Transcript [00:00] Something bigger may be unfolding and [00:02] Israel is suddenly on alert on multiple [00:04] fronts. Days after an alleged terrorist [00:07] tried to crash an Israelbound passenger [00:09] plane, Natanyao was warning of threats [00:12] ahead of the election. The IDF chief has [00:14] canled the US trip [music] and five men [00:16] have been arrested over a suspected [00:18] terror plot near a US [music] air base [00:20] in Britain. Are these isolated incidents [00:23] or signs of a much more dangerous period [00:26] ahead? Jerusalem Minute starts now. [00:33] Welcome back to Jerusalem Minute here on [00:35] JNS TV. Alex, let's get right to it. Top [00:38] story this week, Israeli passengers [00:40] thwarting a terrorist attack in the air. [00:42] We're talking about Fly Dubai's Flight [00:44] 1073 carrying 174 passengers from Dubai [00:48] to Tel Aviv, diverted to Saudi Arabia [00:50] after the co-pilot, apparently using a [00:53] some sort of axe, attacked the pilot, [00:56] stabbing the pilot. He's there. He's [00:59] laid out and manages to open the door [01:02] and the Israeli passengers figured out [01:04] something was going on. Let's jump right [01:06] to this clip. [01:22] Go out. Go out. [01:27] Are you a doctor? [01:30] Please. [01:46] Police. Police. coming. [01:48] >> Where is the police? [01:54] >> So, Alex, we have the three brave [01:56] Israelis who helped control the flight. [01:58] You have the pilot, also a hero, the [02:00] Indian pilot Smith Makjahar with his [02:04] last breath after being seriously [02:06] wounded, opening the door, allowing the [02:08] Israelis in. Alex, what do we know at [02:10] this point? Well, as you said, there [02:12] were two pilots in the cockpit. One was [02:14] from Oman. his name Ham al-Hamami uh and [02:18] you had Smid Ma Makahar uh an Indian [02:23] co-pilot and uh what happened was that [02:25] the Omani co-pilot basically started to [02:28] attack the Indian pilot of the plane [02:31] with the crash axe which is used for [02:33] emergencies inside the cockpit to get [02:35] out. He starts attacking him. Uh stabs [02:38] him multiple times with the axe and just [02:41] before again uh Smith the pilot from [02:44] India was about to pass out. Manages to [02:46] open the door. That was one of the first [02:48] miracles uh I think in in all of uh this [02:52] event of which many many miracles took [02:54] place. Uh the plane was already going [02:56] into a freef fall which we'll talk about [02:58] in a second. But the fact that the pilot [03:01] was able to get that door open because [03:03] after 9/11, doors have become impossible [03:06] uh to penetrate into the cockpit. [03:08] They're steel doors. They're [03:10] specifically made to prevent a hijacker [03:12] from getting in to the cockpit, which is [03:15] why for a hijacking like this to take [03:17] place, you already have to have the [03:18] hijacker inside the cockpit uh from the [03:21] beginning of the fight. And that's what [03:23] happened. He attacks this pilot and like [03:25] I said, the plane starts to go into a [03:27] freefall, right? They said that the [03:29] plane dropped 14,000 ft in just over 30 [03:32] seconds. The plane's diving. It's [03:34] spinning. Uh, and somehow Yaniv Hayun, [03:37] who was a plumber, who was in the front [03:40] of the plane, saw the door being open, [03:42] heard the screaming inside the cockpit, [03:44] rushes into the cockpit, helps to subdue [03:48] the Omani co-pilot. Uh, a few others [03:51] come in, they they get this guy out of [03:54] the cockpit. Uh meanwhile, the other [03:56] pilot is is bleeding inside the cockpit [03:58] and Yaniv Hayun sees that there's the [04:01] stick there that controls the altitude [04:03] of the plane and somehow pulls it back [04:06] and manages to uh get the plane out of [04:09] freef fall even though he has no [04:11] experience flying planes. He said that [04:12] he had watched videos about air [04:14] disasters and figured out that he should [04:16] just pull on the stick back. Now, one of [04:19] the other miracles, great miracles on [04:21] this flight was that there was another [04:22] crew, actually a British crew uh that [04:26] was a second crew that was on that Fly [04:28] Dubai flight. Uh it's not a typical [04:30] scenario that there is a second crew on [04:32] the flight, but it happened to be and [04:34] they were able to get into the cockpit [04:37] and then to actually stabilize the [04:39] plane. And one of the other miracles was [04:41] that the the back rudder, the tail of [04:43] the plane had been damaged in the freef [04:46] fall because planes are not designed to [04:49] be going that speed. And when they're [04:51] going that speed, that kind of geforce [04:53] spinning around, there was a a damage to [04:55] the back of the plane. And the other [04:57] pilots were able to stabilize the flight [05:00] course and then the plane was able to [05:02] make an emergency landing uh in Saudi [05:05] Arabia. [05:05] >> That's an unbelievable story. I don't [05:07] know much about aviation from I [05:09] understand what I've been learning is [05:10] that if Yaniv would have pulled back too [05:12] hard on the stick, the plane would have [05:15] disintegrated. I don't understand the [05:17] science behind it. And also, I also [05:19] learned over the weekend that actually a [05:20] six-year-old girl whose mother took her [05:22] to the bathroom and towards the front of [05:24] the plane, they're the first ones who [05:26] heard there was some sort of commotion [05:28] and they alerted then the Israelis who [05:30] were sitting in the back to come and [05:31] intervene. Really just an unbelievable [05:34] story all around. A huge miracle this [05:35] Sukkot. Yeah, absolutely. You know, the [05:38] Fly Dubai had been keeping flights open [05:41] uh and Emirati uh airlines uh the [05:44] Emirates, they've been flying from uh [05:48] Dubai to Israel when many other carriers [05:51] have stopped flying and and this is a [05:52] country, the United Arab Emirates is one [05:54] of the first to normalize relations with [05:57] Israel as part of the Abraham Accords. [05:59] Many other airlines have been boycotting [06:02] flying to Israel since October 7th, [06:04] since the war, particularly since a [06:06] rocket started flying from Gaza or from [06:08] Lebanon or from Iran. Fly Dubai has kept [06:10] flying the whole time. Now question is [06:13] who was flying the plane and why? Why [06:15] did you have an Omani uh co-pilot? Part [06:18] of the arrangement that Fly Dubai has [06:21] with Israel is that pilots are only [06:24] supposed to be allowed to fly those [06:25] planes if they are from countries that [06:27] have normalized relations with Israel. [06:29] So you had one of those pilots from [06:31] India, an Indian national and India has [06:34] great relations with the state of [06:35] Israel. The Emirates has good relations [06:37] with Israel. Bahrain has good relations [06:39] with Israel. But most of the countries [06:41] in the Gulf do not have good relations. [06:43] And so the question is why would a pilot [06:45] from Oman, a country that does not have [06:48] normalized with relations with Israel, [06:50] be allowed to fly that plane? And we're [06:53] learning more and more about this [06:55] co-pilot uh number one that he had flown [06:58] several times uh from from Dubai to [07:02] Israel, meaning that he he knew the [07:04] routes, he knew the coordinates. There [07:06] were there are reports now uh with the [07:09] interrogations that are taking place in [07:11] the United Arab Emirates because once [07:13] this plane landed in Saudi Arabia uh [07:15] Emirati security extracted him have [07:18] taken him back to uh the United Arab [07:20] Emirates. The Mossad apparently is [07:22] taking part uh in some way in the [07:24] interrogations but this is being led by [07:26] the Emirates. It's being