News Roundup and Comment

Crosstalk America

Looking for news headlines you won't find elsewhere? Crosstalk is the program for just that. Here's a sample of what Jim covered this week:--Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7th massacre in Israel, is dead. Sinwar was killed by an infantry soldier who was only 9 months into his service.--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the U.S. that Israel is willing to strike Iranian military targets, not nuclear or oil targets.--Israel's military suffered one of the worst attacks since October 7th. That's the Hezbollah drone strike at a base dozens of miles from the Lebanon border where four IDF soldiers were killed and 58 others were wounded.--The U.S. has deployed the THAAD missile defense system along with a 100 member crew to bolster Israel's defense against a possible third direct strike from Iran.--Israeli forces on Monday killed Hezbollah's anti-tank missile commander Muhammad Kamel Naeem just days after his elite fighting brigade launched a lethal rocket attack on northern Israel that also killed a couple of civilians.--Hezbollah is facing a very serious financial problem as they are unable to pay rank and file members who've fled their homes and need to feed their families. --The Israeli Defense Forces captured a Hezbollah weapons cache a few dozen meters from a U.N. international force in Lebanon. --The U.S. embassy in Beirut issued a warning to Americans living in Lebanon urging them to leave the country immediately.--The Biden/Harris administration is quietly threatening an arms embargo against Israel citing humanitarian concerns.