On October 7th, a group of Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli city of Sderot. It was an act of war that could only be compared to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers and the Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. by the United States.
00:01:35.700The attack on the Capitol Hill was actually frustrated because brave passengers, by that time,
00:01:45.880figured out what was happening and raided the cockpit.
00:01:50.540And the plane crashed into a field, killing everyone aboard, but saving lives, had it attacked the Capitol Hill.
00:01:57.560So, obviously, three out of those four targets were civilian.
00:02:04.020In fact, many of the workers of the Pentagon are civilian.
00:02:06.660But it was not such a deliberate choice.
00:02:13.280I mean, obviously, those are enormous symbols of American power.
00:02:15.940It was a choice to hit civilian targets.
00:02:18.280But the way Hamas attacked southern Israel, selecting infants, babies, seniors, entire families,
00:02:28.660live-streamed the most barbaric atrocities, raping.
00:02:34.440You know, I heard things yesterday from the briefing that the Israeli government had for about 200 foreign journalists.
00:02:42.380And I don't want to repeat some of them because I can barely think of them, let alone say them.
00:02:46.020Raping children, breaking their pelvic bones, cutting off feet, gouging out eyes.
00:02:56.660The horrific, horrific brutality, the torture, like something Joseph Mengele would do.
00:03:03.620But even Mengele would say he was doing scientific studies, the most horrific medical studies.
00:03:11.220But this was pure evil, seeking ecstasy by inflicting the most barbaric pain, killing parents and having the children in the blood of the parents before the parents are killed,
00:03:25.100or the other way around, tying them together and burning them together.
00:03:30.220Atrocities that are pre-civilizational in their barbarity.
00:03:35.760You know, we've all heard of the Ten Commandments.
00:03:40.780And you've got to think, well, what was the world like that it required those Ten Commandments?
00:03:47.880The Ten Commandments, some of them are so basic, you've got to think, well, surely there was what was life like beforehand that required these.
00:03:58.320The first few of the Ten Commandments are about God himself.
00:04:04.160You know, you'll have no other gods before me, don't make any graven images, remember the Sabbath, honor your mother and father.
00:04:11.800Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness against a neighbor, thou shalt not covet.
00:04:19.820Those are pretty basic rules, but if you need to outline them, you can imagine a world where thou shalt not murder wasn't a rule.
00:04:35.760You could say, well, that's about adultery, or you could say that that's probably about rape as well.
00:04:40.280Well, you could only imagine how barbaric the world was before the Ten Commandments.
00:04:48.560And the Jews, I mean, it was Moses who brought down the Ten Commandments, but there were seven laws that the Jewish tradition said applied to everyone in the world, not just Jews.
00:05:02.840And they're called the laws of Noah, who, of course, predated Moses.
00:05:37.140Like keeping an animal alive while you're cutting it up and eating it.
00:05:42.300And then the last one is to establish courts of justice.
00:05:45.880And again, I'm thinking, well, what kind of a civilization was so brutal and uncivilized and barbaric that they had to be told these things in the form of a law?
00:05:57.780Do not go up to an animal and start eating it.
00:09:00.480He wanted people, he wanted the whole world to be terrified of him.
00:09:07.980400 million people in today's proportion.
00:09:11.180I think back then the world was maybe a tenth the population it is now, if that.
00:09:17.260So, it was only in the millions or the tens of millions, not the hundreds of millions.
00:09:22.760But I'm just trying to give you proportionately.
00:09:24.480Imagine one man who would wipe out, in today's proportions, 400 million people.
00:09:33.100And using the technology of 700 years ago.
00:09:38.340You know, I'm sorry I sent you to Wikipedia.
00:09:41.400It's obvious that his, that would be like going to a Wikipedia page for Hitler and saying he was a great military strategist who conquered the world from France all the way to, you know, Albania or whatever.
00:09:56.700Yeah, that is part of what he did, but he did other things too.
00:10:01.080Tamerlane, or Timmer, was actually most famous for murder.
00:10:06.500And that's why I thought it was interesting that one of the terrorists in the Boston Marathon bombing was named after the history's worst murderer.
00:10:18.320If you can find something on that, my mistake for sending you to Wikipedia, I'm pretty sure that's what happened there, is that they tidied up that history of him.
00:10:31.180Yeah, Jakar Tsarniev and his brother Tamerlane.
00:10:33.620Um, I'm just trying to say that what we have seen by Hamas, the gleeful joy and the bragging associated with monstrous cruelty.
00:10:49.760is a reminder that ancient demons are with us still, and we have created a Disney-fied version of the world where bad guys are just misunderstood,
00:11:09.660and if we can all just reason together, we'll all agree on something, some sort of compromise.
00:11:17.340And, um, there'll probably be a McDonald's restaurant there and a Starbucks, and we'll make a, you know, we'll just remake Snow White in a way that's, you know, a little bit more woke,
00:11:28.940and we'll all find a happy consumer outcome.
00:11:41.980It goes back to what we talked about the other day with Howard Jacobson's, uh, or is it, uh, Howard or Harold Jacobson,
00:11:48.060the, the, the, the columnist for The Independent, who 22 years ago, when Muslim terrorists blew up the nightclub in Bali, said,
00:11:57.220do not replace the terrorist's explanation with your own just because you prefer your own.
00:12:06.100The cruelty was an essential, an essential part of the attacks.