found out now [07:28] that uh the Omani pilot was radicalized [07:32] that he had been that Fly Dubai had been [07:34] warn warned about his uh past as a [07:38] radicalized pilot that he had been fired [07:41] from an Omani airline. He should never [07:43] have been flying that plane. And then [07:45] that also brings questions about, you [07:47] know, what kind of checks does Israel [07:48] make? Because Israel was basically just [07:50] relying on Fly Dubai, uh, that they [07:54] would honor the rules and regulations, [07:56] the agreement that you would only have [07:58] pilots with normalized relations coming [08:00] from countries with normalized [08:01] relations. This clearly wasn't the case. [08:03] Uh, so certainly some kind of Israeli [08:06] security failure uh there. Uh but again [08:08] many many miracles that uh somehow or [08:11] another prohibited or prevented a a [08:15] horrific terror attack because they were [08:17] saying that this pilot was going to fly [08:20] this plane into Israel along the normal [08:23] route and then at the end to crash that [08:25] plane either into Bengurian airport on [08:27] the tarmac just crash it and create a a [08:30] horrific air uh horrific disaster inside [08:33] Israel potentially even there were [08:35] reports that he may have been targeting [08:37] the US refueling jets which were very [08:41] close to the tarmac at Bengurian [08:44] airport. If you would have crashed into [08:45] those planes, you could have imagined [08:47] the type of explosion that that could [08:49] have created. So, uh he was planning a [08:52] September 11th style disaster. Somehow [08:54] September 11th style disaster was [08:56] miraculously averted. The investigation [08:58] continues. Israel is now participating. [09:00] Question maybe, was Iran involved? At [09:02] this point, it's too early. But I want [09:03] to focus on the human aspect of the [09:05] story. We have a clip here of Prime [09:07] Minister Netanyahu meeting with one of [09:08] the heroes, Yaniv Hayun. He's the one [09:10] who pulled up the stick, thus preventing [09:12] the catastrophe. Let's check out the [09:14] clip. [09:26] Oh my god. [09:29] Cockpit. [09:56] Yeah. [10:10] Again. [10:12] 911. [10:28] So you had Yaniv, you had another [10:30] Israeli helping subdue the co-pilot, you [10:32] had a third Israeli who actually treated [10:35] uh the Indian pilot and helping to [10:37] stabilize him, a dentist, saving his [10:38] life. Prime Minister Netanyahu already [10:41] reaching out to uh Smid Makshahar and [10:45] inviting him to Israel and saying that [10:47] he was going to have the honor of [10:48] lighting one of the torches on Israel's [10:51] Independence Day this coming spring. [10:53] >> That would certainly be a fitting honor. [10:55] Uh President Herzog already has [10:57] announced that he would bestow a [10:59] presidential medal of honor to five [11:02] Israelis that helped uh rescue that [11:05] fight, including Yaniv Hayun. Um, this [11:09] pilot from India already accepted a [11:11] visit from NBZ, Muhammad bin Zed of the [11:14] United Arab Emirates. There's pictures [11:15] of him kissing him on the forehead. He [11:17] received calls from uh, President Modi [11:20] of India who called him a great hero. [11:23] Uh, and he basically said that he [11:26] understood that 174 people would have [11:30] died if he didn't manage to get that [11:31] door open. [11:33] >> At that moment, I was fighting for my [11:35] life. But there was a moment when I [11:37] realized I had fallen down due to my [11:39] injuries. And I realized that if I don't [11:41] get up, I've been a pilot for 17 years. [11:44] I've been a captain for the past 11 [11:46] years. I know what's happening in a [11:48] flight, even with my eyes closed. When I [11:50] was on the ground, I realized that the [11:52] aircraft is going down. And I told [11:54] myself, "This is the last push, Smith. [11:57] The door is right there." And I was [11:59] still getting hit, but I opened the [12:00] door. And everyone else who helped was [12:02] just as incremental to this effort. [12:06] So, even though he was being attacked [12:08] with an ax, he was hit in the head, uh [12:10] he was hit in the hands, uh that he [12:13] figured out that he needed to get that [12:15] door open and that actually averted a [12:17] much much greater disaster. We're going [12:20] to talk more a little bit later about [12:21] Israel's relationship with the UAE, [12:23] Saudi Arabia, in light of this incident, [12:25] but I want to stick on the subject of [12:27] terrorism. We had a huge story also over [12:30] the weekend. A potential UK terror plot [12:33] targeting a US military facility was [12:35] foiled. According to this report, five [12:37] men were arrested near the RAF uh Fair [12:40] Ford in England in connection with a uh [12:44] connection with a suspected terror plot. [12:46] They found all sorts of uh information [12:49] indicating that there was some sort of [12:51] mega bomb being prepared for an attack [12:54] on this US air base. Alex, what do we [12:56] know at this point about this attack or [12:59] potential attack? [13:00] >> Well, it's it's actually very [13:01] interesting. There were three vehicles [13:03] that were seen right near this uh Royal [13:05] Air Force base in Fairford. They were [13:08] filled with a tremendous amount of [13:11] petrol, of gasoline, more than should [13:13] normally be in that type of a vehicle. [13:16] Could have caused a massive explosion. [13:18] Now, what we know is that uh this is [13:20] part of an Iranianbacked terror plot to [13:23] cause an accident at this airport. Uh [13:26] and Prime Minister Netanyahu on Fox this [13:28] week uh stated that Israel had passed [13:32] information specifically to the British [13:34] intelligence about an impending attack. [13:37] Uh and that intelligence was passed [13:40] guess what? just days before uh the [13:43] United Kingdom and their foreign [13:45] secretary Ed Milliband announced [13:47] sanctions on Israel. And what did Israel [13:49] do as a result of that? They actually [13:51] cut off uh intelligence sharing [13:53] immediately after this attack. We have [13:55] that clip. Let's check it out right now. [13:58] >> We gave the Brits the intel that there [14:01] was going to be an attack and it's an [14:04] Iranian sponsored attack and pretty much [14:06] the next day they slapped sanctions on [14:08] us on us, you know. So it's it's wild. I [14:11] mean the the caving in the collapse [14:14] before the uh Islamist Marxist alliance [14:18] I is uh is very dangerous for the future [14:21] of the West. [14:23] >> Israel warns the UK of a potential [14:26] Iranianbacked mega attack and they turn [14:29] around and sanction whom? Israel. Well [14:32] they sanction Israel. I think what uh Ed [14:34] Miband and the Brits didn't recognize [14:36] was that by putting sanctions, they [14:38] thought that Israel would do what Israel [14:40] had always done in the past, which is [14:41] complain, just accept. But what we've [14:43] seen is that Israel is now in a much [14:46] more aggressive uh pattern in terms of [14:49] how they handle physical threats and [14:52] also how they handle diplomatic attacks. [14:54] And what Israel did immediately after Ed [14:57] Millibend uh announced the sanctions on [14:59] Jewish organizations that support [15:01] building in Judea and Samaria was to [15:03] turn around and number one throw a [15:05] consulate uh out of eastern Jerusalem. [15:08] There's a a consulate, a very large [15:10] British consulate inside sovereign [15:13] Jerusalem that basically serves as an [15:15] embassy to the Palestinians. Uh so [15:17] Israel said, "Well, you can't operate a [15:20] embassy to Palestinians in sovereign [15:22] Israeli territory. You want to go do [15:23] that? go set up some kind of embassy in [15:25] Ramla, which is something that most [15:27] Western