only a very few got through. i didn t really cause any damage at all to israel. i think prime minister netanyahu is feeling pretty comfortable at the moment just two or three weeks ago we were all talking about the disasters in gaza, the failure of the relative that s a failure of the israeli offensive. there and the bombing of the humanitarian convoy. he s changed the subject. so what do you think is a manageable next step if there is such a thing, first of all, we need to recognize that this shadow war between israel, iran has been going on for a good number of years now the latest round of this was the israeli strike in damascus, which took a lot of people by surprise, including the united states administration. i think it shot the iranians as well because it was a sort of escalation to attack a designated diplomatic building, even though it was being used as a headquarters
ukrainians be challenged in terms of main are holding all the line, not as congress on the donald trump s direction has so far tried to sink military aid for ukraine. i asked his former defense secretary, mark esper, whether he believes the gop holdouts had fallen victim to put putin propaganda i want to, as reagan republican, what you make of people like marjorie taylor greene says, is anti-semitic to make israeli aid contingent on funding ukrainian nazis. these should be separate bills. i m just focusing on her language because that is literally an intravenous feed of russian disinformation directed straight at them to stop them from sending those weapons. are you concerned that they re basically doing putin s bidding? we ve got concerned about that language. it s just it s so outlandish and it s so wrong. and in many ways, look when we, we the united states
and now you can see that there s a whole, another war on our dale s doorstep, potentially iran, israel, obviously see the war that s been going on in israel and gaza.& so i want to ask you to reflect on what happened when allies came to the aid of israel to the defense of israel in the face of iranian missile barrage israel is not a nato country. and that was noticed and commented on by the ukrainian president, who s asking, well, we ve been asking you to secure our skies and to help us also defend against these russian and iranian by the way projectiles. here s what he said. well, after yesterday s attacking me, i want to ask you a question israel, part of nato, who are not, but a mod. this shows the answer they re the israel is not a neutral country the nato allies, including natal countries, have been defending israel, daqqa, but they showed the iranian forces that israel was not alone but it seemed to cars. and this is a lesson continent. this is a response to anyone on
to de-escalate tensions after being warned by its allies to avoid further escalation, the us says, israel carried out a strike inside iran on friday iran downplayed the impact of what appears to be a fairly limited strike after its air defenses intercepted three drones with no reports of a missile attack. and iranian official told reuters there was no plan to respond at this point. all this came less than a week after iran launched an unprecedented attack on israel in response to a strike on its embassy compound in syria former israeli general tommy or hyman, who once was head of intelligence for the idf, told me israel had miscalculated on both hamas and iran i think the intelligent they idf intelligence was wrong in the october for not detecting the hamas intention and it was wrong about assuming what will
any continent who says, you need to assist ukraine very carefully, so you don t engage name countries in the war as a former chief of staff of your armed forces, a former nato general and senior official. what do you make of that? i mean, there is a double-standard, right? on one hand, i fully understand president zelenskyy frustration on the other hand, if that iranian attack was not not pushed back, if there was no coordination among a number of actors to prevent serious damage in israel i think that was an afford to prevent another war. because if that attack was not announced upfront, if that cost a lot of damage and casualties, we might have seen the outbreak of a new war no one, once such a new war to happen in such a difficult