And now, America's number one show on pop culture and politics.

This is the Michael Medved Show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, a great day in the United

States where we are in the midst of what is

turning out to be a great and hotly contested and fiercely competitive presidential battle.

Is it a battle in which J.D. Vance is helping his running mate, Donald Trump, or is he actually helping his running mate's opponent?

That would be Kamala Harris, the vice president of the United States.

A lot of discussion about that.

And meanwhile, discussion about worldwide tragedies.

There was a devastating and hideous rocket attack on the

leading Drew's village in Israel. I specify that it's a Drew's village because when you hear about a soccer field being hit by Hisbola and by a rocket, and you hear about at least 12 children who were killed in this assault, and there were children ranging in age from 6 to 14, some sources say 12. They're young children. And the funerals, when you look

at the funerals, are heartbreaking. And most people have never heard of Druze Arabs, but they

are an important force in the Middle East. There are 143,000 of them who live in Israel, who serve in the Israeli

army. There are generals and war heroes for the IDF who are not Jewish. They are Druze Arabs.

And this has been one of the most remarkable groups. It is a very big part in Israeli life.

All of the victims, because Migdal-Shams,

which is a beautiful, beautiful town, I've been there.

And it is a Drews town that is on the slopes of Mount Hermon in the Golan. The Golan has been part of Israel since

1967, and it's just unspeakable. And now they're talking about expanding the war.

Israel's security cabinet has authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense

minister to decide when and how to retaliate for the deadly rocket attack Israel and the U.S.

say was carried out by the Lebanese Shia militant group, Hezbollah. By the way,

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