all right Gaza War day 335 hey John no end in sight no end in sight um Osama hamdan says uh there was a there was a so Osama hamdan is a spokesman for Hamas political Bureau and he had a long interview with um Al jazer about how there's no end in sight but it was interesting because he said you know he believes that they can make netan Retreat from his constant obstructionism he said I hope those concerned understand this message that today the resistance while negotiating is not coming from a position of weakness nor from a position of concession or Retreat or a feeling that the battle has ended rather it is negotiating from a position of strength managing the battle to achieve specific Palestinian goals the outcome of which God willing will be The Liberation and restoration of Palestinian rights along with the establishment of of fully Sovereign independent state on its entire National soil so that's what they're going for and uh you've mentioned the Israeli negotiator Gerson Basin before and how he said it's very frustrating to negotiate with Hamas because they just say what they want and they don't deviate they can't deviate on this one this one about keeping the corridors is just it's simply not possible you're just creating a collaborator regime and the entire uh architecture of Hamas the trajectory of the movement was explicitly to not repeat the mistakes of the past EXA they're not going to accept permanent occupation in Gaza for some uh intermediary intermediate step where they get some kind of thing even if it's something that they need and they can't trust that the need right so even if you were to say we're doing it for the people because we need to get all kinds of food and reconstruction in you can't trust the Israelis to bring food and reconstruction in so they're just going to make you look like the collaborators that they made for the previous party look like exactly um that just now is a completely yeah it's a completely failed project and Hamas has been since their founding very clear that we're not repeating the same mistakes the Le the key architects of their arm struggle trajectory yeah are very very clear on the previous systems did not work and we're doing this a different way so to put to to the idea that Netanyahu is putting Hamas in a box by saying they have to accept the Philadelphia Corridor yeah that's not true that's not the I wrote a review of Yahya sinar's novel on my substock and the there's the main character there's a narrator who's kind of like a Watson you know in Sherlock Holmes and then there's like a really cool resistance guy who does all kinds of cool stuff all all over the place and all kinds of stuff that he does is you know the the protagonist only realizes how deep the resistance goes over time and uh at the end Oslo happens and uh Ibrahim who's the resistance guy who's like the Sherlock Holmes guy kind of thing he's at he's in jail surrounded by companions in jail when they kind of learn about the Oslo Accords which is the peace agreement with um between Israel and and the Palestinian Authority yaser Arafat and he says he says all the sacrifices of the first inat have been wasted and now with the politicians and negotiators we've reached a deadlock what's stopping us from starting a new um our People's First inat and now we must start again until someone imagines there's a fruit thing after every round of our people's struggle the politicians come to reap the fruits because they rush to harvest the fruit before it's time they are punished by being deprived of it now we must start again until someone imagines that the fruit has ripened and its time has come yeah and this is not a secret move that's happening here this is what Israel calls facts on the ground it's how they have operated for their entire history you take the land you take it under some pretense and then yeah you never give it back and and you make a deal with some group of Natives and then you don't fulfill it which is America which is Canada which is Israel and uh I think that's you know the frustration with the rejectionism of Hamas is that it's they don't they're not willing to sign a deal they know you're going to you're not going to fulfill yeah because there's a long history of that after every single War um there was a resolution there was a resolution to the blockade in the gilad Shalit deal the supposed yeah to end the blockade there was in the 2014 ceasefire to end the blockade there was in the 2012 one too I mean it's just over and over and over again and they just don't fulfill it and then they're going through the West Bank killing and arresting all the people they released in the exchanges the West Bank um talk about the West Bank they they withdrew from Janine after 10 days the Israelis have have fought in Janine for 10 days I I was looking at um a summary that Sarah Al coulds made that's the Palestinian Islamic jihad's armed Wing they said there were 14 different battles in Janine that was I think a day ago there was an ambush in tarum and four different firefights in nablo so the fighting in Janine is always intense it was obviously the most intense it's always the most intense and uh yeah so the Israelis went in there I guess with the idea of indefinitely occupying Janine and well they went in there with IDE that they were going to have freedom to operate so this is this kind of like code word that means that they can go back at any point and the idea was that they go in and they tear up all the roads so they find where