Kim Ghattas

That is way beyond 40 kilometers from the border.

That's, I think, sort of 80 kilometers, if not more, from the border with Israel.

And the response

on the other side of the line is, no, we've been assured that they're not approaching Beirut by our people in Tel Aviv.

And the ambassador is furious.

He says, I'm the ambassador in Beirut.

And I'm telling you, I'm looking out the window.

I can see the tanks.

I can see the tanks.

They're actually almost outside my own door.

Yeah.

And it just, this episode, which, you know, I spoke to the American ambassador who was there, Ambassador Robert Dillon, and I love to call him Bob Dillon, which is how he's known as well.

And he's, you know, above 90 now and still sharp as a tack.

And I interviewed him in his retirement home in Virginia a couple of years ago.

And he was, it was all unfolding as the war in Gaza was happening.

And he was saying, I can't believe that we're going through the same thing, that diplomats are warning us.

about what this is going to mean for America, that American diplomats are warning about Israeli actions and some officials don't want to listen because they don't want to believe it.

Or as he says, and I'm quoting the ambassador, oh, more of that Arab stuff.

We don't believe it.

It's not happening.