Andrew Fox joins Live From The Table to talk about personal courage, Gaza, Hamas casualty numbers, Israel’s military strategy, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and what modern war actually looks like.
Andrew Fox is a former British Army officer (three tours in Afghanistan), now a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank. Fox has been to the frontlines in Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine. He wrote the first papers worldwide exposing the Hamas fatality figures manipulation in Gaza and showing how Israel actually fought on the ground in Gaza from a tactical perspective.
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Serving in Afghanistan
4:00 Looking back on the war
7:30 Hamas casualty numbers in Gaza
10:00 Why Andrew looked into the numbers
12:00 Hamas figures, IDF figures, and media coverage
15:30 Civilian casualties and Hamas’s strategy
18:15 Child fighters and Hamas
19:25 Why Andrew speaks up for Israel and Jews
22:00 Problems inside the IDF
28:40 Iran and the wider war
31:50 Why stopping Iran’s nuclear program matters
37:30 Strait of Hormuz
42:00 What kind of Iran deal would make sense?
47:20 Why this is different from the JCPOA
54:00 Gaza casualty ratios and urban war
57:00 Was the Gaza war worth it?
1:02:00 Why Israel went into Gaza first
1:04:30 Final thoughts
