The Jimmy Dore Show
Aug 3, 2025 The Jimmy Dore Show PODCAST
A former Israeli soldier testified that on October 7th 2023, the day of the Hamas attacks, troops were unexpectedly ordered to cancel all border patrols and stand down between 5:20 and 9:00 a.m., despite Gaza being one of the most heavily surveilled areas in the world. this strange directive raised serious doubts, especially since the attack began just over an hour later, and the official explanation about a sniper threat didn’t add up for soldiers stationed close to the fence.
Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger present a broader theory that Israeli leadership, including Netanyahu, intentionally empowered Hamas over more moderate Palestinian factions to justify military action and territorial expansion. The soldier, now injured and reflecting on the events, expressed confusion, betrayal, and a desire for the truth, believing that the attacks were used as a political pretext at great human cost.
Transcript
All stations, I don't know why, I don't
know how. Something along those lines.
No patrol on the fence. What? And this
was at 5:20 in the morning. All stations
are to hold their positions. And sure
enough, an hour later at 6:30 a.m.,
suddenly sirens.
So, you know how we said October 7th
that when Hamas attacked Israel, that
that was actually at least half
engineered by Benjamin Netanyahu because
he made sure that Hamas, which is the
way more radical and militant group in
Palestine, was the one that was funded
over the PLO, which were secular and not
as militaristic. So, he wanted to make
sure Hamas was propped up so that they
could always say we can't negotiate
their terrorists. So he made sure they
kept funding Hamas and not the PLO. And
so when the attack happened, where were
they? Where the the most surveiled place
in the world is Gaza. And Israel didn't
respond for hours and hours to the
attacks.
Tiny Israel. Not a lot of distance to
drive.
That's a very tiny.
The IDF told the ravers to go ahead.
It's totally cool to rave next.
That's right. Even though the security
people warned the Israel military, we
shouldn't have this rave. uh they said
go all go ahead with it because they
wanted this to happen so they could use
this as a pretext the October 7th
attacks to go in and wipe out the people
of Gaza and take over their land. That's
what this was always about. This was
Israelis know this by the way and but
they'll hide it from you because uh they
still want your money.
So here Israel Exposed tweets out this
video of this IDF soldier telling the
truth about it. He says that uh we
received orders from the Golani brigade
commander on October 7th to cancel all
patrols along the Gaza border from 5:20
a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Israeli soldier
testifies to the Knesset committee. So
they were told to stand down and let's
listen to it. So I'm just going to play
this. Uh newsfist uh happening TV uh got
the English translation of this. So,
let's you can turn this down and I'll
just say it. So, 6:30 in the morning on
October 7th, you're at the outpost for
us. October 7th starts before 6:30, says
this guy.
I was a soldier in the mortar platoon of
the Galani Brigade's 13th Battalion. At
that night, myself, Yodamsura, and
Sergeant Tamar Ben Yehuda, may he rest
in peace, the three of us were pulling
an allnighter on on Sabbath and
holidays. We let ourselves pull an all
nighter until the dawn stand to and you
know we in the mortar platoon have time
to sleep until the next stand to
so at 5:20 a.m. we were sitting by the
radio so as not to wake the radio
operator
and my deputy battalion commander who
was also seriously injured and thank God
he survived suddenly gets on the radio
with a strange message.
All stations, I don't know why, I don't
know how, something along those lines.
No patrol on the fence. What? And this
is at 5:20 in the morning. All stations
are to hold their positions. So, in
terms of ground forces, we don't have
anything. Hang on, let me back this up.
So, in terms of ground forces and ORV,
we don't have anything significant.
The brigade issued a directive for our
forces pending a situation assessment
until 900 a.m. So they're given a
they're given a directive to stand down.
Don't go do your patrols.
Why would they do that? Wait, I can't.
There's a bunch of them saying it.
What's that?
There's a bunch of IDF saying this when
this happened. This is the most
surveiled place on earth. How in the
hell would this happen? It's all people
from the IDF going, "What is this?"
What exactly? So,
uh, no vehicle is to approach Burma.
Uh, I'll say it again. Until 900 in the
morning, pending the situation
assessment, no vehicle is to go down to
Burma. We're in rare staging areas. A
brigade level arrangement. I don't know
exactly why.
I don't ask too many questions. That's
the directive. That's what we do. A
little before it all begins. And Tor
gives us this look like
what?
