 Iran is in the headlines as it has been for now a week since Israel bombed the Iranian embassy. In Syria, Iran has been threatening to attack. Israel has responded by saying that if Iran attacks from Iran, which is a weird kind of, it just shows again Israeli weakness and meekness, Israel said, if Iran attacks from Iran, that is if Iran launches missiles from Iranian territory that hit Israel or target Israel, Israel will attack Iran proper, implying that if Iran doesn't attack from Iran, that is if it uses its proxies, but clearly its proxies, right, doing its bidding, and they attack from Syria and Lebanon and Yemen and Iraq, then Israel won't attack Iran, which is bizarre and wrong and weak and just horrible. Israel should have attacked Iran a long time ago, should have taken out its nuclear program. All indications now are that Iran is, with the heightened tensions with Israel, is invigorating its nuclear program and could be very close to developing a nuclear bomb. This would be, of course, a major catastrophe and a disaster. It also, so why is Israel not going to attack Iran? I mean, this is a fantastic opportunity to attack Iran, to attack its nuclear facilities, to take them down a notch, to weaken them substantially, to weaken their influence in the Middle East, to weaken their influence on all these so-called proxies, and if we're going to have any peace in the Middle East, the Iranian regime has to go or the Iranian regime has to be neutered in one way or another, and this is an opportunity for Israel to do that, and it seems like even with this, they will only do it if the Iranians attack from Iranian soil, which is if that is significant. It does seem like Iran is likely to attack Israel at any time now, any moment. It does seem like Israel is braced for this, as is the United States. Diplomatic missions all over Israel are getting instructions from the home offices on preparing, and the preps are for a disaster, for taking out the electricity grid and taking out cell phones, but I expect, anyway, so there is a lot of prep going on in Israel right now. The headline in Bloomberg is US sees imminent missile strike on Israel by Iran and its proxies. The real fear is, I guess, that they all attack at once, that Israel is overwhelmed from the south, the east, and the north, and that really tests its missile defense system, and that means some missiles will get through. So there's real fear, I think, right now in Israel. I think there's real fear that Iran will take this opportunity to really try to cripple Israel. Now I haven't taken this, and of course we'll find out what the truth is soon enough. I think in the end, Iranians will launch something pretty mild. I don't think Iran wants a war with Israel. I don't think Iran wants a war that might cause the United States to enter. I think the Iranian regime is weak from the inside. I also don't think, I don't think Hezbollah right now wants a war with Israel, even though they keep pretending they do, but I don't think they really do. Again, Hezbollah is pretty weak, and it's weak politically within Lebanon. Many Lebanese don't like Hezbollah, don't want Hezbollah, and Lebanon has been a kind of a state on the brink of disaster for years now, and a war with Hezbollah between Hezbollah and Hezbollah would cause Lebanon to collapse is the fear. Just for those of you not familiar with this, Lebanon, a country which has both Shiite Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Sunni Muslims, Christians, Druze, has a pretty diverse population in terms of religion. It's a country that has been inflicted with instability really, really since the early 1970s when Palestinian refugees were kicked out of Jordan and settled in Lebanon and immediately, immediately started fermenting a civil war there. And there was a civil war which pitted the Shiites and against the Sunnis, the Sunnis against the Shiites, both of them against the Christians and everybody against the Jews, but alliance kept on changing. A brutal civil war which was horrific, which ended in the 1980s, but never really ended in that violence and tension and continued in Lebanon and continues in Lebanon, politically instability. Many of the Christians, the Christian Lebanese over the last 60 years have left Lebanon and sought greener pastures in South America. There are lots of Lebanese and in very wealthy, successful Lebanese families in Mexico, in Brazil, in other parts of Colombia and other parts of Latin America. They've also gone to the US, they've gone to Europe, so the Lebanese, remember Lebanon pre, the early 1970s was thought of, was talked about as the Paris of the Middle East. It was a beautiful, beautiful city. I was in Beirut in 1982. It was pretty devastated when I was there. This was at post-civil war and post-war with Israel and the city was in shambles and yet in spite of the fact that it was in shambles, you could still see how beautiful a city it was and all the stories of how vibrant, the culture it was, how vibrant a nightlife there was. Notice that it was a secular, beautiful, amazing city. It is not anymore. It is a sad, very, very sad city. A testament to what happens when tribalism dominates, when violence dominates, when hatred dominates and of course the one party within Lebanon that has only grown in power over the years, particularly as Christians have left and even some Sunni Muslims have left is Hezbollah which represents the Shiites and the reason they have grown in power is because they are supported by Iran. So they have a constant flow of funding in and they have built weapons, they have supposedly 130,000 missiles aimed at Israel ready for launch and they are also a very experienced military force. They have fought in the civilian civil war for a decade now and they of course