 Talking about killing of innocents, I guess. So right now the headlines all over the world today, as of an hour ago, the headlines all over the world are that Israel bombed a hospital in the Gaza Strip. There are over 500 people dead that these innocent, I don't know who knows, I don't know who was in the hospital. Doctors, nurses, young people, children, sick people and so on. Hospitals are supposed to be not supposed to be bombed. It was bombed and the world is flipping out and generally Israel has been condemned by everybody. Everybody even saw a title, something like, Biden is still coming to Israel in spite of this. Now there are riots now in all over the Muslim world condemning Israel. There are riots, demonstrations in Gaza. There's probably riots in the West Bank. There is a lot of upheaval and again this will just keep fueling everything and the longer this is delayed, I've been saying this since this began, the longer it's delayed, the more difficult this will be in Israel, the more worldwide pressure there will be in Israel not to engage, the more they'll be encouraged to compromise. We'll talk about Biden's visit in a minute, but anyway that is indeed happening now. There is also stories out there, credible stories coming out right now saying, wait a minute, this hospital was not in an area that was hit, it was not an area the Israeli Air Force was active in. It was not an area that the Israeli Air Force was bombarding. Israel did not, as far as we can tell, purposefully target this hospital and it doesn't look like it's an accident because they won't target anything else. No, no, no, this is actually a Hamas rocket that malfunctioned and dropped onto the hospital and created an explosion that destroyed the building that killed however many people were killed. So you've got both sides, both stories on this. I'll say this, I don't know what happened. I don't think any of you know what happened. It could have been a stray Israeli missile, maybe Israel targeted it, so it's very unlikely that usually they let hospitals know and they evacuate the hospital before Israel blows it up, although they haven't blown up any hospitals this time. Why would they blow up a hospital full of people when they've asked other hospitals to evacuate? It just doesn't make any sense that Israel will target this. It could be a stray missile from Israel. It could be a Hamas rocket that misfired. We just don't know and I think it's silly to take partisan sides here because it doesn't matter. The essential point here is that this is a war started, created by, initiated by, sponsored by Hamas. Everybody who dies in this war, everybody who dies in this war. Innocent children, soldiers, everybody. The more responsibility for their death is on Hamas. Whether Israel accidentally bombed this, purposefully bombed this, or whether Hamas accidentally bombed this, it doesn't matter. It's all on Hamas. Now it's kind of interesting to know what actually happened, but we don't know. We don't know. What we do know is the fact here, the fact that Hamas has initiated this war. He initiated this war over the last, what is it, 18 years since it came to power in the Gaza Strip. It has been engaging in nothing but war for almost 20 years and every drop of blood. And this has to be said over and over and over again. And that is the ultimate response to any of this. It's not, well we don't know, it could have been Hamas destroying this. The response needs to be, whoever did this, it's on them. It's their mess and Israel should feel free. It won't and it won't do this and this is why I don't believe Israel bombed them. But Israel should feel free to bomb any target in the Gaza Strip that it deems necessary for its self-defense. This is why I'm skeptical about the hospital. For all we know there is a Hamas weapons depot underneath the building. For all we know the Hamas headquarters is underneath the building. For all we know the military leadership of Hamas was in one of the rooms in the hospital. And if any of those are true then Israel is legitimate in blowing it up. Anyway, so that's where we are. Note that we are now what, 10 days after the massacre, the just horrific massacre people that Hamas committed and Israel is not placed any boots on the ground. Israel does not have any ground operations going on other than maybe special forces going on in Gaza. I told you that Bibi would hesitate. I told you Netanyahu is a wimp. He has been for 20 years of his premiership. There are many generals in Israel who are talking the talk. Netanyahu talks the talk. He's always a great talker. He gives a great speech. It's action to what matters and he's done nothing. And you could argue that he's succumbing to American pressure. I don't believe that for a minute. He's letting himself succumb to American pressure. I mean there's no question America is pressuring. But he's letting himself succumb to that pressure. The longer he waits the more he'll succumb to that pressure. The fact is the people he's added to his cabinet are also relatively weak. The one former head of the Israeli military I think was a weakling when he was head of the Israeli military. Another one of those who do not want to act in the face of evil. And what we've got now is an Israel that seems to be frozen in place. An Israel that seems to be paralyzed. I see interview after interview with soldiers and commanders on the ground saying we want to act. We need the command to go. What are we waiting for? And they're not getting it. Now they'll get something. I mean something will happen. But it's not going to be on the scale or on the scope that it's necessary in order to do what Netanyahu said he wanted to do. Which was dismantle Hamas on the ground up completely so it could never exist again. That was his statement. There's no indication that that is actually going to happen. Again, if you learn us, if you listen to the beginning of the show