Yakov Katz

It looks to the West.

It wants to be like the rest of the Western world.

And that puts it into this frame of mind

kick the can down the road don't deal with it if you can avoid the war avoid the war look you talk about this bureaucratically and socially yeah but you know appeasement also to some extent if there's a way to buy off your enemy as opposed to confront your enemy go that route first because we don't want we just want to have a good life and and the problem is israel is in a region and a neighborhood that you can't just have a good life how much is when you read this how much and you're the technology guy how much is it

You know, we had Iron Dome, Arrow, David Sling, multi-layered missile defense technology.

So their missiles, they can lob them at us.

We can shoot them out of the sky.

They don't, they're not an issue.

They try to tunnel into Israel.

We'll build an underground tunnel and sensors to detect when they're digging tunnels.

We'll build a multi-layered barrier to stop them.

The technology also in the SIGINT and signal intelligence, we can listen to all their conversations.

So we don't need to have human assets on the ground inside Gaza.

Why waste your time in cultivating an asset and having an informant?

But Steve, thousands of people ended up crossing the border.

Not one could pick up the phone and call their Israeli handler and say, listen, this is in the works, get ready, because we didn't have those assets.

You can't just rely on technology.

And I think that's a big wake-up call.

to have intelligence, human assets to be able to manage and cultivate.

That's always going to be a challenge.