Israel has declared war fir the first time in 50 years after Hamas terrorists attacked multiple cities and slaughtered hundreds of Jews in an event that the nation is comparing to 9/11. But how did Israel not see this attack coming? Glenn and his head researcher, former military intelligence analyst Jason Buttrill, break down what we currently know: "This was an Iranian-backed, Iranian-planned, Iranian-coordinated plot." So, how should we take the fact that the Biden administration just gave Iran access to billions of dollars? And where will this war go from here? Glenn warns that Iran and Hamas are serious about destroying Israel. So, maybe Biden should reconsider how much of our military resources he's throwing at Ukraine.
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GLENN: Fabian, a friend of mine from Israel wrote in. On the Sabbath, it felt like 1973 all over again. We woke up to the distant thunder of missiles and Iron Dome interoceptors. Something big was on. But our devices were off, because of Shabbat.
And so only our neighbors and the security services knew how big this was. We walked to morning prayers. Not halfway through the local border officer, interrupted the service, to say, an exceptional event was unfolding. And we should get the children inside the house. Terrorists had infiltrated in large numbers. And were moving through the countryside.
And we started seeing our friends and our neighbors, wearing green uniforms, instead of holiday white, heading off to serve.
The Sabbath, overridden by the need to protect life. One stopped, and told us to go home. In the afternoon, we heard machine guns over the horizon a cell must have want to be close. It is ugly. It's as ugly as it has ever been in my lifetime. We're in total shock. The same kind of shock in 1973. The same complete failure of intelligence, complete inadequacy of border protection systems. Utter shock of the burning tank this enemy couldn't defeat. It's the same enemy we thought.
That also, we thought they would never dare something like this.
It's 1948, the Independence War. Villages invaded. Residents slaughtered wherever they were found.
Here were also the same enemy as now, village streets are full of bodies.
Women and children massacred in their homes. Teenagers made to go door-to-door to get the residents to open their house, so they could all be killed, execution-style, more easily.
Hostages, including soldiers, but also once again women, children, grandmothers, taken to Gaza to faces God only knows what fate.
Shock is still profound. And anger, lots of it. Grief has started mixing in, as the funerals have started today. As a dad, my four children are still small. The youngest is six. The oldest is 11. My oldest boy is eight. So when I think about them. I thank God, we don't live near Gaza. My children are safe now. I have no illusions about what could happen to them, if Hamas got their hands on them. Proud of my children. They are scared. We don't show them the images. We don't let them listen to the news. But we also don't lie to them. The thunder over the horizon is not really thunder. And they know it.
They see the neighbors in uniforms leaving the village to go serve. They know there's a war on. They know we were attacked. They know hundreds are dead. They grasp at the level of a child. But they know it. We tell them the truth without gory details. And always accompanied with our advice to trust God and the IDF. But we do tell them the truth. We tell them that it's okay to be afraid. And the best way to deal with fear, is to not pretend it doesn't exist. Or that scary things don't. The best way is to look fear straight in the eyes, and tell them, we're bigger than it is.
It's not going to get the better of us. Lo and behold all of this actually seems to help. They are brave. They're patient. Well-behaved for the situation. Yes, they have nightmares. They're cupid up in a locked house for way too long. And that gets loud. But I'm proud of them. I'm a proud Israeli father. Glenn, thank you for your prayers. For what it's worth, you, your family, and America, are in my prayers, daily. America is in its own dark and ugly times of its own right now. Much of it, it seems by design, and it might get worse before it gets better. But I have hope. May God bless and keep you. Fabian.
Jason Buttrill, who is our chief researcher also was military intelligence, is here to tell us how did they get in, Jason?
JASON: Well, Glenn, it was a -- it was an unprecedented event. I would say, possible, but only impossible if it was just a few random terrorists within the Gaza Strip. But that's not what this was. This was an Iranian-backed, Iranian-planned, Iranian-coordinated plot to pull this off.
They came in from multiple areas, they came in from the sea. Boats from the sea. They came physiological paragliders through the air. And they came through a very coordinated and sophisticated attack from the land. They first used drones to knock out observation towers along the border. They then fired a barrage of rockets to distract, across the border. And then they went in with explosives, IEDs on the border fences.
I was in this exact same area, and some of the exact same towns that were hit the hardest, when we opened up our -- our -- our embassy in Israel. And the IDF spokesman then. He's been making several announcements over the past weekend, predicted this exact same thing.
He said, if we're not. If we do not respond the way they're responding, they will come into these areas. They will hit these towns.
That's exactly what they did, and it's absolutely insane that we're seeing the response that we're seeing from western governments today, offering just random support, even though why they do it in the background is they, you know, give funding to -- to Hamas through Palestine.
I mean, the -- the reactions and the way that they responded, has been actually atrocious.
And what we should be doing, is there was a blueprint for this, Glenn.
This did not have to happen. There was a blueprint for this to not happen.
It was the Abraham Accords.
It was exactly what the Trump administration had set forth. I saw the state department talking about recently, how there had been unprecedented peace.
Well, yeah. Of course there had been. Because there was a good plan to do this. But you abandoned it. You abandoned it when you started going back to Iran and incentivizing them, to do what they're doing now.
And it was absolutely insane, how we saw over the weekend.
You saw how Kirby, and the rest of the State Department, were trying to backtrack furiously.
And say, oh, no. The 6 billion we ave did nothing. It was in a secure account in Doha. It was for health aid and humanitarian aid.
