I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that

there's nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and

we run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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I was actually. Welcome to the PDB's Situation Report.

I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed.

We'll start today's show in the Middle East

where tensions are on the rise between Israel and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah.

We'll speak to Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy's David

Dawood about that.

Later, we'll examine the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests continuing across the U.S. with author and national

correspondent for the Blaze, Julio Rosas.

He'll give us insight into one of the more interesting and important aspects

of these protests.

Who exactly is funding the ongoing demonstrations?

I mean, those matching tents and Hamas headbands and professionally produced signs well well

somebody has to pay for it all but first today's PDB's situation's spotlight.

I want to begin in the Middle East, where fighting between Israel and Hezbollah along Israel's

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