Syrian dictator Bashar Assad uses chemical weapons again. London talks about banning knives,

yes, really, and the Atlantic bans conservatives. I'm Ben Shapiro and this is the Ben Shapiro show.

So welcome back. Here we are in our beautiful studios once again, and I could not be more pleased

to be home except for how I wish are on vacation still. But since I am not, we will have to do a show. So I have a lot to talk about today. Obviously, the possibility of war in the Middle East is heating up in pretty dramatic fashion after Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on his own citizens. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Birch Gold. So the stock market has been

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that we sent you. Okay. So obviously the big news over the weekend and the big news today

is the situation in Syria. So over the last few days, the dictator of Syria used chemical weapons against his

own citizens once again, and the footage broke on TV. Now, as you recall, the last time

there was a public use of chemical weapons and the news broke on TV. President Trump lobbed a

couple of missiles into Syria. It was something like 50 missiles were lobbed into Syria and a particular airbase

was hit. Well, it's unclear what exactly the United States is going to do as of yet, but already

action has been taken. It's been taken by Israel. So Israel went in and knocked out a Syrian air base

and took down some of their Syrian air defenses.

And I'll give you all that information in just a second.

For those who don't know what Syrian chemical weapons attacks look like, they are just

horrendous and horrific.

The footage looked something like this.

So you can see these children are, you know, being treated.

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