The Bill Cunningham Show -- 6/13/25

seven games to win the World Series. After losing to the Yankees in nineteen thirty nine. I have lots of historical references, but more importantly, at the last several hours, in fact, beginning yesterday, Israel began an attack, an air attack against Iran. And it's amazing to watch the formation of this. How long it's been going on. And probably no one in the America knows more about air attacks than Lieutenant General Richard Newton. He's the News Nation's senior

national security contributor. He has been in command of B two B one Operation Fleets. He's in the military for about thirty years or SOT. General Richard Newton, Welcome again

to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, of course, you were not involved in the planning by the Israeli Air Force and what they're doing in a general way once the well, once the radar stations were taken out about six or seven months ago, kind of give us your thought on what your counterparts in the Israeli Air Force had been planning the last several weeks and about the execution.

very remarkable, very successful. First. They after and much like you alluded to, on October twenty sixth, Israel launched another attack against Iran, this one fast forward. It's right out of that playbook. But here in June of twenty twenty five, they first went after more Iranian air defenses than they went after their command and control. They also went after Iranian leadership. This time they struck and killed the Iranian

Revolutionary guardcore commander. They also went after the chief of the Iranian military, which is a tantamount to going after our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They killed the head of the Iranian Air Force and so forth, and then they've also made some strikes, more strike against Iranian missile capabilities. So that was quite an evening last night. And I don't think that they're got They're not gonna

let up. I think there's more to follow in the coming hours as dark prevails over the Mideast, and probably in the coming days as.

got anywhere near Israel. Now, that's not for Israel to take their eye off the ball, because the first and foremost Prime Minister Nyaho, just like President Trump, protecting the American people, and n Yah who is very focused on protecting the Israeli people as bestie possible they can, and so it will provoke a response from Iran. They still have some modicum of capabilities to strike into Israel as

well as to strike American force. We have about forty five thousand troops in the Mideast, but I don't think they're going to do so. I think Iran has been now deterred from at least striking against the United States because the President Trump's very clear declarations that if they go against the United States, are forty five thousand troops in the region. We've got plenty of fire prior to counterattack. But nonetheless, this is a developing operation with Israel, not a one and done.

earth penetrated weapon capability. The Iranians, especially in the Tons and other nuclear facilities, but especially in the Tons, have put multi story nuclear weapons development capabilities in the ground about two hundred feet deep. They've also been lined with three foot walls. And the only thing that can really go and take those out are these thirty thousand pound bombs, two of which can be delivered by one B two.

They haven't been called on yet, but they're sitting there in Dieo Garcia about twenty one hundred miles away, and we could certainly hold those targets at risk. But back to Israeli, they've done a very effective job.

on Israel. And as it did twice with hundreds of missiles and also drums, is Iran right now kind of naked.

army called the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. But they're really what they've operated ground forces is through proxies, as you alluded to, built has Blood of the North and Lebanon ha Loss in Gaza, the Houpies in Yemen and so forth, do not have a standing army that can really invade another nation, especially Israel. But they do have still some ballistic missile capabilities left and they can still use and

put in harm's way Israel and Israeli people. They also have a very extensive drone capability, but again with Israel's Iron Dome and so forth, very effective. But Israel's not going to let up on the gas at all in terms of both offensive action against Israel but also defensive action to protect Israeli people. And I think that's what you're going to find to be in the next coming days or weeks and so forth. But again the threat is still with Iran principally however, and their abilities still

to build nuclear weapons. That's really the key here. Not only does it put Israel a thread, it also puts other Golf allies and Arab nations at thread. Also that you know Saudi's Jordan's cutter. They don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon much less the Israel does. But also having a nuclear weapon in the hands of the Iran puts US national security interests at risk as well.

So again, I think the cards are stream beginning to stack up against Iran here, but we're going to see more activity by Israel in the coming coming days.

launch site in Iran. That gives Israeli forces plenty of time, even though it's just within you know, several minutes of being able to strike Israel. But that in the calculus of not only detecting but defeating the ballistic missile leaving the launch pad in Iran, that's that's a good amount of time for Israel to react and to destroy those

incoming blistic missiles. Much like we saw the largest missile attack, blistic missile attack, and drone attack ever in the Mideast occurred on October Firstmen in Iran lob those three hundred plus ballistic missiles and drones from Iran and Israel, and very few struck Israel because of their extensive, high and capable iron dome air defense system. And you would expect

the same if Iran even contemplates striking against Israel. One more point, if I may build, is that back on that October twenty sixth strike, as you alluded to, several months or so ago, Israel not only took out it's you know, a lot of Iranian capabilities, their air defense capabilities. They also took out a very large portion of their ballistic missiles capabilities that you alluded to, and so not only the operational missiles, but the production of those missiles.

So Iran is back up against the wall here. And that's why the timing of this strike last night, now knowing that the International Atomic Energy Agency declared that Iran is within a few days or so of actually being able to build a nuclear bomb, and prim Minister Nittnian who reported they were going to be nine of them, but also the fact is that they took out their defenses back on October twenty six, even more so last night.