countries don't want to do [15:28] because their diplomats can't be [15:30] guaranteed protection if they live and [15:33] and work in Ramla. So, Israel shuttered [15:35] that consulate. And the other thing that [15:37] Israel did was to stop immediately stop [15:41] intelligence sharing with MI6, British [15:43] intelligence. So, I think that uh the [15:45] Brits did not know or understand that [15:48] that could be the result of what they [15:50] did. But here you see just how valuable [15:53] Israeli intelligence is. Although at the [15:55] same time, it's not clear that the [15:57] British authorities actually acted on [15:59] the Israeli intelligence. Rather, there [16:01] are reports that there was some woman [16:03] who lives near the Air Force base who [16:04] saw a farmer actually who saw these [16:07] three strange vehicles. She called [16:09] emergency services and they're the ones [16:11] that came in. The police uh stopped [16:13] this, but this farmer basically says [16:15] she's certain that had she not made that [16:17] call that there would have been a [16:18] horrific accident. So, it's not even [16:20] clear that the MI6 acted on the Israeli [16:23] intelligence, but you do see just how uh [16:26] just how critical, just how high quality [16:29] Israeli intelligence is. But that also [16:31] takes you back to this uh flight 1073 [16:34] flag Dubai. Why did Israel not have this [16:37] type of intelligence? And then the [16:39] second part of that is was this [16:42] radicalized Omani pilot, was he just [16:45] some kind of a lone wolf or is there a a [16:48] much deeper terror plot behind this? [16:51] Does this link back in some way to Iran, [16:53] which clearly is trying to instigate [16:56] incidents uh internationally if they [16:58] can't defeat Israel with their ballistic [17:00] missiles? Uh and it does seem in the [17:02] case of fight Dubai Flight 1073 as we're [17:05] learning more and more that this was a [17:08] much more sophisticated terror plot. [17:10] There were many people involved in [17:12] trying to ensure that uh this suicide [17:15] pilot was able to get on that plane and [17:18] in an attempt to to crash it and cause a [17:20] 9/11 disaster. So two massive terror [17:23] plots that could have resulted in major [17:25] major attacks. Both of them foiled uh [17:28] one in Great Britain, one in the skies [17:31] either over Saudi Arabia or Jordan. Uh [17:34] in both cases, I think Israel and Great [17:36] Britain both very very fortunate that [17:38] these terror attacks did not pan out as [17:40] planned. And the Prime Minister [17:41] Netanyahu making it very very clear that [17:44] if this was a larger plot, I'm talking [17:46] about the uh Dubai flight, that those [17:49] responsible will be dealt with [17:50] accordingly. At the same time, we have a [17:52] potential security issue here in our [17:54] country. Prime Minister Netanyahu on the [17:56] ground, I should say, briefing [17:58] opposition leader Ya Laid about security [18:00] warnings ahead of Israel's upcoming [18:02] elections. Um, do we know what this is [18:04] about? What threats we're talking about [18:06] here? Of course, Israel will be electing [18:08] a new Knesset on October 27th, just 3 [18:11] weeks away. Well, Prime Minister [18:13] Netanyahu gave a sort of broad [18:16] non-specific warning about terror [18:18] threats uh and threats on multiple [18:20] fronts. And of course, there are threats [18:22] on multiple fronts. There are many [18:23] Israelis that recognize that a direct [18:26] war between Israel and Iran, either [18:28] together with the United States or [18:30] without the United States, could break [18:31] out almost at any moment, maybe at the [18:34] whim of President Donald Trump, who's [18:35] recently said that uh decisions will be [18:38] had to make will have to be made [18:40] probably right after the midterm [18:41] elections. But there's another side of [18:44] this war. It's not just if President [18:46] Trump wants to wait until the midterms. [18:48] You've got another side which is Iran [18:50] which might say, "Hey, I want they maybe [18:52] they're they're um preparing to try to [18:55] influence the elections by forcing [18:56] President Trump's hand prior to the uh [19:00] US election." So the threat assessment [19:02] right now is very very high. But as you [19:05] could see from these two separate [19:08] incidents, one in Great Britain and one [19:10] on the fly Dubai, that there are many [19:12] international terror threats that might [19:14] be circulating right now. Now what [19:16] happens is that after Netanyahu makes [19:19] this statement so the head of the [19:21] opposition your Ili says well I want to [19:23] be briefed right the head of the [19:25] opposition has the right to receive [19:27] regular security briefings from the [19:30] prime minister of Israel not on [19:31] political issues but definitely on [19:33] security issues that's part of the [19:34] governing arrangement between coalition [19:36] opposition that the opposition head who [19:39] currently is yay laid has the right to [19:41] go demand a meeting with the prime [19:44] minister or even to have regularly [19:45] scheduled meetings which they don't [19:46] really have at this point but to get a [19:49] meeting and so laid goes into this [19:51] meeting with Netanyahu. He gets a [19:52] security briefing comes out and [19:54] basically uh says that the briefing is [19:57] not specific that Netanyahu is only [19:59] trying to stoke fear among the citizens [20:03] as we head into an election. But [20:05] immediately after that meeting what do [20:07] we see? Royal Air Force Base uh in the [20:10] UK and the day after fly Dubai flight. [20:13] So really vindicates uh Prime Minister [20:15] Netanyahu and what he's saying about uh [20:18] security threats that are imminent [20:19] regarding Israelis uh and and that's [20:22] just international let alone the threats [20:24] that everybody can understand from Iran [20:26] from the Houthis uh there could be [20:28] direct threats of war in addition to [20:31] these two two fronts in Gaza and in [20:35] southern Lebanon that both still present [20:38] very live I would say uh possibilities [20:42] for attacks on Israeli soldiers or even [20:44] on the Israeli home front. [20:45] >> So, Alex, as we know with all of these [20:47] potential security threats, you had the [20:48] IDF chief of staff, Lieutenant General [20:50] Ayal Zamir, cancing a planned trip to [20:52] the US because of heightened security uh [20:56] concerns. He was supposed to meet with [20:57] the commander of the US Central Command, [20:59] SenCom, and the chairman of the Joint [21:01] Chiefs of Staff. So, I guess we're at a [21:03] point where our top officials are [21:05] actually cancelling meetings abroad [21:07] because of potential security threats. [21:08] Well, I understand that this issue is [21:10] more complicated than what's being [21:12] reported. Uh certainly I think Israel [21:14] wants to report that the reason why this [21:16] trip is being cancelled is because of [21:18] heightened security threats. And [21:19] certainly that does factor in. I don't [21:21] want to say that heightened security [21:23] threats has nothing to do with it. [21:25] There's definitely a whole host of [21:27] issues here, but I think that there's [21:28] two other issues that are going into the [21:31] timing of Zamir's trip. And he does go [21:33] from time to time to the US to meet his [21:35] counterparts there. And obviously the [21:37] coordination between the US military and [21:40] the Israeli military over the last [21:41] several months has never been higher. [21:44] But here with regard to Zamir, I think [21:46] that there's two other issues at play. [21:49] The first is that international [21:51] narratives today and all of the media is [21:53] all about this threat of the so-called [21:56] settler violence which is somehow being [21:58] now elevated uh to the level of [22:01] Palestinian terrorism even though [22:02] there's absolutely no comparisons [22:04] whatsoever. Thousands and thousands of [22:06] Jews killed in terror attacks, thousands [22:09] of attacks, uh many killed, many wounded [22:13] over many years because of radical [22:16] Palestinian indoctrination of their [22:17] society. uh versus a situation of [22:21] probably a few hundred um you could call [22:24] them radicalized, maybe more anarchist [22:27] uh teenagers, mostly young adults, many [22:30] of whom are drug addicts, many of whom, [22:32] you know, don't really have an [22:33] educational framework right now. some of [22:35] whom have managed to get out of the [22:37] army, some because of mental illness and [22:39] other reasons that, you know, are going [22:41] around and causing uh some degree of [22:46] anarchist type of attacks, you can call [22:49] them. I think it's fair. You know, they [22:51] they've caused a lot of trouble in Jude [22:52] and Samaria. But what's happening is [22:54] that in the West right now, this is [22:56] sweeping attention. And so if Zamir goes [22:59] to the US right now uh to meet with [23:02] security officials in the defense [23:04] department and others, he's going to be [23:06] answering questions about settler [23:08] violence. Okay, that's the what's going [23:09] to be on the top of everybody's mind. [23:12] And so perhaps the timing is not good [23:15] for a meeting. But there's a secondary [23:17] factor here, which is that the key [23:19] diplomat who is responsible for [23:22] smoothing out uh any kind of differences [23:24] here would be Yil Lighter, the Israeli [23:26] ambassador to the United States. And has [23:28] been in Israel now uh since just before [23:31] the Sukot holiday because his son Nirya [23:34] was critically injured in a terror [23:37] attack in a car ramming at at a major [23:40] checkpoint uh in Samaria at the 443 [23:42] Makabe checkpoint. He was hit by a [23:44] Palestinian terrorist at the checkpoint [23:47] suffered severe head injury and uh [23:50] remains in an induced coma right now. [23:52] We're all praying for uh his survival uh [23:55] and full recovery. But meanwhile, [23:57] Lighter, who's there to facilitate these [24:01] types of meetings to be Prime Minister [24:02] Netanyahu's eyes and ears inside that [24:04] room, he's here in Israel. He's not [24:06] going back to the United States right [24:07] now uh while his son remains [24:10] hospitalized. So, I think for for these [24:13] couple of reasons, Alamir's trip, I [24:15] wouldn't say that it's canled. I would [24:17] say it's being postponed until such a [24:19] time where Lighter can fulfill his [24:21] duties uh professionally and perhaps [24:24] after Israeli police get some kind of a [24:27] handle on a situation in Judea and [24:29] Samaria with these youth that's causing [24:32] a lot of diplomatic headache uh let [24:34] alone uh is sort of fueling uh I would [24:39] say I is is fueling a [24:43] instigation I would say or agitation of [24:45] the already difficult situation in Judea [24:47] and Samaria. [24:48] >> I think it's important to point out [24:49] Ambassador Lighter is sending out an [24:51] emotional update uh just before the [24:54] holiday hoping please God that his son [24:56] Nara will be with his family and dance [24:58] with the Torah next to so of course we [25:01] wish him a speedy recovery. But I want [25:03] to take a step backwards. At the [25:04] beginning of the week, uh, right after [25:06] we went off the air, we learned about a [25:08] meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu [25:10] and the head of the U. UAE, President [25:14] Shik Muhammad bin Zad in Abu Dhabi along [25:17] potentially perhaps with Saudi Arabian [25:20] officials and as we were talking about [25:22] off the air, perhaps up to 10 other [25:24] countries. Um, again, this is before the [25:27] attempted skyjacking, terrorist attack, [25:29] before the information about the UK came [25:31] out. What do we know about this meeting [25:33] which took place from what I understand [25:35] last Sunday exactly one week ago? [25:37] >> Right. This basically happens. This [25:39] meeting takes place in the wake of uh [25:42] Prime Minister Netanyahu's trip to New [25:43] York uh to speak and address the United [25:46] Nations. And what did we see? We saw the [25:49] the theater of diplomats from all over [25:53] the world walking out of that speech [25:54] even though it wasn't as many countries [25:56] as you think. And also many people walk [25:59] back into the room after the initial [26:02] staged walk out. Uh which is really just [26:04] a show for the cameras. Uh but the [26:07] attempt here is to demonstrate that [26:09] Prime Minister Netanyahu in particular [26:11] but Israel as a country is [26:14] diplomatically isolated. And they say [26:17] that the reason why Israel is [26:18] diplomatically isolated is because of [26:21] the war in Gaza, because of the regional [26:24] war with Lebanon and with Iran. But if [26:27] you look what just happened, Prime [26:28] Minister Netanyahu goes to United Arab [26:30] Emirates. United Arab Emirates together [26:33] with Bahrain, together with Morocco uh [26:35] signed normalization agreements uh in [26:38] 2020 with the state of Israel. And those [26:43] agreements have actually held through [26:45] this war. You don't have countries that [26:47] uh came in to normalize with Israel [26:49] saying, "Well, if you're attacking the [26:52] Gazins and Kamas andbala that we don't [26:54] want to have relations with you." Quite [26:57] the opposite. The relationships have [26:59] strengthened over that period of time. [27:01] That's something that most countries [27:03] around the world don't want to [27:04] acknowledge, don't want people to know. [27:06] And even though you only have these [27:08] three countries uh United Arab Emirates, [27:11] Bar Bahrain and Morocco that have open [27:14] normalization agreements with Israel, [27:17] there are many countries throughout the [27:18] Middle East that have relationships [27:20] behind closed doors with the state of [27:22] Israel. So it was announced on last week [27:26] that Prime Minister Netanyahu went to [27:28] meet with Muhammad bin Zed. Now there [27:30] are all kind of narratives circulating [27:32] about that meeting that uh that he was [27:37] trying to repair relations that he was [27:39] uh trying to undo some of the damage [27:42] caused by media reports about how those [27:44] relationships uh between the United Arab [27:47] Emirates and Israel have been strained. [27:49] Uh but what's come out more recently is [27:52] that not only was Netanyahu and Muhammad [27:54] bin Zed talking about [27:58] very serious security issues which [28:00] relate to Iran, which relate to the [28:01] Houthis, which have attacked not only [28:04] Saudi Arabia, but also have attacked the [28:05] United Arab Emirates. Uh but that there [28:08] was more than just a couple of countries [28:10] in the room and reports are like you [28:12] said that there were as many as 10 [28:14] countries in the room. Uh Saudi Arabia [28:16] was one of the last countries uh to be [28:19] acknowledged as being there, but I have [28:21] heard reports uh from undisclosed [28:23] sources that not only was Saudi Arabia [28:25] there, but even Qatar was there. Right? [28:27] So this is really amazing because you [28:30] have uh Prime Minister Netanyahu stating [28:33] at the United Nations for the first time [28:36] uh that Qatar is actually an enemy here. [28:39] But Qatar was at this meeting together [28:41] with Prime Minister Netanyahu and and it [28:43] just shows I think the very complicated [28:45] dynamics that the Israel has in the [28:47] Middle East. But all these countries [28:49] around the Middle East recognize uh [28:52] Israel's leading role uh in intelligence [28:55] gathering and certainly in security when [28:58] it comes to attacking the Shiite axis [29:01] which is sponsored by Iran which also [29:03] includes the Houthis which also includes [29:05] KZBA and even includes kamas which is a [29:07] Sunni organization connected to the [29:09] Muslim Brotherhood but has linked up in [29:11] this last period uh to the Iranianbacked [29:14] terror axis. So you see here, I think [29:17] this is something only Prime Minister [29:18] Netanyahu could do uh just to to fly uh [29:21] secretively over as he has many times uh [29:24] throughout the Middle East to the United [29:26] Arab Emirates. Reports come out after [29:28] the fact. Obviously, Prime Minister [29:30] Netanyahu wants these reports out there [29:32] because it demonstrates his role as a [29:34] top level diplomat and how he actually [29:36] plays a role in bringing the whole [29:38] region together. As he said many times, [29:40] Israel is the solution in the Middle [29:42] East, not the problem. Axe, I want to [29:44] move on to other news here. You know, [29:47] we've been told by the Israel haters [29:49] that Israel deliberately targets [29:51] civilians. Israel deliberately targets [29:53] journalists specifically in Gaza. Well, [29:55] the IDF this week published a list of [29:58] 170 Gazin journalists, and I put that in [30:01] quotes, killed in Gaza who actually have [30:04] ties to terrorist organizations. The [30:06] report is now out. Let's check out the [30:08] clip. For nearly 3 years, the IDF has [30:13] been accused of targeting journalists in [30:15] Gaza. Today, we are exposing the truth. [30:19] An IDF investigation found that 170 [30:23] individuals who claimed to be [30:25] journalists were actually terrorists [30:27] belonging to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and [30:30] other terrorist organizations in Gaza. [30:33] Out of these, 118 belong to Hamas. 49 [30:38] belong to Islamic Jihad. [30:40] In fact, the UN condemned Israel [music] [30:43] for the death of more than 40 [30:45] individuals on this list, ignoring their [30:48] ties to terror organizations. [30:51] Alex, how many times have you heard on X [30:54] and other social media sources that [30:56] Israel deliberately targets journalists [30:58] in Gaza? This is why the terrorists are [31:01] wearing press specifically. It's the [31:04] same reason why they set up their uh [31:07] military headquarters in hospitals. The [31:09] reasons why they operate and store [31:10] weapons in schools uh and in mosques [31:13] specifically, so that if Israel does [31:15] kill a terrorist or attack a military [31:17] headquarters, that they're not killing a [31:18] terrorist, they're killing a journalist. [31:20] That they're not attacking a military [31:22] headquarters, they're attacking a [31:23] hospital. This is the Palestinian [31:26] strategy for how to delegitimize Israel [31:29] in the international community. and the [31:31] international community including all [31:33] mainstream media uh and the United [31:35] Nations they all fall for it hook line [31:38] and sinker but again and again and again [31:41] people that are presented as journalists [31:43] are actually working for kamas and and [31:45] it didn't start with October 7th and [31:47] October 8th if you go back to 2021 the [31:50] last time before October 7th two years [31:52] prior that Israel was uh involved in [31:55] military operation inside of the Gaza [31:57] Strip because of a flare up that was [31:59] provoked by Kamas as inside Gaza. Israel [32:02] bombs a kamas headquarters inside Gaza [32:06] city and then the international [32:08] community all of a sudden goes up in [32:10] arms because that building which was the [32:12] kamas headquarters was also the [32:13] headquarters of the Associated Press. [32:16] Okay. And you don't have to be very good [32:17] at math to understand why uh the [32:20] Associated Press has its headquarters in [32:22] the same building as the kamas [32:24] headquarters. Now on October 7th itself, [32:26] we saw photojournalists from Reuters and [32:29] others uh riding on the backs of [32:31] motorcycles crossing into Israel holding [32:34] hand grenades. How is it that the uh [32:36] international journalists had pictures [32:38] and photos from October 7th and the [32:41] morning of October 7th because their [32:44] terrorists were taking pictures and [32:45] sending them back to the media [32:48] organizations. We had that uh that guy [32:50] that kamas guy, what's his name? Fafu [32:53] they were calling him, you know, that uh [32:55] was a terrorist with direct terror ties [32:57] that kept showing up in different videos [32:59] as a as a kamas terror victim and [33:02] sometimes as a kamas journalist. [33:05] He's an actor and you see there are [33:07] something like 20 clips of him in [33:09] different situations. He must have died [33:10] 15 times in the god. He actually was [33:13] killed uh in the last uh year or two [33:16] years after doing this. But so many of [33:20] these journalists, you see 170 [33:22] journalists, that's not like a few. [33:25] That's a whole cell. That's not even a [33:27] whole cell. That's probably like [33:28] multiple cells. It's a whole school of [33:31] terrorists that are being so-called [33:33] trained and dressed as journalists. And [33:35] it's only a shame that it took until 3 [33:37] years after October 7th for this to all [33:40] be outed. But you know every single time [33:42] a journalist a so-called journalist gets [33:44] killed in Gaza immediately it should be [33:47] coming out who that person is that that [33:49] person is presenting themselves as a [33:51] journalist but what are their ties [33:54] directly back to kamas. This is the [33:56] strategy. This is how kamas co-opts the [33:59] international media which have been [34:01] willing partners throughout this entire [34:04] war together with kamas in order to [34:07] delegitimize and demonize the state of [34:09] Israel. And you know, Israel can do [34:11] this, they can do this investigation, [34:13] they can out it. Do you think that the [34:15] international community that the AP, [34:17] that the New York Times, that the BBC [34:19] are running an expose now about how many [34:21] kamas journalists are actually have deep [34:24] ties to terror? No, none of them are [34:26] doing that expose because they are [34:28] complicit. together with Kamas, they [34:30] they knew that Hamas was providing them [34:34] uh propaganda information through a [34:36] whole network of people that they had [34:38] set up as quote unquote journalists. [34:40] There's not going to be any expose. Uh [34:42] and people don't care that Israel is [34:44] outing finally all the journalists with [34:47] ties to terror. Absolutely. And at the [34:49] same time, looks like the IDF [34:50] spokesperson office had a very busy week [34:52] this particular week because the IDF has [34:55] now come out with a report criticizing [34:57] the documentary. so-called NAZA, which [35:00] won the uh Venice International Film [35:02] Film Festival Festival Special Jury [35:05] Prize, 25minute standing ovation for [35:07] this propaganda movie, accusing Israel [35:10] of deliberately targeting civilians in [35:12] Gaza. So, I'm not going to go through [35:14] all the points here, but you have eight [35:15] bullet points here that the IDF says [35:17] proving the fact that this movie [35:19] essentially to summarize is absolute [35:21] fake news. Israel does not deliberately [35:23] target civilians in Gaza or anywhere [35:25] else. Well, this film was a propaganda [35:28] film. It uses only anonymous sources [35:30] that cannot be verified. And I think [35:32] that's the main point of the IDF uh [35:36] investigation here is that none of what [35:39] is being presented can be objectively [35:41] verified. It's all