e people who thought they knew everything about everything said, "Scott, you fool. Don't you know these will be precision strikes and probably the whole thing will probably be done in two weeks and I'd be surprised if the death count goes over I don't know 10,000." And you remember me saying I don't know that it's going to be short. I don't think the death count's going to stay that low. Well here we are.

Now I remind you that my opinion on Israel, and this is the way you should treat it too, is why would I have an opinion? Why would I have an opinion? I have an opinion about America. And if this were an American conflict primarily, I would say people like me who are public figures were part of the figuring out how to get it right. So I would feel an obligation as an American to definitely have an opinion and definitely tell you what it was. But if you're observing another country, the only filter that makes sense is their own self-interest, their national self-interest.

So if I look at Israel, I ask this question. Is Israel acting in a way that is probably, you know everything's just risk, so probably are they acting in a way that's probably in the long-term best interest of Israel as a country. And I think the answer is yes. Not that you like it or not that I like it. And it certainly doesn't matter what you and I think about the ethical and moral nature of anything that's happening there. Just it's not our business. If the United States were in that situation, would we be acting similarly? Well I could argue that maybe we have been in that situation and maybe we did act similarly. Meaning that we acted in our national best interest even though it was really really not good for let's say the Native Americans just to pick one example. Yes, countries act aggressively in their own national self-interest. Israel is really good at it. Doesn't mean they get everything right because that's not an option, but they're really good at it.

And I also say if Hamas and the Palestinians had full power or maybe even as much power as Israel has, what would that look like? Well I think it would look like the reverse that the Jews living in the area would be in danger all the time, more danger than they're already in. And it would probably look like the reverse. So it's not up to me to put a judgment on any of this stuff. If it were Americans, I would definitely put a judgment on it because that's the team I play for. But if I'm just watching, I'm not judging them morally or ethically. I'm just saying they have one job to do what's in their own country's best interest. Are they doing that? Kind of looks like it. It looks like Israel is getting bigger because they're going to own Gaza and they didn't own it before. So in 100 years if you come back, will it look like Israel taking complete control of Gaza was a good idea? Probably. Probably. And they might even treat Netanyahu as like a national hero because he expanded the size of Israel. Yeah, they're doing a really good job of pursuing their own self-interest, which doesn't mean it's in our interest. Doesn't mean it's in my interest, but it's also none of my business except for what we're paying. So I do separate the question of financial support, but I also think that's more complicated than we make it. We think it's simple. Hey, don't give your money to anybody. But probably we're getting something out of it. I don't think any of us know the full situation of what we're getting out of it other than our weapons makers are using that money that we give to Israel. Israel uses some portion of it to buy our weapons. So some of it comes back but not to the taxpayers directly.

Anyway, that's my view and I get tired of the people who are arguing morality and ethics. Nobody thinks it's moral or ethical to kill a bunch of children and 60,000 civilians. And think about the ones that their lives have been permanently ruined either by injury or economic desperation. No, there's no way you can ration