"This is again why [Hezbollah leader] Hassan Nasrallah speaks of perseverance. Perseverance means that you have to struggle through the difficult times to ensure that you are not distracted from the strategic vision," Ritter said, adding that "Hamas is winning this fight. Israel cannot prevail. Israel cannot defeat Hamas on the ground. Israel has lost the propaganda battle globally; they have lost in the United States."
“I think Scott Ritter is right. And, you know, I would remind everybody, too, if you recall a month ago, in the immediate aftermath, just in 24 or 48 hours after the Hamas attack on Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said - and he said it definitively at the time - that the Iranians were behind it all, that that Iran was supplying weapons to Hamas, that Hamas couldn't have pulled this off by itself, this had to be an Iranian operation. And it wasn't an Iranian operation. But that was very consistent with Netanyahu's thinking over the past two decades,” said Kiriakou, who is also the co-host of “Political Misfits” on Radio Sputnik.
“Now, we heard from Netanyahu's office today that the IDF is - their words - ‘deep in the heart of Gaza’. Well, good luck with that. Good luck with miles and miles of tunnels, good luck finding an enemy that is intertwined with the civilian population. Good luck. That doesn't mean that the United States should be dragged into it. We have our own problems now with Ukraine and with what seems to be an overwhelming national desire to jump in on the side of the Israelis from a distance - but that doesn't mean that we have to send American troops to help Israel fight its war.”
“Well, first of all, that would be a crime against humanity of epic proportions. And secondly, that's the first time that any Israeli government official, ever, in the history of the country, has ever admitted that Israel has a nuclear weapon. And so, you know, the Israelis just can't seem to get it right, they can't seem to get this information war or propaganda right.”
“You know, I had a guest on my own show today, Dan Kovalik, who said that when push comes to shove, the American people usually do the right thing. And the American people - not the American government, the American people - and they will call out outward injustice. And we're only four weeks into this fight and already they're seeing an injustice. Your last guest mentioned that more than half of the deaths so far in Gaza have been women and children. Most of the deaths have been civilians. That is unacceptable, no matter what country you come from, that is unacceptable. And the Israelis don't care about things like that.”