00:12:09.900Even Hitler hid the cruelty because there was something deep within Germany that he was not able to eradicate in the six years between when he took office.
00:12:23.700Yeah, for example, we're watching right now, here's a tweet from the government of Israel.
00:12:27.900These sadistic monsters filmed their crimes against humanity with GoPros.
00:12:33.080And, um, so this is literally, it looks like a video game, doesn't it?
00:12:37.440Except that's real, that those are real homes.
00:12:40.980You have a terrorist going house to house, murdering.
00:13:48.600Timmer began his rise as a leader of a small nomad band and by guile and force of arms established dominion over certain lands.
00:13:55.160Um, the poverty, bloodshed, and desolation caused by his campaigns gave rise to many legends, which in turn inspired such works as Tamerlane the Great.
00:14:07.460Um, he personally led his almost constant campaigning forces, enduring extremes of desert heat and lacerating cold.
00:14:15.180Um, the seeds of victory were sown among the ranks of the enemy by his agents before an engagement.
00:14:24.040He conducted sophisticated negotiations with both neighboring and distant powers, which are recorded in diplomatic archives.
00:14:29.600In battle, the nomadic tactics of mobility and surprise were his major weapons of attack.
00:14:44.020I think I, what I'm getting at is that if you, uh, were born after the second world war, which I'm sure everyone watching this was, because if you were like, you'd have to be,
00:14:57.720I mean, unless you were an infant, like if you, unless you were born literally a hundred years ago,
00:15:04.360all of your memories have been generally those of global peace.
00:15:12.680I mean, if you were born in 1930, so you're, so you would be in your nineties now.
00:15:18.180Then you would have sort of a child's memory of the barbarism of the second world war, not just the Holocaust, but the absolute massive carnage.
00:15:31.980In China, you would perhaps know about the, the massive murders of tens of millions under Mao Zedong, much of which was through disease and famine.
00:15:43.120But really, if you were born after the second world war, you could say you lived in the greatest era of peace in history.
00:15:58.120But, but the violent power of the atom bomb is precisely what ensured peace.
00:16:04.900Because for 50 years, the concept of mad, mutually assured destruction ensured that the two great powers of the, of the age did not in fact go to war with each other.
00:16:17.180And life was certainly brutal under the Soviet empire, but it was not completely lawless.
00:16:26.360It was totalitarian, that's true, but you could live your life without being tortured, murdered, raped.
00:16:35.740There was a stability to it, unless you were some sort of refusenic or freedom activist.
00:16:42.180And of course you would be arrested and possibly tortured and possibly killed, of course.
00:16:46.980But I'm saying for an ordinary Russian or ordinary Ukrainian, or I'm talking about the whole Soviet empire, which included now independent countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
00:17:01.740There was all, all these former Soviet republics.
00:17:04.700Some of them had more or less authoritarianism than others.
00:17:10.620Some were particularly brutal, Albania, Romania.
00:18:23.420One of the reasons I like Mel Gibson so much is that he understands Christianity, not just as a religion, but as a religion that replaced and displaced other belief systems.
00:18:37.400That's powerfully evident in his movie, The Passion of the Christ.
00:18:47.220One of the most shocking things about The Passion of the Christ was when the Romans scourged Jesus, when they whipped him bloody, when they beat him and, and tortured him.
00:18:59.400And even put the crown of thorns on him, it wasn't just the physical violence that Mel Gibson was showing.
00:19:10.680It was the social, psychological, aesthetic, cultural violence that pre-Christianity permitted.
00:19:19.240And Jesus' astonishing response of bearing that violence to suffer for the sins of man, if I understand the Christian theology.
00:19:37.640I think that's one of the reasons why Mel Gibson made that movie the way he did.
00:19:43.140And in that movie, there's this demonic figure that I don't think you'll find in the Bible necessarily, but it's Mel Gibson's vision.
00:20:05.260And there's a, this, I mean, it was an R-rated movie, by the way.
00:20:08.620You'd think a Christian movie would be PG, but, but Mel Gibson wanted you to see what the suffering of Jesus would have been like.
00:20:19.800And of course it would have been this brutal.
00:20:25.840It was beautifully, the horror of it was beautifully presented, if that can be a, if that can be a thing.
00:20:33.100It was terrifying and riveting and painful to watch.
00:20:36.260Hey, while you're, while you're in The Passion, can you do The Passion demon?
00:20:43.340Because Mel Gibson adds a little flourish.
00:20:46.060His own religious, religious approach is slightly non-standard.
00:20:51.720And, um, he adds this demonic figure in occasional scenes.
00:21:00.000It's, it's his interpretation of what a demon would look like.
00:21:08.460Um, in another video you had there, there, there was a, uh, it was a daytime video where the demon was present in another one on the list there.
00:21:39.260That's a recurring figure in the movie.
00:21:43.320And I think that's, yeah, I think that is Mel Gibson's idea of what evil looks like compared to what Jesus looks like and compared to what Mary looked like.
00:22:03.660Like that bizarre man-child demon, that's not, that's not, like that's his artistic license, I think.
00:27:40.820But Mel Gibson plants these little symbols in his movies.
00:27:49.560I'm going to give you a spoiler alert now.
00:27:53.240Because I'm going to spoil the movie for you if you haven't watched it.
00:27:56.300I'm going to explain to you, if it's not already obvious, why Mel Gibson made a movie about Aztecs and human sacrifice and cutting out the hearts of their victims' lives.