Oct 8, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min · 12 segments
Charlie Kirk suspected immediately that October 7 was an Israeli false flag. Our leaders ignored him, which is why our empire is now being destroyed by Netanyahu-led wars. Dave Smith on this…
Tucker CarlsonHost
Dave SmithGuest
So, as noted, the two things that a lot of people, me included, didn't perceive immediately was, this is very, very strange.
How could this happen? And it turns out, the more you know about Israel, the way the country is run, how it's laid out, the geography of Israel, the security situation in Israel, the more confusing this looked to you.
And one of the very first people to notice this was a woman called Efrat Fenigson, who was unknown to most non-Israelis before that day, but who had served, like most Israelis, in the IDF, and shot a video, a couple of videos from her apartment in Israel and basically said, "I'm not sure how this could happen because I, I'm very, uh, fluent in how this country is defended, and this doesn't make any sense.
How could these foreign fighters get across the most heavily guarded border in the world? Some of them in gliders.
It doesn't make sense to me." Now, from what we understand, she has not lived in Israel since, but she was one of the very first people who the rest of us saw question the official account of October 7th.
Five days after October 7th, he went onto a podcast and said, "This doesn't make any sense." Here's Charlie Kirk from five days after that tragedy.
I've been to Israel many times.
The whole country's a fortress.
When I first heard this story, I still had the same gut instinct that I did initially.
I find this very hard to believe.
I've been to that Gaza border.
Y- you cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that is an IDF soldier, right? The whole country is surveilled.
And so, so let me j- let me just kind of go through this.
We don't talk about Israeli politics very often, and most Americans don't know this.
The last nine months, Israel was on the brink of civil war.
It's not an exaggeration.
That's not an exaggeration, right? He said the judicial branch has too much power.
There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu, where they anticipated tens of thousands of people to take to the streets.
That's all gone, Patrick.
Netanyahu now has an emergency government and a mandate to lead.
I'm not, I'm not willing to say, to go so far that saying that Netanyahu knew or there was intelligence here, but I think some questions need to be asked.
Was there a stand down order? Phew.
Was there a stand down order? Six hours? I don't believe it.
So, as noted, the two things that a lot of people, me included, didn't perceive immediately was, this is very, very strange.
How could this happen? And it turns out, the more you know about Israel, the way the country is run, how it's laid out, the geography of Israel, the security situation in Israel, the more confusing this looked to you.
And one of the very first people to notice this was a woman called Efrat Fenigson, who was unknown to most non-Israelis before that day, but who had served, like most Israelis, in the IDF, and shot a video, a couple of videos from her apartment in Israel and basically said, "I'm not sure how this could happen because I, I'm very, uh, fluent in how this country is defended, and this doesn't make any sense.
How could these foreign fighters get across the most heavily guarded border in the world? Some of them in gliders.
It doesn't make sense to me." Now, from what we understand, she has not lived in Israel since, but she was one of the very first people who the rest of us saw question the official account of October 7th.
Five days after October 7th, he went onto a podcast and said, "This doesn't make any sense." Here's Charlie Kirk from five days after that tragedy.
I've been to Israel many times.
The whole country's a fortress.
When I first heard this story, I still had the same gut instinct that I did initially.
I find this very hard to believe.
I've been to that Gaza border.
Y- you cannot go 10 feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that is an IDF soldier, right? The whole country is surveilled.
And so, so let me j- let me just kind of go through this.
We don't talk about Israeli politics very often, and most Americans don't know this.
The last nine months, Israel was on the brink of civil war.
It's not an exaggeration.
That's not an exaggeration, right? He said the judicial branch has too much power.
There were protests planned this week against Netanyahu, where they anticipated tens of thousands of people to take to the streets.
That's all gone, Patrick.
Netanyahu now has an emergency government and a mandate to lead.
I'm not, I'm not willing to say, to go so far that saying that Netanyahu knew or there was intelligence here, but I think some questions need to be asked.
Was there a stand down order? Phew.
Was there a stand down order? Six hours? I don't believe it.
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