Welcome to the program today,

Mono Gonzalez here in studio,

and we have a great program today.

We are going to be discussing all the things

that have been happening, as you might know,

with the nation of Israel and the latest attacks

on the nation of Israel.

We are going to be discussing all this

with Middle East expert Bill Salas,

so stick around.

Welcome back and I am here with Bill Salas by Skype. I appreciate Bill your willingness to come and join us with so much happening in the land of Israel. I mean, you and I have done lots of interviews over the years now and it seems that things are absolutely heating up.

And so let's kind of just jump right in here because we know there's so much to discuss in the short amount of time.

Kind of give us an update for those that maybe have not seen what has happened over the past few weeks.

Well, you know, basically in response to Israel's destroying the consulate in Syria and killing a couple lead generals of Iran's army, Iran's army, Iran launched a direct attack. Most of your viewers will understand this. They launched, let's see, 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles, of which about 99% of those either were intercepted or some of them, of course, even failed

to launch, we're told.

So it was a direct attack.

Up to this point, basically, Iran has been using its proxies in a multi-phased, multifaceted war to cause problems for Israel.

But this was a direct attack, which seemed to have failed, and it seemed to be a very expensive

fireworks show for Iran with no celebration. But, I mean, there are certain wins. Joe Biden came out

and said, Israel accept the win and don't retaliate, basically. He doesn't

want anything to escalate. Of course, Israel has all of its rights to do that at this point, a state

coming against another state. But one of the wins also, I think, that needs to be looked at, and this

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