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July 18, 2006 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 18, 2006, Tuesday, Hour #2
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So it's on the table that the media no, they're just reporting facts about Hezbollah.
They're not they're not they're not promoting them, and they're and they're not saying that they're really good people.
They're just reporting facts.
Yeah, like they report the facts of U.S. soldiers, and how we are murderers and rapists, and we tear up people's homes.
Not just the drive-by media saying that, but John Kerry has accused U.S. soldiers of terrorizing Iraqis in their homes at night and disturbing religious services.
You know what Senator Durbin and others in the drive-by media have said about people that run our prisons, Club Gitmo and Abu Ghrab.
We have Ted Kennedy has talked about how Abu Ghrab is no different now than when Saddam Saddam ran it, is just under different management.
We've got I mean, you don't get any heroic stories about the U.S. military in Iraq.
No stories of heroism and sacrifice, uh, and certainly nowhere else in the U.S. effort in this war on terror are such stories to be found in the drive-by media.
Drive-by media just today, ladies and gentlemen, reporting on how many civilians Israel has killed with their missile strikes into South Lebanon, and not a word about the missiles launched from civilian locations in South Lebanon.
I mentioned to you yesterday that the uh the Hezbollah social workers, um the uh uh the matchmaking services, all the wonderful garbage removal and sewage work that Hezbollah's doing.
Um never do we hear that they are launching missiles into Haifa and other areas of Israel from private homes.
You don't hear that report no, no, no, no, you don't.
And now this.
This is from uh the Christian science monitor.
With Israel's confrontation with Hezbollah and Lebanon lurching closer to all out war, winds of anger are blowing through the Middle East that are likely to strengthen the political hand of radical Islamists from Egypt to Saudi Arabia.
Well, this is a prediction, it's not a news story.
See the word likely to strengthen the political hand of it's a prediction.
The confrontation coupled with the rising civilian toll also poses a serious threat to U.S. interests in the region.
Islamists who are hostile to Israel and the U.S. and to their Arab allies, who have criticized Hezbollah, are shoring up support, increasing the chances that they will seize power if the elections President Bush is urged for the region take place.
Countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have little influence over the militant Shiite group and its backers, Iran and Syria, so their statements may be of little practical value.
Instead, their comments emphasize the widening gap between their regimes and their people.
So let me what that's about is this story.
I've got a head one yesterday, another one here from the Jerusalem Post.
Uh Arab world fed up with Hezbollah.
Told you yesterday, this uh reports it again today that Egypt and uh Saudi Arabia and uh uh Jordan, uh the Emirates, none of them they they're not condemning Israel as they have in the past.
They are condemning Hezbollah.
So here you have CNN International doing this story, humanizing the great leader, the great Sheikh, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, and we hear about all the great work that he is doing to make life better for his people, including strapping bombs on their backs and sending them out to die in acts of terror.
Winning over the Arab street, Hezbollah winning over the Arab street.
The Arabs are divided over this.
How do they know this is happening?
They say it's likely to strengthen the political hand.
What do they do?
Are they taking a poll of registered Arab voters for crying out loud?
How do they know any of this?
And by the way, we're not talking about democracies here.
What the hell does it matter what the Arab street thinks as long as their governments are calling the shots?
What you have here is quite simply the drive-by media trying to counter the reality of Arab division and creating their own reality again, their own alternative universe here.
You know why Arab governments are not rallying behind Iran and Hezbollah here?
It's not Arab.
Iran is Persian.
They are not Arabs, and the Arab nations that are in the region see them as a threat to their oil fields because of their ramping up with their nukes.
Now, the Christian Science Monitor won't write this.
Christian Science Monitor's not going to write anything about the fact that well neighboring countries fear Iran.
No, it's always got to be hatred directed at the United States.
Wonder what the Iranian street thinks about what its mullahs uh are doing.
Will they look into that?
Wonder what the drive-by media thinks about what kind of unrest is going on inside Iran.
So what you have here, folks, is a classic uh uh example of the humanizing of our enemies, the humanizing of Israel's enemies, the demonization of our guys, the demonization of our allies that stand with us in this case uh uh Israel.
Uh and it's uh it's it's all done uh for the express purpose of uh portraying the United States and its allies in this case as the focus of evil in the modern world.
Here's a story from the uh Boston Globe today.
It's a it's a Reuters story, actually.
The headline, Iran's Hezbollah says ready to attack U.S. and Israel.
Uh Iran's Hezbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said today it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.