all the IEDs are and that makes it possible for them to just race in one night and carry out their operations that they want that's that's their that's their Theory but yeah so nobody can stop them from going back no but they also don't have the power to stay and no and it's such a dirty operation in the West Bank too because IEDs are the most defensive weapon there is they're literally planted in the Alleyways of the camps like if you don't invade their camps yeah then no IED will ever go off against your troops yeah and you were saying that a lot of them have to be heavy a vehicle has the vehicle might that goes over it has to be heavy enough to to trigger some of these where an ordinary vehicle won't do it I'm old enough to remember when the Americans spent billions of dollars Paving Iraq and Afghanistan for this exact reason that if the dirt roads were too easy to bury massive explosives deep in the ground and the Americans and Canadians went all through Afghanistan with Road Crews they lost you know dozens and dozens of soldiers of their own soldiers were lost protecting essentially these Road grading operations that's pretty funny because I haven't been on many roads in Afghanistan but I have been on some roads in Afghanistan in kabell and it was a running joke in Kabul that the only roads that actually kind of lasted through the weather and the elements were the on the Russians built all the American ones were in total disrepair cbble had some of the most disastrous roads of anywhere I've been well Paving didn't work either because of the depth of them Right Paving gives you the false sense of security exactly you just dig from the side like any kid in a a Sandbox yeah any kid in a sandbox could tell you that you don't need to do yeah but that's the the thing about Janine and and in these places that in these camps they they did they planted explosives underneath the road and it's explosives like like never before as far as I know yeah they said that the 2002 this is only comp the Israeli invasion is only comparable to 2002 but I think the IEDs is not comparable to any other time no they're they're no they they I think that's that's partly a technology advancement they have more ways to trigger them now than previously the Janine invasion in 2002 they relied a lot on like battery yeah um and stuff that could that died that basically died and they and the wiring was above ground and was able to be like when they were Daisy chained together the Israelis could pull a single wire and disable a whole bunch of them but yeah I was interested I saw that same s CS or I saw I saw 16 in the 16 Close Quarters battles so that's that's old time Janine like done fighting it out for the first week or so of this operation it didn't seem like there was as much of that fighting I guess presumably it doesn't make sense to do when they had so many troops and drones in the air but the drones are just you know the helicopter gunships when we lived in Janine was was brutal but the drones can just stay there for so long and then they just are killing kids throwing Molotov and Stones killing them with drones and Israel's proud of that they release on the IDF Channel a video showing someone throwing a Molotov cocktail and a drone strike hitting a kid that's where we're at in this the things the that Israelis are proud of the podcast you saw that those two nice jeorge boys business it's weird that's the internet I guess it's weird what takes off right like that it seemed like everybody was commenting on that show that I I had never heard of no I've never heard of and I'll never and it's not worse than them burning the hospital like I think it was Einstein who like somebody told him some fact and he was like he was like well now that I know it I'll do my best to forget it yeah of all the things that people care like I saw in a press release from civil defense today that they they said that they've pulled 520 bodies from Mass graves in hospital yards but some podcast saying they want to Nuke them is the thing not not the 520 bodies in Mass gra same mentality right I mean yeah same they're basically saying we we can watch all that and kind of somehow get off on it rather than uh did you see the footage of shifa though the they cleaned up shifa and are rebuilding it and I just want to say yeah t sent it just shout out to them shout out to the medical system and I think we're going to start seeing especially now that school's starting I think you're going to start seeing a new school year that's taking place in the same type of way clandestine schools they're going to rebuild the [Music] schools yeah I mean that's why I've always objected to all these predictions about and and even the way they say Israel's making Gaza unlivable and like Gaza will be unlivable I'm like Palestinians make Gaza livable that's what they do you don't know you don't know Gaza that's what they do they they make it livable and they they can make it livable faster than you can make it unlivable so well that was a un report that came out when I was based there that said Gaza was going to be unlivable by 2020 and everybody's making a big stink about it right it's here we are we just blew right past I mean it's true all of the things in the report are true the groundwater is a horrific situation the like it's unlivable but like Israel has to invest a huge amount to make it unlivable on an ongoing basis and if they stop one day making it unlivable it's they're going to start Palestinians are going to start