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rockets into Israel. Hezbollah being another entity that Iran supports in addition to Hamas. It looks like Israel is maybe getting close to or closer to completing their Gaza main military operations, which would free up some of their military hypothetically for a bigger battle if they should decide to get into one. So here are the things we know. Over the last three days, it's been, Mario Nawfal…

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destruction, at least of the assets and most of the military that matters, or else all they're doing is making them mad and they'll just shoot more rockets. So Hezbollah is not a situation where you can go in and rough them up a little bit then make some peace. If you're going to go in, it has to be to the end. It has to be a fight to the death. And I think a fight to the death probably favors Israel, but it's going to be a bloody one. And there I think their cities would be hit like maybe we can't even imagine. So I would say that's guaranteed. And I wouldn't be surprised if that kicks up right around the time of our election. If you were Israel and you didn't want to get too badly criticized for doing what a lot of people would say you shouldn't do, but I'm saying whether you should or shouldn't do it, I'm saying it's going to happen. It's not even an opinion. Like I'm not telling you it should or shouldn't. It's just going to happen. Nothing could stop it at this point. So we'll, I think America will be all busy with our elections or maybe the aftermath of the elections. And Israel is just going to mow the lawn up there. And I think it's going to be massive, massive destruction. Now they have like how many weapons do they have? I saw a number of how many weapons they have. It's just an unbelievable number of missiles. And in my opinion, Iran's play and Hezbollah's play is to just keep building up the enemy forces until they can do one attack that destroys Israel in one go. And they're getting close to being able to do that. So if Israel doesn't destroy them completely, I would say that'

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s a strategic error. So I'd say it's guaranteed. And again I'm not for it or against it. I don't have any power over it. I'm just watching. There will be war with Hezbollah. Guarantee it. CBS News cryptically says that the upcoming presidential debate that Biden will have surprises and that might include his physical performance. What the hell does that mean? What the hell does that mean? By the…

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