And you know, we're simple soldiers,
just combatants, not commanders or
officers who can ask questions. So when
they were given this directive to not do
your patrol and stand down, they were
looking at each other like, "What?" But
they're not officers, so they just have
to follow orders. That's what he's
saying.
It's an order from the deputy.
It's an order from the deput deputy
battalion chief deputy battalion
commander.
We take orders and don't ask questions.
A routine passing of an order.
And sure enough, an hour later at 6:30
a.m.,
suddenly sirens.
I've been living with this since October
7th.
That's what he says.
And I was very afraid to talk about
this.
And when I got to the Knesset, which is
like the Israeli Parliament, when I got
to the Knesset,
it was after a period when I asked some
senior army officers,
what actually happened.
And there were some who initially told
me, "Listen, there was a sniper threat
from Nukeba on the fence,
so we didn't want to send soldiers
so they wouldn't get hit." So that's a
lie. And then over time it kind of
dawned on me
and I said, "Wait, if there's a sniper
threat,
how can it be that I How about it be
that I, who am only 200 m from the
fence, how can it be that I am only 200
m from the fence don't know that there's
a threat?
So if there really is a threat, I would
be the first guy to know this.
How uh how can it be that my friends are
fighting without a vest?
So, we should have bulletproof vests in
their underwear and socks
and nobody knows that something Hang on.
I got back it up. And nobody knows that
something is happening. We're only 2 to
300 m from the fence.
And then that was on my mind again. And
really, I was suddenly invited to the
Knesset. I felt that this was the real
opportunity to open this subject
and talk about it and to actually
understand what happened there.
And look, like you're saying to a lot of
people, it sounds strange and what
actually happened there.
And we're going back to this again. And
I'll be honest, Hilla, he says, we I've
been living with this some kind of hole
in my brain
since October 7th.
That something in my heart feels to me
that listen, I don't know what was
there. I want to understand what
happened. like everyone. Look, the
deputy battalion commander wasn't a
sniper threat
because the deputy battalion commander
says I have no idea why.
And and a sniper threat happens many
times. He says this in real time
at 5:20 in the morning. It's not like
someone told him to say that.
He received an order without an
explanation
and it's right. So we as soldiers when
we hear this thing then of course we
follow orders.
It did sound a little strange to us, but
soldiers in the field and we've been on
this line for almost half a year
and a few losses here and there, you
know, from a loss to October 7th.
There are cool losses. Yes. From
breaches of order, right? From breaches
of order to a situation to events like
those of October 7th. We're talking here
about, you know,
something that's surreal, that's very
extreme.
To think that one day we would get to
this, to think you have you talked
amongst yourselves since, he's asked.
He says, after it was published, so
whoever was there, did you talk amongst
yourselves, the rest of you? And he
says, so of course we talked about it.
We talked about it many times and we
tried to look into it
and I told you what all sorts of
military people told me. I thought many
times about talking about it, not
talking about it and at some point I
also started to deny my own logic. Wait,
if they tell me there's no there's no
sniping
as you say, how is there a threat?
if he said I don't know why and how
and also you know I said maybe maybe I
don't know maybe it was that and
suddenly the recording came out
you know I have a responsibility here I
can't talk about something like that on
television
and there are consequences to what I say
so suddenly this thing popped up
and this recording was published
And what can I tell you? Like me, like
you, like all the people of Israel, I
want to understand what happened on
October 7th.
I lost many, many friends. I was
seriously injured. Every day I meet with
the families, with the parents.
And really, you don't know how painful
it is to handle it and support them. And
people see me. Shalom. The ones who
lifted the wounded.
They don't know how many things I'm
trying to do.
I wake up to a war every day. I'm trying
to reinvent myself. I'm trying to help
these families. Every day is a war in
itself.
Also fighting without a leg.
You
Yes. The injury. Exactly. and also to
reinvent yourself
to move forward in life not to dwell on
this. So I guess he's missing a leg. You
know, in the end, I was given my life.
I also need to move on with my life. I
can't stay stuck in the same place. I'm
missing a leg. Poor me. I wanted I want
to understand what happened there. And
suddenly this thing that came out, this
statement, I don't know what statement
he's talking about.
It scares me. It scares me a lot. I hope
we all have clearer answers later on and
not to jump to conclusions and not to
worry an entire country. But it is very
important that there are unequivocal
answers here.
