Yakov Katz

Iran's axes, these proxies that they created, they're in decline.

Now, you've got to maintain that.

But here's the question that Israel had to ask itself.

Iran is racing forward with its enrichment towards a nuclear bomb.

No, but while I'm saying – you have to look at it in its entirety.

What Hamas did crossing into Israel, obviously, with that attack, they are –

a massive terrorist group that we failed to deal with.

But you have to look at the bigger picture.

The bigger picture starts in Iran, proceeds to Hezbollah in Lebanon, is also Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen.

The nuclear track, whether they're six months a year, 18 months, two years,

with the ballistic missiles that they're developing, with their capabilities, and with the whole picture, they had to be taken on at this moment.

But Steve, let me give you one other reason why.

if you have iran what's your concern about iran twofold a they get nuclear be their ballistic missile program and their proxies if you ever want to attack let's say it's in two years because you got two years according to what what you're saying i'm the same with the times no no i got it you got two years you wait till they're at the verge you still have hezbollah and you have hamas when you attack you're going to get the iranian missiles the hezbollah missiles and the hamas missiles what did israel do in june

After it had eviscerated Hezbollah, it had weakened Hamas.

The payback, the retaliation goes from being up here suddenly to being down here.

Because you had the air defense.

So you do have to be concerned about the Iranian missiles.

And America helped Israel with that, with the THAADs and the Aegises.

I'm not saying not.

But you had an operational window.