Avi Yamini is at the Gaza border, waiting for the expected land invasion. Rebel World HQ is in Sderot, and Avi is in a bomb shelter on the other side of the border, but things are already heating up on the border.
00:00:00.000Hi everybody, Ezra Levant here at Rebel World Headquarters.
00:00:18.520We also have reporters across the country and even our Australian Bureau Chief, Avi Yamini,
00:00:23.680is in Israel at the Gaza border where Avi believes the land invasion will come as soon as tonight.
00:00:31.900Of course, it is already tonight in Israel. I think it's a seven-hour time zone difference.
00:00:37.100So Avi is watching. He's waiting. In fact, he stands by. We're going to go to him right away.
00:00:44.540I see there's rockets flying behind him. Go ahead. Switch over to Avi immediately.
00:00:50.200I just saw him on the other screen. Rockets fly by. Avi, can you hear me?
00:00:56.620Yes, I can hear you. And I'm not sure if you guys caught that on for the viewers, but we are right here.
00:01:03.960And it is definitely picking up. Moments ago, we actually had to run for shelter because there's drones, Hamas drones that came here.
00:01:12.300And as we've experienced, they're actually carrying munitions, which they dropped right next to us at one of the checkpoints in the early days of this conflict.
00:01:21.640So things are certainly heating up on this border, Ezra, with the expected incursion into Gaza in just a matter of hours.
00:01:30.060Because all our sources are telling us that it is happening today.
00:01:33.940And in fact, Hamas just moments ago released two American hostages, which most people believe here.
00:01:40.200That is, it's a stalling tactic, hoping the IDF doesn't actually go in tonight.
00:01:47.000All of them believe that that's not going to work, Ezra.
00:01:50.020So thanks. We went to very quickly. We didn't properly introduce you because literally, as I saw you on the preview screen, I saw four looked like rockets come by.
00:02:00.380And I wanted to capture that for viewers, but I think we missed it by a second.
00:02:04.100Just let's back up for one second. Tell us where you are exactly.
00:02:08.840I see the Israeli flags behind you. I see a tower of some sort.
00:02:12.640Where are you? How close are you to the border? And what is next to you? What's just outside the frame?
00:02:20.020Yeah. So we are right now the closest you can get to the Gaza border.
00:02:25.420It's the edge of Sderot. 600 metres that way, where the rockets are coming from, that direction.
00:10:01.340Apparently, maybe they want to get the Palestinian Authority to take control of Gaza too.
00:10:06.780You know, better the evil you can work with than the absolute evil that perpetrated some of these, you know,
00:10:13.740some of the most horrific crimes this nation has ever seen, especially in numbers and some of the barbaric actions that took place literally in the community we're standing in now.
00:10:24.600So I think people's focus right now across the country, whether it's civilians or military or even politicians we've spoken to,
00:10:33.020is we have a short-term mission, and that is to cut the head off the snake, get rid of Hamas.
00:10:43.700And obviously, there's this border here.
00:10:46.560And most people are expecting once this border opens, once the incursion starts, Hezbollah in the north is going to try escalate it so that it draws some troops there as well.
00:10:59.380So you're going to have, you have at the moment, 300,000 reservists.
00:16:30.660Yeah, look, I can't imagine them being deployed either over Gaza or even potentially Lebanon.
00:16:36.780If anything, I think they're there to persuade to stop any – as a show of strength to deter, you know, the real backer to all this, the inciter to all this, Iran.
00:16:51.200And it's a show of force to say to anyone that wants to step in and use this as an opportunity to grow this into something bigger and beyond the self-defense, Israel's right to self-defense, that the Americans will – are there and ready.
00:17:08.940And they're not going to do what they did in Ukraine and they're actually going to step up and stand up.
00:17:14.500And at the end of the day, you've got to give credit where credit is due.
00:17:18.640You know, I don't think you need boots on the ground here.
00:17:20.720No one's calling for boots on the ground.
00:17:22.080But I think if America wants to – rockets behind us – America wants to show that they are actually the all-powerful that Biden claims they are.
00:17:35.880They're going to actually have to show that by standing by their allies like their allies stand by them or have stood by them forever.
00:17:44.800Tell me what you're hearing and what you're seeing behind you.
00:19:20.780So anybody that wants to watch and follow along from the front line in real time, the URL, probably put it on the screen there, the truthaboutthewar.com.
