After a few days of distancing the United States from Israel's surprise attack on Iran -- aimed at smashing that country's nuclear program and its plan to amass a huge arsenal of ballistic missiles -- President Trump decided to be 100% pro-Israel.

Dan Raviv, in an on-air discussion with CBS News, analyzed Trump's online posts that said "We..." as though he was involved in the war on Israel's side.

Might Israel regret teaming up with an American president who's foreign policy is erratic and unpredictable?

Dan then speaks with a military analyst who focuses on Israel, Iran, and the Middle East -- Michael Eisenstadt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. They consider the possibility that Israel doesn't need America's "bunker-buster" bombs to destroy the notorious Fordow nuclear facility -- buried deep inside a mountain in central Iran. Couldn't Israeli commando troops, accompanied by Mossad spies who have penetrated Iran for many years, mount a ground assault on Fordow?

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Dan's most recent book -- with Israeli espionage/defense expert Yossi Melman -- about the Mossad and Israel's other security agencies is "Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars" -- You may purchase it at http://bit.ly/41j1Sc3 in Kindle or paperback (and on all e-book platforms).

AND ANOTHER BOOK: Dan Raviv is co-author of a new book -- with world-renowned social psychologist Prof. Arie Kruglanski -- "The Quest for Significance: Harnessing the Need that Makes the World Go Round." It explains how every person has a need for respect and dignity, and the book advises how you can find what's important to you -- and figure out all the people around you, to give them a measure of Significance ... and then they typically will reflect some back at you. That's called a win-win. To buy: https://amzn.to/3Y2cawj

(You can watch or listen, also, to THE QUEST FOR SIGNIFICANCE PODCAST series.)

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