WEBVTT - Israel Strikes Back - July 3rd, Hour 1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.520 Well, well, come in to your sentence. 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 I wanna way I get sing you a conscious sound? 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.079 Will I be? 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.720 And if you want a little banging come along. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:24.079 Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, targeted military operation to roll 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.360 back the Uranian threat to Israel's very survival. This operation 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.960 will continue for as many days as it takes. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.600 Democracy is under assault before our eyes. This moment we 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.120 have feared has arrived. Can you compare them to those 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.080 nondescript dougs? 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.960 It does look like a Gestapo operation. Freedom is back 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:53.519 in style, Welcome to the revolution, Coming to your sentence? 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.280 A way I get you a conscious sound? 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:04.600 The New Sean Hannity Show, more him the scenes, information 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:10.120 on freaking news and more bold inspired solutions for America. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.559 Right Hour two Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and ninety 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.320 four one Shawn or number you want to be a 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.280 part of the program. Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahuan Fox 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:24.000 with special report and Bretbair being very very clear that 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.399 they launched this operation because Iran was rushing to weaponize 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:32.840 enriched uranium. We see and you know when I was 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.520 I keep going back to one of my trips to Israel. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:40.240 The small town bordered town with kauzovs stot is what 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.480 it's called. And they had when I had gone back there. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.440 This is a long time ago. They had been hit 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:49.160 with ten thousand missiles in ten years, one little town. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.960 How many missiles would it take to be fired into 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.320 the US before you would want your government to do something? Anyway, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.680 Here's why he says he launched this operation. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.720 Why did you launch this operation now? 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:09.080 Because we were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:13.560 One the thread of Iran rushing to weaponize. They're enrich 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.639 uranium to make atomic bombs, the specific and declared intent 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.840 to destroy US. Second, a rush to increase their ballistic 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.359 missile arsenal into the capacity that they would have thirty 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.680 six hundred weapons a year, new weapons within three years, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.760 ten thousand ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.280 in at mock six right into our cities as you 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:39.200 saw today, and then in twenty in six years, twenty thousand. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.160 That's a no country I can sustain that, and certainly 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.080 not a country the size of Israel. So we had 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.640 to act was the twelfth hour. We did act to 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.120 save ourselves, but also I think to not only protect ourselves, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:54.440 but protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can't 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.280 have the world's most dangerous regime have the world's most 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.359 dangerous weapons. Were protecting ourselves, but by doing so, we're 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:01.760 protecting many others. 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.160 Now the Prime Minister rightly has pointed out, yeah, they've 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.079 got you know, thousands, at least two thousand according to reports, 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.600 ballistic missiles. We see them being fired. The Iron Dome 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.760 has done a great job, but it's not perfect in 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.880 terms of stopping it. But the production. I kind of 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.600 view this as their increased production and ballistic missiles with 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:27.200 the hope of doubling their how lethal they are from 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:31.680 two thousand pounds to four thousand pounds as Plan B 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:36.080 because the Iranians there are a lot of things. They're evil, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.120 for sure, but they're not stupid, and they knew the 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:44.839 likelihood of their nuclear program existing was diminishing by the day. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.560 And I'll just quote President Trump for those people who 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.200 say they want peace, you cannot have peace of Iran 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.880 has a nuclear weapon. So for all those wonderful people 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.720 who don't want to do anything about Iran having a 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:01.160 nuclear weapon, that's not peace. Often said that you don't 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.160 define peace as the absence of conflict or the absence 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.040 of war. You define it as the ability to defend yourself, 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:12.040 and in this case it's a preventative measure before you 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.560 are literally the war would be held hostage by a 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.280 nuclear armed Iran. But yes, it's very consistent with my 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.240 ideology and my philosophy. You can no longer have these 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.880 forever wars. Is not a single country in the Middle 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:30.920 East that wants the Iranians with nuclear weapons, and they 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:34.440 have rained down through their proxies and themselves, hundreds of 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.880 thousands of missiles on Israel. At what point does Israel 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.040 have the right to say enough is enough? How many 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.920 missiles would it take fired into the United States before 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:49.960 every American would demand rightly so that we neutralize any 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:54.120 country that's involved. Now we are in a new era, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.480 and I keep talking about the next generation of weaponry, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.920 and I keep talking about how future wars will be 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.080 fought in their conditioned offices and not on a battlefield. 