00:19:31.840You know, I can see the Internet has followed the mainstream media and denouncing Israel, even when it's nobody else would accept the horrific kind of attacks that Israel faced only two weeks ago.
00:19:44.060I remember, Ezra, when you called me, when we spoke about me doing this mission, you know, I said to you, I give Israel two days because the whole world, roughly everybody was shocked by the images we witnessed of, you know, terrorists marching into civilian populations, going house to house, butchering people.
00:20:03.600And as, you know, the days came through, we heard worse and worse testimony and footage of the barbaric acts from the, you know, the raping of women, the beheading of children, all these, you know, the burning of families alive.
00:20:19.300But I told you at the time that the media will give Israel probably a two-day, three-day window.
00:20:25.940And that's why we need to get here, because in the world, including everybody on Twitter, everybody on Facebook, and my feed are full of, you know,
00:20:32.960people that are in the safety of their home, who are, you know, obviously watching too much of the mainstream media, not getting the upside of the story,
00:20:42.380that are basically denouncing Israel for exercising their right, that you would want your country to exercise if somebody invaded your country and killed your family, raped your daughter, kidnapped them.
00:20:56.620So I appreciate all the viewers that have helped make this possible at thetruthaboutthewar.com.
00:21:02.920Obviously, we can't do it without them.
00:23:17.440I have never been in the armed forces.
00:23:20.720I don't know Israel's military situation intimately.
00:23:24.640But I'm quite worried that an invasion of an urban setting that is booby trapped and tunneled and snipers and likely has a lot of professional military advisors from Iran on the ground.
00:23:40.320And that although it's sort of a Mad Max style, you know, low tech army in some ways, they also have some very high tech weapons from Iran and likely from China.
00:23:51.760And I think it was shown that the terrorists who invaded Israel for that horrible day two weeks ago, they actually had some American weapons, which likely came from what America left behind in Afghanistan.
00:24:06.360Incredibly, you know, tens of thousands of weapons, thousands of vehicles and even over a hundred aircraft, including helicopters.
00:25:46.780But it was an enormous PR coup for Hamas because for 24 hours or 12 hours, they convinced the world's media Israel killed 500 civilians.
00:25:59.680And by the time the truth got its boots laced up, the lie had run around the world millions of times, including by so-called trusted media who claimed to double check and fact check and vet things.
00:26:19.400I saw today, if you go to the New York Times Twitter homepage, just Twitter slash NY Times, you'll see that Elon Musk, in a very cheeky way, has removed the verified symbol from the New York Times Twitter account.
00:26:37.080I mean, he's such a cheeky troublemaker in his own way, isn't that quite something?
00:26:42.940You just put that back on the page, if you please.
00:26:46.760I mean, yeah, you can show this, but we can actually go to the New York Times.
00:28:09.340And I don't know this guy at all, Stephen Stanofsky.
00:28:11.340He says, this thread below offers a view on why the media has had so much difficulty with the news yesterday compared to the way online worked.
00:28:19.060It is an important perspective that I wanted to build on.
00:28:21.300It should not come as a surprise that the competitor to the media yesterday is also called open source.
00:28:26.600OS news has all the properties of open source that we are familiar with from software.
00:28:32.980It also means all the negatives as viewed by incumbents.
00:28:35.700Much like proprietary software, the flagship media outlets view news gathering through the lens of proprietary source.
00:28:41.220Only in this case, the source generally means access to people, information, and data that is not available to lay people.
00:28:47.080Since the post-Watergate era, reporting has meant knocking on doors, cold calling, and most of all, having relationships with established sources and experts on topics.
00:28:55.360Conversely, these established sources and experts rely on these relationships to spoon out information and views in an effort to shape a narrative.
00:29:03.540This is a routine process game that has only become more institutionalized.
00:29:06.920So what he's saying is the legacy media has their sources, but the sources run the legacy media as much as the other way around.
00:29:16.140Let me keep reading just a little bit more.
00:29:23.380In the past, before open source, stories would run.
00:29:26.360Information would be provided by sources close to whatever was happening in the world, and then that was the established narrative.
00:29:31.680In today's world, it's not just that everyone anywhere can post their thoughts, personal experiences, videos, photos, or anything that may or may not contribute.
