Ben Shapiro

That's what they were trying to do.

So they activated their terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack into Israel.

Now, Israel had made clear over and over and over, if there were drones that flew into Israeli territory, then Dakhia, which is an area of Beirut, which is where all the Hezbollah leadership lives, was going to get hit.

And so that was the math.

If Hezbollah hits inside Israel, Israel will hit inside Dakhia, which is in Beirut.

And the Iranians, you remember just last week, the Iranians fired a bunch of missiles at the Israelis.

And Israel had to respond.

And Trump at the time made what I thought was a signal mistake.

He suggested that Israel should basically hold back, that Israel shouldn't go.

That it was just, you know, a ceasefire with a little less firing than usual.

which is not how a ceasefire works.

What Iran was attempting to do with that whole game was to link its own action with its forward terrorist groups, to use Hezbollah as its forward army.

And the idea was that if you hit Hezbollah, then you are hitting Iran and Iran can then respond to you.

Now, what Israel is saying is we are not going to be held accountable for some deal with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz that doesn't allow us to protect ourselves, right?

That's what Israel is saying.

So the goal for Iran was to get Trump so invested in the deal that Trump would get angry at Israel for defending itself.

And they basically came to the verge of that over the weekend.

So Hezbollah targeted northern Israel, and Israel then struck a Hezbollah target in Beirut's southern suburbs on Sunday.

This particular Hezbollah target, by the way, was a Hezbollah commander who was responsible for the death of multiple Americans.

Okay, so...