Victor Davis Hanson: The Real Story Behind the Hamas Terror Attack on Israel
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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"We had a situation in a time of peace where a thousand people were mutilated and butchered before the IDF responded. And yet, that ignited these people on the campus to root for the people who were murdering and beheading.”
To make sense of the realities of the Israel–Hamas war, I sit down with classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson, bestselling author of a number of books including “The Dying Citizen” and the upcoming book “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation.”
Did Hamas miscalculate Israel’s response? Will Hezbollah intervene? What is Iran’s play now? And what do many in the West misunderstand about Israel and Hamas?
"A lot of people apply rules to the Jewish state they would never apply to any other ally. And that explains the schizophrenia that we have," Mr. Hanson says.
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| 0:00.0 | We had a situation and a time of peace where 1,000 people were mutilated and butchered, and yet that ignited these people on the campus to root for the people who were murdering and beheading. |
| 0:20.0 | To make sense of the realities of the Israel-Hamas war, I sit down with classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson, best-selling author of The Dying Citizen, |
| 0:29.0 | and of the upcoming book, the end of everything. |
| 0:31.0 | A lot of people apply roles to the Jewish state they would never apply to any other. |
| 0:37.0 | Did Hamas miscalculate Israel's response? |
| 0:41.0 | Will Hezbollah intervene? What is Iran's play? |
| 0:44.0 | And what do many in the West misunderstand about Israel and Hamas? |
| 0:48.0 | Why don't you just read what they write rather than to project what you think they should write? |
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| 2:15.0 | Victor Davis Hanson, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 2:19.0 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 2:20.0 | Victor, I want to do kind of a primer here on what's happening in the Middle East right now, what's happening with the Israel Hamas War, how this all came to be, how you view this from your unique military history lens here. |
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