They took out the blistic missile capability back on October twenty six, even more last night, has really put Iran up against the wall.

nuclear tip missiles aimed at US. But as far as Iran, it's it fair to say with a nuclear weapon they wouldn't have to need a missile to kill six million Jews in Israel, which is what they say they want to do.

I mean, nothing is you know, impossible in that regard, But I think really in order to have a credible capable and a reliable nuclear weapon, you have to have the nuclear weapon itself with a hiding enriched uranium, military grade uranium, but you also have to have a delivery means to deliver that weapon system. And so I don't think it's, as you know, a dirty bomb per se.

Nothing is out of question here. But really by and large, the capability that Iran would need to really put Israel in harm's way with a nuclear bomb is that also that nuclear delivery system and that's principally going to be on a ballistic missile. We see that happening now with in North Korea and other adversaries, but that that's really

extent of it. And that's why Bill, that's why they went after their blissing missile development capability as well as a delivery of the blissing missile itself with a warhead on top of it.

Something happened last night. Allegedly there was a powwow all the Iranian top leaders, military leaders, you referenced them a few minutes ago, and somehow Israel, according to one source I saw a news nation said that the Israel Israelis arranged a meeting unbeknownst to the Iranians, to have the Iranian military leadership all get together last night, and then somehow they were all killed. Explain how that can happen.

and actually compelled them to meet. And so they used they used that information bill to actually influence their behavior to stay on at the meeting. And then once they got to the point where they were going to meet, they stayed in the meeting. That's when they took them out.

It's another remarkable capability that Israel has, not only in terms of their air force, and there's really defense forces and certainly what they've done with HESBLO and what they're doing with Hamas and God and so forth, but their ability to really ratchet up with the intelligence and their special operations capability makes them a significantly former force in that regard.

We've had those for years, and then Israel set those off. It's like and now they're afraid to turn on their air condition or the television set. They didn't want to turn on the radio. Unfortunately, it's incredible that they have that capability, and we don't know at this point the Iranian leadership where they're taken out by a missile or by announce of lead in the back of the head, do you know, Yeah.

taking them out one by one. So the whole enterprise effort by Israel with their F thirty five, their F fifteen Strike Eagles, and now all the way down to encouraging you know, a portion of their military leaders to meet and then take them out. That's extraordinary. So again this is still folding. Bill. It's like I said, this is We're not here in the end of the ninth endy of the World Series and we're going to you know, pop champaign court. No, we're in the middle of the

season right now. To put it in a baseball binancuar. But Israel's not going to let up. They're still going to be going for the fences, and I think the United States ought'll be supporting them and doing so.

do it as quickly as possible. You know, most governments come into power with the idea of taking care of its population, having good schools and jobs, and a safe environment, giving women us face at women, or at least half the popular all things necessary to flourish within that society. That is not the circumstance in Iran or with Hesbla or Hamas or Boca Haram Or and the Iss, etc.

They want to subjugate women, make them sexual slaves. In many African countries in which the Muslim religion is predominate, the fathers sell their daughter for profit and money when they have their first period, and the daughter is then belonging to someone else. It's an anathema to what we consider in Western civilization. And Israel's the only Western style democracy in the Middle East. The rest of them are

similar to Lebanon or Jordan, or Iraq or Iran. And I can't imagine, especially women protesting on college campuses wanting to support Hamas. It's it's just an incredible juxta position between reality and a fantasy. But to break down what happened about twenty hours ago, it's incredible. Number One, the precursor is that Israel is fighting for its right to exist. I don't think even a nine to eleven did we

fight for our right to exist. We wanted retribution against al Qaida that killed three thousand of our fellow citizens, but you and I did not have the sense America was about to lose a war in being taken over by anybody, But in Israel that's a bit different, isn't it. They understand if they lose this war, there's going to be six million dead Jews, four million other dead who are Westerners, and also Muslims who live inside Israel with peace.

About thirty thirty five percent of Israel are comprised of Muslims who live in peace, and so all of them would die too. And when asked about the collateral damages, you know, Israel tries to target military targets Iran has Bla Hamas, they target civilian individuals to die, especially Muslims. For example, Hamas seeing the Hamas flag flying over college

campuses is discus. What Amas wants to do is cause the death of everyone that they can everyone, because they believe that one gets to heaven by a jihad, which is dying for the cause. When asked why does Hamas build tunnels underneath the gods and hospitals, it's because they want their fellow citizens to be killed by the IDF

for political purposes. That is just incredible, It's unbelievable. But over the years, Israel's fought seven times for his right to exist, and Syria and Baghdad were both Syria and Iraq. We're both developing nuclear capabilities, and over the years and decades, the IDF took action against Baghdad and Damascus to make sure they didn't have nuclear capabilities to destroy them, because they said, once we get a nuclear weapon, we're going

to destroy Israel. Ayatola Komani and Nuran is saying the same thing, said the same thing since nineteen seventy nine, which is our goal in life is to kill Jews and Westerners, the Infidel. That means you and me, and they've said it repeatedly and with us and with Israel is all kinds of Muslim Islamic countries who want us to do their bidding and taking out this body regime.

