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Welcome to today's podcast, sponsored by Hillsdale College, all things Hillsdale at Hillsdale.

I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, I'll listen to the Hillsdale Dialogues, all of them at Hugh for Hillsdale.com, or just Google, Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Good morning, glory, and evening, Grace, America. I'm Hugh. Good Wednesday to you. A lot of news out of the Middle East today, and I want to begin right there.

The Israeli defense forces announced late this afternoon in America that it has killed over

2,100 terrorists and operatives' terror operating with Hamas since fighting resumed on March the 18th

in Gaza. So there are clearly still a lot of bad guys trying to kill the IDF,

and the IDF kills them first. Moreover, Israel announced today it is calling up 60,000 reservists

for the Gaza City takeover. That's in addition to the regular Army battalions already

deployed in Gaza and the 20,000

reservists deployed in Gaza.

I've been watching videos from every source, and I don't trust all them, but I trust

some of them.

The IDF is methodically moving through the outside suburbs of the city of Gaza City,

and finding along the way many explosive laden buildings that have been booby-trapped to kill IDF soldiers. Those are being

blown up. There won't be much left of Gaza City until and unless Hamas surrenders in the near future.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports this morning that inside Syria there is a battle underway to dismantle the Assad regime's narco state.

You may remember a few years ago, Brad Thor wrote a novel about Cap-Tagon manufacturing in Syria.

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