 Let us get started. Howard, you won first, so you get to ask the question first. Thank you. I'm relatively new to the group, but we know each other from way back from the NYU days. OK, yes. That's right. That's right. There was one other talk that we were together. You spoke with in front of a conservative group at a restaurant in New York City a long time ago, if you remember. That is a long time ago, tea party days. Those are the tea party days. The tea party days, that's correct. So strategically, what's the IDF next move? And even more curiously, I have more curiosity surrounding Mossad and dealing with these bad actors that are in cutter. Yeah. How would that, how would the Mossad handle that? How are they going to handle that now? I mean, it's not like the Black September days where they were able to hunt those guys down all throughout Europe. Yeah. And nowadays, it's almost a capitulation. I mean, to see them actually sending Mossad personnel over there to actually be part of the negotiation, unless there's some other plan that we don't know about. I'm very, very confused by that whole thing. Yeah. So I don't think there's a plan to assassinate the leaders of Hamas and Qatar. I think those guys are going to die of old age, unfortunately. I don't think the Mossad is planning to kill them. Let's hope that there is no Hamas for them to be heads of in a while. But I don't see Israel going into Qatar and killing them. Now maybe if they travel to Europe, maybe if they go somewhere else, maybe Israel gets a shot at them. But I just don't think it's a priority. Gone are the days of Israel hunting down its enemies and destroying them one by one. Those are the old days in the 70s and 80s when Israel did that. I just don't see the will to do that anymore. It's Israel's driven by a very different moral code. It's driven by a different set of parameters. It just doesn't do stuff like that. It did. They did kill a Hamas operative in Dubai. I think it was in Dubai a few years ago. It was 10 years ago. So in a pretty sophisticated mission. But then when all the details went out and they got criticized and they even got criticized inside of Israel, I don't know that they are willing to do that. Remember also the Qatar, even though it's an enemy of Israel, an enemy of the United States, in my view, is also protected by the United States. It is an ally of the United States. The United States has its largest Middle East military base in Qatar. The United States has Sencom. The operations for all the Middle East is in Qatar. And even though Qatar is aligned with Iran and is an enemy of the US and funded ISIS and funded al-Qaeda and funds Hamas, the US still plays this ridiculous game of being nice to its enemies and more than nice, protecting them. And I just don't think Israel has the willpower to go to Qatar with its being protected by the US and execute a couple of guys in the middle of Qatar. I just don't see it happening, sadly. I wish I was wrong. It was up to me. There'd be a cruise missile on the way to the hotel where these guys are staying right now, and it would be rubble. It's Qatar. It's Sunni, though. Just speak for the microphone. Otherwise, it's Sunni, though. It's mixed, because a lot of that part of the world is mixed. Saudi Arabia has significant minorities of Shiite. Yeah, oh, most of eastern Saudi Arabia are Shiites. Actually, where oil is, is actually mostly Shiite. And in the Gulf states, it's a combination of Shiite and Sunni. Qatar is very much aligned with Iran. It's the one that's part of the negotiation. It's not that Qatar is negotiating with the United States. It's Iran is negotiating with the United States through, or with Israel, through the Qataris. The Qataris are just middlemen representing the Iranian regime. So no, I mean, this is, Qatar, unfortunately, has a lot of power here because of its connection with the United States. All right, thanks, Howard. Can you mute yourself just while we go through and then Amlan. Yeah, hi, Iran. Actually, this is going to be my second question, but I think it's directly connected to what Howard just asked, so let me ask this now. I guess, when I look at how Israel has acted or not acted or all the things you've talked about and so forth, I mean, at what point do you start to get kind of like want to throw your hands up and say, look, these guys just don't want to do what needs to be done and to protect themselves. And they keep repeating the same mistakes, if not making it worse every time. Like I was mad, mad as hell, when those attacks happened and the brutality of them. And same thing with 9-11, right? It's like, what the hell? Like why are we putting up with this nonsense and all those things? And then it's just like, we don't seem to do anything. And I guess, at what point did you just say, OK, Israel? Like, you know what, you guys are kind of a lost cause. And I know you talked about this a lot yesterday in