Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report, Dr. Paul is away for the day,

but we will soldier on and do our duty. Thankfully today, you won't have to just listen to me,

because we have a special guest joining us, and that special guest is an old friend of mine.

She's an investigative reporter. She works at the Grey Zone, which I highly recommend as a top

news site if you want to understand what's going on. She was a speaker at the Ron Paul

Institute's most recent conference in Washington, DC, and is the author of the upcoming book

Corporate Koo. I'm proud to say that Anya Parampille is joining us from Washington, DC. Anya,

are you there? I am, and it's an honor to be here. Well, it's great. It's great to have you one.

Well, we were talking before the show started about how we've been, you know, spending about 20 hours

a day trying to figure out what the heck is going on in the Middle East and what the response

will be, what we might expect, how bad things might be for all sides. And the conclusion is,

we don't really know either of us don't, not other of us really know, but we can speculate,

and that's basically all we can do. And really, it looks like about five or 10 minutes before we

started, there have been some big developments that, again, we don't know what they mean or what's

going to happen, but it looks like just from what we've seen that there is some activity on

Israel's northern border and eastern border, i.e. Lebanon and Syria looks like a lot of drones have

been launched. Again, we don't know what to expect, but do you think this might be Anya,

Hezbollah entering the war in earnest? My read right now is that everybody is waiting to see what

Israel's next move actually is. If they're going to head, go ahead with the ground invasion of Gaza,

and what many retired US military generals, I heard General Jack Keen, for example, on

Fox call for Israel to dismantle Hamas completely, even discussing the possibility of, essentially,

if Israel's intelligence networks within Gaza fail, which we could probably already say they will,

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