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General Yaakov Amidror - November 2nd, Hour 2
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The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole nother level.
You have employees who are celebrating genocide, and you are saying it's despicable for me to ask the question?
After the horrific attacks of October 7th, calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism.
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So as we look at the situation in Israel, one of the biggest challenges, and remember, the Israelis value human life.
So they tried to warn the population, if you stay, you will die.
That went on for nearly a month leading up to this ground invasion.
But militarily, what are the things that they're going to need to accomplish?
Well, one, they're going to have to accomplish in Gaza the elimination of Hamas.
They're going to have to accomplish the destruction of the network of terror tunnels, some 300 miles of them.
In the north, they're going to have to eliminate the threat that is Hezbollah because from the north and south, you're talking about hundreds of thousands of missiles over the years that have been fired into Israel.
That threat must forever be removed as a result of this military, you know, response to this massive act of terror.
Then on top of it, then we got the declaration of war by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
I'm not sure what manifestation that's going to take on.
And if they're going to keep firing rockets at Syria, and then you're going to have to deal with Iran, or if Erdogan really is following through on his threat to involve himself, well, that's going to expand it out even further.
None of these tasks, not one of them, is going to be easy.
The question is, at any one point, how many fronts in this war will Israel have to be fighting to defend?
Frankly, this is a fight for their survival at this point.
All right, joining us now, IDF Major General Yaakov Amidraw is with us.
General, great to have you on the program.
First, my deepest sorrow and condolences.
If we extrapolate out the population of Israel and compare it to the U.S., the 1,400 people killed on October 7th, that would be the equivalent of 38,000 plus Americans that were killed in a single day.
I can only imagine the pain, the suffering, and the difficulty your country is facing.
And now you're facing a minimum of a two-front war.
You have other countries now firing rockets, Syria, and you've got the Houthi rebels now firing missiles into your country, which complicates things even further.
What are the military objectives that you see?
I've mentioned things that are obvious to me.
What do you see?
And you're on the ground in Israel.
The goal and the target of the war in Gaza is very clear, defined by the cabinet as destruction of all the military apparatus of Hamas organization and to destroy Hamas' ability to control the Gaza Strip.
The meaning of it, if you go to the physics, at the end of the day, what the military is supposed to do is to go and to find all the officers, the factories of manufacturing weapon systems, headquarters, command and control, the underground tunnels, and the people themselves, the commanders in all the ranks of this organization, and to destroy and kill them.
So it is a long mission.
It will take time.
It is not going to be ended in a few weeks.
It will take probably a few months.
But the result is very clear.
The threat from the South will not exist anymore in the future.
When you say that, you mean that there will no longer be an ability of Hamas to fire rockets into Israel, period, end of sentence.
That threat will forever be removed.
Yeah.
And it's not about if they want to do it or intend to do it or wish to do it.
It's about capability.
We want to annihilate their capability to attack Israel.
And it will take time, but we will probably do it.
And I think that this is something that we should focus on.
And because of that, the fact that the Houthis are launching missiles from Yemen, this is why we built the Arrow 2 and 3 and we are intercepting them.
One of the cruise missiles was intercepted by F-35, something that we bought in the United States of America.
But let me ask you, General, because I've been there when there's been flare-ups, and I've been there.
I was in the town of Sterot, and when I was there the night before kibbutz was hit with missiles, when I was there, you know, kids can't even play outside.
They play in underground, underground bunker playgrounds because the missiles are so close.
They get there in 13 seconds.
And I know the Iron Dome is great, but in many ways, isn't the Iron Dome just a band-aid?
Because in the course of 10 years in that one little border town that I visited, they had shot 10,000 missiles over a 10-year period.
That's a lot of missiles.
And we're saying here the same thing, and that is any ability of Hamas to fire any more missiles from Gaza into Israel, that that has to be eliminated in this.
Now, let me ask you, it's got to be on the table.
I mean, if Israel wanted to obliterate Gaza, you would have the ability to do it militarily, but you don't choose that method.
Do you think maybe you need to be more aggressive with an air war and basically just say, okay, This city is going to be leveled if Hamas continues to do this.
No, I think that will be a huge mistake.
What we should do is to eliminate the organization and the capabilities of the organizations.
And then, if Gaza will be there, this is not the existence of Gaza by itself.
It's not a threat to Israel.
The threat is done by people.
And these people should be killed, and their capability should be eliminated.
And then the people.