your show, so I did. I did see that one, but, you know, and I fully understand the benefit of supporting Israel, but then Israel's not doing what needs to be done. Like, unlike Ukraine, where you can at least say, OK, they're doing, I think, what the best they can do. But what about Israel? Yeah, and a big part of the frustration with Ukraine is America's not doing what it can do. Yeah, yeah. And even with Israel, America's not doing what it can do. So look, I threw my hands up, I don't know, 1982, I think, you know, when I was in Beirut and Ronald Reagan saved Yasser Arafat's butt and basically Israel was about to do the right thing. It was about to go into West Beirut, kill Arafat, and kill 6,000 of his troops. And Ronald Reagan stepped in and said, I guarantee safe passage to Yasser Arafat and his people, too, and they got on boats to Tunisia. I mean, and that was Ronald Reagan, right? The last president that at least made a good speech. So yeah, I mean, I gave up a long time ago. It's not that at any point do I expect the United States or Israel or anybody for that matter to do the right thing. The primary purpose of my ranting is educational. It's to educate the world about what should be the right thing so that someday, one day, maybe, somebody will be influenced and make a change. But my expectation is not that that happens probably in my lifetime. It doesn't happen. The reality is that, yeah, this stuff is going to keep going. This real politic, this compromising, this amoral way of fighting wars is going to continue. Israel will suffer. America will suffer. Europe will suffer. Everybody will suffer. It might even lead to the collapse of Western civilization. That is what's at stake at the end of the day. It could lead to that. I hope if that happens, it happens after I'm dead, because I don't want to see it. But I'm completely accepted the fact that nobody is going to behave the way they're supposed to behave. I mean, the same thing with economics, right? I mean, the financial crisis happens. Everybody blames it on capitalism. And me and a few others have the lone voices saying, no, no, no, wait a minute. When you throw up your hands, well, they've been up for a long, long time. My purpose is not to change the Washington DC or Jerusalem. My purpose is to use this as a means to educate people about morality, about what is possible, about what should be the behavior so the future generations maybe will pick up on it. I was going to say delusional, but maybe it's delusional. Delusional enough to think that I have any impact that anybody's actually listening and that this is going to change, that anything will change. That's the reality. And it's sad. And it's part of my frustration and sadness is that it's not people are dying for no reason. A lot of people are going to die for no reason. You're on. People are about BB Netanyahu for 25 years. Nobody listens to me. It just is what it is and you just have to accept it. And as we always say, it's one mind at a time and if we can affect one mind at a time and if this is the issue that gets somebody to listen to the show or this is the issue that ultimately gets them to read Ayn Rand, great. Then I've achieved what I set out to do. Yeah. Well, that's great that you're doing that. And of course, that's why I support it. But it's hard not to be really angry sometimes. I know a few years ago we were traveling through Scotland and we stopped at one of these memorials and it was in the town. It was for the soldiers who had died in Iraq. And I looked at that list and I'm like, I got so angry. I didn't know these people or anything but it's just like what a waste, right? Like young men and women and just the whole lives ahead of them and just dying for useless nothing. In fact, dying for a step back on top of everything. So I'm happy you're doing it but it is tough sometimes. No, I am with you completely. It is very tough sometimes. It angers me to no end. On October 7th, it was like, I told you this was going to happen. And it doesn't help anybody for me to say that. It's meaningless in the end. It's super frustrating and it makes me, the ceasefire or whatever, it makes me super angry because I know all the lives that are gonna be forfeited because of they're doing this stuff. And it seems sometimes that nobody seems to care about human life. Right? It's just no, I remember during the Iraq war, I mean, I was like, I gave a talk at O'Conn and I was furious and I basically said, if this is how you're gonna fight the war, if this is what it's about, then please bring the troops home today. Why are these kids dying? What are they dying for? And there's nothing more infuriating than to see our politicians, just in our leaders and our intellectuals, just not care about young people dying because of this stupid decisions and attitudes. But, you know, we gotta care, you gotta keep caring about human and we're rational and we care about