making it livable yeah like they Israel Israel is condemned to make Gaza unlivable for as long as Israel is going to be around which who knows so um anything else to say on the West Bank because I do want to this does remind me couple of other things yeah um things I had in my notes there's an invasion of De there was an invasion of balat there was an invasion bata's na dea's Bethlehem yeah so that's not the north anymore it's not the north anymore that's interesting um also one more thing I had here with a star beside it the prisons are locked down so they locked down the prisons so that the leadership can't communicate with the struggle that's brewing in the West Bank which is interesting because because these are the same people that are that Kasam is trying to release from prison so it's just it's hard to see right now that Israel is prepared to do that part of the yeah right part of exchange yeah um so Janine tarum Nablus kilia the north the tri what is it triangle of Doom or something triangle of terror angle of Terror and British call but we have seen uh things happening over over here in Hebron Khal and now you're saying Bethlehem so this is considered usually generally more chill for the is from the Israeli perspective yeah I think one of the things about the Northwest Bank is that while like the people in the north are are awesome for sure but there's also like a kind of um what do you call it like a like a bandit culture where if you're if you're wanted in another city you go up to Janine and live and the fighters will look after you and Janine and that that builds their um capacity in a way that like Bethlehem is just very um just Bethlehem is so integrated into the Israeli project right it's very hard to get through all the checkpoints around there that would allow you to to carry out resistance deesa is a a deesa is a whenever there's fighting as's fighting it's a fierce camp for sure but what I wanted to say was there are things about um about the West Bank that make it much more difficult to do resistance um Israel has continuously built rebuilt the West Bank to be invaded that's why when that's why when they were like Israel's invaded the West Bank I'm like oh they've invaded the West Bank like give me 70 years to rebuild a place so that it's invadable and I'll probably manage to invade it too but but there are also certain things about it that make it um favorable for resistance in the sense like just look at the distances compared to look at the size of these territories compared to do you have a topo map if you look at the topo map if you can get a topo map you really see why it's good for resistance mountains Um mountains mountains Um mountains high mountains over like that Overlook um absolutely it's difficult it's difficult to shut down it's difficult to seal when they talk about sealing Janine it's only so possible to seal Janine yeah yeah I mean the Northern West Bank is mountainous and the southern West Bank a little bit less so yeah yeah yeah like the road to get to travel from Janine to nablas you can do that offro the Israelis um try to occupy the hilltops obviously they want those commanding Heights but yeah but that's that you made the right point the West Bank is structured to invade 365 days yeah of the Year 247 and that's why the fighters are that's why it's difficult it's difficult to build capacity because the israelies can be there just in the snap of a finger and that makes any you know any I mean I don't want to say misstep but yeah it seems like a bit of a misstep abush shua and Nur Shams and the boys seem like they got yeah but that was I mean I wouldn't put it I wouldn't use the word misstep either I would say like everything you do is on borrowed time that's kind of the way I see it yeah okay fair enough it's it's yeah I mean everywhere in Palestine is like that yeah everything anybody does in terms of resistance um just I was I was just hoping everybody would hide in a in the cellar yeah it's brutal it's brutal but you know those last uh those last stands they do happen you know from people people being discovered in the cellar you know yeah no they do and they fight heroically and they did and abush shua left a legacy um for sure for to inspire future Fighters I mean what an absolute do we talk about this already I don't think so what an absolute Legend right like to be to told the Israelis are bragging about his assassination he shows up at the funeral of his buddy and just like moves like that people remember that um um so Lebanon active yeah just just you know your usual missiles every day every day 10 15 20 and more Rockets shabbach released their statistics more Rockets from Lebanon in August than at any other month so yeah exactly exactly um yeah so let me just say a couple things about um sharmini yeah no charmine narwani charmine narwani she did a lecture in Lebanon at the American University in Beirut and it's like this viral clip that she made about how like their the resistance is boiling is real like a frog so the notion is like you know that Parable where the temperature gradient is so gradual that the Frog never really knows that it's boiling until it's dead so that's the idea and a couple of points that she made I thought were really like really stuck with me so one of them is that like is is is always trying to fight short the Israel's military Doctrine is we fight short Wars they're decisive they're on enemy territory we have rest we get to rest for three years four years and then we do