Jonathan Feldstein talks reactions to Israel's attack on Iran

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, I tell you, this situation with Iran and Israel
is just not good right now. Fox News correspondent Griff
Jenkins was talking about this over the weekend and how
close Iran is to developing a nuclear weapon and we
just cannot let that happen. Listen, what we know now.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Is that Iran's nuclear program has been crippled, set back.
I'm not sure what the correct adjective is, but I
think you all have to assume that it's not over
and they could restart it to what capabilities. We just
don't know, and that's what makes this makes this so terrifying.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Joining us not to talk a little bit more about
what's happening right now. Jonathan Feldstein, our friend with Genesis
one two three, who is there in Israel and Jonathan
in the morning, I hope you're doing well and save Hi.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
JT as good as everyone else here. I'm at a
little exhausted from all of the air aid sirens that
keep waking us up in the middle of the night. Yeah,
but you know where where I am, we've been generally
save me and my extended family.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Well, I'm glad to hear that. Jonathan, and the apparently the
missiles from I Ran are now getting through the dome
of protection and a number of people have been killed
in all this.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, that's right. Well, the Iron Dome and the David
Swing and the arrow which are all the multiple layers
of the missile defense system, we have never have been impenetrable,
so always about ninety What we're seeing now is about
ninety five percent success. I'll tell you. They go over
my house here and we see the missiles coming in.
I live very close to the Jordanian border, and so

(01:36):
we see them coming in from the east and then
hear massive booms in the distance. And just last night, yeah,
last night Tel Aviv got hit. And this afternoon I
was sitting here, I took my grandchildren out for ice
cream and came home to find some dear friends of
ours whose house we were supposed to have stayed in,
showing pictures of the former apartment of one of my

(01:59):
friend and son's girlfriend, which was completely destroyed based on
the rocket in Tel Aviv. So we're seeing that there
have been I think about fifteen people who have been killed,
hundreds of hundreds injured. But I was just making notes
because on starting tomorrow, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday,

(02:21):
and if anyone wants to join, they can connect to
our website Genesis one to three dot co. I'm doing
a series of briefings about what's going on here, and
I was making notes talking about despite the stress and
there is and despite the exhaustion, and believe me, it's
hard to keep my eyes open and multi layers of
stress that are being experienced. These are miraculous. I mean,

(02:46):
yesterday the Israeli Air Force flew twenty three hundred kilometers
which is unprecedented and took out an Iranian fueling plane
on the ground in Mashad, which is the northeastern part
of Iran, And so miraculous things are happening. But as you,
as you shared from the outset with the report from

(03:06):
Fox is we don't certainly the Iranian nuclear program and
defense systems and offense systems, they're ballistic missiles and what
have you have been set back. The problem is we
don't know how much. And we do know as long
as they are given the opportunity, they will continue to
rebuild and try to annihilate us. That's their end goal.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well, we know the Iranian government is very weak when
it comes to economy and also their military strength, yes,
certainly limited. They've been talking about closing the you know,
the straits of what is it where the ships go
through amuse or whatever, but anyway, you know, but they
don't really want to do that. Their biggest buyer of

(03:50):
all the oil they produce is China and that would
impact that. So when you look at the military, they're
they're very weakly trained, they don't have a lot of stamina.
Israel obviously more military strong. Do you anticipate that they'll
never get the upper hand unless they try and launch
a big one?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, the big one, I think I think I won't
use the phrase. I think that we've seen the best
that they've got. I think that we will continue to
see hundreds fired at it at a time, but I
don't think that we will see now their ability to
produce a nuclear weapon. What I'm praying for, and this

(04:30):
is you also said it in the in the open.
They can't have a nuclear weapon ever, not this First
of all, nobody needs it. Number one, but the Islamic
regime is evil. They've been brutalizing their own people for
forty six and a half years. They shout death to
America and death to Israel. Not because it sounds great

(04:50):
at a prep pep rally, but it's they actually believe it.
These are their goals. So we're the little Satan and
we're the Canary and the coal mine, but really they're
out to strike America as well, and the negotiations are
a farce. And I do believe if given the opportunity
they will they will continue to find ways to enrich
uranium and throw it on a warhead or even a

(05:12):
dirty bomb. That's, you know, a nuclear bomb horrific, but
a dirty bomb very possible and no less horrific. And
what we and I speak as an American duel citizen,
an American and Israeli, we need to be sure that
they can never ever think of it. And that's one
of the Also the miracles that's come out of this

(05:33):
deterrence that Israel's effective strikes have taken since Friday has
been remarkable, not just with Iran, but anyone here in
the region, including Turkey, including the Saudis, including the Hutis
in Yemen, anything that's evolving in Syria. The deterrence has
really really been defined here. My prayer is just that

(05:54):
the Iranian people rise up and take back their own
country because this is the golden opportunity that they've been
waiting almost half a century for.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Well, Benjamin Nett Yahoo, the Israeli Prime Minister, has said
the Iranian people, this is not against you. We are
with you. This is about the ugly, evil regime that
you're under the control and power of. So yeah, prayers
for you guys there, and Jonathan, I want to stay
in touch with you throughout the week if we can
and get the updates. And thank you so much for

(06:23):
coming on with this this morning. I know you're right
in the middle of a stress pit there, but thank you.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Always a pleasure. JT. Have a great day you too,