FAILURES OCTOBER 6: 3/4: 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 CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel. I'm John Batchel. I'm speaking with my colleague, |
| 0:08.3 | Seth Fransman, of the Jerusalem Post of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:14.8 | I am very pleased to be able to speak to Seth as much as I can every week about the ongoing conflict in Gaza and now the |
| 0:23.5 | potential of conflict in the north because of Hisbalah on the West Bank, from the Houthis in |
| 0:31.3 | Yemen, and certainly from Iran, the driver of this. There are metaphors that we need to introduce |
| 0:36.9 | right away because they come |
| 0:38.3 | from reporting in Cess book. Early on, they needed a way to describe the battle plan of Hamas |
| 0:44.8 | having attacked. But that's the battle plan of Iran. There is a mistake to be made if you |
| 0:52.1 | concentrate too much on Hamas |
| 0:54.2 | and not look at the octopus's brain. |
| 0:58.0 | This is a metaphor that was used by the war cabinet, I believe, |
| 1:02.7 | to describe and what was going on. |
| 1:06.0 | How does it work, Seth? |
| 1:09.9 | Well, Iran is obviously the head of all these proxy groups in the region. |
| 1:15.0 | They're supported Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, as well as militias in Iraq, as well as in Syria. |
| 1:23.0 | Iran is at the pinnacle of its power today under this regime. |
| 1:26.1 | It seems like this regime is powered, basically. |
| 1:29.2 | It has been backing these groups like Hasbolo for decades. It's been slowly building them up. |
| 1:35.3 | And over the last 10 years, it's actually had a huge amount of success. It was able to get its kind |
| 1:41.6 | of tentacles into Yemen and back the Houthis and move drones |
| 1:45.3 | and missiles to the Houthis so that they can fire ballistic missiles up to, you know, 1,500 miles |
| 1:49.8 | almost. And they were able also to infiltrate Iraq after 2003, but especially in the last few years |
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