00:29:39.700It's also that there's a community of people willing to test the veracity of that information, and then there's a community willing to compare the results of those tests and so on.
00:29:47.440It becomes essentially impossible for the news to be defined by a private conversation between a well-placed source and a reporter.
00:29:53.500I won't read too much more, but I think this is interesting.
00:29:58.480It's looking at Twitter as open source versus the New York Times, say, as proprietary, if you know the difference.
00:30:05.720This reality extends even further to the vast array of sensors from satellite imagery to maps, witness recordings, historical information and records, and an incredible collection of data sources, many provided by the government itself.
00:30:16.820These sources provide more inputs to a wide range of community testing the validity of stories.
00:30:20.660Finally, add to this that there's often are true experts on events that are no longer bound by organizations involved who are willing to lend their opinions.
00:30:38.200Some long for the days of the 6 p.m. newscast.
00:30:40.900This is most certainly a rose-colored view of the past.
00:30:43.560Those who recall this era remember being soothed by the packaging of the news.
00:30:46.940In hindsight, what we were watching was not a careful synthesis of fact-checked news, but the opinions and interpretations of a small number of people with very limited expertise and even more limited information.
00:30:57.540It is only events like weapons of mass destruction and others recently that have shown the limits of this process in the face of modern information data analysis.
00:31:07.460So he's talking about the story about the hospital.
00:31:09.980How different the weapons of mass destruction story would have been if it happened 20 years later?
00:31:15.940How would a generation of events have unfolded?
00:31:18.700Okay, and then this is perhaps the most important part.
00:31:21.080I know I'm reading a lot of this, but don't you find it an interesting way to look at Twitter as open-source news?
00:31:27.180It's easy to cry misinformation, but that is not what's going on.
00:31:30.480And here's what's so interesting about open-source news.
00:31:34.760Misinformation is when actors deliberately falsify what is going on.
00:31:38.360Sharing something and having an opinion as just a random person isn't that.
00:31:44.260It is misinformation for institutions that trade on trust and truthfulness to put forth information that has not been vetted by a community or has not used all available sources.
00:31:53.580So he's basically saying that the New York Times, by putting out a story how Israel did it without vetting it, that was misinformation.
00:32:01.180And then he says, news gathering has come far enough now to know that the news is not simply what one actor said off the record, confirmed by a person down the hall from that actor.
00:32:11.740The actors themselves have to deal with open-source information.
00:32:16.080You know, frankly, the whole thing is interesting, but I don't want to read the whole thing.
00:32:19.640I think he's right, and he makes the point that incumbents like the New York Times don't like this open-source competitor because if you can do the news faster, better, more interesting than the New York Times, you're a threat to them two ways.
00:32:38.740First of all, people are going to go to Twitter for the news instead of going to the New York Times.
00:32:46.380Second of all, they're going to expose the New York Times as a bunch of liars.
00:32:52.460So those are two reasons why incumbents don't like open-source.
00:32:57.100And I see, was it today or yesterday, Elon Musk had another tweet about something called NewsGuard, which is a group of industry insiders with government funding whose job is to rate the accuracy of different news sites.
00:33:14.000And they basically go around, and news sites that are part of the narrative, they give the thumbs up to.
00:33:18.960And those that are not on the narrative, they give down thumbs to.
00:33:23.380Yeah, so Elon Musk tweeted this yesterday night, said, disband NewsGuard.
00:33:33.460Anything with a name that sounds like it came out of an Orwell novel should never be trusted.
00:34:41.320NewsGuard gave us a strike because we ran five stories out of nearly 5,000 that quoted Trump.
00:34:46.260They claimed that reporting on Trump's statements was irresponsible because we should be fact-checking him instead, and Trump was wrong.
00:34:53.500They now claim we don't correct errors because we didn't respond to their false claims last month.
00:34:57.680The, quote, nutrition label they wrote contained so many errors they had to repeatedly correct it and have refused to correct additional false statements while claiming we don't correct errors despite doing all the time.
00:35:07.820Meanwhile, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Moore ran fake stories out of Gaza and get 100%.
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00:44:18.620You know, we talk about this war, and it's interesting because there's a lot of things about it that are interesting.
00:44:26.000I mean, it was an attack on Israel that was sort of like a 9-11 attack, a sneak attack, barbaric, targeting citizens, had a massive death toll, 1,400 dead, something like that, 200 hostages in Gaza.