We have two thousand volunteers who've registered since last year, said Iranian Hezbollah spokesman Mojtaba Big Deli.
He's not a spokesman, he's a spokes terrorist.
He was speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Kum.
They have uh they have been trained, they can be fully armed.
We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and America's interests.
We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader's green light to take action.
If America wants to ignite World War III, we welcome it.
This is the Iranian branch of Hezbollah.
The Israel, the Iranian branch of Hezbollah is also in Lebanon.
Uh Hezbollah is uh Iran, and it's funded, trained, and maintained, and they've uh even issue them uh orders.
Uh and now the drive-by media uh is beginning to say that you know the Israelis are just it's all over so little.
It's just two kidnapped soldiers.
Why now Israel's Israel's out-of-proportion response, and I want to deal with that after the break.
Israel's out-of-proportion response is guess what, folks?
Yeah, it's creating new terrorists.
Just like uh our trip into Iraq uh is said to have been creating new terrorists, and it's a drive-by media to Democrats who say that.
Now the same thing is being said about Israel, which in this case is acting in self defense.
Israel's making them mad by defending themselves.
See, we're just supposed Israel's so big, compared to poor little Hezbollah guys.
I mean, look at these Hezbollah guys.
They haven't shaved in 200 years.
And they did look at me, they're so poor.
And we what do you expect them to do?
They have rockets they launched if Israel should know better.
Israel should be grown about, but no, Israel is making them mad.
So I mean the media template here and the uh action line are easy to see.
Brief timeout, more of your phone calls.
We got other things in the stack here today, too, such as the downsizing of the New York Times.
Back after this.
Stay with us.
And back we are, Rush Limboa.
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All right, um.
I just saw it again.
CNN uh just displayed their uh puff piece profile uh of uh of what's his name, Hasran Nasrallah, The uh leader, the charismatic leader of uh Hezbollah, who's building sewers and uh massive social programs to help his uh his small group of uh disadvantaged people deal with the big Goliath of Israel and the United States.
And they get out they went to Damascus, they're in Syria doing man on the street interviews with uh with uh Syrians who speak English.
Uh praising this Nasrallah guy to the hilt.
He's great, he's this, he's that, we love him.
And the conclusion on the part of the CNN reporter was his support is uh increasing, his popularity is uh uh blowing up, but just it's it's big, it's big, it's big, and of course, this action uh against Israel is making him even more popular.
I'm telling you, I have seen videotapes of this guy's speeches to his people, and it's the one thing that anybody could go get.
Uh CNN, none of the news agencies bother to do that.
They don't go out and find speeches of these people in the to their own people, uh, and they never did it with Arafat.
You know, Arafat would uh would respond in uh in English, uh condemning every act of terrorism that occurred, and then when he went back and started speaking in uh in his native tongue, it was even say something totally different.
Everybody in the drive-by media knew it, but would not make a big deal out of it.
They're not doing it.
This guy, uh Nasralla is not who he is being portrayed to be by the American drive-by media.
David in Vancouver, Washington.
I'm glad you called, sir, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
I am uh really nervous to talk to you here.
Uh anyway, one of the things that hit me is that you were talking earlier.
You were talking about um how they were praising everything that he does, and it just hit me that it's almost a smoke screen type argument that they're putting out, uh, similar to what they'll do with and it's almost like they're making him a made man.
Uh it's almost like they would like the mafia do.
They take somebody that's wicked and does bad things, and he does all the on the side he's doing all these great things, and it's great things create a smokescreen for what his real motives and desires are.
And that's to take power and to destroy others.
Well, of course, but they're not I think I'm not sure I heard everything you said, not your fault, uh, but I I I think one of the uh uh aspects of this is is that you get no judgment from the media when reporting of the bad guys.
You get no judge, you get judgment on the U.S. military, you get judgment on the U.S. president.
You don't get any judgment on Ted Kennedy's actions.
You don't get any judgment of uh Chuck Schumer or Dick Durbin's actions.
You get judgment on George Bush's actions and Rumsfeld and uh uh it it is clear to the drive-by media who the good guys are and the bad guys.
So if the if you want to say, well, they're just doing a factual report here on uh old Nasrallah, there's no judgment on Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
There's no judgment on the actions uh that they engage in and the acts that they commit.
Uh and there is plenty of judgment elsewhere uh from the drive-by media.
And I, you know, who can explain it, folks?
We all have our theories.
I just think it boils down to uh uh two things.
I just I think there's such hatred for George W. Bush.
