What's frustrating to me is that Israel's response to the attacks from Hamas were not compartmentalized.

They were emotional. There was pride and there was ego in the immediate next steps when it could have been compartmentalized.

You could have delayed your response just long enough to compartmentalize your emotions and come up with a strategically viable option for what to do next.

But that didn't happen.

And that's why adversaries to the US and adversaries to Israel

support this ongoing confrontation between the Palestinians and Israel.

We literally woke up yesterday and Hamas had crossed the border from the Gaza Strip into Israel,

had kidnapped people, killed almost 200 people, and launched 5,000 rockets.

We've been alive most of the time that the whole Gaza, West Bank, Israel conflict has been really active.

I remember the day that I signed up for CIA, right?

The, I remember the headlines showing troops marching from Israel into the Gaza Strip in 2007.

I remember it, clear as day.

Yeah.

Clear as day.

And now here we are, 2003, watching it clear as day. Yeah. Clear his day. And now here we are, two thousand twenty three watching it all happen again.

And Netanyahu, the leader for Israel, has declared war on Hamas, which in effect

is declaring war on the Gaza Strip.

Like I think that's insane. I think that's amazing that it's happening right now.

Really? I'm not laughing. So I'm very curious as to why you're laughing. So my reaction is because

even though, you know, I woke up yesterday, I do my usual, like, I roll over

to help my brain wake up. I pull up my phone. I have my news emails that come up. I scroll

through them. And, you know, I saw it. And everybody was like, surprise attack. And I'm like,

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