In fact, to make this attack last night happen, they had to be the cooperation of several Mid Eastern countries and others, and they gave complete cooperation because they want Iran to be done too, not just you and me. The Islamic types themselves want the same thing to happen. I'm talking about Saudi Arabia, Jordan, iSER, Baijan, Cutter, Turkey, UAE allowed Israel to use their airspace and or defended Israel against Iranian drone attacks last night. Think about this.

This is not the West against Islam. In Greater Cincinnati, we have literally hundreds of thousands of Muslims, Islamic Americans living quite peaceably right now. It's happening in fact, in the so called religious facility near Westchester, the Amasque there. It's a very peaceful circumstance, doesn't happen. There's no terrorism coming out of Islam or Muslims within the Tri State or most of the United States of America. This is a branch, a murderous branch of Islam that must be eradicated.

And as evidence of that, it's a branch, is not the tree itself. How peaceful are Muslims, I would say quite peaceful. Have you heard any peep out anyone in the Tri State area of the Islamic faith in support of what's happening in Iran? Absolutely nothing. So Saudi Arabia cooperated with Israel, Jordan cooperated with Israel, aer Baijan cooperated with Israel, and did cutter Turkey and the UAE to make this happen. So it's kind of the world against

Iran and the world against Hamas. Did you know that on college campuses. No no, no, no, no no no no no. I don't understand it, don't get it. You're not thinking right. So last night and Lieutenant General Richard Newton I thought was fabulous. But what happened is for many years, it appears through reporting that the Israelis had set up their own military bases inside of Iran itself masterful planning and executions of Operation Rising Lion. Think about this.

The attack was years in the making, and in fact, according to several Israeli officials, the Mossade, which is the Israeli CIA, built military bases inside Iran, and they had one part of a military base in Iran with a secret drone base that they would activate at the right time. They built this over several years, and you can't make this up, and Iran had no idea what was going on. According to ASAD, the agents set up a drone base

on Iranian soil near Tehran. So drones, which fly, as you know, very slowly, could not be shot down because they're close to the target. The drones were activated overnight, remotely striking surface to surface missile launchers aimed at Israel. In addition, there were dozens and dozens, maybe as many as one hundred Israeli vehicles masquerading as Iranian carrying weapons systems that were smuggled into Iran and were secreted at

Israeli military bases inside of Iran. And these systems took out the Iran air defenses and gave Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action. And the third covert effort of Masad was deploying precise military assets, ie missiles and near anti aircraft sites in central Iran. But maybe the most incredible thing they did was they put together a decapitation strike of the Iranian military leaders. Now how do

you do that? Israel had to know exactly where they were going to be when to strike, So what they did was through their sources in Iran. The Israelis Massade set up a powwow involving the top military leaders in Iran meeting near Tehran. They put out a message from the Ayah Toola that he wanted to meet with them directly in Tehran last night. And the message came not from the eye Toola but from Masad. So Massad sets up a decapitation strike of the four military leaders in Iran.

Making them think that they were meeting at the behest of the Iola, but that wasn't the case. And as soon as the Iranian military chiefs of staff got together, within a few moments, once it was confirmed the four of them were together in one place, a missile came into their facility at a high rate of speed and killed them all. The so called decapitation strike by itself

is simply beyond amazing, incredible and impressive. Plus as part of this, as there was a deception campaign, how impressive was that the United States and Israel coordinated that for months the negotiation negotiation strategy, and Donald Trump gave them sixty days. You might recall the Trumpster, the media didn't cover this because it is so good for Donald Trump. The media won't cover it. If it's bad, they cover it.

If it's good, they don't cover it. And so between Israel and the US, two countries agreed on the sixty first day they would give the Iranians sixty days to comply with the ultimatum of Donald Trump, and Trump's negotiating strategy gave Iran an out but also a deadline sixty days. And whether it was Witkough or whether it was whether

Marco Rubio or the President or JD. Vans. They kept saying, you have sixty days to respond, to dissemble your Iranian nuclear capabilities and provide for in depth inspections by American atomic weapons experts, And of course all they did was buy more time. So the US and Iran engaged for several rounds of negotiations all over the place, mainly in anchor A, Turkey, with Trump supposedly holding Benjamin Ntanna who's leash,

insisting not to strike during negotiations. So the Iranians thought, okay, we can stretch this thing out here it is June, we'll go July, August, September, to keep stretching it out to enrich more uranium in order to weaponize our military capability with nuclear nuclear weapon. So after this sixty days transpired, and of course last night Mark Ruby and the President said we got nothing to do with it. We got

nothing to do with it. But nobody believes that, by the way, but publicly we got nothing to do with it. The Commander Whussein Slomi promised two days ago that the next class with Israel would be quote far more crushing and destructive for the Jews.