Just such hatred that uh he's the bad guy to the drive-by media, to liberals, and that's who the drive-by media are.
And then uh I I also think that there's this little thing about uh they're just small people, you know, they're just little victims.
They're just they're just trying to eke out a life in a part of that country, part of the world that was theirs until until these European Jews were given this little plot of land that somebody called Israel back in 1949, the United Nations did that, and it's just not fair.
It did not fair.
And so uh any time somebody's being acted upon in an unfair way, whatever they do is permissible.
Uh, because they have no power.
They're just people striking back, Trying to be heard.
They're fighting for their car.
There's no judgment whatsoever.
You're right.
Gene Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello.
Um I just wanted to offer something to the mix.
Um first of all, I'd say you're a hell of a choreographer.
Do a great job of pulling a lot of divergent things together.
I heard something this morning that um really kind of put together a series of dots for me.
I heard one of our local stockbrokers talk about how some NYMAX traders were watching a lot of heavy activity buying of oil futures, oil contracts all through June.
Very large acquisitions, more than the normal concern for prices and hedging.
The second thing the add uh I'd add to that is the big meeting in Damascus, where all the major players in terror were there.
Iran, Iraq, Hezbollah, Hamas, PLO, Al Qaeda was supposedly there, all of them were there.
And then you put that together with uh Blair's comments yesterday that there was concern about this whole thing being orchestrated.
It starts to really raise some real serious questions about what's going on here and how serious it is.
If everybody for remembers, one of the major things that happened in front of nine eleven was heavy buying of oil future contracts.
So I just wanted to run this by you and see what if it raised red flags in your mind.
Now don't stop there.
I mean, I I need you to tell me where you think forget leave nine eleven out of a minute.
What because one thing that can't be denied, the whole thing was orchestrated.
What did happen was that Hezbollah did blow up an Israeli Humvee and kidnapped us a couple of soldiers.
That is what started us.
Somebody had to say we're gonna do this.
So obviously it was it was it was uh it was something that didn't start by there was not an accidental shooting, there was not an accidental missile launch, there was a purposeful act of aggression against Israel by Hezbollah.
Now take your theory out, because I don't know where you're going with this.
All the you got the Terror Masters meeting in Damascus, you got the oil futures guys going nuts before the meeting.
Where does it all lead in your mind?
Well, my mind is that uh this is a uh a choreographed concept co you know, orchestrated effort across the Arab world of the tire leaders to really do something.
I mean, this is more than to just expand the war in the Middle East.
It could be a great smokescreen for other things here in the domestic arena.
I just think it's there's some seriousness and uh to a level that a lot of people aren't talking about going on, you know.
It's not about this isolated thing or an escalation in the Middle East.
I think your points earlier raised this whole thing about you know, it's not about two people getting kidnapped, or you know, it's about this an orchestrated plan to really do what they've been saying.
A lot of people didn't believe Hitler, a lot of people don't believe these guys, and they keep blowing it off until we had 91.
I'm just concerned that this is gonna go much and I'm concerned about what's gonna happen here in August.
Um You know uh so basically this is a distraction uh and in Israel fell for it, and everybody else now is falling for it by getting involved in it, thinking that we're on the verge of a major, major war when in fact it could just be a diversionary tactic, get us focused elsewhere while something really big is is planned outside the region.
Is that basically your theory can predict that's what I'm just preceded nine eleven?
Because we we get so easily distracted.
We're such total crows.
We go for the shiny thing, the thing that's you know, and we beat it to death.
That's what the media does.
They get fixated.
Well, you and I know that, though terrorists know that.
So I'm just trying to think outside the box here, and when you start when people start m putting hundreds of millions of dollars of their money into oil contracts, you know, they're sure something's gonna come down.
And well, they're not sure, but they're betting.
Well, it depends on I'd like to know who they were.
That's what I would like to know.
And I'd like to know uh why is there isn't some media coverage of this whole thing that happened in Damascus.
I mean, where was it?
I mean, if that isn't a major event, what would be?
Well, there it look, I know about it, and you know about it.
There has been coverage of it, otherwise we uh we wouldn't know.
Now Fox is doing a puff piece on this guy in Nasrell.
Well, I don't know if they're doing a puff piece, but they got some guy talking about him with the the cutest, most cuddly looking picture of this terrorist that you've ever seen.
Uh you you mentioned uh You mentioned Hitler and then uh because uh the uh this uh people are ignoring uh Ahmadini Zad as they ignored Hitler.