it again mowing the lawn Etc so obviously she she said two things about that one is like this is not one of those this is a long War of Attrition and the other thing is she she pointed out which I hadn't thought of till she said it that like the previous Wars with Arab regimes that Israel fought were short decisive Wars on enemy territory and they favored Israel like obviously 1967 is Israel just dreams of repeating 1967 but like 48 was like that too 1982 started like that but once it stopped being like that they ended up having to leave to so that was an interesting point another one was her estimate of the costs so she thinks Israel's cost of War has been 80 billion so far and 200 plus million per day that was kind of Staggering I mean obviously all the money's coming from the US but like you know like people say in the Russia Ukraine context like you can print money but you can't actually print shells and you can't print uh missiles and planes and so yeah especially them and soldiers you can't print soldiers um and then the other so the whole thing her whole thesis was Israel rests on two legs and one of them is narrative control of like no matter what we do we're the victims and we're Invincible at the same time and whatever and she says so that's eroded and then the other one is like constant immigration of Jews to Israel as like the place where Jews want to go and that's also not doing so well right now so she she so she was like she was like the Israelis um no yeah the axis she was like the axis of resistance does not think this is Israel's last war they think Israel's going to be here after this war that's why their whole they keep H nasarella keeps saying what we want is to end the aggression on Gaza with Hamas in place basically right that's that's what they say so they don't think that they can you know def completely defeat Israel in this current War but narani thinks they can so she was like I actually think you reach a Tipping Point and then things collapse no one knows where a Tipping Point is until it's reached yeah so that was inter that was I mean I would have said that before this war happened I said that Lebanon that Hezbollah was inv like Invasion proof that there was no more there was that 2006 style war where you roll up into Lebanon I thought that that time had passed which is sort of a deao way of saying the next war is the last war and the the smartest thing they did was not invade Lebanon like they've they've done a whole bunch of of errors but you can I can say that the Israelis made one good decision in this war so far which is not invading Lebanon which I thought did you know how it happened no like there was Netanyahu wanted to do it on uh October 7th and the the like defense Ministry like they literally like locked the doors that they needed to go to to have the meeting and like basically like literally cuz they were just they basically were like we just need to buy 24 hours of him to not make this mistake of invading immediately he just wanted to attack Lebanon on October 7 Netanyahu is nuts he wants to he wants to fight everybody since the 80s he doesn't have any strategic Outlook you know he he's the guy he believes their power is unlimited their resources are unlimited America's invincible and therefore Israel is Invincible kind of thing so um there's like another a couple of profits of Doom that I wanted to mention too you did you see the article in unheard I don't know what unheard is I don't know whether it's like I don't think it's super mainstream but there was an article called the houthis now rule the Red Sea did you see that I saw it you sent it to me a little bit before deadline so the huies now Ru the red SE I don't know who this guy is he's someone named Malcolm keun and but he had a he also did an economic calcul ation where he was saying that um you know American the drones are cheap the American Interceptor missiles and precision guided bombs are expensive the way that these bombs are delivered adds another layer of expense 100 million in FlyAway cost and far more when pilot training maintenance and infrastructures are factored in in other words the more America fights the houthis the more they will lose I thought that was a great line yeah I mean I think the the the the US Navy has been saying that right like they don't want to fight this they don't see this being they don't think the houthis could be detoured no that's what they no they obviously can't so and and like what did the what did those aircraft carriers do like they came I don't think the aircraft carriers were ever in the Red Sea though I I think that's partly a thing like keeping them out of out of danger out of danger yeah I think they keep you your goal is to go and keep your the thing that failed was the like Armada that the like NATO remember what it was it what was it called we're going to find out why Americans don't have free healthcare or something that was yeah what was it called though it was called some ridiculous name operation Prosperity Guardian oh yeah almost Summer Camps summer camps that is anyways the the the resistance renamed it horror of the camps the camps yeah which it seemed like in Translation was like almost like Terror you know like Yeah The Terror of the camps which is yeah that that goes back a long way that triangle of terror right it goes back to the British and the um yeah failures after failures even in 48 it was a failure um so since okay so given that in Gaza the Israelis are just in the corridors given