<p>Former MMA fighter, Green Beret, and founder of humanitarian rescue organization <a href="https://saveourallies.org/pages/our-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SaveOurAllies</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-kennedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Kennedy</a>, detailed the reality of what&#8217;s going on in Israel and the Gaza Strip on the latest episode of the Ben Shapiro hosted “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Sunday Special</a>.”</p>
<p>Discussing the current conflict, Shapiro noted that Palestinian civilians were crossing the border on October 7 &#8220;and taking part in the massacre and taking part in the atrocities.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The attempt to create moral equivalence between what Hamas did and what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip is astonishing. I can see that as a commentator,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;But you obviously have the military expertise and military experience. You&#8217;ve been in these situations. What exactly is it that Israel is facing in the Gaza Strip?&#8221;</p>
<p>Kennedy, who was on the ground in Israel in the days following the October 7 attack for rescue operations, explained to Shapiro that Israel&#8217;s task of taking out an insurgency, and the way they are doing it, is &#8220;historically nearly impossible&#8221; due to the nature of the terrorists&#8217; actions.</p>
<p>&#8220;What we see Israel trying to do right now is identify military targets that are in Gaza, that are the Hamas terrorist organization,&#8221; the decorated veteran said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to just leave October 7 as the standalone thing that has happened because that&#8217;s intellectually inaccurate and historically wrong. Hamas has a long history of attacking Israel on countless occasions &#8212; not just intifadas, not just big assaults and attacks and the things that we saw on October 7, and terrorist attacks. But it has been a constant execution of this long plan of trying to incite Israel so they&#8217;ll lose in a propaganda battle.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Israel is trying to do the right thing, they&#8217;re just doing it the wrong way, and this is just my opinion,&#8221; Kennedy explained. &#8220;They are trying to limit as many civilian casualties with a group that are intentionally hiding amongst civilians, and a populist that, frankly, is sympathetic to Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When Hamas was returning from the attacks to the Palestinians, into Gaza, what we saw was rejoicing in the streets,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They were excited about the success of the attack. They were getting constant updates inside of Gaza. And you can find the videos, you don&#8217;t have to trust my word. You can go and look at the Palestinians rejoicing at the death of 1400 people, taking out 200 captives; the rape, torture, and murder of children and Holocaust survivors. It&#8217;s atrocious.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And Israel now has to go block by block, door by door, fighting an embedded insurgency,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And they&#8217;re trying to do it in a way that is acceptable to the world. And that&#8217;s the problem right there, Ben.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kennedy went on to explain the difficulty of current battles between democratic nations like the U.S. and Israel and insurgencies, such as what we see in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be able to fight the state-on-state thing that we so desperately have been wanting to fight,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;The last time America was truly a dominant aggressor in a war was in WWII. Since then, we have not really decidedly won any wars. And it&#8217;s because of what&#8217;s happening here in Gaza &#8212; it&#8217;s a perfect example of it. They&#8217;re not fighting by the rules that Israel is fighting by. They&#8217;re hiding in hospitals, they&#8217;re hiding behind women, they&#8217;re intentionally taking their military equipment and positioning it at schools. These are the things that terrorist organizations and insurgencies do. And these are not the things that a proper military would do.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s a hard battle, and every time that you try to take a block, you&#8217;re of course going to incur civilian casualties, because the bad guys are hiding with the civilians intentionally and using them as human shields,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So any time an Israeli soldier tries to move to try and find insurgents, of course there&#8217;s going to be a civilian casualty because that&#8217;s what Hamas wants, and that then continues this revolving door of propaganda. So it&#8217;s a real tough situation that Israel&#8217;s in right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>The full conversation is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-call-of-duty-tim-kennedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">available to stream</a> on The Daily Wire.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernick-accuses-white-adoptive-parents-of-racism-mma-fighter-special-forces-vet-tim-kennedy-hammers-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MMA Fighter, Special Forces Vet Tim Kennedy Hammers Colin Kaepernick For Accusing White Adoptive Parents Of Racism</a></strong></p>

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