So that was early Sunday morning in Israel,
also in Jordan, some other areas too.
What defends Israel today is a complex system.
One of those systems is called Iron Dome.
We just want to give you an idea,
a little bit about how this works.
OK, This is the Iron Dome.
There are others. Now we just want to give you
an example here.
Enemy rockets are fired here.
That's point #1. Then the radar system on behalf of
the Israelis detect that rocket and tracks it.
Now the third part is very important.
OK, this control system estimates the impact point.
The system is designed that if you fire a missile
into Israel and it's determined to land in the desert,
let's say, or maybe even into the sea,
they will not go. In most cases,
they will not go after that missile.
They'll just let it land harmlessly.
But if it's threatening a population center,
this launcher fires the missile to intercept and that missile
explodes near it and destroys it.
And they were very successful on Saturday night,
Sunday morning. Jack Keynes with me now.
And, Sir, good morning to you.
I thought you made a number of interesting points.
I just want to make one here.
OK, Think about Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Think about Hamas. Think about the Houthis in Yemen.
What are they thinking today
after Iran's raid really was
weak?
Well, they have to be stunned,
frankly, because they have been urging Iran to get more
involved in what they are doing.
They wanted more direct assistance
from Iran and they finally got it.
But what happened is it was historic as you mentioned
previously,
because Iran has never in invaded Israel before or fired
on them consequentially.
But the reality is it was an overwhelming defeat
for Iran and and humiliation.
Their national leaders certainly humiliated,
the IRGC humiliated. And I believe the proxies
are completely stunned by the results that Iran was not
able to achieve anything other than prove their willingness to
attack Israel.
And yes, I think there's huge opportunity here
for Israel and the United States going forward to leverage
this.
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
And there's plenty of time for Israel to respond.
But you think they should go patiently now.
How come?
Well, I think think about it.
I mean, Israel's in in the best position they've been
in some time given
America's criticism of their operational war aims and how they're
executing them,
the international community, widespread condemnation of Israel.
But after this attack and
Israel's ability to defend successfully against it,
they are really in a pretty good place.
And and I think this opens a window here for
the international community and the United States to get really
tough about sanctions on Iran.
And there are discussions taking place in the UN about
it.
There's discussions in in the Congress of the United States
and as you know this administration has eased up on
the sanctions on Iran,
which has gotten them flush with money.
So use this as a window of opportunity to do
that.
I I don't think it it changes anything for Netanyahu
and his team.
They're going to retaliate and I trust them
in terms of how to do that and what the
targets are,
what the scale is. I mean their their judgment has
been pretty sound for six months on how to deal
with with adversaries.
And I think we should give them that that kind
of credit.
But if they exercise some patience here,
maybe some make make some progress on the diplomatic front.
All right, let me make one point,
then I'll ask you one final question to Tally Bennett,
the former Prime Minister of Israel.
He said we always fought the octopuses arms but hardly
exacted a price from its Iranian head.
I think that kind of goes with what you're describing
there,
Sarah. What, what, what? What do you think about the
success or failure of the Biden administration here?
How do you, how do you characterize that now
from the very beginning they have made significant St.
strategic mistakes because they believed,
even though the evidence was to the contrary,
that the best approach with Iran is not the strong
arm approach that President Trump and his team took in
confronting Iran,
but to appease them and concede to them so they
could get back into the nuclear deal.
That's been the policy for three years and it's been
a absolute miserable failure.
And the reason is is emboldened Iran as as their
strategy in dealing with Russia.
They didn't deter them. They they emboldened them.
We're losing the competition with China,
which the president says that's what we're going to do.
We're going to compete, but we're losing that competition.
So the reality is we have an emboldened Iran,
which certainly directed its proxies to take the actions that
we've all been seeing here.
Why is that? Because they think they're going to get
away with it.
And the evidence to date is the United States is
not going to take strong measures against Iran,
even though Iran has a weak military.
And we could take measured attacks against Iran's capabilities and
literally begin to shut down the proxies by telling Iran
if you don't shut it down,
we're going to continue these attacks to systematically take down
your capabilities that you value.
Not a go to war strategy or anything like that.
We're not talking about war with Iran.
We're talking about deterring Iran,
and we've lost that ability to deter them.
You make a great point.
We'll see whether or not the pressure is big enough,
if the moment's right, as you described.
General, thank you. Great to see you on this Monday
morning.
Yeah. Great talking to Bill as always.