that in the West Bank instead of invading Lebanon they decided to invade the West Bank which they're they're invading areas they already control which is the formulation I used um and given that they withdrew from Janine so they're just doing raids it's just a raid it's a war of raids now from the Israeli side and uh that's where our old friend yitzak brick did you notice that he favorite harat's columnist he's written again this man will not be silenced um and today uh no not today I think it was it was the third so was two days ago it was two days ago and he says it is not how as that is collapsing but Israel and uh he he really has done it again in terms of prophet of Doom Prophecies of Doom he says not too long from now we will also be unable to carry out those repeated raids because with every passing day the Israeli Defense Forces grows weaker the number of dead and wounded in action among our soldiers Rises so he thinks they need to sign a deal and he says that'll that'll stop Hamas from fighting us and hisbah he this is the first time I've anyone in the west has acknowledge the repeated truth that the state stated by Hezbollah directly that they'll stop as soon as the war against Gaza stops he says we must agree we must stop the war in Gaza which may very well o bring about a cation of fighting with hisbah in this peaceful interval we will rebuild the military the economy Israel's international relations and its social cohesiveness we will replace the entire political and military branches which are all complicit in that terrible failure and we will set out in a New Direction that's the way there's no other that's already pretty optimistic like when you see someone like him being super pessimistic you're like this sounds like what we think but then when he thinks at the end of all this we're going to rebuild the military the economy international relations and social cohesiveness and replace the entire military and political branches with what I mean I don't I think he's right about that I think that they're they're all gone they have to be all gone I some of them are starting to go but who replaces them I mean these are the questions the young people coming up Are all smotri kahanist uh right I mean I imagine the leadership's able to the the AR the military leadership's able to replace these people with I I think it's like a it's a figurehead situation where it's like it's not like the deputy of the Southern command was was shouting we need to be more prepared but it's it's like a you know like a ritual bloodletting of the guys who failed that you can't have a state where right I mean you Israel used to say like you couldn't have a a government if you failed in on October 7th you would get a new government you would immediately have like a government of national Unity kind of thing and you would get rid of all of the ministers after 2006 everybody lost their jobs after 2006 so the thing about brick is that he's not he's definitely not uh he's he's trying to figure out how to be the most successful Israel possible right so his his major his major concern is the West Bank and he doesn't think that they should be fighting these wars that they're unprepared for in place and and being so loose in the West Bank because I mean you even saw it this week right there was or last week there was you know four or five deaths in the West Bank of settlers of police who were attacked basically because of the in Asians and they proved that they're not as defensible yeah um as they as they believe themselves to be that they could get into gash etsion and they could get out on the roads like the walls block off all these Palestinian areas but we saw Palestinians out in Israeli areas shooting at them and that's what he's worried about he's worried about people starting to attack the settlements in a way that was so successful in Gaza that basically makes it impossible in order to properly defend the settlements you have to retract to defend and the thing that Israel's been doing yeah the thing Israel's been doing since October 7th is spreading out the settlers across the West Bank right they told Palestinians basically right away that you had to stay in your Villages and that has given the settlers the opportunity to create like these hering posts and outposts and take land and the sense and that just leaves them more vulnerable they're just right out there and and that's the thing like a wall right a wall people you would think that October 7th would have showed people what a wall is a wall is a great thing for a soldier to have if there's not a soldier there a wall doesn't actually mean very much yeah especially that one in Gaza did you see the release of the stats that um the southern command gave uh to the chief of staff that said there was 120 breaches in the wall not 60 or 40 or whatever they were working on that there's 120 of them like yeah I mean what you can do Israel the West in general but Israel specifically is like really tried to stretch what you can do how you can oppress people in a non-labor intensive way and uh I there's the limits to that are are there to to observe um so I sent you I sent you Seymour hs's column oh I didn't get to it well he he it's interesting because Joe does it Joe does it I follow Joe does it so the big the big lie that everybody does is that Hamas uses human Shields right that's why that's why poor Israel has to kill all these children because Hamas uses human Shields but it's it takes Seymour hirs to blame Hamas for