Editorial report, im paul gigot. Israels military in a costly misfire on monday struck and killed seven humanitarian workers delivering aid in gaza. The deadly misstep has complicated an already strained relationship between israel9 and the United States which in recent weeks has grown more critical of the war. But despite idf, the idf calling the error a grave mistake, President Biden told Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu in a phone call thursday that u. S. Policy toward gaza might change if israel does not do more to protect innocent civilians. White House NationalSecurity Communications adviser john kirby if on friday doubled down on that message. I think he was very clear9 with the Prime Minister yesterday. If we dont start seeing meaningful changes in the way israels prosecuting these operations and allowing for humanitarian assistance and working towards the hostage deal and a ceasefire, then were going to have to make changes in our gaza point. And that means. Conditioning aid, doesnt it . Again, i wouldnt close down Decision Space for the president. What he was very clear with Prime Minister netanyahu, weve got to see some changes. Paul lets bring in cliff may, the found ther and president of the foundation for defense of democracy. Welcome, cliff. What do you make of this changing tone and, frankly, quite a harsh tone by the u. S. And President Biden toward israel in the wake of this tragic mistake . Yes. I think thats right. Look, this was a tragic mistake, and it was mistake. The israelis acknowledged it was a mistake. Today immediately went to an investigation. Two senior idf leaders have already been fired from their jobs because of it. The israelis have already begun to do things to take steps to better protect aid vehicles, but its a difficult thing to do, its a war zone. People need to know that. If im sitting in my tunnel in rafah, i think im encouraged because with while deaths like this represent a tragedy for israel, that is the strategy of hamas, kill as many gazans as possible as well as many israeli, kill as many aid workers as possible and figure that israel will take the blame, and you can have a wedge between the israelis and americans. People dont seem to recognize that quite a few gazans have been killed by hamas for distributing aid. Theyve been accused of collaboration with israel. I think this is, its a very bad sign in relations, and it doesnt help the hostages. If im hamas, im not releasing the hostages, im not going to lay down my weapons, and im going to negotiate tougher e. Dont forget, hamas just said we will not agree to a Ceasefire Deal that has 40 terrorists for every hostage. Thats not good enough for us. Paul what do you make of the suggestion its not the white house didnt say it, but john kirby didnt rule it out, and some members of the Democratic Party and congress have been saying that they want to condition u. S. Military aid on, essentially, doing what the president wants by not going into rafah, for instance, and endorsing the idea of an immediate ceasefire . Yeah. Look, its possible that that could happen. I can predict only, only speculate on the israeli response. And i think it would be that the israelis believe that they cant not have this war end with hamas still in power in rafah and possibly elsewhere. Coming out of the tunnel flashing a victory sign, holding a weapon saying, you see . Were still in control, we beat them. I dont think they can do that. Now f if they get fewer e weapons from the if u. S. , thats a bad thing. The weapons they use may be more precise. Id look at a little history. I dont have my white board like karl rove, but in 1967 [laughter] Lyndon Johnson told the israelis, look, you need to incur more damage from egypt and syria before with you go into a war. The israelis said, we cant, were too small. The 67 war ended in six days, and the israelis were victorious. A few years later, ray gone said dont take out the ray gone said dont take out the Nuclear Reactor in iraq, the israelis did so anyhow. I remember talking to Jeane Kirkpatrick about that, she denounced the israelis. Said she was not proud of ma a that because she knew if they were right. A few years later, the rea actor in syria which the North Koreans helped build, the israelis were also advised or instructed by the u. S. Not to take that out, they did. Anybody with a shred of diplomatic and strategic sense knows the israelis make the made the right decision. Paul right. If the israelis have to do it they will because if they dont have the luxury to Ca Capitulate as biden did to the taliban. And and by the way, after that, during that capitulation, and americans were killed by isisk. The u. S. Decided to go after the perpetrators. They made a mistake, and the mistake meant that they killed an aid worker and ten other civilians including seven children. It took weeks before the pentagon acknowledged that meafnlgt even the best armies, and that includes the u. S. And idf even the best armies can make mistakes in the position of war at night on an open battlefield. And a reporter whos been in an open battlefield knows how dangerous it is no matter what precautions you take. Paul weve got about a minute left, but i want to ask you about an example of the israelis acting, as you suggested, recently and that was the strike last week against the iranian irgc generals in syria. That seems to have been a very targeted and and effective strike, and and iran has vowed to fight back. And some critics are saying that was a reckless attack by israel. What do you think . Right. And so in this case the intelligence was very good and the strike was very precise. I think the israelis are making an important point, and they talk about it this way. They say when the israelis are fighting hamas or hezbollah, if theyre fighting the houthis, if theyre fighting the Shia Militias In Syria and iraq are, their fighting the tentacles of an octopus. But the head of the octopus sleeps soundly in tehran. They didnt attack in tehran, but but the guys they attacked, it was very much the orchestrater for the octopus including of the 10 7 attacks. We know that. And they were i saying wert not going to let you off the hook. We are going to we know whos responsible. Irans responsible. This is the a command and control headquarters. Its not actually a consul or office. We know thats the case. Hussein Abdul Hussein checked the syrian media, this was a separate building. But even if it wasnt, the iranians took over the american embassy. 