I talk about who bombed the hospital. So, you know, and this is going to happen every couple of days. As long as it's going to happen even more when the ground campaign starts. And the challenge even with the ground campaign is they'll go in. Israel will suffer casualties. Civilians will die on the Palestinian side. Videos of the civilian dying will be broadcast all over the world. And in the middle of a ground campaign I wouldn't be surprised if BB stopped it. So, this is not looking good in terms of what Israel is going to do and what Israel must do. And I think ultimately the worst sign is the fact that Biden is coming. Right? Blinken was in meetings with the Israeli government for eight hours. Seven and a half, eight hours. Was it yesterday, the day before yesterday? Seven and a half, eight hours. What have they got to talk about? Other than the pressure that U.S. is putting on Israel to open up a humanitarian passage to bring in aid. Israel should not bring in aid. How do you aid your enemy when you're in war? Imagine if Bush did this as well. They were dropping food packages in Afghanistan at the same time they were bombing them. They were feeding the Taliban while they were trying to kill them. It's just unthinkable. This is Christian morality on steroids. Let's give them aid while we're fighting them. And again, you cannot in a war separate the civilian population from the ruling government and the ruling military and the ruling force. And here it's doubly so because the reality is that this is a population that supports Hamas. This is a population that voted for him, for them. And this is a population that as time after time after time in every poll taken supports Hamas over any other alternative out there. They are genocidal. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want to kill the Jews. They want to drive them into the sea. They need to suffer the consequences of their actions. It doesn't mean you target civilians on purpose. It doesn't mean you do any gratuitous killing. You shouldn't. But okay, Israel announced they're evacuating the north and they don't have enough food and water. That's their problem. That is their problem. They got themselves into this mess. You know what? I'm willing to negotiate this. You will need to say, okay, free all the hostages and we'll provide humanitarian aid. That's it. But you see what Hamas wants and what Bibi and Biden are contemplating is a Hamas proposal to free all the hostages in exchange for Israel backing down on its war. And that cannot be acceptable. It cannot be acceptable to retain the military and political force that inflicted the kind of massacre that occurred, able to do it again, that every couple of hours launches missiles into Israel, has done this for years. Right now a lot of the settlements surrounding Gaza have been evacuated completely. All the residents in those places, tens of thousands of people, have been told to leave, unprecedented. And what needs to be done is, I mean I said this from the beginning, a proper military response basically is the hostages are dead. Our job is to defeat Hamas. That's it. If we find a way to save them, if we find a way to get them out, we'll get them out. But we must act from military perspective as if they're all dead. But nobody will do that. Nobody will do that. So Blinken was there for eight hours. What were they talking about? They were talking about all the ways in which Israel can compromise, all the ways in which the United States wants Israel to compromise. Note that Blinken came back to Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv actually, where he was meeting with Netanyahu and the government, after spending last week touring around all the wonderful, civilized, westernized countries of the Middle East. You know, the UAE and Qatar. He went to Qatar, of course, where Hamas is, where the political leadership of Hamas is. He went to Saudi Arabia and he got input, he got input from all these wonderful friends of the United States, friends of western civilization, friends of the future. And what they told him was, stop Israel. You want us to be nice to you? Stop Israel. And he came back to Israel and he told the government, stop. And again, I've told you this from the beginning. The Israeli government is weak and is susceptible to any kind of pressure from the United States. And the Biden administration is under a lot of pressure from the left wing of the Democratic Party and from its, quote, Arab allies to reign Israel in and to stop them. From destroying Hamas. All kinds of stories are told. You know, the Arab world will rise up, destabilize the world. On and on and on it goes. The reality is, so the reality is that Israel could take on all of that. It could take on Hezbollah, it could take on Iran, it could take on Hamas, you know, with its reserves fully armed and with the United States commitment to supplying ammunition. Israel can take on any enemy in the Middle East, but it is afraid of being isolated. Netanyahu is acting like a weakling instead of acting strong. And the fact that Biden is coming, I mean, wow, I mean, politically think about this. He's the first American president to visit Israel in the midst of a war. He's one-upping Kissinger, he's one-upping Nixon. He'll express massive support for Israel. We'll help Israel do anything, everything. And we allow them. They completely have the right to self-defense. They should be able to do anything to defend themselves. But, and then there'll be a lot of buts where he says the buts publicly or privately, who knows. And to kind of the more, what do you call it, hawkish foreign policy segment of the Democratic Party, he'll come off as a hero to the Jewish voters. He'll come off as a hero, independents and some Republicans will view him as, wow, this is fantastic. So the left wing, he can tell them, look, I went there and I negotiated with Israel and Israel, went soft on