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And, of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale. Or just Google, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Born and Glory, anything grace, America. I'm Hugh. I've been looking forward to this. And the Dob, hey, y'all. for us for a long time. I think he may still be the chief foreign affairs correspondent for Channel 13 in Israel, but he's a Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs for a while. So he's on the upper east, upper west side of New York. Nadar, are you still with Channel 13? No, no. I'm writing only for youot Ahunot and Wynet to call them once a week.

Okay, well, I want people to understand. You've got a great newsletter, and I want them to go.

It's called Between Us. If they go find you on exit, Nadav underscore A-L, E-Y-A-L, they can sign up for

it like I get it every single day day and I want people to be smart.

So, Nadav, first, general, 30,000 feet, your assessment of the war after 25 days.

Well, I think that Iran's military capabilities, you have been degraded substantially.

I know that the Israeli sources I'm speaking with

are very happy with the results that the United States and Israel have had in attacking

both the ballistic missile capabilities of Iran, its nuclear installations, but also

the military apparatus of Iran. And what they're saying here is that when the Iranians wake up after this war,

what they're going to discover is that they don't have any military industry left.

They don't have military research facilities that they use to use in order to develop nuclear weapons.

And they're not going to have a large chunk of

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