subjective uh on the [35:44] basis of individuals who are not named, [35:46] who are not faced, you know, all making [35:48] these accusations about uh Israeli [35:52] conduct in Judea and Samaria. when the [35:54] people that put their face on their [35:55] reporting, including people like John [35:57] Spencer, including people like Colonel [35:59] Richard Kemp, who have been in Gaza [36:01] officially many times and been in Gaza [36:03] unofficially many more times and maybe [36:05] have even unofficially been in some of [36:07] the other areas where the IDF has been [36:09] operating uh since October 7th can tell [36:11] you uh definitively that the IDF does [36:15] more than any other military in the [36:17] history of warfare to avoid civilian [36:20] casualties. Uh but you know even though [36:24] John Spencer is the head of the urban [36:26] warfare department at West Point at the [36:28] US military academy you know his word is [36:31] not as powerful as you know some [36:34] anonymous uh individual talking to some [36:38] horrific leftists who show a documentary [36:41] that gets a special jury prize at the [36:44] Venice International Film Festival. But [36:46] what's worse than that is that now we're [36:48] actually seeing reports that there are [36:50] schools that are showing this [36:52] documentary to their kids uh and saying [36:54] this is what Israel does in Gaza. They [36:57] are guilty of war crimes. So, you know, [36:59] this is the same thing. These two [37:01] stories, they uh really do connect. This [37:04] is a whole propaganda war that's taking [37:06] place against the state of Israel. And [37:08] it doesn't matter if the creators of the [37:10] film Naza get it wrong. It doesn't [37:12] matter if the journalists present [37:14] information uh if the mainstream media [37:18] which was very quick to write stories [37:21] about the special jury prize at Venice [37:24] was so quick to take the reporting of [37:26] these terrorist journalists which is so [37:29] quick to report 10 days into the war [37:31] that Israel bombed a hospital and kill [37:33] 500 people even though they didn't bomb [37:34] a hospital and even though 500 people [37:36] were not killed [37:39] they don't care if they get the story [37:40] wrong And so the story comes out, that's [37:45] headlines on page one of the Sunday [37:47] paper, full paper, full photo spread. [37:50] Okay, if it turns out that they get it [37:52] wrong, first of all, many of them don't [37:54] correct at all. But even the ones that [37:56] correct, including the New York Times, [37:58] you know, they'll do a correction on the [38:00] bottom of page A22 on Wednesday in [38:02] italics below some kind of [38:04] advertisement. Oh, we made a little [38:06] mistake in our story and we should have [38:08] said that uh whatever it was. And that's [38:11] the the nature of the game against [38:13] Israel. It plays itself out in the [38:15] United Nations. It plays itself out in [38:17] the Middle East whereby these countries, [38:19] these 10 countries that met with [38:21] Netanyahu did so secretly. They should [38:23] be meeting with Netanyahu publicly. The [38:25] media should be coming out and saying, [38:27] "We don't affiliate with terrorists." [38:29] They should be stating we don't write [38:31] stories about uh documentaries that have [38:35] anonymous whistleblowers. [38:37] uh you know they should be writing [38:39] stories and features about how the head [38:42] of West Point urban warfare department [38:44] John Spencer uh lays out in intricate [38:47] detail all the steps that Israel does to [38:50] restrict civilian casualties. But this [38:52] is the battle that Israel's been [38:54] fighting. This is what Prime Minister [38:56] Netanyahu calls the eighth front of the [38:58] war, the narrative warfare against the [38:59] state of Israel. So I want to put you on [39:01] the spot here. You know, since the [39:02] beginning of the war, Piers Morgan has [39:04] been screaming, "Why doesn't Israel just [39:06] let open access to Gaza for the [39:10] international press? He's been saying it [39:11] now for 3 years, and we're going to talk [39:13] about, of course, in commemoration of [39:15] three years since October the 7th. If [39:16] you had an open mic to Piers Morgan, [39:18] what would you say to him when he's [39:20] ranting, ranting, ranting, I don't [39:21] believe the idea of numbers. I don't [39:23] believe anything you guys are saying. [39:24] Open Gaza for journalists." What would [39:26] you say to him? Well, I think if the [39:28] press would have identified itself as an [39:31] objective actor in this situation, [39:34] Israel would open it up to press. [39:37] However, what do they see? First of all, [39:39] they see that 170 members of the [39:41] so-called press and and if we look about [39:44] like where these uh journalists are [39:46] working for Reuters, CNN, ABC Australia, [39:50] BBC, AFP, AP, Lamand, okay, these are [39:54] the the these are the world's biggest [39:57] media organizations that are all relying [40:00] on journalists with deep connections to [40:02] kamas and Palestinian Islamic jihad. So, [40:05] if you've got the world's major players [40:07] that take reporting from terrorists, why [40:10] should Israel believe that another [40:12] journalist coming from one of these [40:13] outlets is not a terrorist? Number one. [40:15] And number two, even the ones that are [40:16] not terrorists, they consistently for [40:20] decades have been misreporting about [40:23] Israel. They've been corrected. Their [40:24] papers have been corrected so many times [40:26] like the organization camera that's the [40:28] committee for accuracy in Middle East [40:30] reporting and analysis. that they have [40:32] had they have gotten mainstream media [40:34] organizations to make almost a thousand [40:36] corrections this year alone to [40:39] misreporting about Israel. So if the [40:42] mainstream media was an unbiased actor [40:45] here, Israel would open it up because [40:47] Israel does have a very robust free [40:49] speech. You could How do you know that? [40:51] Because you you see the Israeli press. [40:53] The Israeli press, the overwhelming [40:55] majority of this press is uh far to the [40:58] left of the political spectrum here. You [41:00] have a right-wing government here for [41:02] the last many many years. These press [41:04] agencies in Israel, they hate the [41:06] government. They they report incessantly [41:09] against the current government. The [41:10] government doesn't shut it down. So, you [41:12] know, Israel works and Prime Minister [41:14] Netanyahu goes on to CNN. He's gone on [41:17] to to Fox. He goes on to mainstream [41:19] media all the time as does Y Lighter, [41:21] Israel's ambassador. That Israel works [41:23] with the press. But the problem is that [41:25] the press is not a uh is not an [41:28] objective actor. And then what happens [41:30] is one of these terrorists gets in [41:32] harm's way and gets themselves killed. [41:34] Okay, this is what happens. They they [41:36] they're wearing a press vest or [41:38] yesterday they're wearing pre a press [41:40] vest. Today they've got a machine gun. [41:41] They're firing at an IDF soldier and [41:43] then that terrorist gets shot by the IDF [41:46] and then all of a sudden the [41:47] international community goes ballistic [41:50] that a journalist has been shot and says [41:53] that Israel is specifically targeting [41:54] journalists. Israel does not [41:55] specifically target journalists. Israel [41:57] does not specifically target anybody [41:59] except for a dangerous terrorist. Israel [42:01] goes out of its way to prevent a [42:03] collateral damage to prevent civilian [42:05] casualties. Oftentimes won't fire [42:08] specifically even at a known terrorist [42:11] in a dangerous situation if they see [42:13] that there's press there. So, you