The Hello, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff.

Real Crime Stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

Folks, what we're seeing over in the Middle East and Israel after these attacks from Hamas

are unprecedented in the way that civilians were specifically targeted in these attacks by

Hamas, which should be considered a terrorist organization,

not an army, not a sanctioned army, but a terrorist organization that specifically targeted

helpless civilians, specifically children, schools, music festivals, to carry out their attacks on a country

that was unaware and totally surprised by these attacks.

Again, you hear a lot that this was an intelligence failure.

Israel is known to be or have one of the top intelligence capabilities in the entire world. However, this was not something that just occurred at the spur of the moment.

This had been planned for over a year. And as a result of these attacks, there are over 150 hostages.

And it keeps changing hour by hour as more and more techniques are being

used by both Hamas to play the public relations war besides the actual on-ground violent killing people war and is

going forward with of course taking Gaza and commencing the ground war and going house to

house in an attempt to recover these hostages.

Now, the United States, there's at least the number keeps changing. 15 to 20 of these hostages

are American citizens. So the Biden administration is involved. behind the scenes, of course, showing American strength by sending warships there,

supplying Israel with anything they need in regards to weaponry supplies, all of those things. We are fully behind Israel in this war. Yet there are so many

innocent people on both sides dying. Palestinians have to, that aren't involved with Hamas,

have to get out of Gaza. Just think about evacuating any area in a 24-hour period when there's over a million people.

It's just, it sounds like an impossibility.

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