This this DVD that I saw, this documentary slash movie that some people very concerned about this have put together called obsession.
Uh many of these Arab terrorists and and the Al-Qaeda's and this Hezbollah guy uh praise Hitler.
Uh and there's a there's a they have a common bond in that these guys hate Jews and Hitler hated Jews.
And Hitler is a model for these people in some of the speeches and some of the comments that they've made in uh in interviews that are on this this DVD.
It's not out yet, don't try to find it.
I, of course, have an advanced copy.
I don't know when it's coming.
I don't know if it is.
Groans of pleasure and delight.
The EIB network and El Rushbo.
All right, proportionality.
I I looked up some things here, folks.
You know, one of the uh one of the criticisms of Israel is that their uh response has been disproportionate.
Yeah, Hezbollah kidnapped a couple soldiers, big deal.
That's no reason to blow up the runway in Beirut.
And it's no reason to be firing rockets and missiles and so forth.
This will stun many of you.
Some of you not, but many of you will be stunned by this.
And I wish that what I'm about to tell you wasn't news to most of you.
Had we uh maintained an uh uh decent uh history curriculum in the public schools in this country, this wouldn't be news, but it is, sadly.
In World War II, the United States suffered around 92,000 battle deaths in the Pacific Theater.
92,000 in the Pacific Theater.
Can you imagine how it would have gone if the drive by media then were counting up to 1,000 and then 2,000 and then 2,500?
92,000 battle deaths in the Pacific Theater.
The Japanese, though.
You know, take a guess, Mr. Snurdley.
What were the Japanese battle deaths?
Not civilian deaths, Japanese battle deaths.
One point five nine million, one million five hundred ninety thousand battle deaths suffered by the Japanese.
That means that uh it's a ratio, and this is this is this doesn't really state it properly.
Twenty-two Japanese battlefield deaths for every one American battlefield death.
This does not include the million more that were targeted civilians targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Battle deaths, 1.59 million.
That's in addition to the civilian deaths ranging from several hundred thousand to more than a million.
Precise figure is hard to come by since estimates vary so widely on the on the number of deaths as a result of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Uh now what by the if if if you're gonna say, well, that was a disproportionate response by the United States of America.
Disproportionate response.
Why, we had to kill 22 of them for every one we lost just because they attacked Pearl Harbor.
Of course, this kind of thinking didn't even exist then.
And if it did exist then, nobody ever heard about it because the people that thought that way were such oddball kooks that not even the media back then gave them any airtime.
There probably were looney tunes that thought that way back then, but nobody ever heard about them.
Today, they are the experts everybody in a drive-by media runs to.
I think Israel's response is way out of proportion.
Disproportionate response.
The people have forgot what is actually the definition of winning a war.
You know, it it is serious stuff.
It is killing more of them than you lose of your own, and breaking more of their things than you lose.
1.59 million battle deaths, the Japanese 92,000 Americans.
Uh so if that ratio of one to twenty two uh is disproportionate, what would proportionate mean?
Well, war is to be one for one.
Really?
Then how do you accomplish anything that way?
How about how about this?
17 Japanese deaths to every one American death, or 12 to one?
Would uh eight to one have been a better response?
How about five to one?
Would that have made more sense?
I mean, you you put that historical fact and reality into the mix today, uh, the way wars and other such things are covered, and uh uh people can't believe it.
I it's why we didn't finish Iraq the first time because we don't do that anymore.
It's why we didn't we we we stopped on the highway to hell, I think it was called because there was so much battlefield injured and uh Republican guard wounded, and we saw the pictures of it where we didn't see the 1.59 million Japanese deaths or the 92,000 American deaths in the Pacific Theater, but we see these because we've got pictures.
No, it's terrible, it's terrible and politicians, oh my gosh, I can't survive this.
Why we can't go in and wipe out these poor people.
What a wonder if people get in a country gonna say about me.
So we have new obstacles that we've uh placed on ourselves.
And and now uh trying to fight this war in Iraq.
I mean, it's it's been it's become literally absurd.
Uh we're we're trying to take something that is a deadly serious enterprise war.
And we're treating it as a neighborhood kerfuffle.
We're treating it as an argument at the gas station or at the 7-Eleven over the blue shock slurpee.
And who's first in line?
You know, this is this is what blue shock.
You ever had a blue shock slurpee?
Oh.
You gotta like Mountain Dew, because that's what it is.
But it you like Mountain Dew?
Well, it's you know, Mountain Dew is loaded with caffeine in there, which means caffeine is great for cirrhosis of the liver, they said the other day.