on the sixty first day. Having prepositioned assets inside Iran, having built Israeli military bases in Iran, they acted with the compliance of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, iSER, Baijan, Cutter, Turkey, and the UAE. They all cooperated with America and with the Jews. Now, if you're sitting in Iran today, think about the pagers, think about the walkie talkies. You may recall that Hesbelah had seven hundred their commanders and leaders

maimed or killed by explosive pagers. That was a system put together by Masad for years through a company in Taiwan, and they distributed these pagers to Hesbela types north of the Israeli border, and that at a particular moment guess what. All seven hundred were explosive and the Hesbela commanders and officers lost arms and limbs. There was only a few dead, but the rest of them were on wheelchairs the rest

of their life in terrible pain. Now when that happened, unbeknownst to them, for years, they were using walkie talkies. It had a limited range, but they thought the walkie talkies were safe because they had used these walkie talkies for several years. But unbeknownst to them, Masade had put together a campaign to weaponize and put C four inside not just the pagers, but also in the walkie talkies

and also in cell phones used by Hesbola. So the next day, as they couldn't talk to each other or because the cell phones and because the pagers were used, next up was the walkie talkies, and then Masad sets off explosive devices inside the walkie talkies and kills dozens. More So at this point, if you're in Iran, you're looking at what's happened to you. You want to kill the world, you want to kill Jews, you want to

kill Americans, but you can't get it done. You thought you had a partner with Joe Biden, who permitted maybe ten to twelve thousand Iranian terrorists to enter the country from the southern border over the past four years. Where are they now? Nobody knows what are their names, don't know don't have identifiers, don't have fingerprints, don't know where

they are. Is there a fear? Absolutely? Absolutely? But at this point, if you're in Iran, you know you can't pick up your phone, you know you can't be paged, you know you can't use a walkie talkie, and now

you know you can't even meet. So how does the top military brass that remain look at their assets to be deployed and understand we have several more days of the attacks by Iran, supported by Saudi Arabia UAE and cutter, supported by those so called Islamic Moslim countries who hate the Iranians more than we do, by the way, and you have to look around saying what should we do? What could we do? So let's continue with more? And

to me, it's incredible. And if you're an opponent of the United States or Israel and you look at these technologies available, you've got to be thinking, do we want to go to war with that group. And by the way, backing it up is at least one hundred nuclear tip missiles that Israel has that they will use against any country coming at them, and then the world is going to go into some nuclear winter, which would be a

complete utter disaster. We're dealing with a death cult in Iran and Hamas and Hesbalah that we've not seen for about seventy five years, but it's there now. At this point, Israel is winning. What happens in the days, weeks and months ahead, we have no idea, but thank God, we're on the side of God Almighty, not on the side of darkness. The world is filled with light and with dark, and with mountains and valleys. The world is filled with the greatness and evil. And what's happening in Iran and

most of the Islamic world today is evil. And because of the Israel, United States and Gulf States, the evil is being dispatched. We'll see what happens tomorrow is the big so called protest. And you heard the comments of my good friend Richard K. Jones, and I hope our county prosecutor does not a tend protest to turn violent. Let's continue with more and after two o'clock today will be my Father's Day story, which I will encourage you to contact your dad today or tomorrow would be excellent

to get a hold of your father. But during the living years in preparation for Father's Day, which is of course on Sunday. So let's continue with more. But don't mess with the Israelis. They want to live in peace, and if you continue to attack Israel, they will attack you in ways that you cannot even imagine. If you're in Iran right now, or in Jordan or Lebanon, you don't want to pick up a pager, you don't want to answer the phone. Yeah, in fact, you don't want

to turn on your television set. You don't want to turn on your air conditioner. It could be wired for see four explosives. And that's all about dispensing the evil in the world and most of us right now in Iran, and hopefully, with God's strength and will, it will be eliminated and the Iranian people will be set free. Twelve fifty five Home of Your Reds playing tonight in Detroit, and according to my producer Drew, he says this is

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an ongoing attack that's going to take several days. Jonan, you and I Nalys Professor Yuri Kaufman. A new book is American Intafada, Israel, the Gaza War and the new anti Semitism that would be in America. And Professor Kaufman, welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, when all this started a day or two ago. Give me your reaction to what occurred and whether or not you see ultimateive victory or not for Israel.

Didn't Yeo said, if they're on And nt Yo wrote a book all the way back in nineteen eighty two, was only three years after the Iatolas seized power there, and he said, all the way back then, these guys are crazy and they're going to try to get a nuclear weapon. So this is many, many, many years in the making. Israel has been planning this attack, we know, for over twenty years, and it finally came to being and very it's a familiar tale if you follow Israel.

It's being compared to the opening attack of the nineteen sixty seven war. And what happened then was you had this three week period it was known to Israelis as the Hamtana, meaning the waiting period, three weeks of just nerve shattering waiting, when the Arab armies all masked at the border. The Israelis tried everything, everything to find a diplomatic way out, and when it became clear that there just wasn't one, they struck. And that's what happened this time,

only the ham Tana. The waiting was not three weeks. It was literally twenty years, and every avenue was attempted to bring this to some sort of peaceful end. Sadly, the Iotols just wouldn't listen to sense. President Trump told them sixty days ago on April the twelfth, you got sixty more days. Is will struck on the sixty first day. It's pretty clear that they saw it again. Prime Minister Nintendo gave a press conference last night. He said, we

saw they were finally reaching for the bomb itself. That no, it's not research, it's in Richmond. They're actually making a bomb, and this is it. We just we couldn't wait any longer. So here we are. I could just make one other point. The reason This is also so historic and it will be talked about for a long time. Is once again Israel is demonstrating the complete superiority of Western technology over anything that Iran or Russia or probably China might have.

