The pilots last night and we're talking about probably somewhere around a third to a half of the Israeli Air Force was deployed last night from what I understand.

And they stayed up in the air for hours and hours on end carrying out three waves of

strikes and they did so with deadly efficiency and they all came home and had breakfast with their families.

That is a remarkable feat in New York City. It's 545 p.m.

on October 26th here in New York City it's 5.45 PM in Israel. With me today

are Nadaval of Yidiot Achronut and Jonathan Shanzer from the Foundation for Defensive democracies to talk about

Israel's attack in Iran last night.

Before we jump into the conversation, just one quick note on Monday night October 28th at 6 o'clock PM I will be in

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with my friend Dave McCormick combat veteran

former CEO of Bridgewater and candidate for the US Senate.

Dave is a West Point grad, deployed in the First Gulf War with the 82nd Airborne

Division and is an expert on national security and he and I will be having a conversation in Pittsburgh

about national security more broadly, the US-Israel relationship and events over this past weekend.

If you want to register for the event, please just look for the link in the show notes

and I'll also be posting it on X.

Now into our conversation, Israel, as most of our listeners will know by the time they hear this, attacked Iran last night

in several waves of attacks in what appears to be a particularly complex air operation at

a distance of about 1,500 kilometers from the territory of Israel

and also under many air threats from Iran and elsewhere, the attack as we know it was carried out by dozens of fighter jets,

refueling planes, intelligence planes, while being prepared for an immediate rescue,

potentially from enemy territory. So as far as we understand

that all of Israel's aircraft assets returned home safely to its various Air Force

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