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.360 And we see this unfolding in real time, which means 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.440 that for those people that worry about quote the quagmire 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:16.160 you know argument or forever war argument, well, the Israelis 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.240 already own the skies over all of Iran. This is 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.240 this is this is a one side and fight at 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.240 this point. Now, that doesn't mitigate the danger, the dangers 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.320 to our troops in the region. That doesn't mitigate, you know, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.160 the the other dangers associated with the ballistic missiles that 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.000 they have, both short range and long range, and the 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.240 letality of all of that. But what is it going 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.440 to be like six months from now, a year from 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.359 now if they have the ten thousand weapons that the 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.240 Prime Minister's talking about and maybe nuclear capability. Now there's 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.880 uh anyway for Ambassador Nathan Sales is with us. He 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.120 served in the first Trump administration as Ambassador at large 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:01.760 but counter terrorism acting under Secretary State. Is there anything 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.400 I'm saying here that you disagree with? 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.360 God, it sounds like you're angling for an apployment at 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.599 the State's Department. I'd love to have what you just 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.800 said reflected among America's diplomatic corps. I think you're spot on. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.800 I Ran as a threat not just to Israel, not 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.720 even just to the region. They're a threat to the 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.560 United States and that has to be the guiding star 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.720 of US policy. Over the next couple of weeks, we're 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.360 starting to see some of Israel's on again, off again 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.800 friends in the West starting to waiver. There's some chatter 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.839 as the G seven summit up in Canada kicks off 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.440 today that the G seven might call for de escalation, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:45.320 and President Trump rightly has said not signing that, and 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:50.480 good because our policy should be help Israel do what 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.360 it needs to do to finish the job with a 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:58.400 minimum of henpecking and ankle biting from other countries in 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.640 the West. It's always been important for Israel to be 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.360 able to neutralize the threat that Iran poses, but especially 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.600 so now you've got to finish the job because imagine 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.400 how motivated Iran will be after this war ends to 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.680 get a nuclear weapon, because that's going to be their 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:20.000 insurance policy. So you can't leave any element of the 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.080 nuclear program behind because the Iranians are going to take 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.400 that seed and then grow it into a huge tree 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.040 if given the opportunity. So, whether it's through military force 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.200 or whether it's through tough diplomacy, this war needs to 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.840 end with Iran completely disarmed. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:40.640 Well, and look, it's an existential threat not only to 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.080 the region but to the world. And this you know, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.840 a lot of people seem to have forgotten. But if 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.679 you go back to April of twenty five this year, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.640 you know it's a little ironic President Trump is you know, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.160 you know, there was one report that he pulled the 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.480 plug on Iran's Supreme leader to take cam out. I'm 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.640 not sure if I actually believe everything I read, but 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.800 putting that aside, considering if you go back, you know, 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.800 according to the Persian language article published by one of 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.200 their local papers, Trump is out of line any day 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.960 now and revenge for the bloody martyr Solamani, A few 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.720 bullets are going to be fired into that empty skull 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.440 of his and he'll be drinking from the chalice of 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.720 a cursed death. And so I'm not sure if I 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.160 believe the report that he vetoed a plan to assassinate 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:35.600 Iran Supreme Supreme Leader. Israeli airstrikes did target one of 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.760 Iran's largest oil refineries. I think that was a message 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.800 that we can take out your entire ability to make money. Also, 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.600 not just your nuclear sites, not your missile battery systems, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.200 which they've gotten about a third of here. Still is 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.200 a threat to the region, and that includes American troops 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.120 in the region. I don't want people to think that 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.280 this is, you know, a cake walk, because it's not. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.680 But it's a matter of be to act now or 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.520 do you risk you know, they what we as a 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.960 world might be facing later and I'm not willing to 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.120 take that risk for our children and grandchildren. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:17.720 Well, that's exactly right, Sean. For the past twenty plus years, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.440 Israel has lived with a sort of damocles hanging over it, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.239 and not just Israel, but the Saudis, the Bahraini's, the Amoradis, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.320 others in the Gulf, and ultimately the United States. And 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.400 that sort of damoicles is the risk that Iran will 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.760 develop a nuclear weapon that it will use to hold 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.200 the entire region hostage. You know, they keep channing death 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.240 to America. They've been channing that since the revolution back 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.240 in nineteen seventy nine. We don't want to find out 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.600 if it's just rhetoric. We have to assume that they 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:52.280 mean it when they say it. And from that realization 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.400 follows a really important point. They can never have the 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.040 world's most dangerous regime, can never have the world's most 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:02.320 dangerous weapon, and that's the only reason they could have. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.880 The nuclear enrichment program. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:11.000 They've enriched so far up to sixty percent purity. Nobody 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.760 who has a peaceful nuclear power program needs that kind 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.920 of concentration of the uranium. The only reason you could 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.000 have that is because you want to preserve a pathway 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.560 to a bomb. And so when the moments sit down 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.240 at the negotiating table and say, well, we just want 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.319 a peaceful program for power purposes. 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.320 Or they were offered that in negotiations, I know that 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.040 for a fact they were offered they could have the 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:44.079 enriched rods for a peaceful power nuclear program, which is 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.240 it's nowhere near sixty percent. But when they're enriching the 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.319 uranium and they don't have anywhere anyplace anytime, American inspectors, 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.600 we know that they've always been further along in their 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.520 program than is publicly known, and we see what we see, 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.280 how they terrorize the entire region. You know, what's surprising 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.600 to me is like I'm like, you know, but break 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.720 this down to a very simple equation. How many missiles 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.000 would have to be fired into an American town or 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.200 city by a foreign entity before you'd want America to react? 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.000 You know, how many how many times does a neighbor 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.320 have to punch you in the face and break your 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.959 windows and attack your house before you're gonna want to 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:28.360 You're gonna want to retaliate. And it's really that simple. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.840 Does does Sean Hannity want to forever war? Absolutely not. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:32.440 Do. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:36.679 I want this specific threat, with this evil regime that 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.599 has shown a willingness to attack innocent men, women, and 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.680 children repeatedly and fun proxy wars ended. And I want 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.360 that threat removed for the safety of our children and 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.320 grandchildren one hundred percent. Don't apologize at all, A stand 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.680 by it. I think the President has been right the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:53.240 whole time. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.400 Yeah, And you know how much risk would the United 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.880 States be willing to accept? And I think the answer 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.440 is not nearly as much as Israel has already had 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.800 to accept. And this is an important point for your 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.920 audience to understand. This isn't just Israel versus Iran. This 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.760 is the civilized world against Iran, because Iran really is 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.320 a threat to all of us. You know, a lot 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.480 of people remember that the Iranians killed six hundred or 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.880 more American soldiers on the ground in Iraq. They've also 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.360 been plotting assassinations right here on American soil. They're trying 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.720 to kill President Trump. Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and others. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.560 They tried to blow up an Italian restaurant in Georgetown 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.600 a number of years ago to kill the Saudi ambassador 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.800 and imagine the collateral damage that would have involved. So 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.000 now imagine that regime with a nuclear weapon, and you 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.040 have to see why President Trump is so firmly and 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:52.600 resolutely behind Israel's efforts to disarm this regime. We can't 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:54.840 afford that risk any more than Israel can. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.280 I totally agree. All right, quick break, welcome back more 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.640 with Ambassador Nathan He served in the first Trump administration 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.680 as Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism and acting under 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.000 Secretary of State. We'll get to your calls also on 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.520 the other side of eight hundred and nine to four 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:11.960 one Sean, if you want to be a part of 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.120 the program. We continue now. Ambassador Nathan Sales with US 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.760 served in the first Trump administration as an Ambassador at 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:24.040 Large for counter Terrorism, acting under Secretary of State. At 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:27.320 this point, it seems that there is one reactor left 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.800 and that the Israelis have two options, either to use 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:35.080 an American bunker buster bombs because it's buried. My understanding 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:40.440 is miles underground, or a tactical nuke. I would prefer 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.000 the bunker busters, but that's going to be, you know, 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.760 between the President and Israel, and they're going to ultimately 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.520 make that decision. But I don't think it can remain 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:49.839 at all. