Hamas expected Israel's response - so why did they attack?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It's four minutes after 10. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. It was a chief |
| 0:05.6 | military spokesman who said yesterday that the Israeli Air Force is concentrating on damage, not accuracy. |
| 0:11.3 | Not the defence minister, as I said a moment ago. But the point obviously stands. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari. |
| 0:17.6 | And here's a thing, all right. We're going to try again to walk the tightrope today |
| 0:22.0 | I was listening to Nick interviewing someone who I think was in benjamin Netanyahu's |
| 0:30.0 | office I was kind of walking into the office upstairs when it was going out over the radio and she |
| 0:36.7 | was explaining that some of the concerns |
| 0:39.3 | the outside world may have about collective punishment or innocent people in Gaza being |
| 0:46.5 | utterly unable to avoid the missiles being rained down upon them. And she was saying that |
| 0:53.9 | we don't need to worry because they're |
| 0:55.7 | given plenty of warning and they know exactly where the targeted areas will be and there is |
| 1:02.6 | absolutely nothing to stop them getting out, not getting out of Gaza, which is close to impossible, |
| 1:07.3 | but getting out of the targeted areas. And bizarrely, when I sat down and opened the paper, |
| 1:14.4 | I page four of the times, with those words still, that interview is still being conducted on the |
| 1:19.1 | radio. I read, the Israeli Air Force is concentrating on, quote, damage, not accuracy, end quotes. |
| 1:26.7 | Its chief military spokesman said yesterday, |
| 1:29.6 | as jets reduced swathes of Gaza to rubble, |
| 1:32.6 | killing hundreds of people. |
| 1:34.6 | And that's scary. |
| 1:36.6 | That is scary. |
| 1:38.2 | When you have an actual military spokesman, |
| 1:40.8 | a rear admiral, no less, |
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