"I've been to Israel before. The whole country is a fortress. When I first heard this story, I still have the same gut instinct that I initially I had. I find this very hard to believe. I've been to that Gaza border. You cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19 year old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that's an IDF soldier, right. The whole country is surveilled.
So, let me just kinda go through this. We don't talk about Israeli politics very often and most Americans don't know this. The last 9 months Israel has been on the brink of Civil War. It's not an exaggeration. This judicial stuff. There were hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets because Bebe Netanyahu was basically redefining the Israeli Constitution. That's not an exaggeration. He said the Judicial Branch has too much power. There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu where they anticipated tens of thousands of people to take to the streets. That's all gone.
Netanyahu now has an emergency government and a mandate to lead. I'm not willing to say, to go so far as saying Netanyahu knew or there was some intelligence here but I think some questions need to be asked. Was there a stand down order? Was there a stand down order, six hours? I don't believe it.
Israel is the size of New Jersey. When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza borer, it's 45 minutes. Wow, six hours. They're live-streaming the killing of Jews. Did somebody in the government say "stand down"? That is a legitimate, non-conspiracy question. The whole country is the IDF. The whole country is, and you're trying to tell me that they're going to concerts and kibbutzes and schools and by reports six hours . . . "
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