00:44:46.840And the fact that they're boasting, it's truly, it's even worse than the Nazis in that way because they downplayed what they were doing, even to this day.
00:44:55.140The Nazis claim, oh, no, no, they're Holocaust deniers.
00:45:00.060They're saying, no, no, those were not death camps, et cetera.
00:45:03.100Here, Hamas literally live-streamed their brutality.
00:45:09.220Dozens of foreign citizens are hostage.
00:45:14.720It's, I fear, a domino for a larger domino falling that could make other regional dominoes fall.
00:45:21.480Iran backs both Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in the north.
00:45:29.360Iran itself is building a nuclear bomb.
00:45:33.360There's Turkey, which is saber-rattling.
00:45:35.720Russia says it's now having a patrol with a long-range, high-speed missile.
00:45:41.600A lot of terrible things are happening.
00:45:47.960I don't think the United States has ever deployed troops to Israel, and I don't think Israel has ever requested it.
00:45:55.840And so it's not like other ground deployments.
00:46:20.280I don't believe Canada gives any aid to Israel, and certainly the idea of Canadian troops is a non-starter.
00:46:31.600I don't even think, I mean, Canada has a few troops in Latvia or something, but we don't have anything to offer anyways.
00:46:37.980My point is that it affects us as foreign affairs do.
00:46:45.880I feel like we're closer to World War III than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:46:52.700But as Avi says, Israel's been to war before, and there will be casualties, but the country's united, and they have to do what they have to do for themselves.
00:47:00.160But what scares me as a Canadian is what's happening in our country, in our country of Canada, because you have Nazi-style rallies on the street where people are saying, in various degrees of plain language or coded language, they're saying the same things as Hamas.
00:47:21.860They're saying, kill the Jews from the river to the sea, kill the Jews.
00:47:26.240Sometimes they're actually saying those words.
00:47:28.260Sometimes they're literally flying the flags of banned terrorist groups.
00:47:33.500The Nazi party is not actually a banned terrorist group in Canada.
00:47:38.720I don't think the Nazi party exists anywhere, actually.
00:53:59.200He gives to the big Toronto Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, which is, again, named after the Jews, Mount Sinai Hospital.
00:54:08.860That's because, you know, 100 years ago, hospitals wouldn't hire Jewish doctors.
00:54:12.460So the Jewish doctors started their own hospitals.
00:54:14.560Across North America, if you ever see the Mount Sinai Hospital, there's a bunch of them.
00:54:19.560Those are hospitals that 80, 90, 100 years ago were, yeah, I think she can take a dent out.
00:54:24.800Those are hospitals that were set up by Jewish doctors who weren't allowed to practice in the regular hospitals.
00:54:29.820And they're still often regarded as excellent hospitals.
00:54:35.120So basically a Jewish philanthropist who gives money to some Jewish causes, but you don't have to be Jewish to go to Mount Sinai.
00:54:44.660You don't have to be Jewish to go to York University.
00:54:48.200So he gives a million, probably, I don't know, I don't know, never met him, maybe he gives $100 million away.
00:54:53.820But because he's a Jew and because he supported this Jewish community center that everyone in the world can go to, Hamas was targeting him and that place.
00:55:05.740Because they're not against Israel, full stop.
00:55:55.360Like I don't want, like the Israeli government obviously translates it.
00:55:58.080Let's go for the Federation of American Scientists, which is a left-wing organization.
00:56:04.340So they're not going to, I mean, I could show you the Israeli government one, but a conspiracy theorist would say, oh, that's not accurate.
00:57:58.400Remember the other day I read that piece by Harold Jacobson of The Independent, who was saying, who was talking about the terror attack 20 years ago in Bali, when Islamic extremists, terrorists, killed a bunch of Australians at a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia.
00:58:21.820And all the liberals in the media said, oh, yeah, that's the one, choking in the stink of our own self-hatred.
00:58:34.140And he basically said, how dare you change the rationale for these murders?
00:58:42.360The murderers themselves said they did it for their own reasons.
00:58:47.140How dare you supply your own reasons instead?
00:58:51.820Why not let them explain why they did what they did?
00:58:57.700And he said the worst form of this liberal reaction is to actually blame the victim, even if the victim is yourself.
00:59:09.340He said that was the incredible thing when he visited the death camp in Dachau.
