Yakov Katz

Helicopters don't just go to a border and shoot people.

You know, maybe that should have happened on October 7th, but that's not a good way to operate on a regular day.

And therefore, the military was not built for this type of chaos.

Yep.

Right.

They had studied very carefully and they understood exactly how to carry out what they wanted to do.

Look, their objective.

I mean, let's be honest for a moment.

I don't think they knew or they thought Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, didn't think he's going to defeat the IDF, right?

He wanted to hurt Israel in a mortal way, and that he succeeded, killing 1,200 people, taking 251 people hostage.

But he had other objectives.

One of them, for example, we're talking on the day that Mohammed bin Salman is visiting Washington, D.C.

We back then, on October 7th, 2023, we were on the verge of

of potential normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Through the Abraham Accords.

For them to join the Abraham Accords.

He scuttled that.

This war torpedoed that, and now even with this visit, it's not so clear if this is going to get back on track or not.

So he succeeded in that, but here's the other thing, Steve.

Oh, they succeeded in a two-state solution.