Dinesh D'Souza

He jumps in a car.

He's trying to make a getaway.

And he goes, hey, listen, I'm

I want to make sure that your response is proportional to what I did.

I want to make sure that you don't do anything to me that's worse than what I did to you unprovoked.

So the truth of it is, in every example of warfare that I'm familiar with, Pearl Harbor comes to mind.

I understand, if I recall correctly, there was something like 2,000 US casualties in Pearl Harbor.

Very low levels of casualties.

In fact, who could argue that Pearl Harbor was a military target?

And yet the United States goes to war with Japan.

In fact, not only that, declares war also begins not only on the Pacific front, but also on the European front, levels essentially the nation of Japan with ultimately two atomic bombs.

And so if you try to measure the original provocation and the US response, I would argue the US response was disproportionate, but Japan started it and the United States had every right to finish it.

Now, no one can deny that October 7th was not merely a Hamas operation.

It was an operation that was cooked up.

Yes, it involved the Hamas guys, but many of the Hamas guys were in Qatar.

One minute.

Iran was involved, Turkey was involved, the Sudan was involved.

This was a carefully planned operation over a long period of time.

And so Israel has every right to say that we are striking back, not just against the operatives from Gaza who launched the immediate attack, but we have every right to strike back at the planners

of October 7th.