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And i think its cool to be able to make a difference in someones lives in a way that is meaningful. Paul an explosive 60 minutes report has finally revealed who might be behind a series of strange brain with injuries reported by u. S. Officials working in the u. S. And awe broad. Many of the victims believe they were targeted by a secret weapon that shoots directed pulse if radio frequency energy. The Intelligence Community in an initial assessment of the incidents downplayed the likelihood of this being the work of a foreign adversary, but for the first time new evidence has linked the injuries to a secret russian intelligence unit. Joining the panel this week, Wall Street Journal columnists dan henninger, bill mcgurn and Editorial Board member kyle peterson. Dan, what do you make of this new evidence with the link to the russians . And the u. S. Intelligence community is downplague it all. Well, its the very mysterious, to be sure. It is impossible to imagine that all of these officials at our embassies and consulates have been making this up. Its hard to believe its a coincidence. Paul right. The source of it, excuse me, is even more difficult to figure out. Im prepared to believe that it is the something being done by the russians. I mean, these electromagnetic waves, some of them are used to good purpose. The fda is approving some to help people. But you can use it to disrupt peoples brains. To me, paul, the big message here is, look, we are in a cold war with russia, china. They are fighting us with every Weapon Ability whether its cyberrer, hypersonic weapons, and we have to be prepared and put all resources necessary into with defending ourselves against it. And that includes manager at the level of these consular something at the level of these consular officials being hit by these electromagnetic waves. Paul bill, the evidence that 60 minutes turned up on this, incidents in many places in the world, they affect workers, their families, and they all a report relatively similar kinds of symptoms. And yet the Intelligence Community says, well, maybe this is just there are theyre all just kind of reracketting in a crowd. Theyre all spooked and they say, oh, yeah, thats it. Its psychosew mat ific. Yeah. I think people point out in addition to having the same symptoms, our officials were also, many of them if not most, linked to being studying russia in some way. Paul in some way, right. So im prepared to believe either way. The problem we have is the Intelligence Community, people dont believe em anymore. Its hike Public Health officials with covid. Discredited themselves. And the Intelligence Community with the steele dossier and then the 51 former intelligence officials dismissing the hunter laptop, they have a credibility issue. So i think people are not inclined to yield as they may have done a long time ago to their conclusion. Paul is there any reason the suspect, kyle, that this is the Administration Political remember, some of these incidents were when donald trump was president. Just doesnt want to get into with another spat with russia or doesnt want to tell the american people, look, were vulnerable here, and we cant do much about a it . Yeah, that could be. That very well could be. The history of government coverups is certainly long. The difficulty is that there have been studied, for example, one from the nih recently are of 80 people who reported havana syndrome, and they did brain scans and so forth and werent finding much. I still have many more questions than answers on this. Im fully prepared to believe that Vladimir Putin would target american agents with this kind of energy beam. On the other hand, are there other people in germany and ukraine being targeted with similar sort of things . If i think the consistency of the symptoms is interesting. On the other hand, people have all sorts of anomalous Health Things that happen to them and beliefs about their health that you could call medically unorthodox, and these are not mutually exclues i have. You could have some people that were hurt with a russian beam or other people who had mini strokes and are thinking there it was. Paul paul all right, lets turn to, dan, aid to ukraine. Speaker mike johnson trying to get it passed, making certain maneuvering trying to pair it with Something Like maybe repealing the president s ban on new lng export projects. What do you make of his chances . I think his chances are 5050 at best. I mean, there are a lot of problems here. For one thing, theres a group of House Republicans who dont seem to want they are opposed to Spending Money on ukraine paul sure. They want to spend it on the border, and they seem to be opposed to pretty much everything that mike johnson does. On the other hand, it seems to me that some of the burden should be on joe biden as well. All the pressure if is on mike johnson. We know what hes dealing with. Joe biden, on the other hand, is not like, allowing the renewal of lng export terminal, that would be one compromise. The house are republicans want something on the border. Joe biden has a big problem with this border, and he could do something on that such as, you know, exercising some of the stronger asylum rules there. Paul right. But biden is beholden to his left, and thats the reason hes not moving. Ukraine, meanwhile, is left in the middle of this you should assault from the under assault from the russians having to conscript more people to fight for them and ats risk of losing a 2year commitment. Paul bill, briefly are, johnson only has a, what, 1 or 2vote majority . Right. Paul so is, do you agree that biden has the biggest burden here . Hes got to get his democrats onboard for whatever compromise yeah, i think in moral terms, thats right. And it aa sounds me, as i always a say, he doesnt give a National Address from the oval is office, lay out the stakes. But i think johnson has a dilemma. And what he needs to decide is if hes going to go, what are the terms going to be. Is he going to go and get the ukraine aid through, israel aid a through . If hes going to go, if theyre going to take him down, he wants to go on his terms. Paul will the right try to depose him as speaker. Right. Paul anyway, the house should be able to work it, that should happen a. When we come back, abortion on the ballot. Florida voters will get a chance to decide this november whether to overturn the states restriction on abortion as a democrats hope the issue will democrats hope the issue will drive Voter Turnout this fall. Of q before you decide. With the freestyle libre 3 system. Know your glucose and where its headed. 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