Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.

Dr Paul is away for today, but thankfully I won't be handling the show alone because we have a very special guest.

Those of you who go to Ron Paul Institute conferences, you will recognize this

next guest as someone who gives extraordinarily insightful talks to the group.

And I'm talking about retired CIA counterintelligence officer Phil Joraldi joining us from Virginia.

Phil good morning how are you?

I'm fine Dan. Thank you. Thank you for having me on.

Thanks so much for joining us. It's been a while, it's been too long, but you know, things are deteriorating in the Middle East.

We talked about on yesterday's show how Biden was asked if the bombing was working in Yemen. He said no, but we're going to keep doing it.

So there you go with that.

The U.S. is getting more and more involved in the Israel-Gazah war.

We saw today that the UK is getting more involved. They're sending

surveillance drones over and increasingly. It seemed to be the only two

countries that have a taste for it. France is not that interested in dealing in the Red Sea but nevertheless we

seem to be drawn more and more into it. So I wanted to just talk a little bit more

about this. A couple of articles that we'd notice. One was appeared in the Libertarian Institute website.

But essentially, they're all similar,

which is this sort of tension between the military and civilian leadership that's emerging in Israel where the political

leadership like Netanyahu and the people around him,

some of the more extreme figures, they believe that they've got to take this war to the end. They've

got to kill every last Hamas soldier and they've got to take over Gaza. And the military

is saying we can't do it it can't be done we can't

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