Rabbi Walicki

And President Trump said in his comments at the start of this that there's going to be casualties.

And I was wondering to myself, I don't know how Americans are going to take that.

From an Israeli perspective, everyone knows there's going to be casualties.

And the attitude in Israel is, hey, look,

This is just a small taste of what the Iranians' capabilities were and the threat that was hanging over us all these years.

Israel also came out with a statement.

The IDF said that they've destroyed about half of the ballistic missile capability of the Iranians.

And before that, for years, we always had the Hezbollah threat with their hundreds of thousands of missiles pointing at us.

So we know that there's going to be casualties.

And we also know that

That whatever we suffer now is going to, as long as we degrade the Iranian capabilities to the point that we're safe, then we're actually, you know, this is just the tip of the iceberg and it's a small price to pay.

Of course, those families, you know, they've lost everything.

It's a tragedy for them and we all mourn collectively for them.

But yeah, the Israeli people are quite resilient and we knew that there'd be casualties going in.

Well, that's what we're gearing up for.

You know, I've been listening to the conversation this whole hour and the previous hour, and far be it from me to make the case for why this, you know, for what the American interest is here.

But I just want to be very clear representing the people of Israel.

I live in Israel.

My kids fight in the Israeli army.

And Israel's interest really is to put an end to this war that's been going on against us for 47 years by this regime.