All right, but the threat is by people, but you can't judge by looking at somebody what's in their heart, their mind, and their soul.
And I played the cartoons, they indoctrinate children in Gaza at the youngest ages to, quote, hate the Israelis, hate the Jews, and kill the Jews and become a martyr.
This is why we decided to destroy the military capability.
That even if they have the intention, they will not have the capability.
It is not about the ideology.
Theology you cannot cancel.
You cannot kill ideology.
That probably will remain in Gaza.
But what we can and we will is to eliminate all the military capabilities.
Even if they want, they cannot launch any rockets or missiles.
And in the future, when we will get out of Gaza, we're pulling out all our forces at the end.
I don't know if it will take six, seven months.
We will keep the freedom to act within Gaza, as we are doing today within Nablus, because this is the way that allows us to keep the level of threat in the minimum level.
And in the future, we will not hesitate.
We will strike and we'll go with ground forces to eliminate any attempt by anyone to build a military capability inside Gaza.
So it's a three-phase operation.
One is what we are now to gain control, then to destroy all the facilities and to kill as many people as possible from the leadership of the organization.
And then, when we are pulling out of the area, to remain in a situation in which we can and will act in all our capabilities to destroy any attempt to rebuild the military apparatus in the Gaza Street.
Let me ask you then next about the network of terror tunnels.
And Gerald, in case you may not know, I've actually been there.
I've been inside these tunnels, over 300 miles of them that they have built out.
By the way, using international aid money, including money from the U.S. and money from Israel, but they built this massive 300 miles of underground tunnels, terror tunnels, as we call them.
And we're also being told that maybe some of these hostages are in those tunnels.
Certainly, part of any military objective has got to be to eliminate this network of terror tunnels.
How do you do that by balancing the reality that there are likely hostages within those tunnels?
That's going to be a very hard, it's hard to discern.
We made once in 2014 an operation against the tunnels which entered into the Israeli sovereign state.
Now we are dealing with the huge amount of tunnels under the Gaza Street.
They are not going into Israel, they are around within the Gaza, around the whole street, the whole Gaza Street.
Unlike 14, we have now methods and systems, technology, which allow us to deal with the tunnels.
We are in much better position to deal with the threat of the tunnels.
And probably we'll learn a lot through the operation itself, but we are coming to the operation in much better methods.
But by the end of this, that network of terror tunnels will have to be destroyed in some way, shape, manner, or form.
You agree with that?
No question.
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All right, we continue now.
IDF General Yaakov Amidra is with us from Israel.
Now let's go to the north.
Let's go to Lebanon.
Let's go to Hezbollah.
And let's go to the rockets as you now fight a two-front war and they're firing rockets from the north.
What is the strategy as it relates to Hezbollah and how do you destroy that terror network?
Tomorrow, Nassarallah, the Secretary of Hezbollah, is going to give a speech.
And everyone is waiting to see what will he say.
From what he is doing in the last four weeks, he wants to show that he is involved in the war against Israel, but he's not ready to take the risk of big war against Israel.
The meaning of that.
He's bringing Palestinians into the border, help them to cross the defense.
None of them succeeded to do it.
Up to now, all of them eliminated on defense.
Then he is launching anti-tank missiles, all of them Russian-made, by the way, into Israel position.
And we learned the way that it is done.
And we succeeded in the last four weeks to kill more than 15 members of Hezbollah.
Our casualties are six people, one of them civilian and five from the African.
Do you think ultimately you can prevent in the future any more missiles being fired out of Lebanon by Hezbollah or any group into Israel?
How do you stop that?
How do you push them back far enough there?
Very, very, very good question.
Let's see how Nasarallah is ready to take part in the war.
We have an interest to focus on Gaza and not to fight two front wars at the same time.
After the war in Gaza, we will have to think what should be done about Hezbollah, because Hezbollah is 10 times more stronger than Hamas.
And why we will make the same mistake about Hezbollah and let Hezbollah to be stronger in the future.
So it's a very good question that should be asked after the war because the war, in the war itself, we should concentrate on Gaza.
We are ready.
If Nasarallah decides to open a war, we have huge forces in the north and the whole oil force will go to the north to fight Hezbollah.
The list of targets in Lebanon is all right.
Let me then ask the worst case scenario, as I can see it, not only a possible two-front war, then you've got Syria firing missiles into Israel.
You've got the Houthi rebels firing missiles into Israel.
And now you have the threat.
