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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President

Stephen's Incorporated. She's at the Hudson Institute, former senior

advisor to the Secretary of State. We turn to the Biden

administration and the Netanyahu government.

The headline in Israel,

Netanyahu told Biden Israel will not attack Iranian nuclear oil sites.

This negotiation is said by the Jerusalem Papers to have calmed the president.

Mary, a very good day to you.

This is a puzzle.

The White House interfering in targeting

in response to the Iranian ballistic missile attack of some weeks

past along with the other surrogates of Israel of Iran attacking Israel routinely.

Hezbollah drones, Hezbollah missiles, leading to major casualties,

a drone strike at a barracks of Galani Brigade left dozens wounded and at least four dead.

And yet the President is concerned about a wider war.

What wider war, Mary, how does this suit either Washington or Jerusalem? I'll go for either. Good evening to you.

Good evening to you, John. This is a perverse policy because in effect what the US President is doing is protecting Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terror and its nuclear program by putting those

programs off limits even when we've seen not one but two massive ballistic missile barages from Iran into Israel aimed at civilians as well as military targets.

And even as Israel remains under a constant attack from Iran's proxies as well of Hezbollah, Hamas,

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