The Israel-Hamas War: History, Intelligence Failures, and Moral Equivalency in the West | Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on the Middle East. He joined Rep. Crenshaw to cover the new war between Israel and Hamas. Dr. Schanzer gives an overview of the recent history of Israel and Palestine/Hamas, how Hamas conducts terrorist operations within the Gaza Strip, and the power dynamics playing out in the West Bank. They also cover the intelligence failures that caused Israel to miss Saturday\u2019s massive assault and what it looks like in practice to run a successful Israeli spy network in one of the most dangerous, closed-in territories on Earth. And they discuss the \u201cwhat about-ism\u201d and moral equivocation by people like Tucker Carlson who disparage American involvement in the war.
Dr. Schanzer is also the author of \u201cGaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War\u201d, "State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State", "Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine", and "Al-Qaeda\u2019s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror". Follow him on X at @JSchanzer.