When the founder of Hezbollah had to flee Lebanon, he went and stayed at Mokhtar Al-Sadr's house in Karbala.

Exactly.

And now I, I also wanna make it clear that even though there is a kind of exhausted realism going on, you know, in the, in the, in the region, and which may be more inclined to see Israel's, uh, security actions as a rational response to certain things and no longer just demonize Israel, that can ha- that can be true while at the same time people are extremely, uh, angry with Israel on other fronts.

The ongoing problem in the West Bank, particularly Area C, but not only Area C, the quote unquote "settler terrorism" problem, which is a real problem, which is supported by the right-wing people who are in power in Israel because they are pursuing an, an, a, a policy which slowly but surely will annex Area C, i.e. the majority of the West Bank.

That is true.

You know, people know this is happening.

They may be less inclined than they were before to see Jews and Israelis and whatever as monsters or as superhuman demons.

No.

Mm.

They did that without warning the White House.

So the, the, the missile struck, it was 30 kilometers away from that base, Al-Udeid base, without warning.

And it has, in the last five weeks, set in train, uh ...

America's alliance system in the, in the region is on life support now, which is strange.

You'd be surprised to hear that because yesterday, the day before, we saw Donald Trump in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, sorry, in, um, in Egypt, acting for all the world like the great, you know, world king that he thinks that he is.

And, but behind that is an American administration extremely worried, uh, that Israel's reckless attack on the 9th of September has-... permanently altered the perception of American power in the region, which was already very much on shaky grounds since the Biden administration had come to power and had reneged on some, uh, weapons contracts, weapons deals that the first Trump administration had arranged with the Emirates and the, and the Saudis.

Hmm.