John Mearsheimer
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So from Israel's point of view, that is bad news.
Furthermore, the Iranian missile capability and drone capability
has proven to be a significant threat not just to the Gulf states but to Israel itself.
One of the principal reasons the Israelis are content to sit on the sidelines and let the United States fight this war against Iran pretty much by itself.
Um
Or deal with the Iranian problem pretty much by itself.
is because the Israelis understand full well that Iran could do enormous damage to Israel.
Chris, let's let's go back to our discussion a few minutes ago about those pictures that are now coming out of the damage that was done.
to US bases in the Gulf region.
You ought to remember that missiles and drones were striking Israel early in the war as well.
And you can rest assured that those missiles and drones were doing significant damage to Israeli targets as they were doing to US targets in the Gulf region.
They were using the same kind of missiles, the same kind of drones.
And one of the reasons that the Israelis went to
The flow of information outside of Israel is because they didn't want Israelis themselves and people in the West to see the level of damage that Iran was inflicting on Israel.
All of this is to say that Israel now faces a significant missile threat from Israel and a significant dome from
Yes, I'm sorry, from Iran.
Yes.
That is only going to increase with the passage of time, as we were talking about.
Uh so in terms of missiles, in terms of the nuclear issue, uh, in terms of support for the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas, I mean, the Israelis have long been interested in breaking the tie between Iran and those groups.
Uh, if anything, the tie has been strengthened.
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