e permission of Congress and without the full knowledge of the citizens. That's what it feels like.

Well, let's talk about why Israel has not attacked yet in terms of their ground attack. One theory is that Biden is restraining them. In other words, Biden said don't go in and kill a bunch of innocent people while trying to get the bad guys. So that's possible. So that's certainly a force that's working on them. It's not the only force that's happening. And Anatole Lubarsky added that it probably takes three weeks after mobilization to actually be ready to launch. Now that matches my point of view that it just takes longer than they have. They've had so far to just get ready because they don't want to be partly ready right now.

Here's a really ugly thought. The ground invasion or not, or how it goes or how it doesn't go, is largely an economic decision. Isn't that ugly? It's an economic decision. And the reason is because it would be really expensive to surround Gaza and just wait. Waiting is very expensive. I mean, war is expensive too, but if they're going to have the war anyway, you don't want to have the war plus the expense of the siege. That's a lot of expense. So there's, I hate to say it, but there's an economic force, which is they can't wait forever. It would just be too expensive. You can't turn it into a permanent outdoor jail and just do a better job of security. I think that's the comic Dave Smith approach, just better security and not just, but that being a big part of it. So the timing of it is going to be based on economics probably, which is the creepiest, most disgusting thought you could ever have in your life. But it's also the real world, right? Money is an asset of the military. You don't have money, you don't have an army. So it's always money. It's just that there are bullets flying at the same time.

All right. Apparently Israel has created a special unit to hunt and kill every participant in the Hamas terror attack. How would they know exactly? I guess somehow they might be able to capture a list of who was involved. So I don't even know how they would know who to go after. But that's very Israel. I think the psychology of that is great. The psychology of it is to tell the citizens no matter how long it takes, because they've done this before, you know, no matter how long it takes, we will get every one of them. And I think they mean it and I think they will take as long as it takes.

So Joel Pollak is over there now reporting, and I can't stop thinking about how terrible that would be to be over there, to actually just put yourself in the most stressful country in the world right now, where apparently the entire country is just in war mode and everybody's mind is focused on this as it should be. And I can't even imagine it, just seeing the evidence of the devastation and having to just put yo