Everyone around the world is watching this with their jaw dropped. We were talking about a situation where, well, go back to sixty seven. They have this incredibly successful opening strike, destroyed all the Arab air forces.

air defense completely. They've wiped out much of their leadership, the head of the Revolutionary Guard, They've wiped out much of their nuclear assets, many of their military assets, whatever air force they had. They've flown all the way back to Israel. They've done it wave after wave after wave, and they haven't lost a single plane. They can literally fly in and out of Iran. Well the way you know, you or I fly from New York to Chicago. It

is astonishing. I mean, it is unbelievable the technology and Iran is going to respond with missiles somehow. But they've done this twice. They did it in April last year, twenty twenty four. They did it in October, same thing. Not one Israeli was killed. It's miraculous. They've achieved almost one hundred percent interception of all this ordinance Israel. You go back to the April attack, Iran we now know fired thirty cruise missiles, one hundred ballistic missiles, and hundreds

and hundreds of bros. We don't even know how many. This is the biggest missile attack ever launched against any country in history. Israel shotdown pretty much all of that. They took one little girl who was unfortunately wounded, but that's it. Nobody was killed and there was no physical damage to the country. They think they blew a little

hole in an airbase somewhere. This is mind blowing. No one expected it to be the technology to work this Well, if you're Russia, you're China, you've got to be watching this and saying, wait a minute, you know, maybe maybe we're not as strong as we thought we were. And that really shows why Israel is such a valuable ally and professor.

Took that down. But wasn't it a fool's errand to believe that the Ayatola, which is a culture of death not a culture of life, that they were willingly allow international inspections by Americans and others to guarantee they're not going to have weapons grade uranium to marry with a with a missile. But wasn't it kind of a fool's error to think that Iran would go the route of

other nations? For example, they look at what happened into Libya when Mumar Kadaffi gave up his MD within a year and a half, he was in a ditch somewhere fighting for his life and when Bagdad fell, look at the look at the killing by hanging of Sodom Hussein, and so the Iyotolas, et cetera are thinking, you know what, we have to have a nuclear weapon. If we don't have a nuclear weapon, we're going to face the same fate as Sodom Hussein.

If you ask the eye of tolas, what is the purpose of government? They would say, oh, simple, it's to spread radical Islam. It's to create a shi It talifate and kill anyone in our path. Iotolaholmani once famously said the revolution was not about the price of water melons. He also said economics is for donkeys and what he meant by that was my job is not to make this country prosperous. My job is to spread radical Islam, no matter what it takes. And that is why you

look at Iran. It is a nation with thirty percent unemployment, forty percent inflation, They've got rolling blackouts, they can't keep the lights on, and here they are sending billions of dollars to the WHO these and billions to Hesbalon, billions to Kamas, billions on this crazy nuclear program. It is estimated that they lost a fifty billion dollar investment just on the proxies that were taken off the board by Israel. Now they're losing their nuclear assets, and yet they keep

sending all this money. Why do they keep doing it? Answer because the most important thing to them is spreading radical Islam. And so now a nation like that that gets a nuclear weapon, that is a very very dangerous world.

give up all our nuclear weapons. Let's have a functioning Western style democracy. Let's give our citizens a little bit of freedom. We're going to get rid of the death cult that calls for the killing, the murder of Westerners, Christians, Catholics, the Baptists, the Jews, wherever they might be located. That was never going to happen. I can't conceive without occurring.

And if you're an Iranian, Let's say you're a typical Iranian living somewhere somewhere in Tehran and you're watching this going on, can you get in the mind of the Iranian people and talk about whether or not they want to continue down this.

You've got a lot of the Yazidi's, you've got a lot of Baha's, You've got a lot of other minorities who don't believe in any of this nonsense. We also know that there is a cosmopolitan culture centered mostly in terrat Now, having said that, there's also a culture. You go to the religious city, a place like kom or Isfahan, you've got a lot of very, very very radical people. The rumblings from the streets suggest there's a big opposition movement there. It perks its head up every couple of years,

and it came up in two thousand and nine. It bubbled up a few years ago as well. Each time the Iatols have been able to put it down. These things are very, very very hard to gauge from the outside. All I can say is revolutions are always the same. They look impossible before they happen, and they look inevitable after they happen. You know where we stand with Iran on this, We don't really know. But one thing I

can say. We can't afford to sit back and hope the Iranian people solve this problem for us, because the odds are better than pretty good that they won't. And a world again in which iotolas have nuclear weapons is a very dangerous world. And again not just for Israel, but for the United States as well. They chance, you know, Israel is the little Satan, but we're the big Satan, and we know what they want to do with the big Satan. So this just shows how Israel is such

a terrific ally. It's a force multiplier. They do a lot of the dirty work that we would otherwise have to do. As we said, they took out Sodom's reactor, they took out Bishar's reactor. They've done so many other things over the years. It really shows what an important ally Israel is.

