Where are Israel's agents in Gaza that pick up the phone at 3 a.m. and just send the digit one through their mobile phone to someone. And that means that their Hamas operative living at the house next to them, their neighbor left his house at 3 a.m. You know, Israel should have had 5,000 of those. It should have had 10,000 warning lights.

This is not Pearl Harbor.

Where is the Japanese fleet?

It's lost in the Pacific Ocean.

This investigation is only the beginning.

Everything needs to change, and everyone needs to lose their jobs, right?

This is the sentiment in Israel.

Thank you. This is the sentiment in Israel. It's 4 o'clock p.m. on Saturday, March 1st here in New York City.

It's 11 o'clock p.m. on Saturday, March 1st in Israel, as Israelis have come out of Shabbat and are getting ready to

transition to a new week. On Thursday of this past week, the Israeli defense forces released the

findings of its highest level investigation into the military failures, both in the lead-up to the

Hamas terror attack on October 7th,

2023, and on the day of the assault itself. Now, during this conversation, I'm going to refer to

this IDF investigation as the investigation or the IDF investigation. In reality, it was

cumulatively 80, 80 different investigations. About 40 of the investigations are of actual

battles that occurred. And then the other half are a series of investigations about various

issues that contributed to the events of October 7th. So in this conversation, we're just

going to refer to it as the investigation to represent the entirety of the 80 investigations.

On October 7, 2023, according to these findings, approximately 5,000 terrorists led by Hamas, stormed into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip,

launching a brutal and unprecedented massacre, which claimed the lives of some

1,200 Israelis with another 251 people taken hostage, and much of the area in southern Israel

devastated. According to the IDF's own investigation, the military struggled to mount an effective response, with bases near the

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