not using human Shields he says Hamas hiding in the tunnels has left the population of gods that offend for themselves yeah that took him 11 months because that was the there was even some people that said that Israelis that said that right off the hop right like you have bomb shelters for yourself but not for your people right right so so then so then why B like then why are you bombing the people then if you know that the guys you're trying to bomb her in bomb shelters yeah I was by a researcher who's doing a documentary if I had seen in 11 months a Palestinian civilian anywhere on screen of a resistance video right we've got however many that's a good question yeah hundreds of hours of it yeah or I don't know about hours but hundreds of videos a thousand videos more than a thousand videos and there's not there's not there's not even there's not even a hint of that yeah and they I mean they told us that Kasam told us that right away and this was the whole nature of the way Israel has fought this war by doing these evacuations by block yeah everybody knows where the fighting's going to happen and the Palestinian population has believed that and so they do evacuate they evacuate quite quickly now like shockingly quickly uh in the middle camps they people were gone in like five minutes it was just like um yeah and then the resistance comes in and fights in those areas that's the thing we we haven't seen civilians in any of those videos and we haven't seen thousands of Fighters dead we haven't seen it we haven't seen it on Israeli videos and they would love to they would love to show it they do they show the ones they have and if you add them up they don't add up so and then the other thing Seymour H says is that uh there are sapper teams that are destroying the tunnels and they're closing in on senoir and the underground hunt for senoir is is sour H was told by a specially assembled branch of the IDF that involves hundreds of analysts The Insider that part's true the New York Times covered that the insid Fusion cells where they have the Americans are all over this and the New York Times story said that that it was lopsided that it's basically all Americans giving them the intelligence The Insider told me that BB has a belief that they're getting close to senoir because his movements inside the Hamas tunnel system would be limited daily as more tunnels are destroyed at some point yeah okay at some point The Insider said it will be physically impossible for sinir to hide when the end comes in BB's view it will be like getting Hitler it's a trophy that will restore his reputation and he will be beloved by the citizens of Israel it's not true there's no operational Israeli military operational activity in the tunnel Network places there's none they're in the narim corridor not tunneled the tunnels under narim are way deeper than the Israelis are operating they don't have troops in the corridor to deal with tunnels and they're pulled all the way out of Rafa they're only in the corridor along the Egyptian border where they're digging up tunnels that they admit are already sealed on the Egyptian side of the Border there's not troops in other places they don't have control over territory there's not troops in jabalia looking through tunnels so it's just not true there's not the deployment of troops is not looking in tunnels right now they're just destroying tunnels that are already sealed they're invading areas that they've already controlled yeah they're raiding areas they've already raided yeah and they said they've taken 80% of the tunnels out of the Philadelphia Corridor so whatever reason they're justifying being in the corridor is no longer relevant and all those tunnels were consumer tunnels they showed they showed propaganda thinking they were so smart showing like they put their Jeep in one of their Humvees into the tunnel and we're like look at how big this tunnel is like dudes we've known that for 15 years they used they brought cows in they had like they brought trucks in we know all this these are not Kasam tunnels these are commercial tunnels yeah and the whole lesson of this war not to repeat it over and over is we're not seeing imported weapons we've we've touched on the few times that it's happened oh look there's an hj8 but everything else is built in Gaza and it was built with material that is now in abundance in Gaza so it's it's a false it's a false argument but yeah no that idea that the Israelis are are closing in on senoir it's not true based on their deployment they're not they're not able to this 998th division that runs around smashing everything they're the only ones who could theoretically find a tunnel but they don't have the troops to to do this imaginary thing where they're like shifting senoir into a corner where he's going to one day realize like I don't have a way out that's a fundamental misunderstanding of the way that the tunnels work it's also like you could have spent some time reading his novel and you would have known that it doesn't matter even if you got him yeah the whole but where's where's his dignity where's hsh's dignity about just like repeatedly being wrong this this conflict Hersh it's just undone his entire career every every every dispatch from hirs about this war is about how senoir is about to be caught yeah starting with the one where senoir was going to come out of a tunnel in shifa and surrender with with the hostages with all the hostages he was with them all beding for his life which we know is