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00:00It could be, I don't think it's a coincidence that the Prime Minister's office hasn't translated
00:06this speech.
00:07Because what he wants people abroad to be aware of what he's saying, he's very quick,
00:12his office is at translating it.
00:14In this case, this was a declaration of war directed inside Israel.
00:21So I just want to quote you someone who our audience may know, Avi Sakharov, the creator
00:27of the Fauda television series, tonight wrote, Netanyahu has decided to go to war against
00:35the security forces of the state of Israel.
00:39And tonight what we saw was absolutely a declaration of war, Netanyahu accused mid-war, remember,
00:47you just showed us images of Gaza, of Lebanon, Israel is facing multi-front wars ongoing.
00:53And the Prime Minister in this video statement said that he and the state have been betrayed
01:01by the heads of the army and by the heads of the Shin Bet, Israel's national security
01:06service.
01:07He said that, going into some detail, that he was not given documents and information
01:15that he as Prime Minister should have been given, and said that these agencies have taken
01:22one of his former employees, a guy called Eli Feldstein, hostage.
01:28And it was the only mention of hostage, the word hostage, in his entire speech, whereas
01:33as we all know, Israel has 110 hostages rotting to death in Gaza still now, 14 months into
01:42this war.
01:43And a terrible video, apparently, of one of them was released tonight.
01:47There was no mention of any of that or of the pain of the population at all.
01:53What we have seen since he posted this speech is also extraordinary.
01:58So the former head of the Shin Bet, Yoram Cohen, a Shin Bet director appointed by Netanyahu,
02:08went on television live and accused the Prime Minister of mishandling the job of running
02:16the state.
02:18He said that these were an aberrant series of accusations from the Prime Minister.
02:24What we're seeing tonight in Israel is a civil war so far in words.
02:30The Prime Minister does not have his own private militia, but we are seeing open warfare mid-war
02:38between the government and the security agencies of the state.
02:42The walls all closing in around Netanyahu and Nogha, you touched on the hostage situation
02:48right now.
02:49We have had another hostage march for the families of those hostages in which they said
02:53it's Netanyahu versus the people.
02:55That was one of the banners that could be seen there.
02:58These hostage marches have taken place every Saturday since the start of October 7th.
03:03Now we have news, the Hamas armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade is saying that
03:12another hostage has been killed.
03:16Do we have anything more on that?
03:19We don't, but we already have experience with this sort of statement.
03:23So what Hamas did earlier was release a not very clear video, but a hard video to see,
03:31which has not been released in Israel.
03:33And it shows what appears to be the dead body of a woman, badly bruised, and then wrapped
03:40in a kind of death shroud with bloodied parts.
03:45And in the statement that Hamas released, they said that another hostage, another Israeli
03:51hostage who had been held with the dead hostage, they didn't name either of them, that her
03:58life was in danger.
03:59Now we have to be very, very careful with all of these kind of statements for several
04:04reasons.
04:05The main one is we already have experience with Hamas allowing some of these Israeli
04:12hostages to survive for 11 months, it was at the time, on October the 30th, and then
04:18murdering them, executing them in cold blood when they feel that Israeli armies, soldiers
04:23might be getting too close.
04:25We may be seeing a situation like that.
04:28We may be seeing a moment of a kind of psychological terror by Hamas.
04:34Or it could be a situation in which an Israeli bombardment harmed these hostages.
04:40We don't know.
04:41But let's come back to our first topic, because this is related.
04:45One of the reasons for Netanyahu's huge stress and for this really astonishing rant tonight
04:53is that what his top aide, Elie Feldstein, is accused of doing is of assisting Netanyahu
05:01in disseminating misinformation based on stolen top-secret documents aimed at scuttling possible
05:11deals to release these hostages.
05:14And so when we see Netanyahu scrambling like this, or almost panicking, as he has been
05:20described tonight, we are seeing someone who is responding to accusations that verge on
05:27treason during wartime and acting against the basic interests of his citizens.