TOCS – 6:30pm PDT – SCUDS, Iranian Proxies, and Israeli Civilians

It’s a gorgeous and sunny morning here at One Jerusalem Radio’s downtown Los Angeles studio, so naturally we’re inside with the windows closed putting together material for this week’s TOCS. There aren’t any full-length interviews tonight, which means extra time for news segments and listener questions. Starting at 6:30pm you’ll be able to tune in live either by going to the main show page or by clicking through to tonight’s episode page. Bracketing the content, the show should follow our increasingly-standard format for TOCS shows: Iranian warmongering updates, Diker call, and then news updates interspersed with caller and chat room feedback.

Official blurb:

Omri covers the escalatng tensions between Israel and Iran’s proxies in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. Hamas and Hezbollah, often with direct assistance from Damascus, are preparing in earnest for what could be a series of major regional wars. Buoyed by the perception that Obama has abandoned Israel and confident that even Israeli victory would trigger hypocritical Goldstone-like attacks on the Jewish State, Israel’s enemies have openly declared their intention to saturation bomb Israeli civilians. There are more weapons in Gaza and Lebanon today – and they’re more dangerous – then there were on the eves of Lebanon II and Cast Lead. Now the recent transfer of ballistic missiles from Syria to Hezbollah has threatened to ignite what’s already become an unstable powder keg. Diplomacy and media specialist Dan Diker will call in from Israel to provide an assessment of how Israel is dealing with the new threat environment, while news segments will focus on each of Iran’s proxies in turn.

This week’s Diker call is far-ranging – including a short discussion about various Iran warfighting scenarios – but focuses mainly on how Hamas is undermining stability in Gaza and the West Bank. All the Israeli goodwill in the world couldn’t create a secure and democratic Palestinian state at this point, the President’s delusions of Israeli intransigence notwithstanding.

News segments will deal – minimally – with this and this on Syria, this and this on Hamas, and this total insanity on Hezbollah. Nothing a little Hope and Change can’t solve, though. You can be quite sure, because Obama said so.

References and related after the jump…

References:
* SCUDS, Iranian Proxies, and Israeli Civilians [TOCS]
* Oh My: World Jewish Congress President Ron Lauder Goes Nuclear On Obama [Mere Rhetoric]
* Netanyahu: Iran provoking Israel-Syria conflict [AP]
* Clinton defends outreach to Syria despite Scud row [Reuters]
* Could Hamas Be Any More Disgusting? [Honest Reporting Media Backspin]
* On Al-Jazeera TV, Calls for Jihad at a Kuwaiti Student Union Rally; Kuwaiti MP: ‘The War Foretold By the Prophet Muhammad… Is Drawing Near… This Is a War Of Religion, Not Just a War Between Arabs and Israelis’ [MEMRI]
* Is Israel Facing War with Hizbullah and Syria? [JCPA]