Well, first of all, you have the head of the snake, Iran, which is, you know, they've been responsible for the military plotting, planning, and the providing of missiles against Israel.
So you got Iran, and then you got now even the threat of Turkey.
What if a worst case scenario unfolds?
At that point, I would argue, General, that all bets are off, and Israel will have to do whatever they have to do to preserve their country from being destroyed.
Let's be realistic about the situation.
I mean, you can bring everything to the Salah.
Turkey is not in a condition of war with Israel, and I don't see Turkey attacking Israel.
Okay, I hope you're right.
What about Iran?
Iran has been...
A minute, a minute, a minute.
Let me answer.
The Houthis can launch rockets and can launch long-range missiles and cruise missiles.
Israel Israel has a very good defensive system that prevents 90% of it from reaching Israel.
I would not recommend to go to war against the Houthis when they are launching this.
Okay, after the war, we will see what can be done.
It's a huge problem, mainly for America, not for us.
And the Houthis are the long arm of Iran.
And if that's what Iran succeeds to do, it is something that we know how to deal with.
South Syria is totally another story.
It's a nomenclature.
There are Shiite militias there, but the capabilities of the Iranians in Syria is very, very, very limited.
They have some capability, but it's very, very limited because in the last 11 years, we are bombing there every week at least once, and some of the weeks more than once.
And they didn't succeed to beat what they had in mind.
So the threat from the Golan Heights from Syria is minimum.
There is, but it is not a big one.
The big, big threat and the real threat for Israel is Hezbollah.
And what to do with Hezbollah, how to deal with Hezbollah is a big question that should be asked immediately after the war.
If Nasar Allah decides not to broaden his involvement in the war more than he did up till now, if he decides to intervene, Israel is ready.
Well, General, I want you to know you have the support of many, many good Americans here and many around the world that see this for what it is.
And our thoughts and prayers are with you.
And I do know how this is all going to end.
And it will end with Israel having a victory and all this.
So we wish you Godspeed, sir.
And we're very sorry you have to live through this.
Not fun.
Thank you very much.
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All right, joining us now, he is one of the great senators, former governor of the great state of Florida, of which I soon plan to be a resident.
Can you believe it?
I'm finally getting there, Senator.
I'm finally about to make the jump.
Long time.
I know.
You know, so I became friends with you and Bobby Jindal and what's the Texas Rick Perry.
Perry.
Okay.
I used to see you guys all the time because whenever you were coming up to New York, like every other month, all of you, and you were all competing with each other in a friendly way, and you were luring businesses out of New York.
You were all doing it successfully.
And you'd incentivize them and you'd say, you know, give them the benefits of what it would be like to run their business down in Florida or in the case of Bobby Jindal, Louisiana, or in the case of Rick Perry down in Texas, and how much money they're going to save and how much better their life's going to be.
And how many businesses do you think you lured away from New York?
I did over a thousand.
Oh, my God.
Oh, no, no, not just New York.
I'm sorry, just New York.
Well, New York was probably with about 20% of it.
Wow.
We did unbelievable kids.
And by the way, these are big businesses.
We're not talking about little mom and pop shops here.
There are 200,000, 500,000 jobs at a time.
You know, in my eight years, I mean, first, I was competing with Rick Perry, who was the gold standard for job creation.
Bobby Jindal was doing the same thing.
And so what we were all doing is saying, how do we make our states more competitive?
All right.
But by the way, there was a friendly competition between y'all.
Y'all knew what you were all doing.
But you, you know, it was funny.
One of you would be in one week.
One would be in the next week.
It was hilarious.
Ocuoma was really good for us.
De Blasio was really good for us.
So, you know, Wolfin, Pennsylvania was great for us.
So you had these places up there.
They're running businesses out of there.
Look, I grew up in public housing.
I know the most important thing is get somebody a job.
You know who does that?
Businesses.
So we got companies like Verizon and USAA and we got all these companies to expand Hertz to move their corporate office down to Florida.
We just went after business after business, and Rick and Bobby did the exact same thing, and it was all tied to making a better place for job creation.
And the good news is that it worked.
We had 1.7 million jobs.
Now, not government in Florida, but in my eight years as governor, the private companies, we added 1.7 million jobs.
I think COVID really accelerated all this.
Tell me if you think I'm wrong here, but you see this mass migration from states like New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California.
And then you see states like Florida.
The last time I checked, it was about you're gaining about 800 new residents a day.
Is that about right?
