Ill see you back here next saturday at 8 00 a. M. Eastern summer cottage starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas on Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stopped short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the state Department Said investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information this followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if israel were to carry out an allout offensive in that city, the increased Military Operation in rafah has put ceasefire for Hostage Talks on pause to us officials told cnn all of this follows a Turning Point in us, israel relations this we
Internationally were creating the evidence what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it oh, i love that. Ill be sure to tune in next saturday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern for that champions for change, onehour special and thank you so much for joining me today. Amphoteric a Whitfield Smerconish starts right now tension between the us and israel over the war with hamas. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia on friday, the Biden Administration said that it is reasonable to assess that us weapons have been used by Israeli Forces in gaza in ways that are inconsistent with International Humanitarian law. But they stop short of officially saying that israel violated that law. The report drafted by the State Department said, investigations are ongoing, but that the us does not have complete information. This followed israels Security Cabinet Approval of an expansion of the area of operation of the shelling in rafah after President Joe Biden threatened to withhold us weapons if isra
tonight from people who were never going to find the day when it was time to leave afghanistan. i never thought the american government and the american military would make the mistake of vietnam again. then came 9/11 and america s massive military overreaction, which pretended vietnam never happened. we went to afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals, get those who attacked us on september 11th, 2001 and make sure al qaeda could not use afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. we did that. we severely degraded al qaeda and afghanistan. we never gave up the hunt for osama bin laden and we got him. that was a decade ago. there s a pattern here. when the united states leaves a foreign war that it cannot win, it s always going to look messy.
and, make sure al-qaeda could not use afghanistan as a base for which to attack us again. we did that. we severely degraded al-qaeda enough anniston. we never gave up the hunt for some of bin laden, and we got him. that was a decade ago. there s a pattern here. when the united states leaves a foreign war, that it cannot win, it is always going to look messy. there are always going to be dramatic scenes, of the final american aircraft trying to escape the war zone. there are always going to be people, who helped the american war effort, who are left behind. there will never be a good safe day, for that final evacuation, that can leave everyone holding their heads up high, about fighting a war like vietnam, for 18 years, or fighting to control afghanistan, for 20 years. so i m left against ask