weaponizing your emotion to motivate you to be better at certain things is a good idea but thinking

with emotion is not ever a good idea right? I think it was a mistake we made here in the U.S.

Back in the Vietnam era where a big part of like basic

training and stuff was teaching people to hate Vietnamese people it's like how

does that help I mean be a professional is what I'll say about that be logical be a

professional somebody's a threat shoot them in the fucking face and move on with your day

you know otherwise you know we're not we're not supposed to be animals and if you start behaving like one you're going to pump one.

Let's go. Welcome to Citizen. We got a special guest today, Captain Elkhana Cohen.

You remember the IDF. You got a new book out. We'll get to that in a minute.

But let's first get into you. Where'd you grow up?

Thank you for having me. I grew up. I born in Jerusalem that my parents moved to a lot. Then they moved to a village named Mejavam,

Yahuham, and then today live in Rana.

And let me ask you, before we get into, you know, your exploits as a military guy I'm just very curious about how the

were your parents in the military as well? My father served in the military but not for a long period of time it was a short time yeah and my mom no she didn't.

My wife she's serving is by the way while're talking, she's doing reserve right now.

Okay, and what's the, like, it's, from the outside looking at it looks like an impossible situation to most people to be honest but what's your

take on the relationship between Israel's a country and then Gaza and the West Bank

I'm very curious what like from a Israeli perspective, we don't get a chance to talk to many people. I'm curious what you think about it.

So I think that the situation right now is the very complicated and the reason that it's

complicated is because that we have neighbors that lots of people inside the Gaza Strip wants to kill us, but we are taking care of the

majority of the people who don't support that while we have 111

hostages while we're talking still holding in captivity at the Gaza

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