Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show.

Victor is the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky distinguished fellow in history at

Hillsdale College. He has written 27 books and has a 28th one coming out. It's

called The End of everything and it's about the complete

Annihilation of civilizations and I don't want to scare any of your listeners with that word annihilation, but it looks at thieves, Carthage, Byzantium,

and the Aztecs and why those civilizations or how those civilizations were utterly destroyed

and more or less have disappeared,

but although not completely, I suppose, in some cases.

So I encourage you to have a look at it and go on and we have it on the website and you guys can go ahead

pre-order from Amazon or your chosen bookstore and so we highly encourage that.

This is the Friday News Roundup, and we're going to be looking at, of course, the war in

Gaza and Hamas first, and then we'll go on to some of Joe Biden's, Jonathan Turley

called it Savings and Loan, the Biden savings in loan, so we'll have a look at that and also our Homeland Security, Head of the Homeland Security

Mayorkas, answering to Congress or not answering is probably a better way of putting

that. So stay with us and we'll be right back.

We're back.

So, Victor, recently we saw a video of the former deputy foreign minister and now a spokesman for Hamas, his name is Ghazi Hamad,

and he said that what Hamas is doing is going to happen, quote, again and again, and and quote Israel has no place on our land we

must remove that country before it before it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nations,

and must be finished. So very ominous and shows you that Israel has really got no choice

if the head of Hamas is saying that, but I was wondering your thoughts on that.

Well he's surfaced, I think, for 20 years, and he's always surfaced in the context of

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