almost immediately after they took over and started taking over the demilitarized zone and moving

deeper than that since then. So the plan for normalization hasn't exactly gone off without a hitch.

Yeah. So isn't it funny how they said that Assad and the Bothas and the SAA were such a threat?

They bombed them all the time.

And they said, man, we would really prefer al-Qaeda there.

Took credit for helping Al-Qaeda win.

Netanyahu goes to the border and gives a big speech about how, yeah, see, because I weakened Hezbollah.

I made it possible for al-Qaeda,

take over the country. Congratulations to me and my great leadership skills. But then,

as you said, like the next day, the Israelis completely decimate what's left of the Syrian Arab Army because evidently, by their behavior, they seem to demonstrate that they're a lot more worried about

that equipment being in the hands of a bunch of bin Ladenites than they ever were

about it being in the hands of the Bothys.

Am I reading that wrong?

Well, that's certainly what they've been saying.

I don't know that it's so much that they're really concerned about al-Qaeda being in charge of Syria, although it clearly isn't ideal, despite them saying for years they preferred that to Assad.

I think, honestly, a lot of it is just, well, it's, it's a unclear situation in Syria,

and it's a perfect excuse to expand their buffer zone inside Syrian territory to include

more of Golan.

Yeah, that's all, huh?

They're just taking advantage.

All right. So, you know, I confess I don't have a very zoomed-in map of this area in my head there, right where the very northwest, northwest, northeastern part of Israel, including the occupied, now annexed and stolen Golan Heights and Lebanon and Syria,

all meat and all this. I got a map in my head, but it's not great. But so how far into

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