That's right.
That's right.
And it's not just, in that case, it's not just the job creation.
People say it's better schools.
You know, University of Florida is now the number one public university in the country.
When I left, we were at 47-year low in our crime rate, and I think it's continued to go down since Governor DeSantis took over.
So, I mean, this state's heading the right direction.
But, you know, Texas is doing Texas.
You know, Greg Abbott's done a great job.
He took over after Rick Perry.
There's a lot of good Republican governors working their tail off to make their states the best in the country.
Unbelievable.
I noticed that today you usually don't endorse in Florida primaries.
And I know your friend, you're friendly friends with Marco, you're friends with Governor DeSantis, you're friends with Donald Trump, but you decided to weigh in on the presidential race.
Tell us about it.
Well, I think we've got to come together.
We've got to win.
We have to win.
And I think Donald Trump is the right person.
Look at what's going on in the world.
Look at what happened in Israel.
We've got a war in Ukraine.
We've got a horrible economy.
We've got open borders.
The Biden administration is just destroying this country.
And when Donald Trump left office, we had a good economy, not war.
We had secure border.
So I think it's time we all come together.
You're right.
I have a lot of good relationships, and a lot of them are running for president.
They're all wonderful people and be way better than Biden.
I think it's time for us to come together, make sure we win.
We can win.
We must win in 2024.
You see what's happening in the state of New York.
And, you know, in New York, you have an attorney general that ran on a platform to go after one man, Donald Trump, one family, the Trump family, and one organization, the Trump organization.
Okay, that campaign promise is now being fulfilled in a civil suit.
And they basically want to take over all of Donald Trump's business interests in New York and have it run by an outside entity, prevent him from ever doing business in New York State again, which I don't think he cares about.
And then they want to fine him some $250 million.
I mean, I've never seen anything like this in my life.
He has four other, you know, he's been indicted four other times in some of the worst venues for any conservative or Republican, and certainly with somebody with the last name Trump, New York, Washington, D.C., Fulton County, Georgia, the other cases in Florida.
I don't think, Senator, and correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think Donald Trump can get a fair trial in those three top venues, do you?
No, and let's all put this in perspective.
They're going after Trump because he's the number one opponent right now for Biden.
Guess what?
Whoever our nominee is, they're going to go after us.
That's what they're doing.
They're trying to use the courts to demolish us.
So I'm going to support my friend, Donald Trump.
I endorse him.
As you said, I don't usually endorse.
I endorsed him after a Republican primary in Florida in 2016.
And we've got to come together.
We have to win.
And this persecution of Donald Trump and Republicans is just wrong.
You know, often independents, they end up picking the winner of elections, right?
National elections.
So if I'm right and he can't get a fair trial in some of these venues, let me ask you this.
If he has a felony conviction or multiple felony convictions, what do you think, how does that play out in the mind, not of Donald Trump's base, not of the Democrats, but independent-minded voters that see that Joe Biden is running the country and the world into the ground?
How would that play out?
How would that balance out?
I think independents are going to say this is ridiculous persecution.
We've got to support this guy because this is wrong.
The Democrat Party and Democrats should not be picking the Republican nominee, and that's what they're trying to do.
They're trying to make sure that their number one opponent is not on the ballot.
And this stuff is crazy.
It's what you think about in Venezuela or Nicaragua or places like that, where they act like they have a democracy when they don't.
So we have got to stand up.
We've got to fight this stuff.
But the persecution through the court system and through the legal system of Donald Trump is absolutely wrong.
It's never happened in history.
We're now criminalizing political differences.
I never thought it could get this bad, but I never thought we'd have policies this bad.
Let me ask about Republicans in the Senate because I don't know if you saw the show last night.
I was in D.C. in the sewer where you work.
And I'll tell you, I think the House is going to unite on a lot of these issues involving our border and border security, energy independence.
I think funding for Israel.
I don't see a lot of appetite for funding Ukraine any further.
They've spent a lot of money on Ukraine.
But I think they're going to remain united as a caucus on these top issues.
And then it's going to be sent over to the Senate.
Chuck Schumer and company will shred it.
They'll go into conference.
And I don't think the Republicans in the House are going to move very much.
So how does that end?
Well, first off, I think Mike Johnson is going to do a very good job as Speaker.
I ran against McConnell 12 months ago because we've got to start working together.
We've got to work with the House.
We've got to support the majority we have in the House.
And by the way, it takes 60 votes to pass things.