But it's obvious they're they're delighted that this happened because they know that they're being rescued just as readily as Israel is being rescued now. At the same time, they also know that it is possible that when Iran retaliates, and it will, they might retaliate against Saudi Arabia. Now why would they do that, Well, it's just the kind of way of saying, you know, if we're miserable, we're going to make everybody miserable. We want the price of

oil to be high. We want to hurt the West so it really is just important that the United States stay involved and help defend the Saudi oil fields. We certainly have an interest there, and we have an interest in defending our allies in the region. And you know, Bahrain and Qatar definitely cutter is a very very stray situation. You know, they put a ship on every color on the board, so you know, they're kind of in our camp,

but they're in the other camp as well. But we do have a very large air base there, So that's the country that we need to defend.

of other I mean physical attacks on people. You know, it is a little scary. I mean something like this. I would certainly be vigilant. Am I really alarmed by it? The answer is no, I am not.

the earth and somehow Iran then spreads its tentacles. They are a culture of death who wanted to not one of life. But once again, you're a Kaufman professor. Thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, and we'll see what happens down the road. But the book is American Intafada, Israel, the Gaza War, and the New Anti Semitism. But once again, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show, professor, Thank you very much.

world we'd like it to be. How strong are the Israelis for the Israelis in Tel Aviv to organize, unbeknownst to the Iranian generals a powwow of their joint chiefs of staff in one place and getting together in near Tehran, Iran thinking the Eye Tolla wanted to have a powwow with him, but the Israeli set up the meeting. Then they had the Israeli send a missile and kill them

all together at once. Is incredible. They now know they can't pick up a cell phone, they can't use a pager, they can't turn on the television, says they don't want to use the air conditioners. In other words, they can't communicate and they can't meet. Now that's a problem when you're trying to conduct a war. Let's continue with more. Bill Cunningham, the Great American, Live on news radio seven hundred WLW.

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especially among those who maybe weren't listening to talk. Radio SO i came up with the idea in eighty, three eighty, four eighty five and through the night teen eighties of connecting up with coaches either, football basketball or. Baseball lacrosse didn't exist to talk about the upcoming game on A thursday night WHEN i was on at night and then On, Fridays i'll have the coaches on after the game in

order to tell me what. Happened whether It's elder versus Sand, x Or beechwood versus cupcath Or Deer park Versus, sycamore or whatever it. Was there was always big games going, on AND i, thought how DO i build the. Audience my father's day story is coming, up by the. Way but, NONETHELESS i Saw Jim, scott who came here about a year AFTER i. DID i said that he'd walk Around frish's restaurants and have a business card urging people to

listen to him the next. Day SO i, thought, Okay i'll do a little different approach because during the DAY i was busy as can, be raising a, family married wife in college and then law, school my son doing, This evan doing, this AND i was busy until about six seven o'clock in the, evening and THEN i was on the air nine, pm and the originally nine, pm the nine pm to, midnight AND i built the audience largely by having the students and then the parents of

the students listened to the coach before the, game and then after the game they would be on to talk about exactly what happened at the, game and then we went on and then, baseball basketball became, baseball. Etc so Between september In, MAY i had on literally most of the high school students in The tri state, area including From,

lawrenceburg and including from others In. Indiana tried to have a show THAT i was born In, kentucky and so from THAT i, developed SHALL i, say a. Listenership and then after in the nineteen, NINETIES i did extra innings after The reds, games and that's WHERE i met became friends With paul O'Neil And Jose rio And Tom browning

and so many. Others and BECAUSE i did the extra inning, SHOW i would go down to the ballpark ahead of time and stick around after the, game and so all the BASEBALL i. Want and then WHEN i changed in nineteen ninety two, THOUSAND i was doing that high school stuff from eighty three for about twenty. Years THEN i went during the afternoons and many times they continued. There and then over the last twenty twenty five, years What i've done is bring in the, champions all hailed the.

Champions and when The Santex boys came in and just left AND i had the same thing happened With Saint, ursula and the same thing happened With beechwood And Scott, tackett and the same thing happened With Lawrence berg and the same thing happened with Deer park And Steve. Gentry from, that they start listening to talk, radio and otherwise they would not. LISTEN i asked these, boys AND i asked

the girls that come. In also had the girls From, mason and they were fabulous talking about their, sports and they start listening to me and the talk radio because it's something of which they're. Unaware and each TIME i have a group in and over the year you might

have a couple of hundred kids are state. Champions it gives me great hope for the future that OTHERWISE i think would not be, present BECAUSE i can't look in the eyes of the five boys From saint x or the girls From mason and think to, myself, boy the country is going to be in a bad shape in

about ten to twenty years because of. Them if the group that the groups that come in here during the afternoon and, Continuing i'm sure through baseball and football and basketball and lacrosse and soccer and, tennis they if they are in charge in ten to twenty years from, now we're going to be in great. Shape it gives me hope for the. Future so that's WHY i do. It number,

