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daily life they don't act that way. That's fairly common right? That people don't actually act the way their sincere beliefs tell them they should act. It's the most common thing is to be two people at once. And it seems to me that there's got to be a practical understanding that Iran would be destroyed far before Israel would be destroyed. And since that will never be their ambition to destroy t…
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But my point is they are already acting against their own religion by not attacking already. The fact that they would not win should not in any way... no no no no no. There's a religious commandment to say if you don't think you can win you take what's called a hudna. It's a 10-year and then it's renewable every 10 years. It's a truce that waits until the Muslims are strong enough to attack. It's called that actually their word for peace, hudna, which is this temporary restraining order until such time as they feel strong enough to attack properly.
So as long as what we're living under... but the strong enough to attack mean that you would attack and survive or would it be go attack and win? They're not stupid. They're very very much not stupid. The Iranians are very very smart people and they're very industrious and they have the technical capabilities to fight and fight well. But they wouldn't launch. They might launch a suicidal attack if it achieved the aim that they wanted which was our destruction. No our destruction ranks higher than I think their survival.
So in your view the leaders of Iran if they could completely destroy Israel but it would also guarantee their own complete destruction they would take that choice?
I think that there are enough of the crazy people there and they hold enough of the levers of power to make me very scared if those levers of power connected to nuclear weapons on launched ballistic missiles.
Yeah I agree. So let me just reiterate for one other time. If I were in Israel or even as an ally of Israel which we are we have to treat all of those risks as 100% certain threats. You don't really have the luxury of saying well I don't think they really mean it. So I'm completely on the side of treating it like it's 100% guaranteed risk. And thank you for giving us a little background on that. This was great fun. Thanks very much for having me.
All right thanks Brian. And you can just sign off on your own there.
All right that's all I'm going to talk about for today and I will talk to you all tomorrow.