Analysis of Israeli Government Response

What happened on October 7th was an Israeli setup, everyone knows it. What?

Look at him smile! It was an Israeli setup.

I put all those things out there. Yeah.

How did these guys not know this was taking place?

So I've been to Israel many times, the whole country is 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.

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.

The whole country is surveilled.

And so let me just kind of 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 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 willing to say,

to go so far as 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 Jersey.

When I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza border, it's 45 minutes.

Six hours. They're live streaming the killing of Jews.

Did somebody in the government say stand down?

That is a legitimate, non conspiracy question.

The whole country is the IDF. The whole country is.

And you're trying to tell me that they're going to concerts and kibbutzes and

schools and by reports, six hours. Let's say it's three hours.

That's suspect. Go ahead, Rob.

It's also not like a right wing reporting. This is from the New York Times.

The long wait for help as massacre unfolds in Israel.

I can't think of a more liberal news outlet than the New York Times.

And by the way, I'm actually very pro Israel. So I'm not exactly.

We all are. No, no, I just want to make sure my position is clear here.

But I would. So, Patrick, there are other explanations.

It's possible that the Netanyahu government was double crossed by bad agents.

OK, that's dark,

but it's not as dark as what we're talking about.

OK, another aspect is that Netanyahu might have traitors in his government,

like legitimate traitors that have infiltrated.

I was texting with some senior people in the IDF and they said,

Charlie, I can't say too much,

but let's just say the same problem you have with the left in America

we have here in Israel. So there's something to think about.