one it was. Done and the other thing is that you download off the website they're speaking on the radio or the coach speaking and whatever it might, be and from that they have some identity and some reflection on what they've. Done and one of the building ladders of life is to be successful in small, things you become successful in big. Things BEFORE i get to my father's day, story and this brings me back to a little bit To Bill, lapthorne who was the coach At Mason High

school football who killed. Himself AND i had on Yesterday Brian, lapthorne his, brother and they were just shocked with the idea that someone they knew so well could take his life when he had a, wife had three teenage children and life was going. Good but behind the scenes there was something happening inside his head that was a non. Sequitur and why it happened no one, knows BUT i know there's three teenagers And bill's wife needs, help and So Brian lapthorn sent. Me of, COURSE i never met,

him But i'd like to at some. Point but he sent me an email saying when he was a young man he started listening to. Me and Now brian is like thirty nine or forty years, old he's listened for twenty five to thirty. Years and WHEN i travel the highways and the, byways the best THING i hear from moms and dads in their, thirties, fifties, thirties forties and fifties is That i've listened to you my whole. Life you're like the background music of what's happened to, me

good and, bad hopefully more good than. Bad And i'm honored home gets a hold of me and Like Brian lapthorne, did and send me an email that, SAYS i need your. Help i've listened to you now for twenty five. Years i'm very likely to respond IF i can in a positive. Way,

now going on to The Father's day. Story and by the, way looking to my left and looking to my, right air rate sirens are sounding An israel right, now and there's missiles or rockets or artillery shells that are raining down On Tel aviv AS i, speak and there it's nine to FIFTEEN, pm which is seven hours in front of. Us but my father's day, story there's time left in your life to connect with your.

Up AND i had a father Named WILLIAM. D Cunningham. Senior I'm WILLIAM. D Cunningham, junior as you may, know who acted up for most of my. YOUTH i at last saw him and WHEN i was about fourteen years, old and some years before. That he produced four great, kids my Brother John, me my younger, Brother Patrick Graham, cunningham and my Sister Mary Diane, redden Who i'm still very very close. To and alcoholism was. RAMPANT i was able to see at a young age the effects of.

Alcoholism it wasn't. Positive my dad came back from The Great war in nineteen forty five forty, six had jobs At kroger And procter And gamble et. Cetera he could not hold, work had a terrible alcohol. Problem from that he was picked up for drunken, disorderly picked up FOR, dui spent time in The Hamley county. Jail unbeknownst to, me my mother was a living saint who shielded us as much as she could from what was happening in their marriage and our. Home but of course you can't

shield everything. Impossible we lived at eighty five point fifty Eight, huddleston lived On kamner And Deer park Than, huddleston and Eventually wicklow And push came to. SHOVE i can remember

it as if it was. Yesterday we're sitting at the kitchen, table small house there On huddleston In Deer, park and my mom looked at the four of, us AND i was about twelve or, thirteen my older brother would have been fifteen or, sixteen my younger brother about nine or, ten and my sister about five or six and said that your dad's not coming. Back he's. GONE i spoke up and, Said, mom what do you Mean dad's? Gone he,

said he, Left he's. Gone we have to make do without, him and so there was some gnashing of, teeth what do he mean? Gone he left with us financially completely, devastated had no money that at that POINT i had gone To Muller High school for one. Year we had one hundred and fifty dollars. Intuition it wasn't, paid and Brother, evsladge who was the, principal sent a letter to my mother saying that unless you paid the one hundred and fifty that's due plus one hundred and fifty for next,

year you can't come back To. Muller that's. Me and so push came to. Shove we had to move in with family. Members literally had no, Money in, fact upside down with, money the opposite of. Money we had no money and no. Car and my mother had an eighth grade, education and an aunt took us in as her. Family her name Was Annette combs and then Later Inette Arling house and she was also a living. Saint so we got on with. LIFE i played, sports my younger brother played,

sports my. Sister my mom always said a daughter is a, daughter a son will be a. Son all the until he takes a. Wife but a daughter will be a daughter all the days of her. Life and my younger, Sister Mary Diane, redden is also a living. Saint so, anyway we got on with. LIFE i went To Deer Park High, school which is a great success for. ME i was pretty good in sports At. MULLER i didn't stand out much then the other players, There but at Deer,

park SHALL i SAY i stood? OUT i played. BASKETBALL i got a basketball scholarship to My Skingham college and later a baseball scholarship To, xavier and did my. Thing my older brother went To Michigan. State my younger brother got great work At drackett And procter and gamble did quite. Well and my younger sister eventually married and stayed at one company for twenty nine to thirty. Years the year's roll,

by And i'm standing in my kitchen In. Toledo i'd gone through law, school had my jurish doctorate, degree and the phone, rings so pick it. Up the first voice Is, billy this is your. Father and it had been, many, many many years SINCE i heard his, voice maybe fifteen, Years AND i said? Who he, said this is your, father AND i, said how DO i know you're my? Dad he, said what do you? MEAN i, said, well

who was your assistant coach For Rutter's. Pharmacy he came up with a. Name, QUICKLY i, said what what is the maiden name of my mom and your? Wife he came up with. THAT i, said, okay what do you? Want he, Said, Billy i'm. Dying i'm In. Missouri i'm dying of. CANCER i don't have long to. LIVE i want to see you before BEFORE i. DIE i want to see, you AND i, THOUGHT i, said let me have your. NUMBER i put the phone, down talk To.

