Welcome to the reason Roundtable, your weekly podcast from the magazine, The Freeminds

and Freemarkets.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nick Colesby, Peter Suderman, and Katherine Mangu, Ward, Happy

Indigenous Columbus Day, everyone.

Howdy.

Hi, Matt.

Happy Monday.

So, it's not really happy Monday, people, the world turned upside down over the weekend

early Saturday morning.

When Hamas, the radical Islamic overseers the Gaza Strip of Land between Southern Israel

and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, executed a shocking and barbaric series of raids and

attacks and kidnappings in Israel, killing an estimated 700 people, including 260, who

were attending a music festival, and also taking some 150 hostages.

All these numbers are subject to massive revision.

I am sure.

There have reportedly been at least nine Americans killed.

We don't know about the hostage situation yet, as well as citizens of other countries.

It was the worst attack on the Israeli soil in the 75-year history of the country, the

deadliest day for Jews since World War II, and has been frequently characterized as Israel's

9-11 right down to the catastrophic intelligence failure.

People has responded by recalling all its military reservists, massing troops on the Gaza

border, declaring a complete siege on the territory, and announcing its intention to remove

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