human life. But I can't let that stop me, the fact that it's, you know, and we have to keep moving forward. Otherwise, you know, I can't just give up, that's... Yeah, okay, well, that's great. Thank you. Yeah, sure. All right, Andrew. Hey, Iran. I'm so far away from what my first question was going to be now that I'm up. So, because everything was... Go back to that. We can go back to that later. Yeah, everything was very interesting that was talked about. So, let's talk about moral judgment of the leaders of Israel and I mean, you're very hard on them. So, let me challenge it and see what you think of the challenge. Like, talking to getting really angry about something, I get really angry when the media talks about Israel committing war crimes or if they are committing war crimes. It's just, it's so wrong, you know, and so unjust. But if you are a leader, don't you need to account, like, is your attitude, you're a leader, it's up to you to not let that get to you and to do the right thing or should they as rational human beings be accounting for the fact of this opposition to them that is so, that is so biased. But that potentially has real harm to them, you know, like being charged with a war crime is a serious issue. You know, being a leader means leading. It doesn't mean following. It means taking a stand, articulating why you're taking the stand, explaining to the world what is actually going on and leading, not, you know, being influenced by the latest noise that I don't know, Greta Thunberg or whoever is making out there. Sorry, I see a video Greta Thunberg on Twitter right now. I'm just trying to stay up to date on the news. I've got Twitter running in the background. I mean, you can't be swayed by these things. So they'll prosecute you for war crimes. Fine, let them come after you. You know, you need to make, you know, look, the reality is, and this is the reality and maybe this is why shouldn't be that harsh on the leaders. I'm harsh on the leaders to an extent that they don't lead and they're not leading. Biden's not leading, what's his name? Netanyahu's not leading. Nobody's leading. There's no leadership here. And there's no articulation of the case. There's no sitting down and telling the world this is the way it is. And when there is, there's that and then the behavior doesn't match the words. It's complete. But I mean, the real enemy, the real problem here is not a few leaders. The real problem is the culture. Let's say Netanyahu decided he was going all in and it started bombing the hell out of Gaza and thousands were dying. And I mean, what would happen inside Israel? Nevermind outside of Israel. I mean, Israeli society would go apoplectic and go nuts. So it's, you know, there is a sense in which it's impossible to lead people who do not want reality and truth and their own self-defense. But I think it's incumbent on a leader to try to make the case and to act. And then if they get kicked out of office because of it, so be it. But at least they made, they took a shot. You know, it really is about leadership. If, I mean, it is interesting. If Churchill had asked the British people whether it was okay to flatten Dresden, I suspect they would have said yes. But he didn't ask them. He just did it. If Churchill would have told the British people, you know, here's what's at stake at Dunkook. And I'm gonna take this gamble and if it fails, we've probably lost the war, right? You know, he didn't. He did it and then he gave that amazing speech about, he led, Churchill was a leader. I mean, you could argue a certain of his decisions, but he led. He didn't wait for the rest of the world to catch up on him. Now we live in a slightly different era with media and video and all this. We don't have leaders. We just don't have leaders. Only leader we have in the world today are the bad guys. Like Putin is a leader, right? He didn't, he goes in and he goes to crush Ukraine. I mean, he's a bad guy, but he's at least a leader. None of these people are leaders. They're all cowards. You'll see the kind of pressure as well comes under from the Biden administration once the ceasefire is over. It's gonna be immense in order to stop and to consider a long-term ceasefire and a political solution and this and that and, you know, far from killing the guys in Qatar. They, I mean, the real question I think we need to think about is will they kill the Hamas leadership in Gaza? It's not obvious to me that they will get them. It's not obvious to me that America will let them. And, you know, we'd have to go into South Gaza with two million civilians, so-called civilians, you know, in South Gaza, they've got no way to go. How are they gonna blow up the tunnels? How are they gonna get those leaders? How are they gonna catch them? So maybe I'm being too harsh on the leaders, but in a sense, that's just a proxy for the culture that elects them and votes them and loves them and supports them.