know, [42:14] it's just part of the lies. It's part of [42:16] the propaganda. And that's why uh Pierce [42:19] that Israel does not allow journalists [42:21] to go in uh to the strip. Well, PICE, if [42:24] you're watching, and if not, we we can [42:25] get you that message. Now, you have your [42:27] answer as to why Israel doesn't do that. [42:29] We're going to move on now. This week, [42:31] the United States completed its military [42:33] withdrawal from Iraq. President Trump [42:36] calling the withdrawal a victory for the [42:38] US. Let's check out this clip. [42:41] >> Today, I'm pleased to announce that the [42:43] last American forces are leaving Iraq. [42:47] It's been a long time with very bad [42:50] decision making that got us involved in [42:52] this quagmire. So this day is a victory [42:55] for the United States. It's a victory [42:57] for Iraq and a decisive victory over [43:01] ISIS which has been completely decimated [43:04] which is the reason we went in there in [43:06] the first place. I have to make some [43:08] comparisons. Unlike Afghanistan where [43:10] much military equipment and everything [43:13] else was left behind and 13 warriors lie [43:16] dead. I knew the families of those [43:19] incredible young people got to know them [43:22] very well over the last couple of years. [43:24] What happened to those to their children [43:26] should never have been allowed to [43:28] happen. [43:29] And again, we took all of our equipment. [43:32] I said, "Take a little longer. Take [43:33] everyone." We left all of the equipment. [43:36] If you remember in Afghanistan, [43:38] everything was left behind. We We left I [43:40] said, "I want every screw taken. If [43:43] there's a screw lying on the ground, [43:45] take it. If we have a canvas tent, take [43:48] it." We took everything. [43:52] So, Alex, President Trump calling that a [43:53] victory. Yet, you have an Iranianbacked [43:55] Iraqi militia leader describing the US [43:58] withdrawal as a historic v victory for [44:00] them and calling it the failure of the [44:02] occupation. This according to Reuters. [44:04] Let's talk about the significance of the [44:06] US completing this withdrawal from Iraq. [44:08] >> Well, this withdrawal was originally [44:11] announced and negotiated by the Biden [44:13] administration which also uh [44:15] orchestrated that horrific pull out from [44:17] Afghanistan which really destabilized [44:20] the entire area and certainly as [44:24] President Trump made clear you know this [44:26] withdrawal wasn't a hasty withdrawal [44:28] leaving behind billions of dollars in [44:30] advanced military equipment to [44:32] terrorists. So in that sense it's better [44:34] situation than what happened in [44:36] Afghanistan. And I think President Trump [44:38] is also right that these two wars in [44:40] Afghanistan and Iraq. Uh they went ahead [44:43] without the establishment of very clear [44:45] goals. Uh and the United States somehow [44:48] or another forgot how to project victory [44:50] or to achieve victory in those wars. [44:53] Both of which are very important. [44:55] Obviously achieving victory is the only [44:56] reason why you go into war. But you also [44:58] have to project victory. You can you [45:01] cannot give a situation. This is [45:03] something that Israel and the United [45:04] States have to learn a very hard lesson. [45:06] You cannot achieve a military victory if [45:09] you do not project a victory. Because if [45:11] the terrorists turn around and say that [45:14] they achieved a a historic victory as [45:16] the Iranianbacked Iraqi militia here uh [45:19] did, well then the narrative is not that [45:21] the United States secured a victory. And [45:25] when you look at the timing here now, [45:27] obviously before the midterm elections, [45:30] President Trump wants to demonstrate to [45:31] the American people that he does not get [45:33] America into quote unquote forever wars. [45:36] He gets America out of quote forever [45:39] wars. And maybe he thinks that this [45:41] helps him if he withdraws from Iraq in [45:43] terms of the discourse in the United [45:46] States uh as the United States [45:49] potentially prepares for renewed [45:51] fighting against Iran. But if the United [45:55] States is going to prepare for renewed [45:57] fighting against Iran and if you [45:58] understand that you very well may need [46:01] special forces operations uh going [46:03] inside Iran, going into Tehran to take [46:07] out top level Iranian leaders to take [46:10] out enriched uranium which is buried uh [46:13] deep underground to get into the pickax [46:16] pickaxe mountain which may be too deep [46:19] underground to blow up with uh the [46:22] massive ordinance. penetrators, which by [46:24] the way, I I don't believe that. I'm [46:25] sure that America could bomb the pickaxe [46:28] mouth in from the sky if you just need [46:30] maybe you need more than one of those [46:32] things, but I'm sure you could probably [46:33] get to it, but you might need special [46:35] forces operations. Not only that, there [46:37] you talked about earlier we had the idea [46:39] that Iraqi Kurds might be part of a [46:44] ground force, not a not a US ground [46:46] force, not an Israeli ground force, but [46:48] a ground force that might go in and [46:50] provoke some kind of a civil uprising [46:54] inside Iran uh that would help back the [46:57] Iranian people in their efforts to take [46:59] back their country from this Islamic [47:01] Republic. So, the idea now that you're [47:02] taking US troops out of Iraq, uh, right [47:05] at that critical moment where you might [47:08] really need to have American positions [47:10] inside Iraq, I I'm not sure about the [47:12] timing how that plays. Uh, but, you [47:14] know, I don't think that there are too [47:16] many people around the Middle East that [47:18] would consider right now the US [47:19] withdrawing from Iraq, which is a [47:22] country that, you know, has remained [47:25] somewhat stable perhaps because of the [47:28] American presence there. uh what can [47:30] happen to that country once America and [47:32] its forces pull out. I think it uh poses [47:36] a definitive threat uh to many of the [47:39] countries in the region. first Iraq [47:41] itself uh but certainly to Jordan which [47:44] u basically borders Iraq uh and you [47:48] don't want to see Iran and Iranianbacked [47:50] militias you know getting up to the [47:52] Jordanian border and threatening uh [47:54] Jordan which is shares a border is the [47:58] longest border with Israel of any [48:00] country. Uh, so you know, I'm not sure [48:02] that this is a an announcement that is a [48:05] victory for Israel, is a victory for [48:08] Jordan, is a victory for Iraq, or a [48:10] victory for anybody uh across the Middle [48:12] East. [48:12] >> We're now under a month until those [48:14] midterm elections, and obviously, we'll [48:16] have to wait and see exactly what the US [48:18] has in store. But before we go, this [48:20] week, of course, we are now [48:22] commemorating three years since the [48:24] October 7th massacre. We just celebrated [48:26] Simra 3 years ago on October 7th. [48:30] coincided on that horrible horrible [48:32] Saturday to put it very mildly. Uh [48:34] official state ceremonies taking place [48:36] this week and and I know many many [48:38] memorial ceremonies for those who were [48:40] murdered on October 7th taking place uh [48:42] throughout the country at cemeteries [48:44] throughout the country. It's almost like [48:46] Israel's uh Memorial Day which we have [48:48] the day before Independence Day in the [48:50] spring. It almost feels like now we have [48:52] two Memorial Days, one for October the [48:54] 7th and one for the rest of Israel's [48:56] wars and terror attacks. So just just uh [48:59] please share some of your thoughts as we [49:01] head towards October 7th