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And maybe the resources and the priorities will be there.

If you remember throughout this war, and I think that Yonah Bob explained it very well in his book, In the War Room, they've tried to do one front at a time.

And this is the front that would be next that hasn't been fought properly yet.

And this is the time to do it.

Iran says if attacks resume, their retaliation will reach beyond the Middle East.

Military correspondent Yonah Bob says there's still work to be done.

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least Israel needs to not let Iran get its nuclear program back on its feet.

And in a period of three weeks.

We get when I say we there's a closed small military reporters group of almost all Hebrew speakers.

I was the only English speaker at the time who were getting within three weeks the same number of briefings from all the top political officials, all the top military officials that we normally get in like three years.

And I suddenly realized after a short time, I'm like, this is probably already enough for a book.

and also taking advantage of real opportunities.

But to see the good and the bad, I think you focus in on the prime minister and his journey from a real sense of caution and a real awareness of what Israel's limits were to a flowering sense of just how much Israel could accomplish militarily on the different fronts.

In the War Room, the inside story of Israel's fight against Hamas and the Iranian Axis was published by Yonah Jeremy Bobb and Elliot Kaufman.

Yonah, thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

My co-author has been doing the same as the, uh, senior military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post.

That's Yona Jeremy Bob over there.

The two of us, friendly, talking to each other, figuring out that our sources complement each other in such a way that together we can very earnestly say that we have something that nobody else has, which is inside material from all of Israel's top leaders, political, military, intelligence, Bibi, Gallant, Gantz, Halevi, Zamir.

And if those names aren't all familiar, that's what the book is for.

But a war that showed not just failures and mistakes that led to the October 7th attack, but also the tension within the cabinet and between the government and its security and defense agencies.

On today's episode, I speak with Yonah Jeremy Bob, the defense analyst and military correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and co-author of the great new book, In the War Room, together with Elliot Kaufman of The Wall Street Journal.

Elliot and Yona, in their book, take a look at what happened after October 7th, and the decision-making that was led by the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside his different ministers, Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot, Ron Dermer, and so many others, as well as the stories behind the tension that the prime minister and his cabinet had with the chief of staff of the IDF, the head of the Shin Bet, and the director of the Mossad.

The book looks at decisions that were made, not just when it comes to Gaza, but also Lebanon and, of course, Iran.

I think we need security zones everywhere for some amount of time.

But how big do those security zones need to be, and can we get something for reducing the security zones somewhat if we're smart? Um, you know, that's the direction that I would be going, and I am fearful that if we don't start taking those opportunities, there will be some point where the oppor- those opportunities will close, and people will start Turning against us and making trouble for us, not just because people hate Jews, because people always hate Jews, but because we just don't give them any space to breathe and give them no horizon that there's any reason to talk to us about anything.

Yonah Jeremy Bob, this has been a true pleasure.

And, um, it was a true pleasure to read the book, I have to say.