CHARLIE KIRK: I’ve been to Israel many times, the whole country is a fortress. When I first heard this story, I still have the same gut instinct that I did initially. I find this very hard to believe.

I’ve been to that Gaza border. You cannot go ten feet without running into a 19-year-old with an AR-15 or an automatic machine gun that is an IDF soldier. The whole country is surveilled. Let me just go through this. We don’t talk about Israeli politics very often and most Americans don’t know this. In the last nine months, Israel was on the brink of civil war, it’s not an exaggeration. This judicial stuff, there were hundreds of thousands of Israelis taking to the streets because Bibi Netanyahu was basically redefining the Israeli constitution. That’s not an exaggeration, 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. Netanyahu now has an emergency government and a mandate to lead.

I’m not willing to go so far to say Netanyahu knew, or there was intelligence here, but I think some questions need to be asked. Was there a stand-down order? Was there a stand-down order?

Six hours? I don’t believe it. Israel is the size of New Jersey, when I took a helicopter ride from Jerusalem to the Gaza border, it was 45 minutes. For six hours, they’re live streaming the killing of Jews. Did somebody in the government say stand down? That is a legitimate non-conpiracy question.

The whole country is the IDF, and you’re trying to tell me that they’re going to concerts and kibbutzim and schools for six hours?

Watch the full podcast below — Israeli stand-down discussion starts at 25:20: