News Roundup & Comment

Provocations against Israel by the group known as Hamas broke out beginning Monday of this week and they continue. Dr. Daniel Aschheim, Consul for Public Diplomacy for the Israeli Consulate for the Midwest, spent a few minutes with Jim by phone to update listeners on this issue.

As this program moved along, numerous other stories were covered. Here's a brief sample:

--The U.S. Navy announced Sunday that it seized an arms shipment of thousands of assault weapons, machine guns and sniper rifles hidden aboard a ship in the Arabian Sea, apparently bound for Yemen to support the Houthi rebels.
--Miami Dolphins partnering with local mosque to distribute food in honor of Ramadan.