Thomas Small

aided and abetted globally by an increasingly deranged leftist kind of ally movement.

And ironically, which means in the West, never before have more people been anti-Zionist or never before have people been so openly contemptuous of Israel and unwilling to see Israel's perspective.

just as actually in the region, amazingly, more and more people are willing to see that perspective because they have actually lived the consequences of rather brainlessly holding on to a fever dream of ideologically pure resistance for decades now.

So it's a great irony.

And going back to the question of Trump and Hezbollah and Trump and Iran, I just want to be clear.

When I said that Netanyahu and Trump are working together to separate the two,

as it were, files that's only in the context of the Iranian deal that Trump is trying to get.

He knows that if Iran can get the Americans to agree to link its interests with Hezbollah's interests, then that deal will forever be extremely shaky, given the fact that Hezbollah will always

spark some kind of conflict with Israel, giving the Iranians the opportunity to say that the deal has been broken, the ceasefire or whatever has been broken.

So we will go back to pursuing nuclear ambitions or supporting our proxies or whatever.

That's what I mean.

But I don't think that Donald Trump doesn't want Hezbollah to be destroyed.

I think he does want Hezbollah to be destroyed for all of the reasons you said, Richard.

Although I would just want to make sure that everyone understands that surely you're not saying that the Shia of southern Lebanon are new arrivals in Lebanon.

That would not be true at all.

Hezbollah and such like.

Weirdly, when Iran, you know, back in the whenever 16th century decided to be Shia, they had to import clerics from southern Lebanon in order to, you know, more or less forcibly convert the largely Sunni population of Iran to Shia.

Islam.

So Lebanon and Iran have been linked together very closely.

And Iraq, you know, parts of Iraq where the Shia are a majority for many centuries, you know.