FAILURES OCTOBER 6: 1/4: The October 7 War: Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza by Seth J. Frantzman (Author), Mark Dubowitz (Foreword)
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🗓️ 1 February 2025
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A harrowing account on the frontlines of the war between Israel and Hamas, The October 7 War tells the story of how Hamas surprised Israel with its deadly attack, killing more than 1,000 people and kidnapping more than 250. With unparalleled access to the Israeli soldiers and units that faced the Hamas onslaught and their epic battle to defeat the terror group in Gaza, this is the story of the men and women who faced one of the world’s worst terror attacks and brought justice to its victims. It is also the story of how Hamas—backed by anti-Western and anti-Semitic forces around the globe—masterminded its attack and aspired to fire the first shot in a war to upset the US-led world order. The war against the terrorist group will determine the future of the Middle East.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:11.4 | I welcome Seth Fransman of the Jerusalem Post-war correspondent, |
| 0:16.8 | of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, |
| 0:19.2 | and the author of The very helpful new book, |
| 0:22.8 | The October 7 War, Israel's Battle for Security in Gaza, just published. |
| 0:28.6 | I recommend for those of you who've lived the war as I have, |
| 0:32.6 | and yet seeing it written down and broken into very clear paragraphs with names attached helps a deal |
| 0:38.8 | remember what we've been through for nearly a year. Seth, congratulations, and a very good |
| 0:44.2 | evening to you, and I take you immediately to the evening of October 7th. I'm sure it's burned |
| 0:49.6 | in your memory. You drove as fast as you could to Gaza, knowing that there was chaos in some |
| 0:55.7 | fashion. You come to a police checkpoint. You stop your car, you get out, and there's a, I believe, |
| 1:02.4 | blue car in the middle of a four-lane highway, and there's a sack next to it. What did you |
| 1:07.6 | find, Seth, and what are your memories of that moment? Good evening to you. |
| 1:12.8 | Well, good evening to you. So, yeah, that day was the, it was the evening of the first day of the war. |
| 1:18.0 | So the war had been going on at that point for about 12 hours or so. It was going to be sunset. |
| 1:24.6 | And I tried to get down to the, you know, Gaza border as fast as possible. So I driven past |
| 1:29.4 | some other police checkpoints near Stero, which was closed off because there were terrorists there. |
| 1:34.2 | So I got to a place that was south of the city of Ashkelon, this highway, it's four or five lanes |
| 1:41.0 | wide. And that highway goes directly towards, towards Gaza. |
| 1:46.2 | There's just several of those right communities next to it. |
| 1:48.6 | Like, yeah, I'm mortified. |
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