have fought against Israel on occasion. So we are talking about an experienced and many of them have received training in Iran and have seen combat. So we are talking about an experienced military group with fighters with experience. So Hezbollah is a significant force. I think a more significant force than Hamas is. And they are, anyway Hezbollah is one of those proxies that could very well attack Israel. So Israel is on high alert. Israel of course is threatening back a powerful response on Iran's territory if it's attacked. And so there is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee about an hour ago made a post regarding Iran's imminent attack against Israel. You know this is a Republican Senator, Tom Cotton. He wrote and guaranteeing America's full support. You've also seen statements coming out of the White House saying that in spite of disagreements if Iran attacks Israel, America will provide Israel with its full support. You're also seeing leaders of Saudi Arabia and many of the Gulf states calling the Iranians and trying to get them to stand down. The German Foreign Minister was on a phone call with the Iranian Foreign Minister trying to tell him to stand down and explaining to him that Germany would stand with Israel. I mean Iran attacking Israel would be a massive miscalculation for Iran. They would set it back dramatically. According to China 14 in Israel, the latest assessment of Israeli intelligence suggests that the Iranian retaliatory attack will occur any day now and in its first phase will consist of dozens of missiles launched from forces in Iran, Iraq and Yemen, though the participation of Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups is still unknown. So again, it looks like it could happen any minute now, any day now. It will be interesting to see if Iran itself, its Republican, its revolutionary guards participate or just proxies, whether Hezbollah participates. Hezbollah, without a doubt, Hezbollah is the one entity that can do the most damage to Israel. I think that missiles launched from Iran provide Israel with plenty of warning. They take a while to get to Israel. They can be shot down by airplanes. They can be shot down by missile defense systems. Israel now has a squadron of I think F-35s in the air 24-7. So they are rotating a squadron in the air 24-7. Its entire air force is on, in a sense, red alert. It could be, the majority of its airplanes could be in the air in a matter of 10 minutes. Israel would give them plenty of ability if airfields are targeted to get airplanes in the air before the airfield is struck. If the airfields will be struck, I think most of them will be shot down. And of course, to launch either a counterattack or to help shoot down the missiles, the ballistic missiles that are being targeted to Israel. So Israel is in a major state of alert. The Army is in a major state of alert. Civil Defense is in a major state of alert. Then it is rotating a squadron in air constantly. So that is just a quick update on Israel. At the same time, this morning Israel launched a major operation in the center of Gaza on one of the refugee camps that had not yet entered. It had intelligence that Hamas had many fighters there. There were still tunnels there that they had not destroyed. And they were entering, as of very early this morning, they were entering that camp killing Hamas fighters and destroying the tunnel systems there. So there's fighting on the ground occurring right now. Again, my thoughts go to the young kids who are fighting to defend their lives against the barbarians. All right. Just one other related issue that relates here to the war, but is directly related to what's going on in the U.S., in yesterday, I guess, in one of the pro Hamas demonstrations in Michigan, protesters chanted, death to Israel. Well they do that all the time. That's something new. But they added a chant and they're becoming bolder, death to America. They were chanting death to America, death to America. These are Arabs living in America. I wonder how many of them are going to go back to where they came from as a consequence of this. So death to America chants in Michigan, today, the congresswomen from that district in Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib, we know Rashida Tlaib pretty well, was asked to condemn the chants of death to America. She instead had a complete meltdown in front of the camera, refused to condemn the chants and resisted condemning him. I think this is, God, I mean, it is pretty amazing that both Democratic Party and Republican Party are committed to imploding. They both are trying to alienate as many voters as they can. And if a representative in Congress is not willing to condemn chants to death to America, it is hard to see how her political party is going to be successful. It is likely that Jews, or not just Jews, generally supporters of Israel are going to have a very hard time voting for Democratic Party whose representatives are not only willing to stand by calls for the destruction of Israel, but also now willing to stand by and not condemn calls for the destruction of Israel. And at the same time, you've got a Republican Party that is imploding among many things over the issue. Well, two issues, I'd say, imploding the Republican Party. One is incompetence, just shoe straightforward incompetence, you know, whether it's nominating really, really horrible people to run for office, or whether it's what's happening in the House of Representatives and how totally incompetent the Republican majority is in handling their affairs there. And then, of course, the second issue is abortion, which is just unbelievably destructive to the Republican Party right now. But yeah, there you have it, death to America is now a chance in Michigan, you know.