean what I suggest was just a minimum I think it should be a lot more than that the minimum is take out their nuclear capabilities their nuclear program completely but they should do more than that they should take out the entire military industrial complex that they have they should take out their ability to produce drones to produce missiles they should take out as many of their launches as they can they should target Iranian Revolutionary Guard bases they should kill as many of their soldiers they should weaken the Iranian military and if possible if they could and if they're willing to do it weaken the regime as much as possible the goal should be regime change not by putting troops on the ground but by creating a situation where the regime is so weak that there's a there's something that happens something that happens eternally Iran have you been through an air raid before JJ Jigby asks oh god yes in 1973 and maybe after that as well but certainly in 1973 on Yom Kippur in 1973 we were in synagogue for Yom Kippur and the Aaron Sirens went off we rushed into the synagogue's air raid shelter my father then rushed home put on his uniform and went to the front we didn't see him for weeks we then went home as soon as they were all clear and we spent the first week or so quite a bit of time in the air raid shelter for about a week I was we lived in a building a four story building with eight apartments is that right six apartments seven apartments and I was the oldest male in the building in the air raid shelter because all the other men had gone to war and I had a one week old sister not the sister who was on the chat she wasn't born yet but I had a one week old sister and my brother was two years younger than me so he was 10, I was 12 and then we had a one week old sister with us and we were in the air raid shelter a lot during that war particularly in that first week alright what else do we have yes that was Christian Apollo Zeus should US and UK jets just shoot missiles out of the air or target the launch sites as well well right now the priority has to be to shoot missiles out of the air I mean clearly that's what they should be doing and then the next stage is to go after the launches but the first stage is to prevent missiles from hitting from actually hitting their targets in Israel so the next stage is retaliation retaliation means missile launches, missile factories drone factories and nuclear program that would be the next phase and again if Israel is weak in its response if America is weak in its response if there is a response that'll embolden not just the Iranians but it'll embolden really everybody everybody else alright I think we are done I think we are done almost 5 hours in yeah 5 hours in and Javier Millay has just put out an official statement it's in Spanish I can't read it so I don't know what it says my assumption is that it is a letter in support of Israel good for and condemnation of Iran I mean this is a huge shift in Argentinian politics the previous president of Argentina or Christina what's her name you know who I mean was a huge support of Iran and actually took a suitcase full of cash at some point in order to cover up the fact that the Iranians were behind the community center and the Jewish community center and the Israeli embassy in Argentina a few years ago Christina Kushner so yeah so this is a huge shift it's good for Millay that is truly terrific yeah will the administration learn anything from this will they learn that weakness encourages violence will they learn that they should unequivocally support Israel we will see we will see and you know the only reason this all turned out to be a non-event or as Richard who is not that bright obviously is because Israel shut down the ballistic missiles cruise missiles and it shut down the drones it's the only reason it's not a it's there's no drama as a consequence of this is because Israel has a phenomenal and exceptional air defense system and that his voila never never took part so all right Dave Goodman are they going do you see no I said that's not it Dave Goodman are these are these drones of distraction so Israel diverts its efforts away so his voila can have free reign to wreak havoc no I don't think so I think his voila was going to strike they would have stroked an hour ago two hours ago I think the fact that they did not suggest that they will not they are they are done and you know they have made the strategic decision not either to hold it in reserve for the next round or because of internal Lebanese politics his voila is in no condition to actually engage with for force against Israel that is that is my that is my assessment so I don't think it was a diversion and I don't think you're just going to see anything that's it I think we're done for now I think now Iran and the rest of the world will sit back and wait to see what Israel does and based on that we'll see what Iran decides to do as the next phase all right everybody I'm saving the questions I did not get to I will promise to answer them but not now I will do so in the near future and I will I will be on again if something if this news story takes a turn in the next few hours I'll try to be back on but I think we're done for tonight we are all going to stay tuned to see what Israel responds if it won't be immediate or I'd be shocked if it was immediate and let's and I will see you all hopefully not tomorrow if it's tomorrow well maybe I hope tomorrow if Israel strikes back tomorrow so maybe tomorrow certainly on Monday thank you everybody I appreciate I appreciate the massive support I appreciate you all being here if you're not a subscriber please subscribe also before you leave please consider liking the show just press the like button and that will really elevate the profile of the show within YouTube because they love the like stuff we're 350 likes so that's fantastic it's a great beginning but before you leave make sure you've liked it and I will see you all soon and for those of you in Israel I hope you get some sleep tonight I hope everything's calm down and I hope I hope yeah I hope this is it I hope this is it all right 5 hours later I'll sign off talk to you all maybe tomorrow suddenly on Monday bye everybody