Analysis of Israeli Politics Post-October 7

The very first people who the rest of us saw question the official account

of October 7th.

The second person most of us saw make these obvious remarks

was Charlie Kirk.

Five days after October 7th, he went onto a podcast and

said, "This doesn't make any sense." Here's

Charlie

Kirk from five days after that tragedy.

I've been to Israel many times. The whole country's a fortress.

When I first heard this story, I still had the same gut

instinct that I did initially. I find this very hard to believe.

I've been to that Gaza border. Y- you cannot go 10 feet without running

into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine

gun that is an IDF soldier, right? The whole country is surveilled.

And so, so let me j- let me just kinda go through this.

We don't talk about Israeli politics very often, and most Americans don't know

this. The last nine months, Israel was on the brink of civil war.

It's not an exaggeration. This judicial stuff, there were pr-

there were hundreds

of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets because Bibi Netanyahu was

basically redefining the Israeli constitution. That's not an exaggeration,

right?

He said the judicial branch has too much power.

There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu, where they

anticipated tens of thousands of people to take to the streets.

That's all gone, Patrick. Netanyahu now has an emergency

government and a mandate to lead. I'm not, I'm not willing to say, to

go so far that saying that Netanyahu knew or there

was intelligence here, but I

think some questions need to be asked. Was there a stand down order?

Was there a stand down order?

Six hours? I don't believe it. Israel's the size of New J-

size of New Jersey.

When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza

border, it's 45 minutes.

Wow.

Six hours. They're live streaming the killing of

Jews.

Was- did somebody in the government say, "Stand down"?

That is a legitimate non-conspiracy question.

I'm not saying Netanyahu allowed this to happen 'cause he was gonna lose power if

it didn't happen. Well, of course, that's exactly what Charlie Kirk

was saying.

That's exactly what you just heard him say. Of course.

He just explained the political situation in Israel on the eve of October

7th, and it was basically curtains for the

ruling government, the

Netanyahu government. But because of October 7th,

Netanyahu remained in power, and in fact, does to this day, three years later.

Charlie Kirk knew enough about internal politics in Israel to know that.

Most Americans had no clue, and was, of course,

close enough to many people in Israel-