Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: The Israel-Iran Conflict

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

Bill discusses the situation in the Middle East between Israel and Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So a lot of my Jewish friends with the holidays coming up, Rosh Hashanah, everything, very concerned, and they should be, about their brethren in Israel. And I got some observations because New York has the second largest Jewish population in the world. And Jews here have contributed mightily to the city. And they are very loyal people, generally speaking. I don't care whether they're liberal and conservative, the mother me. I've got a lot of Jewish friends.

There are a lot of Jews in Levittown. We play baseball and stickball and basketball and every ball you can think of together. And we always got annoyed with the Jewish kids because about 4.30 in the afternoon, about an hour after we got out of school, we were right in the middle of a game, there would be, Mike, oh, time to go to Hebrew school. I lose half the roster. I go, where are you guys going? Wait a minute. What's Hebrew school? Don't you go to regular school? What is this?

Boom, they're gone. So we had to build that in because they had Hebrew school and we couldn't, you know, we lost half the team. That was very funny. But we all got along. There was no anti-Semitism in Levitant and I ever saw. They were living on top of one another. The Irish, the Italians, the Poles, and the Jews. It was a very interesting and fascinating place to be brought up. Anyway, Israel.

So Israel can wax Iran any time at once. That's number one. Iran cannot defeat Israel in a war. There's no way to get Iranian troops anywhere near Israel. If you look at the map, you'll see that right away. And air power favors Israel about 1,000 to 1. The Iranian Air Force is not much. So if Israel wants to go in and bomb their ports in the Persian Gulf and cut their lifeline,

economic lifeline, Israel can do that in probably 48 hours. Don't need a USA's help, don't need NATO's help. Israel can do it. It's got the technology, it's got the weaponry, got the pilots. The mullahs know that. And if that's what it comes to, the mullahs will be killed themselves. Because the Mossad knows where they live, knows who they are. Massad's got people all over Iran.

And so those mullahs, they're going to get killed, just like Soleimani got waxed by the Trump administration. Third most powerful man inside Iran, they took them out with a drone. Israel will take those people right out. They'll die. They know it. And Iran, as we saw yesterday, can fire all these rockets, can't get through the dome. So it's not even a military contest. the danger is that all the Arab states, they're thrown into chaos, the people who hate the Jews

over there, start to riot. So there is a danger on the ground, but it's not a military danger per se. It's a terror danger. And then the danger of us is the economy. So the worldwide economy is turbulent whenever a war breaks out, but a war of this magnitude. Now, what was will happen. I don't know what's going to happen. I know that Biden and Harris a week. Everybody knows that. Netanyan knows that the mullers know it. And they're not, I don't recommend getting directly involved with this. I wouldn't send soldiers to fight on Israel's behalf or pilots, ships. You have to be able to guard certain facilities. Okay. But I wouldn't participate if I'm the USA and attack Iran with military hardware. I would support Netanyahu.

They need weapons, send them weapons, ammunition, whatever it may be, because Netanyahu is doing us a favor. He's knocking out the biggest terrorist state in the world if he chooses to do that, which I think he's going to do. I don't know if he's going to totally do it, but the Israelis are going to downgrade the ability of Iran to cause terror. And how they do that is nobody really knows, but I'm sure they've got a game plan. If you've been to Israel and I have, these people don't fool around over there.

It's just totally, it's not like the United States. They know the danger they're in, the Israeli government. They know that people would wipe them out just like the Germans tried in World War II. They know that. So their armed forces are very well trained, spend an enormous amount of money on it, and Iran is not even in the same league. league militarily. So that's my assessment. We hope that things calm down. And we hope that all our Jewish friends can relax a little bit over the holidays. And I will keep you posted

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