“America usually deploys elsewhere in defense of itself, whereas in Israel, there’s an existential nature of what Israeli forces face in defending their homeland” – Pete Hegseth
Swapping war stories: Pete Hegseth and an IDF soldier in Hebron
Pete Hegseth grew up in a small town in Minnesota attended Sunday services at a Baptist church and learned the Bible but never met a Jew until he went to Princeton University and met Andy Kane. Hegseth describes their initial conversation as somewhat stilted. “The first thing I said to him is that I read about people like you in the Bible.”
Today Kane and Hegseth a rising star at Fox News are still close friends but after Hegseth’s second visit to Israel last week he’s clearly better informed on Israel than he was during his college days.
At Fox Hegseth provides analysis and commentary during daytime and prime-time programming on the military and politics his areas of expertise. One of his goals in Israel was to do a story comparing and contrasting IDF service to US Army service.
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