Penny what do you? Think my first? Thing penny, did being the way she, is you ought to go to your. DAD i, SAID i. Can't called him back and, said, look you were not a father to me in my, life AND i will not be a son to you and your. DEATH i wish you well get on with, life and then called my. Mom. Quickly it was In. CINCINNATI i still was In toledo at this. POINT i, Said, mom you can't believe who called, me and she SAID i know it was your. DAD i, said, weally he

called here to get your. Number he wanted to talk with. You he wants to see, you AND i told her what. Happened she, Said, billy it's sure to, SAY i. Understand so about another six months goes by AND i debate whether to go and see. Him DO i not see? HIM i, said, No i'm good with. It you, know at that point we were. Working penny was working eight to Four university Of Toledo college as a. SECRETARY i was working first in law. SCHOOL i worked from eight

am to four pm in court For Judge Robert. Franklin after THAT i went to law. SCHOOL i was very, busy very, busy and had no, money AND i, SAID i don't know IF i got the gas money to get out To missouri. Anyway so six months goes, by he calls me, again and sounding even, worse he, said they tell ME i have a few days to. Live please come see. Me if he, said IF i could come to see, YOU i, WOULD i, Said, dad get

on with your. Death i'm, done no, zero, nothing hung, Up and at that POINT i felt in a sense good about, it but in a sense. Bad SHOULD i have gone seeing? Him COULD i have gone see? Him for two hundred? Three her? Mousey BUT i wasn't going to. GO i wasn't going to. Go, No i'm not going Years robi years and NOW i owned A willy's, restaurant said one In. Kenwood this would have been like in twenty twenty five years. Ago and this really old guy came up to, me which thankfully happens a, lot and,

said CAN i talk with? YOU i, said, yeah what? About he looked at me and, said it's about your. DAD i said about my. DAD i, said let's get a. TABLE i went to see him and he, SAID i want to give you a. Letter and he gave me a, letter WHICH i still have AND i, said, Well i'll read the. Letter but what is he? Said your dad? Was you, know he was In guadalcanal and The Solomon islands and he was In. China he was a, marine

was in for three and a half. Years he saw things he shouldn't have, Seen he did things he shouldn't have. Done and when he came. Home it's CALLED ptsd, now but it was it was like a shell shocked at that. Point he couldn't get over what he did and what he saw as us. Marine and he got into the. Bottle he never got out of the. Bottle he felt such a SHAME i was his best. FRIEND i was your dad's best, buddy and the last thing he wanted

was to see his son that was carrying his. Namesake he felt really close To in, fact you look so much like, him and he really wanted to see you and tell you that he's sorry that he wanted to apologize to you how embarrassed he was having left the mother and four kids with nothing and never come back. Again he felt like the ward was over for, him and he wanted to apologize and say he was sorry and explain the reason it. Happened it is not an, excuse but he wanted to tell you the reason that

Is United States. Marine he did things he shouldn't have done and saw things he shouldn't have, seen and that he wanted to say he was. Sorry at that, POINT i felt about a half an inch toll. That you know my feeling about, police about, sheriffs you know my feelings about the, military AND i should have gone in the living years and sat across the table from, him

AND i KNOW i would have forgiven. Him in, fact Every Father's DAY i say a prayer of thankfulness for the man that gave me life and for the man THAT i heard in the, end AND i ask And i've received forgiveness for WHAT i did, wrong which was

not connecting with my dad during the living. Years so, today This friday, afternoon if you're disconnected from your, father if he's done things you shouldn't have, done if he has said things he shouldn't have, said make one more, attempt one more for me to your dad to, say look, dead we're, strange we don't get, along BUT i really feel as IF i want to get with you and acknowledge the relationship that we've, had AND i want to get with you and hear what you have to, say

AND i will accept your. Apologies if you want some from, ME i will give you theologies from. Me but please please connect with your dad before it's too. Late one of the regrets of my, life And i've had, many my life is more imperfect than. Perfect one of the regrets of my life is not going to see my dad and let him explain to me once again how sorry he is for what he did to me and my, family and THAT i would accept his. Apologies so, please

before it's too, late see your dad one more. Time and if it takes another time and another, time you're going to feel better in the, end because one of the bad Things i've done in my life has to have too much, yubrius too much, manlihood too much of a tough guy to sit across from my father as he was dying and let him explain to me what. Happened the last IMAGE i have of my dad is playing. Baseball he is the third base coach Of Rutters, pharmacy

and getting on the bench and talking to my. Dad and that's the last IMAGE i. Have AND i hated him for a long, time BUT i love him. Now Bill, Cunningham News radio seven HUNDRED Ww.

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