Violence has broken out in Israel as Hamas is firing rockets into the state of Israel.

Israel defending itself.

And our host of this show, Senator Cruz, will be headed where the rockets are flying in the coming days.

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz.

Senator, I'm very glad that we are doing this episode from our very comfy studio here in Washington, D.C., and that we're not doing it under rocket fire in Israel.

But you, you madman, are headed right into where the violence is.

So, Michael, you're saying you're not going to come with me and do a, do a podcast on location

alongside the Gaza Strip in a bomb shelter.

You know, I was, I've gotten sick of Zoom over the last year.

This will be an instance.

I think I'd prefer Zoom. I think Skype

further distance would be great. All right. You can zoom in from Beirut. Wonderful. The far more

peaceful, yes. You are headed there. I am. Into a conflict that I think we can say without exaggeration

is the most complex conflict on planet Earth. I think we can say without exaggeration is the most complex conflict on planet Earth.

I think a great many conservatives, even, you know, certainly the leftists, but even a great

many conservatives don't really know what exactly is at play here, what exactly the two sides

stand for, or why there seems to be perpetual violence.

And I, to some degree, would count myself in that category. So, Senator, if you wouldn't mind,

please explain it. Well, Israel is surrounded by nations that for most of the existence of the

modern state of Israel have wanted to drive it into the sea, have wanted

to destroy it. If you look at Israel, the only reason Israel exists today is that it is militarily

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