Well, what do you think they will divert their funds to? Once they knew they didn't have to divert all the other money, the billions to medicine and food. What did you think they would devote that money to? Terrorist attacks. That's what they did.
It's shameful. It's absolutely shameful.
GLENN: By the way, here is Iran. Iran was having a military parade.
And it aired on channel one, in Iran.
We got this from memory TV. Cut three, please.
We have come here to tell the elder of Khomeini, that Israel will be raised from the face of the earth.
Death to Israel.
The officials of the Zionist regime make a mistake. The Islamic Republic will raise Tel Aviv and IFA to the ground!
This is very clear, and we're going to go into where this all comes from.
You know, I've been saying for years, that the next Holocaust will come from Iran. They are serious about raising Israel.
And vanishing, the Jew. Here's the Hamas leader to the Jews. Also, from memory.
This is airing now on television, all throughout the Middle East.
This is our call to our resistance to our West Bank. To our people.
You're resistance abroad. Our strategic allies. The sons of this nation.
Today is your day.
We are on the verge of victory. Let us be partners in creating this great victory.
In conclusion, we say to the enemy, that is making threats and going on a rampage, your threats, rampage and arrogance did not, will not help you. We say one thing: Get out of our land.
Get out of our faces. Get out of our Jerusalem, and our Al-Aqsa Mosque. We do not want to see you on this land.
This land is ours. Jerusalem is ours. Everything is ours.
So I think it's pretty clear. You know, what they want. And I don't think it's a two-state solution. Maybe people will listen. Now, these same people say different things. You know, when they're speaking in English.
But that's why we go to memory, which is a -- an organization, that translates, all of the news, into English. So you can read the subtitles, you know exactly what they're saying.
And they are very, very, very clear.
Here is cut five. Hamas, a commander calling for more attacks.
Listen to this. In light of the continuous crimes against our people, and in light of the occupation's rampage, and its disregard for international laws and resolutions. And in light of the American and western support of Israel and the international silence, we have decided to put an end to all of this, with the help of Allah.
So the enemy understands, that the time it could go on a rampage, without it being held accountable is over.
We declare the beginning of operation Al-Aqsa Deluge. To say to the young people in the West Bank from the various organizations: Today is your day to sweep out the occupiers, and their settlements.
From all of our lands and the West Bank, to make them pay the price for their crimes over the lean years. Organize your attacks on this settlements, with all your means at your disposal.
Torch the earth, under the feet of the plundering occupiers. Kill, burn, destroy, and shut down roads.
Make the cowardly occupiers understand that the Al-Aqsa Deluge is bigger than they think.
The day has come, when anyone who has a gun, should take it out.
Now is the time.
If you don't have a gun, take up your cleaver or your axe.
Molotov cocktail. Truck, tractor, or car.
They also go on to say, all of those who are living now in western lands, this leads to the question, how many people are here from Iran? From Hamas? From Hezbollah?
From anybody who wishes us ill?
We know the -- according to the Border Patrol, that 80 -- 80 people that were on our most wanted terrorist list, 80 have come across the border, that we caught.
How many are on the terrorist list, that we didn't catch?
We're going to -- you know, I thought about it this morning. This is -- I've always heard the phrase, you know, elections have consequences.
This is the most consequential election of my lifetime, 2020.
We have depleted all of our resources. Because we have Joe Biden in power. The world is on fire.
The -- the oil shortage, that is here.
The munitions shortage that we have.
Let me bring Jason back in, in one minute, to talk just about how are we going to respond?
And what could we possibly give them. Because we've given them so much already, in Ukraine.
This seems to be, in my opinion, exactly what the Soviet Union, what happened to them.
They're doing to us, what we did to the Soviet Union.
Can you play cut eight, as we go back to Jason?
This is the Palestinian supporter's march in New York City.
Then we have the Palestinian supporter's march in Europe.
Same thing.
Europe is in trouble. I think we're in trouble because we don't know who is -- who is here.
And how are we going to be able to fight on two fronts, if we were to get involved in any kind of war?
Jason.
JASON: Sorry. Seeing that is absolutely disgusting.
That's the equivalent of during the -- during the World War II, if we had known about what was happening to Jews. And then people marching in the streets of New York, parading and glorifying the Nazis. That is absolutely disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.
GLENN: And may I just say, the same thing is true.
Hitler said what he would do to the Jews. So does Hamas. So does Hezbollah. So does Iran. So does Syria.
They're very, very clear what they will do to the Jews. Kill them all.
JASON: Yeah. Believe them. Believe them when they say they will do this. Our response is going to be limited. I mean, we don't really have the resources to really respond. We've never really directly responded anyway. We've provided weapons. We've provided basically, you know, a big stick in the background, to wave it around and make sure that nobody else gets involved.
And that's what we will do here.
We will sit probably off the coast. With an aircraft carrier.
I think there's always one inbound. But we will hope that Iran doesn't directly get involved.
They're indirectly involved right now. Because they're using a proxy. They're using Hamas. They're using another group called Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They're using those groups within the Gaza Strip to wage this war. That's what they're doing now.
Will they directly get involved? That's the question right now. And that's when we'll step in. I hope that does not happen.
But I don't -- I don't want to be like every other western analyst that is looking for this.
I've been trained in the same way, that they have, to look at this.
They never account for the wild card. They never account for the crazy man. They never account for the Hitler.
That's what we're looking for with Hitler right now. There is a wild card. Don't be fooled in thinking, this is not deeply religious. This is deeply religious. This is not about geopolitics with Israel. That's like what's so drastically different, than say something like Ukraine. This is drastically different.