If you drink a lot of coffee while you consume your adult beverages, might cancel out the cirrhosis of the liver.
They'll change that in two years, say, nope, sorry, we were wrong about it.
War is it it is serious.
It always has been, and sadly, we're not allowed to take it that way anymore.
We're not allowed to look at it that way.
We're not allowed to prosecute it that way.
And I know what some of you people are saying, you cold-hearted, cruel guy.
There are people that die in wars.
And you're sounding like it's just a bunch of inanimate figures, and we're counting up buddies that are lying around, and you think that's okay.
No, and nobody that I know loves wireless and kooks at love war in the Middle East and so forth, but peace-loving people don't love them, but they are inevitable, and at some point you have to determine whether what you have and what you are is worth fighting for.
And I raised this question earlier.
We've got this problem with Iran.
It is a real problem.
I have made the analogy.
In fact, a previous caller said others have made, I've made the analogy.
It is eerily similar to what people uh said about Adolf Hitler when you look at what they're saying about uh uh Ahmadinizad.
Ignoring it, no big deal.
He's just huffing and puffed.
He's insane, doesn't really mean this and so forth.
We can make deals with him, we can send diplomacy into action, we can fix this.
It is eerily, eerily the same.
Uh and so we've got a situation here where Iran is pledging to acquire nuclear weapons and then threatening to use them.
Okay, question, do we care about that?
Do we want Iran to have nukes?
Because what is our plan to deal with them afterwards?
Appeasement?
Containment?
Is that better than having an Iran that is not nuclear?
If we decide that it's better to have an Iran than it's not nuclear, then what do we do?
And that's when it gets tough because this is a representative republic.
And the question arises, is the will of the people in this country ready for such a thing?
And I doubt it.
And I have a number of different observations that I make in my daily travels.
Uh I just, you know, we have some people thinking World War III has started.
We have a whole bunch of people in this country who not only don't think so, they're not even aware uh that the hostilities uh that involve the United States are as serious as they are, and furthermore, don't want to even think about it.
Uh because none of it is affecting their lives.
None of it is affecting their daily comings and goings.
None of it's affecting their ability to find a job.
None of it's affecting their ability to get paid.
None of it is affecting their ability to get a raise.
None of it that's in that's going on over there has any impact on their lives other than you might say the the price of uh oil, and people in this country blame big oil for it.
I mean that even blaming uh the uh right sources for the uh the rise in the world price of a barrel of oil.
So I'm not I I just have the impression that uh uh even though Newt Gingrich says other people have said since nine eleven we're at World War III.
We've declared war on terror.
And I tell you, you can't negotiate with these people.
You have to defeat them.
That's what war is, and you defeat them by killing them.
It's it's so easy for you to say.
The word kill them just rolls off your lips.
They're human beings rest, just like you and just like me.
No, they're not human beings just like us.
And that's the difference.
And people want to establish a moral equivalence and come up with justifications based on sympathy or guilt to explain why these people do what they do.
There must be a reason for it because nobody is inherently evil, nobody's inherently that bad.
Yes, they are.
The world and human history full of examples.
We have so much prosperity.
We have so much affluence that it just doesn't seem possible.
There could be such serious problems out there.
And I don't want I don't want to jeopardize uh the things that are enjoyable about my life right now by having to face these things and we'll just put our heads in the sand and uh maybe it'll all go away and blow over.
And that is one way of uh dealing with it.
I mean you go back and look at the New York Times during uh Stalin, you know, Stalin what are the what are the what are the uh numbers?
17 million.
Is that a low estimate?
Seven sev s 17 to 25 million.
Joseph Stalin literally starved that many million people in Ukraine, uh and throughout the uh the Soviet bloc, uh simply to punish them for being rebellious, not going along.
And the whole time there was a New York Times reporter by the name of Walter Durante, who saw it all, who wrote not a word of it, and got a pull at surprise.
Back uh what was that in the fifties or forties, whenever it was.
So you've always had people that that look right at evil and don't want to see it as evil.
The consequences of seeing evil are really, I mean, you gotta do something about it then.
You can't become a coward and turn away from it.
And a lot of people don't want to be cowards, some avoid becoming cowards, you just don't even admit there is any evil.
Back in just a second.
Stay with us.
Uh Jeff in Las Vegas, your next Rush Limbaugh program in the EIB network.
Welcome, sir.
Thanks for your time, Rush.
You bet.
The the uh kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers, the timing of it was not a coincidence.