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.920 Yeah, this is the Ford Dole plant, and it's the 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:58.079 hardest target that the Iranians have. It's buried under about 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.640 a half mile of mountain and it's really really difficult 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.160 to get it unless you have a bunker buster bomb, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.360 which the United States has and which we have a 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.880 platform for delivering it, namely the B two. So I 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.360 think there's probably some very serious conversations going on right 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:18.400 now about whether the United States will provide those capabilities 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.200 to Israel or whether the United States will join the 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.560 fight ourselves. I don't know where the President is on this, 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.000 but this is a question that bears watching very closely, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:33.120 because we can't afford to eliminate a couple of nuclear 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.520 sites here and there but leave Ford all intact. If 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:40.600 Ford ou survives, the Iranian regimes and nuclear program survives, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.840 and that's a loss for Israel and a loss for US. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.800 I think that's well said, and I don't think that's 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.560 a risk. If you've come this far and we're at 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.000 the end of the process and you own the skies. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.440 They've not been able to build back their missile defense system. 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:54.200 You know. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.560 The only risk we now have, and it is a 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.000 real risk. Man, anytime you're involved in any military effort, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:01.800 I don't want to mitigate that risk. I don't want 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.120 people to put their guard down. There is a risk 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.600 and a risk to American lives. They've already killed many 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.920 Americans in the past, and they do chant death to Israel, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:14.000 death to America, and they've threatened to hit the continental 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:17.880 US with missiles also. But it's either you deal with 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.120 it now when they're weakened and finish the job, or 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.760 you run the risk that they would empower themselves and 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.920 build up their military might even further. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.760 Yeah, I think the lesson the Iranians are going to 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.920 take from this war is we're a lot weaker than 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.360 we thought we were. Israel has the ability to hurt 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.600 us a lot more than we thought they did, So 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.400 how do we protect ourselves from that? What I think 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.440 and what I fear is the lesson they're going to 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.360 draw is we need a nuclear bomb now more than ever, 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.480 And so if you give give the regime that ability 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:54.600 without destroying their program completely. My fears they are going 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:55.720 to race harder than ever. 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.760 Appreciate you being with us. Thank you, Ambassador Nathan Sales 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.920 eight hundred and ninety four one number. If you want 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.400 to be a part of the program and you're listening 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.320 to the best of the Sean Hannity Show, we'll have 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.760 more of your favorite guest topics and memorable moments. That's 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:13.400 all coming up on Hannity Show, Draining the swamp on 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.280 a corrupt politician at a time. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.840 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.000 In a minute, we're going to head to the groundwork 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.000 of bird's eye view of what's been happening to Tel Aviv. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.600 Amazing to watch the majority of Democrats are citing with 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:39.800 the radical, virulent squad as represented by Congresswoman Omar. Listen 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:41.240 to her comments. 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.480 To be coming out of our country. I mean, I 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:48.760 grew up in a dictatorship and I don't even remember 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:53.360 ever witnessing anything like that. To have a democracy a 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:58.280 peakan of hope for the world to now be turned 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.800 into one of the you know, one of the worst 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:07.720 countries where the military are in our streets without any 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.480 regard for people's constitutional rights, while our president is spending 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:17.240 millions of dollars prompting himself up like a failed dictator 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:22.080 with a military parade. It is really shocking and it 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.639 should be a wake up call for all Americans to say, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:30.960 this is not the country we were born in. This 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.119 is not the country we believe in. This is not 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:37.200 the country our founding fathers imagined, and this is not 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:41.120 the country that is supported by our constitution, our ideals, 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.080 our values, and we should all collectively be out in 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.879 the streets rejecting what is taking place this week. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:55.400 That is Congresswoman Omar, that is the virulent anti Semitic 0:17:55.480 --> 0:18:00.240 wing of the Democratic Party. They and those that are 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.040 not a part of it, Their silence has been deafening. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.679 The only voice that has been outspoken in support of 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.800 Israel has been Pennsylvania Senator Democrat John Fetterman. Here's what 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:12.520 he has said. 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.359 Now, you say, show no mercy and if you have 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:17.359 to take the supreme leader out, do it. 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:19.200 Explain your position now, sir? 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.120 Yeah, yeah. I think they should have targeted him absolutely, 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.520 gone taking them out. I think the way Israel operates, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.120 they just take out the leadership, just like they did 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.200 with Hesbela, and they've already done that with the Iranian leadership, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.439 just took them out, even laying in their beds. And 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.200 they didn't take down the whole building. They actually targeted 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.520 where they lay in bed. And now they eliminated the 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:47.160 military ones and the nuclear ones. That's magnificent and the 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.680 precision which they've done that, And I don't know why 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.479 they would have lifted the leader out all right. 