Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Extend Show Podcast.

Right now as we talk to you, we're going to spend a lot of time on this today because it's

the biggest conflict that Israel has seen of this kind in 50 years. Since the Yom Kippur War,

you have a number of possibilities where this can spiral beyond where the conflict currently is,

could become a broader, mid-east issue, could become a global issue. And Clay and I are going to make

sense to the degree we can of those possibilities. But it was tough this weekend. It was hard

to follow the news. It was one of those moments. It was one of those days where you saw a tremendous

viciousness and inhumanity on display from this multi-pronged Hamas assault on the state of Israel.

At least 700 Israelis are confirmed dead right now. There are also nine Americans killed in this.

Hamas is holding over 150 hostages right now and that number is likely going to be raised

throughout the course of today. Israel was hit in 22 different locations outside the Gaza Strip

by ground attack forces, terrorists, bands of terrorists, along with

barrages of rockets being fired. Now Israel is a country that is known for having tremendous

security, tremendous capabilities and including a $1 billion barrier that has seemed to be largely

impenetrable at this point. This time around they managed to get through the Israeli barrier.

This is a moment, Clay, where people are asking a lot of questions. First of all, the conflict is

still ongoing. Hamas is in effectively a death struggle now because I think there's a recognition

that the Israeli government is going to try to destroy that entity this time. They have to.

That's been the promise from Netanyahu and others. We will have some guests to join us on this as

well, including my friend, David Efun, who's an expert on all things Israel at the bottom of this

hour. Clay, we know that Iranian security officials helped plan this surprise attack from Hamas.

Hamas and Hezbollah who work together in their efforts to destroy the state of Israel have had

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