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the CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Seth Fransman. He is the foundation for the

Defense of Democracy's importantly is the war correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and the author of the new book

October 7th War. Intelligence failure, reading through your details Seth, I was reminded

of all the lessons learned of Pearl Harbor that were not learned, of all the lessons

learned from 9-11 that were not learned.

As of yet, there's been no inquiry into what went wrong and why. And many of the same leaders on

that day are still in place. Some have left their jobs, but many are still there,

certainly the Prime Minister and the

Minister of Defense Mr Galan. But I don't want to go too fast on this. There were

warning signs. You spoke to the father of one woman now KIA

and the observation unit, the 414.

There were warnings along the fence.

The fence was built to keep the Palestinian-Gazan troublemakers in, not charging across

the Nogev. In these years in between, the takeover of the Gaza by Hamas and the attack on October 7th.

Is there one explanation that you've, you know, writing your book?

Is there one explanation that tracks you more than any other knowing

it's not definitive about why the IDF was not able to listen to the warning signs that

their own front line was giving them?

Yeah, I think it's just an example of a typical human failure of complacency,

combined with arrogance, combined with looking in the wrong direction and therefore having a feedback loop in which

everything that you're told you just say you just kind of dismiss it.

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