the Palestinians and they didn't do this and they didn't do that. And we got to, maybe he'll get the hostages if Israel backs down completely. Who knows what's going to happen? But the point is, this is brilliant politics. It's awful policy. It's awful strategy. It makes Israel weak. It makes Israel weaker. And let me just note that there's a sense in which the struggle, just like Ukraine, Russia, there's a sense in which that is really a war or conflict between Russia and the West more broadly. There is a strong sense in which what we're seeing happen in Israel is going to determine the kind of the geopolitics of the world for the next few decades. You know, if Israel is weak, that means America is weak, that will embolden and Arab countries will see that. I mean, Arab countries don't want to weak America. They don't want to deal with the weak America and they don't respect a weak Israel. So what the Arab world will do is it will turn to the alternative, the alternative is China and the alternative is Russia. And you've already seen that, you've already seen that over the last year and a half, two years. They will turn to China and Russia for support. And the United States is going to lose influence, lose credibility, lose its ability to illicit fear. The weak America looks, the weak America appears, the weak at Israel is, the weak at the West is. The more likely it is that China invades Taiwan, the more likely it is that Russia increases its aggression in Europe, the more likely it is that both Russia and China increase their influence in a strategic area like the Middle East. Neither Israel nor America can afford to appear weak right now. And yet, the very fact that Biden is visiting Israel in spite of the fact that some people would view it as this massive show of support and so on, which I think people are buying. I think everybody's buying across the political map. And I think what will remain are the photos, the photo ops, or the main of the powerful speeches. I mean, he gave a good speech the other day about his support for Israel. That will remain. What's happening behind closed doors is what's going to actually count. So Biden will win politically and lose geopolitically. Israel needs, needed, it's too late now. Israel needed to preempt the Hezbollah. It's probably America that stopped him. It's probably the US that stopped him. Actually bringing in those aircraft carriers close to the Israeli coast and telling Israel, don't worry, we'll protect you from the Hezbollah. You deal with Gaza. If they intervene, we'll help you. Not good for Israel. Not good for Israel because it prevented what needed to be You know, it's so frustrating. What needs to be an unrelenting, brutal, uncompromising response to what happened last week, 10 days ago. That's gone. That's gone. It's gone. The momentum is gone. The more certainty is gone. The confidence is gone. Will support is gone. Hamas couldn't have asked for anything more than this bombing of the hospital to galvanize that will support against Israel and to remind people of all the innocence in Gaza and all the challenges that occurred there. A proper war with Gaza, 500 people dying, would not be a significant number. In the first three weeks of the war in Lebanon in 1982, I think something like 20,000 people died on the Lebanese side. Many Palestinians, some Lebanese, Hezbollah, well, there was no Hezbollah then, but the equivalent of... I mean, those are the kind of numbers that are going to have to die, sadly. Or not sadly, depending on who they are. For real war to be engaged and for victory to be achieved. You cannot fight a war without killing people. You cannot win a war without killing people. You can't fight one, but you can't win unless you're willing to kill people. And I know nobody's out there is going to say that. Everybody's going to pretend that, no, you can separate the civilians. You can be very careful. No, you can't. And if you are, you're basically sacrificing your own soldiers. And how is that moral? How is that right? So, the right attitude needs to be, you know, your soldiers have rights and you should do whatever it can to protect your soldiers while inflicting and ending the war as quickly as possible. But that is not going to happen. And now it's just a question of how bad is it going to be? How much compromise? How bad is the compromise going to be? How deep is the compromise going to be? How long lasting is the compromise going to be? Is Israel really going to stop completely? Is it going to go in partially? Is it going to just bomb? I already was seeing headlines today that the Israeli officials are saying, well, you know, dismantling Hamas doesn't mean putting troops on the ground. Yes, it does. As sad as that is, because I feel bad for the soldiers who have to go in, as sad as it is for the soldiers who are going to have to go in on the ground, you're not going to be able to dismantle Hamas. You're not going to be able to kill everybody that needs to killing. You're not going to be able to get rid of those tunnels. You're not going to be able to get rid of all the missiles and weapons and everything else. You're not going to be demilitarized Gaza. You're not going to be able to do the things that must be done. You're not going to be able to bring justice unless troops are on the ground. And already Israel's talking about, well, there are alternatives to other things that can be done. They continue by air to assassinate Hamas leaders. A couple of one of the political leaders and one of the military leaders were killed in the last 24 hours. Hooray, not enough. Too little. Too little, too slow. Pathetic. This is what I said at 9-11, and this is why the Afghan war took forever, and Iraq was a disaster, and Islamic totalitarianism was still a threat to the West. And this is what I'm saying now. End the war by winning it. Get it over with and do it quickly. I guess quickly is too late.