Ben Shapiro

The Iranians immediately, they set it up, right?

The Iranians initiated this because their goal, again, was to reestablish the idea that America would deter Israel from defending itself out of a desire for a deal with Iran.

So Mohammad Khalabov, the person who is supposed to co-sign an agreement with the vice president of the United States, put out a tweet.

And his tweet said, again, this is before the announcement of the deal.

He said, the Zionist incursion shows that America lacks the will to fulfill its commitments.

Then the president put out a statement himself saying, quote, this morning's attack on Beirut should not have happened.

So again, the idea is that Israel is just supposed to accept rockets incoming over its border targeting its citizens as well as drones because Iran says so.

And the president says this morning's attack on Beirut should not have happened, particularly on a special day when we are so close to a peace deal with Iran.

Well, I will note that on that very special day, Hezbollah, which is an Iranian-backed terror group, fired drones into Israeli sovereign territory.

He said Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless.

Nobody was hurt, injured, or killed and should not disrupt this important process.

I really don't think the president would see it that way if, say, Mexico had fired a bunch of drones into American soil and blown them up and no one got killed.

I don't think it works that way.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way.

That you're basically free.

We shouldn't spoil this, you know, we shouldn't spoil this very important day just because you fired a rocket at my house and you happened to hit my front lawn and not kill anybody.

He said, we are very close to a deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon.

And all sides should stand down.

All sides should stand down.

One of these sides is acting defensively.