We all know that Iran and Syria um are the basic leaders of of Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is just the proxy of them.
It's no coincidence because Wednesday was the day that the G eight was going to determine what actions they were gonna take against Iran for continuing their nuclear program.
So Iran had Hezbollah go after Israel.
Israel to distract the world from their continued development of of nuclear weapons.
The second point, Rush, is there is very credible evidence, despite what the uh drive by media lets us uh hear about.
There's there's there's convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction were moved before the war into Syria and potentially into Lebanon into the Becca Valley.
And this is confirmed by General Sada, which was the number two guy at um um Saddam's Air Force.
Yes, and to add to that, that this general also says that it was the Russians that were doing the heavy lifting and the actual moving.
Yeah, I'm familiar with that.
Yeah, and so and so part of the reason Israel's response has been so strong and quote unquote disproportionate is they can't take the chance of Hezbollah actually having access to Saddam's weapon to mass destruction in the Becca Valley, which is where their center of operations is.
They can't take the chance that those weapons are going to be used against Israeli cities.
That's why they've decided for once and for all we're gonna destroy Hezbollah.
Well, it's you know, you're you're on to something.
I mean, I I've uh uh could be the weapons of mass destruction.
Christopher Hitchens in the Wall Street Journal today has a uh uh uh different theory uh but still addresses the the the uh point of the so-called disproportionate response of uh of of Israel here.
There is no such thing in a war.
This is I I don't know, uh not hard for me to understand, uh, but for some people uh it it obviously is.
When you've had years and years and years of conflict resolution uh taught, and years and years and years of the Oprah show, uh, and years and years and years of the feminization of the uh American culture at large.
Uh it it it it's understandable.
It's just it's just uh frustrating at the same time.
Uh as to the as to the notion that Iran wanted to distract the G eight from talking about what to do about its uh nuclear program.
That theory has also been put forth by uh uh Amir Taheri, who writes in the New York Post today, this is not just Iran that uh he calls it the Israeli card.
Any time an Arab regime gets in trouble, the way it gets out of trouble is to do something that focuses everybody on Israel and blames Israel for something, and that will align people's attention elsewhere.
And his theory is that uh uh Ahmadinezad did not want to deal with whatever the G eight was going to do regarding his nuclear program, BAMO sends the order to Hezbollah, do something to provoke Israel, and that'll take us off the front page, and it'll take us off the main agenda item at the G eight, uh, which it did.
Uh uh Basher Assad in Syria, uh same thing.
Basher Assad, he's he's feeling some heat over a number of things.
Uh and so this this served that that purpose.
Now there's all kinds of thinking that's going on at the end of Well, is there's really more to it than just taking the the Iranians' nuclear plans off the top of the agenda item list uh at uh at the G eight.
Uh are there other things being planned because these are long-term planners terrorists are.
So uh I uh I'm sure there are a lot of people thinking outside the box trying to figure out exactly uh what all is behind this.
But regardless of that, you still have Israel's response and people criticizing it as being disproportionate.
Uh let me print out Hitchens' piece in the Wall Street Journal today when I have a little time and share it.
He talks at two instances here that are largely behind Israel's so-called disproportionate response, and one of them is something that happened twenty years ago involving an airman that they lost uh that uh that Hezbollah basically in fact Nasralla uh informed the Israelis,
look, uh at first they told the Israelis, look, he's we'll we'll we're gonna send him to Iran or we're gonna do this, unless you give us some of uh our people that you're holding as prisoners, we're gonna send your era your uh airmen to Iran, and you know what'll happen to him in one of those jails.
And it turns out that the Israelis said, no, we're gonna get prisoner exchange with you.
And uh turned out later that uh very recently that uh Nasralh told the Israelis, look, uh the guy's dead, he's been dead for a long time.
We don't know where he is, he's in a million pieces, and your family's not gonna ever see him again, and so you can forget it.
Uh this is the guy being lionized and humanized as a great leader and charismatic and so forth.
Uh and Israel is saying, okay, we've got three more guys that they kidnapped here, and we are not gonna have the same thing happen to them that happened to our airmen twenty years ago.
We're gonna make sure that they're not able to send this guy anywhere, these three guys.
Uh this is a long conflict.
There are there are grudges or memories that are long here, and it's always the case.
There are far more things beneath the surface that people don't consider that are probably root causes or fundamental causes that if you just take your time and be patient, they will eventually surface.
In the meantime, I have to disappear from your moments.
We'll surface again shortly.
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