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.440 Joining us now is Roy Katz. He is a journalist, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.520 TV and radio host in Israel. He's then in Tel 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.520 Aviv as they have been witnessing and living through an 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:10.720 onslaught of Iranian ballistic missiles. We became friendly with Roy 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:13.879 when we were in Israel. A couple of times we 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.680 broadcast from FM one O two out of Tel Aviv. 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:21.560 And more importantly, they actually facilitated my ability from the 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:27.000 United States to host a separate radio show, separate and 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:30.680 apart from this one, just for the people in Israel. 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.080 And Roy has been on the ground from day one, 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.880 and he has been pointing out the Iranian stock exchange 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:40.159 has been suspended in Israel. On the other hand, the 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:45.000 stock exchange continues to operate, and the profound differences between 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.639 the Israeli economy and that of the Iranian economy. The 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.960 most amazing thing with Israel controlling the skies over the 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:58.000 entire land mass of Iran. Anyway, Roy, great to have 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.600 you back. I wish under out of circumstances. Our prayers 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:04.440 are with you and the people of Israel. But this 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.520 is a fight that has been a long time coming. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.320 I've been asking people on this radio show, how many 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.560 missiles would it take fired into the United States at 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.159 any small town or big city by an enemy and 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:21.919 outside adversary before you would expect your military to fiercely 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:25.760 defend your country and win that conflict and win that war. Now, 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.119 since the times I've been through Israel, there've been hundreds 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.640 of thousands of missiles that have been fired into Israel. 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.399 And of course what happened on October seven, So this 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.560 has been a long time coming. They have been fomenting 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:45.320 terror hamas Saysbalah, Islamic jihad, the Huti rebels. Then you 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.879 have the Syria militia, the Iraqi militia, and now firing 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.000 ballistic missiles for the third time themselves. How are things 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:52.520 on the ground. 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.320 Well, first of all, thank you, Sean. It is great 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.439 to talk with you again. I appreciate you giving me 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.400 this platform to share the reality of what's happening in 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:07.160 Tel Aviv and across Israel. You know, Israeli families are 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:12.920 becoming just experts in sprinting to underground shelters in their pajamas. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.960 It's evening here in Tel Aviv. This is really our 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.040 new normal. For the last couple of days. Israeli kids 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.960 are you know, they're learning to count sirens. They mean 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.840 ninety seconds to shelter. Now, no child should have that 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:33.840 kind of mass homeworks. And you know, civilians killed by 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:38.119 ballistic missiles in their own neighborhoods. And this is what 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.800 happens when a terrorist regime targets civilian areas, you know, 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:48.600 instead of military sites. And that's a regime that openly 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:54.800 calls for wiping Israel off the mat while building nuclear weapons, 0:21:54.920 --> 0:22:00.520 and that isn't seeking peace. They are preparing genocide for us. 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:03.560 And it's yeah, it's quite scary, I must admit. 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:08.600 Well, the people of Israel are resilient, thank god. I mean, unfortunately, 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:12.160 Israel has had to build out a bunker system that 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:17.200 has prevented a far greater loss of life. The Israelis 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:20.280 now have taken out two of the three big nuclear 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.760 sites inside of Iran. Now there is a debate whether 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:26.520 or not whether or not there'll be a joint operation 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.440 between the United States and Israel, and the US would 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.919 provide the bunker buster bombs and probably the B fifty 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:38.400 twos to take that last facility out. The President has 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.240 been steadfast, he has been unambiguous. He has been clear. 0:22:43.080 --> 0:22:46.520 Uh that is that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.760 and uh so I at the at the end of 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:55.280 this process, at a minimum, the Iranians won't have a 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:59.520 nuclear weapon. Now at that point, you know, probably the 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:02.960 United State's role will be defending their troops in the region, 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.080 their interest in the region, helping Israel defend against any 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.840 missile attacks, which we've been doing and will continue to do. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.520 But then the Israelis are going to have to make 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.920 a choice. They could wipe out their entire electric gas 0:23:15.160 --> 0:23:21.160 electric grid that's separated apart from their refineries. No electric 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:27.000 power and no source of income, would absolutely devastate the regime. 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:31.080 Your thoughts now, Sean, I heard your monologue the other 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.679 day saying Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, period, and 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:39.080 that's the end of the sentence. Now, the US has 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:43.800 the bunker busting bombs that can reach Iran's deep underground 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:50.720 nuclear facilities and will need American firepower to finish this job. 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:52.920 I think, and I want to say one more thing, 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:57.479 I think America's choice is quite simple, because helping Israel 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:03.720 destroy Iran's nuclear over now or facing a nuclear armed 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:07.080 Iran threatening threatening American cities later. 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:07.760