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Speaker 2: Everybody, welcome to a special Buck Brief. We're joined by

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Speaker 2: my friend Josh Hammer. He's the senior editor at large

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Speaker 2: at Newsweek. Also you can listen to the Josh Hammer podcast.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with me.

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Speaker 1: Josh anytime, Bob, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Can we just start with him? And what are your

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Speaker 2: thoughts as to where the conflict right now with Israel

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Speaker 2: and Hamas stands? What are the primary you know, what's

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Speaker 2: top of mind for you as we're getting ready for

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Speaker 2: this ground invasion to likely happen, and you know the

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Speaker 2: US response. Just walk me through. What do you think

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Speaker 2: is most pertinent?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think what's most pertinent is the fact that

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Speaker 1: this thing already feels ridiculously overheated all around the world

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Speaker 1: on the domestic front, all the vile you hatred we're

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Speaker 1: seeing on college campuses, the Prohamas rallies, disgusting stuff, and

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Speaker 1: it really hasn't even started yet. And the IDF has

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Speaker 1: been involved in bombing targets inside Gaza where Harmas is

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Speaker 1: storing cakes of weaponry and missiles and all of that,

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Speaker 1: But the ground invasion hasn't start yet. This thing is

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Speaker 1: very far from over. And the million dollar question Buck

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Speaker 1: and I suspect one of the numerous reasons that the

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Speaker 1: IDF has not actually sent the tanks rolling into Gaza

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Speaker 1: yet is what happens on then northern front, where you

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Speaker 1: have Hesbala, which is a direct Iranian proxy, the SCHII

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Speaker 1: terror militia. They have one hundred to one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand precision guided missiles, is the intelligence community's estimate

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Speaker 1: of that. That's like a serious weaponry, and Hesbala has

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Speaker 1: a much more sophisticated arsenal than Hamas you know, there's

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Speaker 1: not much of a question to whether the IDF can

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Speaker 1: handle both, but it's clearly a less than ideal situation.

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Speaker 1: And then from an American perspective, obviously we have multiple

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Speaker 1: aircraft carrier striker groups from the region now. They are

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Speaker 1: there primarily to deter Hesbala and by extension, the Islamic

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Speaker 1: Republic of Iran itself. So the real question is what

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Speaker 1: if anything, would actually escalate direct American involvement at this point,

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Speaker 1: because right now we know we have Jaysock. We have

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Speaker 1: you know, hostage evacuation specialists there on the grounds working

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Speaker 1: with the IDF. But what I'm you know, what I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking about is if hes Bola starts raining down missiles

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Speaker 1: into Israel, is that enough to get the US aircraft

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Speaker 1: carriers involved. I'm not sure yet, but it's a very

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Speaker 1: fluid situation. It's changing day by day. Personally, I just

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Speaker 1: can't believe that the ground invasion has actually not actually

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Speaker 1: started yet. I suspect the hostages have a lot to

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Speaker 1: be very kinetic over the next thirty six to forty

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Speaker 2: What do you make of whether it's Joe Biden or

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Speaker 2: you might have seen this a Barack Obama statement that

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Speaker 2: he put out this constant reminding that's what they're that's

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Speaker 2: even how they will say it, reminding of Israel to

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Speaker 2: abide by the laws of war in this response to

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Speaker 2: the worst terror attacks since nine to eleven, Like, where

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Speaker 2: where is that coming from?

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Speaker 1: I mean it's offensive, right, I mean if this notion

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Speaker 1: and you know it's funny, Israel is the old country.

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Speaker 1: I forgot who said this, But Israel's the only country

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Speaker 1: that whenever they get involved in a military conflict, immediately

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Speaker 1: they are told you can't actually win that military conflict.

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Speaker 1: Literally as soon as Israel suffers an attack and they

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Speaker 1: start to go on the counter offensive. It seems like

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Speaker 1: the international community and the all the talking heads, you know,

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Speaker 1: all the usual suspects in Turtle Bay, in New York

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Speaker 1: and Brussels, the European Union, Geneva, like all the usual

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Speaker 1: liberal globalist idiots, they immediately start talking about a quote

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Speaker 1: unquote proportionate response. Oh, you know, day, are Israel possibly

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Speaker 1: violate international law? Well, obviously what we refer to as

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Speaker 1: international law should be abided by. But by the way

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Speaker 1: international law is, it's not a very straightforward concept. It's

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Speaker 1: not like there's like one legislature that codifies international law.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the IDF is one of the most

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Speaker 1: I mean, according to international law, those civilians there are

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Speaker 1: So it's ridiculously condescending, honestly, to get back to your

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Speaker 1: It's been this way for a while.

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Speaker 2: Now. How do you think the Biden White House has

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean they were strong out of the gate right,

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Speaker 1: I mean in those first five to six days. I mean,

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Speaker 1: language's homework for English class because Israel were so impressed

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Speaker 1: by it. Unfortunately, Buck, you know, for those of us

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Speaker 1: I dare I say practical with their eyes wide open,

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Speaker 1: we knew that things would start to change very quickly.

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Speaker 1: And as soon as he started to fly over there,

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Speaker 1: at Bengorian Airport. There's always strings attached to this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the United States gives Israel a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: in exchange for that, they wanted to try to hamstring

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Speaker 1: them on a short string. I mean, I think that

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Speaker 1: Qatar is actually serving as a hostage intermediary despite being

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Speaker 1: a major funder of Hamas. I think that the US

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Speaker 1: So it's not great. The rhetoric when it comes to

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Speaker 1: worth noting that they've said virtually nothing about Iran. And

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Speaker 1: you can't talk about Hamas without talking about Iran because

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Speaker 1: Hamas has Valla. All these terrorist proxies in the region

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Speaker 1: of Iran terrorist infrastructure. I've heard virtually nothing about Iran.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what the US is going to

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Speaker 1: haven't heard anything about that. And then Katar itself, which

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Speaker 1: I mentioned is a major funder of Hamas. Qatar Buck

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Speaker 1: was designated by the US as a major non NATO

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Speaker 1: So the rhetoric is okay when it comes to Gaza,

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Speaker 1: see very little reason for optimism.

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Speaker 2: Josh want to come back and ask what you think

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Speaker 2: happens if Israel's war in Gaza is successful, which is

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Speaker 2: a in which I assume it will be. But it's

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Speaker 2: it all right, Josh. So, if Hamas is destroyed, which

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Speaker 2: destroyed to what level? But effectively, if Israel goes in

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Speaker 2: What do you think the Israeli end state is going

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Speaker 1: So this is the million dollar question, Buck. I mean,

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Speaker 1: not that these are free and fair elections, obviously, but

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Speaker 1: a crazy thing to say, but it's true, they fear

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Speaker 1: that if they eradicate Hamas and then let the people

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Speaker 1: That is seriously a major concern, or has been in

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Speaker 1: the past, i should say, of the Israeli security brass

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Speaker 1: because Biden has explicitly told Netanyahu not to do that.

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Speaker 1: He's explicitly said, do not annex it back into Israel,

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Speaker 1: do not reoccupy it, do not do any of this.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Buck,