econd issue. Was this about the President of the United States believing he needed to do this for his own and his country’s
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interests, or was he talked into it by his buddy Bibi? Somebody who knows the answer to both, former Israeli
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ambassador to the US, Mr. Michael Oren. I spent a lot of time, with him in the northern part of the country.
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He said that’s where we needed to be, and he was right. Michael, thank you for giving us the access up there, and for taking the trip with
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me, and thanks for joining us tonight. It was good to be with you, Chris, and, and great interview with Ron Johnson.
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It’s always a pleasure to listen to him. Some guy. Yeah. Yeah, I just wish he was talking more about why he came into the Senate in
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the first place, which was our fiscal understanding. Anyway- Right … Lebanon. Uh- … as you know, better than, I do for
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sure, it is highly kinetic in Lebanon right now. There’s a lot going on. Uh, people are just starting to see the
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images. Um, this is gonna hit people heavy here. Uh, why is it necessary to go in the way Israel is right now?
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All right, so let’s go back. What happened? War with Iran, and we did not have a war with Lebanon,
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but Hezbollah, which is a branch of Iran, it’s, it’s run and operated and funded wholly by Iran- Mm … got an order from Tehran, “Open fire.” So it opened fire.
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It opened fire on northern Israel tonight, you know, dozens and dozens of rockets falling, not just in the northern part of Israel, but now into central Israel,
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being hit by rockets from north of Beirut being hit in Tel Aviv. And so Israel had no po- no reas- no choice but to respond, of
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course. And you wanna respond from the air, but, you know, that’s of limited efficacy, responding from the air. Eventually, you’ve gotta go in, with ground troops and with certainly with
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