Hello, and welcome to Of the People, our season finale year two. We have a special show for you tonight.

We have two different panels coming on. Our first panel is New York Times, Wall Street Journal,

bestselling author, speaker, Chris Weidner, speaker and former CEO of the Jewish Federation of Philadelphia,

Steve Rosenberg, and Dr. Lori

Feynman, founder of Florida's East Coast Voice and former president of Boca JCC, stay with us for

the main show. But now, a new paradigm. And that's really what we're seeing. We need to step

back from the Israel-Iran conflict

and understand what we're really witnessing, which is a seismic shift in the Middle East. I've

said it till I'm blue in the face that we needed to cut the head off the snake before anything

would change in the Middle East. And okay, maybe we didn't cut the head off the snake, but they're

certainly defanged. And there's a new paradigm't cut the head off the snake, but they're certainly defanged.

And there's a new paradigm that's now taking shape right before our eyes.

Remember, look, for decades, the Middle East has been shackled by terror networks, proxies,

wars, and the looming threat of a nuclear Iran. And in a matter of 12 days, count them folks,

12 days, that world collapsed and Israel

strikes were nothing short of devastating. And U.S. Bunker Buster bombing, say that three

times fast, bunker buster bombing of the nuclear sites was really the exclamation point.

But this wasn't just a military operation. It was a regional reset.

And the decade-long fantasy that Iran had that one day it would be able to hold the world hostage with nuclear weapons over.

But just as critical as to what we're seeing is what we're not seeing. Hamas did not rise to Iran's defense. Hezbollah did not ignite a regional

war. And when the moment came, these so-called proxies or frontline warriors for Iran,

silent, already taken out by Israel. And let's not forget all the money and weapons and political

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