Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today is Wednesday, March 4th, day five of the war with Iran. I'm Amanda Borssel Dan here in our Jerusalem studio with editor David Horowitz. David, thank you so much for joining me today.

Shoh, Hyman. Missiles continue to rain down both from Iran and

Hezbollah on Israel, and Iran is continuing its strikes on the region.

We're going to discuss who started this war, whose war is it, all of this and more

when we're back.

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And we're back. I'm Amanda Borchelle Don Dan, here in our Jerusalem studio with editor David Horowitz.

David, we heard from U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday and in the preceding days that the U.S. most definitely started the war.

And we heard yesterday that, if anything, the U.S. dragged Israel into it. What do you make of these remarks?

Well, there's a huge route going on in America. It's very significant in terms of support for

Israel in the context of this war. You have critics from within Trump's base saying that basically

Prime Minister Netanyahu dragged America into this war. Megan Kelly saying something,

you know, this is Israel's war and those American servicemen six to date, as far as I know, who've been killed, died for Israel. They didn't die for the United States. That's a really incendiary accusation. And it's partly fueled by the fact that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said that we knew Israel was about to attack, and therefore we kind of had to, we thought we knew we'd be hit,

and therefore we had to go into it. And then he kind of clarified and backtracked. But that,

you know, provided a context in which if you're hostile to Israel and very hostile to the notion

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