It takes 60 votes to pass things in the Senate.
We've got to stand with our House, with all of our House colleagues.
We brought Mike Johnson over to the Senate.
Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, I brought him over yesterday.
He did a great job at lunch.
We've got to stand together.
He's going to bring people together.
He's going to listen to everybody.
We're going to get the Israeli aid done.
And we're going to have great discussions, but we're going to get border security done.
We're going to get the Israeli security done.
And we're going to have a conversation about what should we do.
We all want Ukraine to win.
We want Russia to lose.
But we've got to be realistic here.
We've got a president that doesn't want to win a war.
He wants to just prolong a war.
And so how do we do this when we have a president like Biden that is, I mean, this guy is terrible?
Well, I agree with you.
I've never been this worried about the country.
I've never been this worried about the state of the world.
What are your thoughts on everything?
And the thing that really frustrates me is we had secure borders.
We had energy independence.
We used to have law and order in our towns and cities.
We didn't have a world in chaos.
I really believe the likes of Putin and Chi and Iran, the mullahs there.
I think they feared and had a deep respect for Donald Trump.
And I think they believed him when he said he would do something.
Well, think about this.
I had Director Wr from the FBI and Mayorkas from Homeland Security testify in Homeland Security.
And I asked Ray, are we safer today than when Biden took office?
It took him forever to come up with an answer.
But here's what they both acknowledged.
We have terror cells in this country.
They've come through our open southern border.
Biden's administration has...
But how does Joe Biden get away with aiding and abetting and the lawbreaking and not enforcing the laws of our country?
How does he get away with that?
Because the Democrats and the Senate won't hold him accountable.
So we don't have a majority.
Republicans don't have a majority in the Senate, so we don't get to run any committee.
I'm on the committee that does investigations.
There will be no investigations until we get a majority.
That's why we have to win the House, the Senate, and the White House.
If we're going to turn this country around, we've got to win all three of them.
And then we've got to start holding this federal government.
I believe Donald Trump will do it, but we've got to win the Senate.
That's why these Senate races are really important this year.
Oh, man.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, Senator Rick Scott, in all those years, by the way, I really did get to know you and really appreciate how hard you work.
You know, the one thing you never, you were never one of these phony politicians.
You weren't a grip and grab and, you know, kind of one of these BSers.
You always just told it like it is.
And maybe sometimes it's not the best politics, but it certainly worked for you.
And it certainly has worked for the great state of Florida.
I think it's one of the, you know, obviously I'm becoming a resident there.
So full time.
Can you believe it?
After all these years of threatening.
Well, finally, I've been bugging about this since the first day I met you.
How stupid.
I did have contractual obligations that prevented me from doing it, but I've been able to change that.
Yeah.
Well, as you know, I'm up next year.
I hope anybody that wants to help me, you can go to rickscott.com.
I've got Schumer who spent $65 million against me last time.
He's picked his candidate, his Democrat, and they're going to see if they can beat me, but we're going to work hard.
So I appreciate everybody's support at RickScott.com.
Thank you.
You've done a great job, like Marco Rubio.
You guys are a great team together, in my opinion.
He does a great job.
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What's up, Big Don?
How are you?
Welcome aboard.
Hey, Sean, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed your GOP town hall last night.
It was so grand to hear honest answers from direct questions.
Yeah, a little refreshing rather than listening to Mayorkas, huh?
Oh, I'm telling you, when you see that hearings with Josh Horley and Ron Johnson and others, and Merrick Garland, it makes you sick.
And I'd like just to see them punished, but we're going to have to wait for that.
But I'm just saying, you touched on all top four of the questions that I had.
Border security, Israel, the lack of law and order, and energy independence in our country.
And you did such a great job.
Well, I really appreciate it, Don.
I will tell you, these are consequential times.
I actually said this.
I was talking to the members before we started, and I just said, I hope you guys all know that this country needs you to unite.
This country needs you to stand on these principles.
The country's waiting for you to lead them.
And the only way that's going to happen is if you all get along and you're able to put aside your egos, your differences.
And I actually said to them, I really pray to God that you guys can pull together and get a lot of good things done for the country.
I said, there's not going to be one group of winners and one group of losers here.
You guys will either win together or you'll lose together.
And if you lose, the American people lose.
Well, that's true because during the two and a half weeks of choosing a speaker, I was a little worried because they were all over the map.
Yeah, crazy, right?
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Appreciate it.
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