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Coffee House Shots

What is Israel's army capable of?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

James Heale speaks to foreign policy expert Sophia Gaston and defence correspondent Sean Rayment about what could be Israel's next steps, the strength of their military and how much political backing they have worldwide. 

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Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee How Shots.

0:29.3

I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Sphere Gaston of course the exchange

0:33.8

andshore Raymond the Defence Correspondent.

0:36.1

Now Sphere I mean we're recording this on the Friday it's been released on the Saturday

0:40.3

just tell us how this past week has unfolded seven days since that attack last Saturday.

0:46.4

Well of course the big story on the weekend was the horrendous terrorist attacks

0:51.6

that Hamas inflicted on largely the civilian population of Israel, men, women, children,

1:01.4

the elderly, not only many people raped, butchered, killed but also several dozen perhaps over 100

1:12.3

Israeli hostages taken into Gaza. Obviously utterly horrendous stories about how that all

1:19.4

transpired and of course over the day since we've been given more information as the

1:25.1

Israeli military has been able to seize control of some of these villages,

1:31.3

cabuts that had been under siege. Of course things are now shifting to the question

1:38.0

of the Israeli response as has been expected, Israel is obviously seeking to secure its borders

1:45.2

but it's also decided to launch an offensive. It has labeled this a war and is seeking to

1:52.5

stamp out Hamas. Hamas is of course based there in Gaza. What this is all led to of course is now

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