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#UKRAINE: GAZA OPENS FIRE. UKRAINE CEASES FIR. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#UKRAINE:  GAZA OPENS FIRE. UKRAINE CEASES FIR. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL
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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.8

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain

0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.6

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0:28.7

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0:32.5

In these last hours, airstrikes, Reuters,

0:35.8

Israel says it has launched new ground operation in Gaza.

0:39.5

I welcome Colonel Jeff McCausen, United States Army retired artillerymen, CBS News, visiting Professor Dickinson College, CEO, Diamond Sixth,

0:45.3

leadership and strategy. War restart Gaza. The Israeli strike force operating in these last days was going after leadership or what remains of

0:57.7

leadership of Hamas. Now ground forces, and that is a high-risk endeavor in a crowded space,

1:05.3

and it is also a challenge to the nation of Israel and to its allies, what is the mission? What is the goal

1:14.1

going back in and redoing the same offensive and the same ruined landscape with the same

1:20.2

problems of a large population? Jeff, a very good evening to you. Do you see a goal right here

1:26.2

that we can talk about, or is it

1:28.1

more of the same? Good evening to you, John. I think the goal is, many ways, more of the same,

1:34.4

and what I mean by that is the Israelis have been pretty adamant from the onset of this conflict,

1:40.5

that their goal was the total destruction of Hamas, both militarily and politically, and the

1:45.9

release of the hostages. But the problem is, in some ways, those two goals are counterdictory,

1:52.1

because there's no way I would argue that the Hamas was going to negotiate for the final

1:56.3

release of hostages while at the same time realizing that exterminating them was Israel's goal,

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