This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz at the Hoover Institution about lessons learned from the war in Gaza.

One of them challenging is that the Israeli authorities believed the 47-minute film they put together from the gangster's own videos of the massacre would convince the world that Israel's right and the Hamas had to go, had to end.

It did not.

And why?

Peter explains has to do with the American government, the Biden administration.

Here's Peter Berkowitz on lessons learned, hard lessons learned in the war

so far. More of this tonight. It certainly was. For them, it was a kind of game changer meaning.

As you know, the Israeli government prepared a 47-minute film documenting Hamas's atrocities.

Some of the documentation came from the GoPro cameras that the terrorists were wearing as they executed in cold blood civilian Israelis.

The Israelis hoped that this would shock, that this film, this documentation of atrocities,

would shock consciences worldwide,

it would compel nations around the globe

to rally to Israel's side,

encourage them to demolish Hamas.

But no, that didn't happen.

And Sir Cohen especially points the finger

at the Biden administration.

Because the Biden administration,

sent diplomat after diplomat,

public intellectuals also to Israel,

they didn't say to Israel,

when.

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