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Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Seth Franzman of the Jerusalem Post War Correspondent of the Foundation for the

Defense of Democracy and the author of The Very Helpful New Book, The October 7th War, Israel's Battle for Security in

Gaza just published. I recommend for those of you who've lived the war as I have

and yet seeing it written down and broken into very clear

paragraphs with names attached helps a deal remember what we've been through for nearly

a year.

Seth, congratulations and a very good evening to you and I take

you immediately to the evening of October 7th. I'm sure it's burned in your memory. You drove

as fast as you could to Gaza knowing that there was chaos in some fashion.

You come to a police checkpoint, you stop your car, you get out, and there's a, I believe, blue car in the middle of a four lane

highway and there's a sack next to it. What did you find Seth and what are your

memories of that moment? Good evening to you. So good evening to you. So yeah that day was the it was the

evening of the first day of the war so the war had been going on at that point

for about 12 hours or so it was going to be sunset.

And I tried to get down to the goss of order as fast as possible.

So I driven past some other police checkpoints near Stero, which was closed off because there were terrorists there.

So I got to a place that was south of the city of Ashgalon, this highway, it's four or five lanes wide,

and that highway goes directly towards Gaza.

There's just several Israeli communities next to it like yeah mortify and there's a

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