Yakov Katz
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's on the base over this holiday.
It's a Saturday.
He's there in the command center.
Rockets are flying.
He's inside.
His base comes under attack.
He's a former commando.
He used to be the commander of the Shaldag unit, one of the most elite commandos.
He's, do I go out and fight or do I stay here?
So he's got to have his soldiers are fighting for survival in their own base.
How can he actually send troops to the kibbutzim?
He's got to fight in his own base.
So they managed very successfully to cut communications, cut the eyes, and bog it down.
So the couple years before the attack, Israel starts to allow, because this fits into the paradigm, right?
What's the paradigm?
Hamas wants economic prosperity.
So the more they're prosperous, the less we got to worry about terrorism.
So that's how you get to the situation where Qatar is sending $30 million in cash every month to Gaza.
Israel's asked them to do that.
The United States has asked them to do that.