And whoever needs to pay a price should
pay the price. So many murdered and
kidnapped.
It's something that I, as a soldier who
served in the Gaza sector, I'm telling
you, for every little thing, we would
jump to the fence.
every little thing they would jump to
the fence for every little thing. It
scares me. It scares me to think what
happened there.
So he's saying so you can turn
this young man's hole.
What's that?
Can I just fill this young man's hole in
real quick? That came out wrong. But he
said he has a hole in his brain from
thinking about it. So let me explain to
this guy. Uh your leaders sacrificed
your friends and your leg so Netanyahu
wouldn't go to prison. That's right.
because they're scumbags and they don't
care about you. And that's why they have
you guarding a concentration camp except
on the days when they tell you to stand
down so you could be killed by the
people from the concentration camp that
they armed to make this happen.
Yes, that's exactly right. So Benjamin
Netanyahu made sure Hamas got armed,
made sure they got money from Carter,
made sure that they were propped up
instead of the PLO, which was a lot was
less violent, not terrorists. And uh and
then they told you to stand down so that
the the people that they armed, Hamas,
could then attack you and kill a bunch
of your friends and people uh so they
could use that to a keep Benjamin
Netanyahu out of prison and b so they
could then take over Gaza and steal all
their land. That's what this is about.
So you were lied to. Again, it's almost
it's not a complete false flag, but it's
very close.
Yeah. Well, I I mean a false flag means
what? just attack the
So a false flag is when they So it would
be like if Israel attacked Israel and
blamed it on Hamas, but it was actually
Hamas, but they were funded by Israel
and armed by Israel and then they were
allowed to make that attack because
their orders came down to stand down.
You know, in the war on terror, we would
say they did it. In the war on terror,
if Israel funded Hamas, we would say
Israel caused it and we would freeze
their bank accounts, I thought, for the
war on terror, right?
So they use the same logic why Iran is
uh our enemy because they are supposedly
funding terror groups. Well, Israel
funded the Hamas. So we should cut off
Israel. We should call they should be
responsible.
So if we hold Iran responsible, we
should hold them responsible.
So um let's see. I have another uh so
original Polywog says it seems like the
leadership called the patrols to clear
them out which allowed the enemy to
penetrate the border. You have to ask
yourself, why would the leadership do
this? Anyone with half a brain knows
this was a red flag event in any order
in order to justify the gen z genocide
of Palestine and flatten their whole
country. Anyone with half a brain knows.
You could have a hole in your brain like
this guy claims he has and you would
know that this was a red flag event.
False flag.
What? What's that?
What's a red flag? False flag.
That this never made sense to me about
October 7th. This guy says Israel has
the most secure, most armed, and the
most high-tech border surveillance
system in the world. They can detect a
bug approaching the border from 5 miles
away. Yet Hamas with loud and slow
paragliders slipped in without a
problem. It's because that was a design.
That plan was designed to let them slip
in and to do this. That's why. So that's
why that soldier is like, I don't know
what happened. We were all looking. Why
wouldn't what? There's a sniper. Well,
we would know. I'm right here. I
wouldn't know if there's a sniper. How
do they know? They're not here. I'm
here.
And then the Hannibal directive took
care of the C cuz those cars didn't blow
up from no hang glider guns.
That's right.
Okay. So, the there were way too many
hostages taken for their liking cuz they
would have tried to kill every last
hostage before they let Hamas take them.
That's right.
And they're going to starve their own
hostage to death now.
Yes.
What? Um
well, maybe he'll put it together one
day. This this kid.
So, maybe that soldier will put it
together. It sounds like he has put it
together, but he doesn't want to. He
says, "I I'm even doubting my own
logic." Yeah. Well, you shouldn't.
Yeah, it's very strong programming, I
bet.
Yeah, it is very strong. What's he going
to do? He's not going to find any
friends in Israel if he tells the truth
about October 7th.
Yeah. Other victims of it will cover up
because that's they're even worse than
Americans are. Well, in a way to
outsiders, insiders, they'll probably
take a terrible vengeance on Netanyahu
and then go on killing Palestinians. You
know, here we don't even get that
dignity of uh putting putting our
corrupt leaders in prison. Israel does
that part at least because they don't
they don't take kindly when you harm an
Israeli if you're Israeli. At least they
have that level of something. I guess
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