Hamas Goes To War With Israel
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In a special episode, Ben and Tommy talk about the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, how Israel’s intelligence community failed to detect it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaration that his country is “at war” and what comes next, President Biden’s response, and what this all means for Israel’s political future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pots-A of the World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.2 | And Ben and I, we are hosting a special episode of Pots-A of the World today on Saturday, October |
| 0:19.6 | 7th, following the news of this war breaking out between Israel and Hamas and militants |
| 0:25.2 | in Gaza. |
| 0:26.3 | So this is a developing situation. |
| 0:27.6 | We're recording it about three o'clock Pacific time Saturday, because we just wanted to get |
| 0:32.6 | you guys sort of the best information as we know it. |
| 0:36.2 | But you know, Ben so far, this is pretty horrifying events and scenes coming out of Israel |
| 0:40.8 | so far. |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.8 | Kind of a worst case scenario situation, Tommy. |
| 0:44.1 | I really don't look forward at all to the coming days here. |
| 0:47.4 | Absolutely. |
| 0:48.4 | So what we know so far is that on the morning of October 7th, there was a coordinated assault |
| 0:54.0 | launched by Hamas on several different parts of Israel. |
| 0:57.7 | There were an estimated 2,000 rockets fired, those rained down from the sky and seemed |
| 1:01.9 | to get through some of the Israeli missile defense systems that had usually been a lot |
| 1:06.5 | more capable. |
| 1:07.7 | At the same time, militants entered more than 20 southern Israeli towns, killing and kidnapping |
| 1:13.8 | civilians and soldiers. |
| 1:16.0 | They reportedly took over an IDF headquarters that was in charge of military operations for |
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