this week. [49:03] >> Well, October 7th is going to remain a [49:05] painful day uh in Israel for a long [49:08] time. Now, by the way, outside of [49:09] Israel, many people don't know about [49:11] October 7th. If you poll people uh in [49:14] Europe and around the world, you know, [49:16] some more than 50% of people that know [49:18] about Israel's war in Gaza, they think [49:20] that war started on October 8th. I mean, [49:23] not that they know the date, but they [49:24] what I mean to say is that they don't [49:26] know that an October 7th happened. That [49:28] this was one of the worst massacres in [49:30] the history of the modern state of [49:31] Israel. Over 6,000 kamas terrorists [49:34] crossed over the Israeli border on a [49:37] Saturday morning on Israel's holy day, [49:40] Simatra, the joy of the Torah day that [49:41] we just celebrated yesterday here in [49:44] Israel. Uh and they murdered 1,200 [49:48] Israelis, many of them in their homes. [49:50] Uh yes, there were some attacks on [49:53] Israeli military bases alongside the [49:55] border, which is why they were then able [49:57] to go into the communities, but they [49:59] went into Kibbutim, into villages, into [50:02] cities near the Israeli border, carried [50:05] out attacks, killing 1,200, injuring [50:08] thousands more, setting houses ablaze, [50:11] uh committing acts of sexual violence [50:13] and horrific violence, and of course, [50:16] they kidnapped 255 [50:19] Israelis. um many of whom were living, [50:21] some of whom were already killed. They [50:23] took their bodies into Gaza, hid them in [50:26] the tunnels underground, specifically to [50:29] create an attack to go the Israeli [50:31] military into going inside this densely [50:35] populated, booby trapped urban fighting [50:38] environment so that the media uh so that [50:42] um this whole narrative would be built [50:44] that Israel was committing war crimes [50:46] and genocide in Gaza. whole purpose of [50:49] the October 7th attack was to draw the [50:52] IDF into Gaza in order to promote the [50:56] narrative of war crimes and genocide. [50:59] That was the strategy of October 7th. Uh [51:02] you could say that Kamas has largely [51:04] succeeded despite again the overwhelming [51:09] Israeli military victory. And this is [51:11] why I said before that you can have a [51:13] military victory, but you also have to [51:15] be able to project a military victory. [51:18] So if you look at the the pictures from [51:20] Gaza since October 7th, the current [51:22] pictures, you would see an overwhelming [51:24] IDF victory uh in terms of what they did [51:27] to destroy Hamas and all of their [51:30] infrastructure uh and almost the [51:33] entirety much of the Gaza Strip, which [51:34] was all booby trapped uh as part of a [51:38] staging operation against the IDF. But [51:40] they haven't been able to project [51:42] victory because the overwhelming [51:44] narrative is the narrative of the Naza [51:46] documentary is the narrative of these [51:48] 170 journalists. But when you go back to [51:51] October 7th itself and I think this is [51:53] really important here. Um Israelis still [51:56] want to know what happened, how it was a [51:59] able to happen, right? So, you had all [52:00] these reports that uh the United Arab [52:03] Emirates provided Israel with [52:06] information about that kamas attack uh a [52:09] week prior to October 7th. And then you [52:11] have Ya Lupe and other members of the [52:13] opposition charging that Netanyahu went [52:16] over to the Emirates this week to dispel [52:20] those narratives or to clarify that. But [52:23] Israelis want to know what happened on [52:25] October 7th. There has not been a formal [52:29] commission of inquiry established. The [52:31] reason why there hasn't been a formal [52:32] commission of inquiry is because all [52:34] sides want a heavily politicized [52:36] commission of inquiry. Right? The [52:38] opposition wants a commission of inquiry [52:40] which is going to point directly back to [52:42] Netanyahu. All faults lead back to [52:44] Netanyao. And the only one that needs to [52:46] take responsibility for that day uh and [52:49] resign is Netanyahu. And Netanyahu wants [52:52] a politically backed commission of [52:53] inquiry, including members of the [52:55] coalition and the opposition. And what [52:57] he's hoping is that it's going to uh [53:00] vindicate him and his actions both on [53:02] October 7th and since October 7th, and [53:04] is going to put the overwhelming [53:06] majority of the blame for October 7th on [53:09] the heads of the army and on the heads [53:12] of the intelligence who are the ones who [53:13] were supposed to be on top of this [53:16] security situation and prevent it from [53:18] happening. Um, and it's it's a [53:20] tremendous disservice to the Israeli [53:22] public. So there since October 7th, I [53:24] mean on October 7th, you had tremendous [53:26] pain, tremendous heartache in terms of [53:28] this massacre. Since October 7th, so [53:31] many soldiers, hundreds of soldiers [53:34] killed, many more injured, people don't [53:36] even talk about it. How many soldiers [53:38] coming back uh you know or served for [53:40] hundreds of days you know losing [53:42] businesses many [53:45] uh because they were just so many days [53:47] in in war and they weren't able to run [53:49] their businesses. How many families have [53:52] been hurt by the fact that their [53:53] husbands and fathers and sons you know [53:56] weren't able to take care of them. So [53:59] October 7th has caused this three-year [54:02] uh situation of war which remains [54:04] unresolved. uh the pain of October 7th [54:07] remains unresolved. So this 30-year [54:09] anniversary of October 7th uh does bring [54:12] a lot of the pain of October 7th to the [54:14] forefront especially as Israel heads now [54:16] into the general election. But I think [54:18] the most important thing of all is to [54:21] take a look at how Israel responded to [54:23] October 7th. And what I would say here [54:26] is that the number of miracles that [54:28] Israel's seen, uh, the bravery of the [54:31] Israeli soldiers, the military victories [54:33] on all fronts in Gaza, in Lebanon, [54:35] against Iran, against the Houthis have [54:37] been, you know, unparalleled. Uh and so [54:40] for all the pain and heartache and [54:42] questions about what happened on October [54:44] 7th, what's happened six since October [54:46] 7th, we know about all the international [54:49] pressure, but what's happened here in [54:52] Israel in terms of the military victory, [54:54] in terms of the spirit of the Jewish [54:56] people, as Prime Minister Netanyahu [54:58] called it, Amavi, a a nation of lions [55:03] that have that have stood up uh to [55:05] answer the threat. you there's a lot I [55:08] think that uh Israel has gained since [55:10] October 7th and I'm hopeful that uh that [55:12] will be the narrative that somehow will [55:14] break through all this other [55:16] condemnation and noise. [55:17] >> Yeah, you you took my thoughts honestly [55:19] and I'll just second that and say with [55:21] all the pain, with all the sacrifice, [55:23] all the suffering over the last 3 years, [55:24] Israel is now stronger more than it's [55:27] ever been. I'm Isra. I think uh we [55:29] should leave it at that. Thanks so much [55:31] for joining us here on this week's [55:33] Jerusalem Minute. He's Alex Traymond, [55:35] CEO of JS. My name is Josh Hasten. Make [55:37] sure you go to JS TV for all this [55:39] amazing content. Give us a super thanks, [55:41] subscribe, and go to jness.org for the [55:44] latest breaking news from Israel, the [55:45] Middle East, and the entire Jewish [55:46] world. Shout out to the people behind [55:48] the scenes here at JNSTV. Have a great [55:50] week. We'll see you next week here on [55:52] Jerusalem Minute, only on JNS TV.