not true because because captives came out of Gaza and said senoir went to see them so he went to see them he wasn't with them which means he wasn't with them it was a special thing that he came to see them they told us that's data that's out in the world that's knowable by a journalist yeah or that the intelligence agent that he's but even that's the thing is so he's being a stenographer for some Israeli intelligence guy does that guy not have any dignity how many times can you feed somebody the wrong story yeah story say no no response from Hezbollah or what was it like yeah the response that wasn't yeah exactly that never came or something like that like and then 5 days later they respond and you're just like now you have a headline in your scrollable list of things wrong it just it just seems based like Elementary journalism and I thought sorry the retaliation that didn't happen yeah on August 13th and then what was the date that it happened August 20 I sent you this photo and I said this didn't age well but nobody cares right I mean that's the thing like like um what they do who's who signs up for his reading her list that is is like I just un I you have to press quite a few buttons to get off of someone's stack you know so I did I pressed all the buttons I pressed all the buttons and so I will not be renewing yeah I mean maybe like honestly shout out to the London Review of Books editors and and fact Checkers like maybe they're the ones who kept Seymour H right right right like maybe his maybe this is him this is this his substack is really him and the London Review of Books editors and the famous fact Checkers at the yeah they're not there is it it's the New Yorker right that has the famous fact Checkers did he write for the New Yorker yeah that I don't anyways but yeah so I mean yeah it's I mean that's what finlin used to say about Chomsky right like finlen said he used to give his work to Chomsky and Chomsky was just like whoa whoa whoa settle down here he was able to like bring it into a nice yeah like leave out some of this stuff on the edges so that you're not wrong yeah exactly um but yeah but that's that's the last thing I mean the the thing that happened with these six hostages who were killed um it seemed to rock Israel for a couple of days but that also I think I think I think Israel's ridden that out I think I don't think the government's going to fall or an election the government's not going to fall like let's be honest people like at some point he knows the calculus that he knows his government's not going to fall because after those bodies were found he came out Netanyahu we're talking about here came out and said things that would collapse a government if that was an option yeah and so I just don't you know actually say I would if I had to get the if I had to choose between the Philadelphia Corridor and the hostages getting back I would choose the Philadelphia Coro I don't know but if I would have put quotation marks on that like kassam did but he did he said things like that and even the things that he didn't say when he did his press conference he said I could have said that like he said there was this whole thing about because the way that the other guys say it like um Gant and whatever they say you can come out and just go back in right you come out for 42 days 42 days is the is the ceasefire stage one right six weeks seven weeks and so the the play on words was if you go in for 42 if you leave for 42 days you won't go back for 42 years and Netanyahu said I didn't say that but it's true you know so he's like took credit for these L that's also a weird I don't understand that either because if um like if International pressure could stop him from going back in could would it also get him out in the first place or like why I don't like he sees this October 7th as just being the moment to genocide and it's running out yeah and they lost if they pull out they lose I mean I think you give him credit as a Survivor to figuring out the way that he could come up with a way to not lose the war as badly as they're losing the war and in a way uh keeping those corridors is an interesting it does give Israel an upper hand in in a certain aspect of these negotiations that they didn't have before and that it they didn't have and they can't go back in and do the things in the same way like I I just I know I never understand I don't understand things in terms of international pressure that way like I think I think the limiting issue with permanently occupying Gaza is the cost to Israel in terms of the occasional Soldier death the occasional armored vehicle explosion and he sees everything in terms of that he sees it in terms of his PO popularity in the US or like support in the US yeah but yeah it was interesting because he said that he said once I have it here once we leave returning will be impossible because of the United because of the UN Security Council but the UN Security Council told them to leave already so and they ignore every single Un Security Council resolution so that can't be right he's lying but I just don't know what he thinks I think I think it I think they could leave and go back in if there like their willingness to take losses is something that I still haven't fully like either they know something I don't know or they really are on track to collapse like I if I'm not missing anything they've chosen to go out in a blaze of glory so I don't I don't know I I must be I looked up the math again I looked up the tanks according