00:59:13.400He said, you're confronted with so much evil against the Jews, to make the world make sense, you have to say, well, we must have done something to deserve this.
01:00:52.080There was an official of the Biden administration who went on TV and said, well, they've promised not to use this new $100 million for terrorism.
01:01:48.580And when I see what's happening to the country I served to defend and protect, and now we're sitting here watching millions of illegals come in, of which thousands of them would want.
01:02:00.080I'll look forward and we'll come back to it.
01:02:02.120But there's an administration official who's been doing the rounds, CNN, et cetera, saying we're going to give $100 million to Gaza.
01:02:12.220And someone says, how will you ensure that doesn't go into the hands of the terrorists, given that Gaza is run by Hamas?
01:02:18.560And he says something like they're going to promise.
01:02:21.820I'll find it again and we'll come back with it.
01:02:24.380I don't know how to describe it for a search well enough.
01:02:27.440So, yeah, I'm worried for Israel because I'm sympathetic to Israel, and they were dealt a 9-11 style blow, and it's terrible, and they're dealing with Stone Age barbarians worse even than the Nazis.
01:02:42.560And I have an affection and an ethnic kinship to Israel as part of it, of course.
01:02:48.860They're the only democracy in the region.
01:02:51.620And any human being of any race or religion or ethnicity should be appalled by the torture, murder, rape, brutality against civilians, deliberate, and cheering that and killing infants.
01:03:04.360Killing infants because they are of a certain race or ethnicity or religion is...
01:03:10.440So anyone of conscience should be opposed to that, and I am.
01:03:15.440But what scares me is in our own cities, in Toronto and Mississauga and Ottawa, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, you are seeing supporters of this new Nazism on the street chanting their support, not just at Israeli embassies, but at a Jewish kindergarten in downtown Toronto.
01:03:36.760And I checked, and that is in the district of Christia Freeland.
01:03:41.180Christia Freeland's district is called University Rosedale.
01:03:45.940And that Jewish community center is in the heart of her district, and not a word from her about it, not a word.
01:03:57.740Because when you have thousands of people coming out to support Hamas, and some of them even have their own terrorist flags just kicking around the house.
01:04:07.080And when they chant from the river to the sea, which means kill every Jew in Israel, and when they support the Hamas charter, which says kill every Jew, you don't think some of them mean it?
01:04:19.240And even if they don't mean it, how terrifying to be a Jewish kid in that kindergarten.
01:04:29.420That video was taken by some mom, sounds like a Jewish mom, who was exasperated and didn't know what to make of it.
01:04:35.100And just last week, all these liberal MPs went to an anti-Semitism conference and said, oh, never again.
01:04:44.160And the official Jews clapped and said, thank you for coming to our conference and telling us you like us.
01:04:50.240We'll keep donations coming to the Liberal Party.
01:04:53.200And then on the streets, you have, what are we looking at there?
01:05:00.740Is that outside the anti-Semitism conference?
01:05:02.440Yeah, so here's, even at the anti-Semitism conference in Ottawa, this is, that looks like it was filmed from inside.
01:05:53.800The fact checkers should face legal ramifications for mass defamation, such as nasty prison sentences, fines and asset seizures, and hell execution might be required as prison won't stop most of them.
01:06:45.600Yes, I can, and I'm not sure if you guys brought that on for the viewers, but we are right here, and it is definitely picking up.
01:07:09.320Moments ago, we actually had to run for shelter, because there's drones, Hamas drones that came here, and as we've experienced, they're actually...
01:07:18.380Yeah, so I can see what happened there.
01:07:21.620That, you can see the camera on the tripod that was filming Avi as we talked to him, and then our cameraman, Benji, had his cell phone camera going, too,
01:07:32.960and those were the rockets that I saw just before we put Avi on the screen.
01:08:30.820And I grew up with a bit of a knowledge of not the previous generation, the boomers, but the one before that, the greatest generation, as it was dubbed.
01:08:43.080Ordinary people born 1915, 1910, 1920, who went by the million to save the world from Nazism and from Japanese imperialism, from Italian fascism.
01:09:02.320They went by the million to save the world from Nazism and from Chinese imperialism, and they went by the million and saved us.
01:09:46.760You know, people didn't like Trump because they didn't like his personality, his temperament, his New York brashness, his mean nicknames, his mean tweets.