to the military balance by The International Institute of strategic studies which is understood to be the the the final word on industry defense Magazine on this they estimate going into this war that Israel had an estimated 400 maraba markv tanks 300 namr troop carriers and 700 Mark II mavas so that works out to be about one to one to the and then they said they had an an estimated 200 marava marvs in store which is like a mix between in storage and coming off the lines so that would give them 600 top-of-the-line mavas and 700 Mark 3s we've seen lots of Mark 3s in Gaza yeah but not one to one not one to one so are so and they're saying that you know we've gotten reports that 500 tanks are out of service yeah according to these numbers 500 tanks out of service would leave you in a position would leave you in a position were there tanks in the West Bank Invasion no that was looking for them and I didn't see any no and that's yeah you know when I bulldozers jine there was no no Jeeps they were too because there was rocking for Bell grenades back then but they they only went in armored vehicles like AR up like tanks only tracked Vehicles yeah like I saw I saw a big I saw an image of a whole bunch of Israeli soldiers walking into one of the towns I don't remember which tarum or and I was like oh they're just walking in well they have that Panther the panther is that like large Mini Bus like armored Mini Bus they called it a panther yeah a Panzer um so uh uh and they they want the so Netanyahu thinks the Americans will save them but I just read today that the active duty US Army is 445,000 Soldiers the smallest it's been since 1940 like is that like half of what it was in the Iraq I think so they failed to meet Manpower goals for the last two years missed the 2023 Target by 10,000 soldiers so I mean at the peak didn't Israel have hadn't Israel mobilize 300 and some thousand soldiers yeah but that's a big fraud right but like they are equipped more or less the same they're probably better trained but probably not all 445,000 are better trained I I don't know that this number of soldiers can save Israel no and what's going if we're not saying we're seeing thousands of dead Palestinian Fighters are there going to be 25 or 30,000 seasoned battle hardened Fighters remaining in Gaza because that's more than the Israelis have battle hard and combat ready troops well that's the thing even the West Bank rates you know you the Israelis kept rotating they kept rotating soldiers out to fight the same people who were in the same positions in the West Bank so they weren't really fighting they were really just going in and tearing up the roads right but when like they weren't going house to house in that in the same way that that you would think that they would do in like a clearing operation they stuck to just were doing this you know like Municipal like reverse Municipal service where we just destroy all yeah we're just a demo crew yeah so I mean it's like it's like we're talking about the collapse of the Israeli military but it's it does in some sense if you look for by certain indicators we're already watching it in terms of the way they're behaving in terms of what they're choosing to do and choosing not to do they didn't go to Lebanon they didn't go to Lebanon and they didn't go and fight in the heart of the Janine Camp they left Janine after 10 days and there's the casualties were very low the casualties were very low for Palestinians as well they they killed I think what the number was 14 in Janine I think it was something like that and it was there was a few kids and they tortured that uh the father of a fighter to death to get him to turn himself in um you know so there was half a dozen war crimes yeah but in terms of like Janine like the Battle of Janine in 2002 they were like going in to the alley 50 plus yeah yeah they were going into the Alleyways and fighting 19 U according to to this report I'm looking at one one Israeli soldier killed and five others wounded 19 Martyrs ascended during the aggression and dozens wounded but yeah still and I think yeah and I think they like 15 of them were Fighters it was a it was a Fighters that came out and fought were killed so yeah it's a different type of invasion and you could see that happening as the invasion was happening over the last 10 days that that they're just spending all of their energy digging up the roads yeah and and keeping their troops fresh because they don't want to keep them there too long because they're scared so yeah yeah yeah so absolutely no end in sight and battle of attrition yeah War of Attrition the more of attrition goes on the resistance told that to us two months ago to to be prepared they're ready to fight a battle ready for a long War of Attrition yeah that's what that's what they said all right let's let's call it there and hang in there everybody like And subscribe like And subscribe watch the EI live show Wednesday live stream Wednesday any any specific plans I guess you'll have to see what happens yeah I think stay tuned yeah I I mean I we we've all forgotten but I still think Iran is going to strike Israel at some point so that'll be one that'll be one that'll be a sitre when it happens yeah I mean mirandi seemed pretty sure yeah he didn't hedge there was a senior figure in the Iranian armed forces that just said don't forget we're going to hit Israel there's no way they can avoid it or something they said something like that so all right everybody see next time you the next one