Rebel News Podcast - October 23, 2023


DAILY Roundup ｜ Live update from Israel, Jewish businesses targeted, First win in Tamara Lich trial


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 4 minutes

Words per Minute

149.60497

Word Count

9,676

Sentence Count

682

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

36


Summary

Rebel News' Ezra Levant talks to Avi Amini and Benji as they wait for the Israeli forces to enter Gaza, and what that means for the hostages still held by Hamas. Also, the White House says 50 dual citizens have been released.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here in Toronto, Canada. I'm at the world headquarters of Rebel
00:00:18.520 News. As I have been doing, especially in the last few weeks, we have a live stream
00:00:24.080 every day at 1 p.m. Eastern time where we talk about the news of the day. I have a more
00:00:28.880 programmatic show at 8 p.m. Eastern. But one of the reasons I'm excited to be in this chair
00:00:35.880 is there's so much news going on in the world. Now, most of it is terrible news, I should
00:00:40.120 tell you. But we are in the news business, and it's important to tell you the other side
00:00:44.660 of the story, especially given the propaganda from the regime media or the mainstream media.
00:00:49.940 And of course, the largest story in the world these days are the winds of war gathering in
00:00:54.920 Israel after the dramatic surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel two and
00:01:01.400 a half weeks ago. They killed 1,400 Jews and Arabs and Muslims, I should add, and took over
00:01:07.840 200 more hostage. Our chief Australian correspondent, Avi Amini, is in Israel, along with our courageous
00:01:15.160 videographer, Benji. They both have bulletproof vests and helmets, and we're hoping that keeps
00:01:21.840 them safe. The war has not been joined fully by Israel yet. They've been waiting, and apparently
00:01:31.360 Avi has the latest on that. Let's go to them now live, where it is already nighttime in Israel.
00:01:38.280 Avi, nice to see you again.
00:01:41.160 Thanks, Ezra. Yeah, so there is breaking news as we come to air tonight. Just moments ago,
00:01:47.180 it's been reported that Hamas is going to, there's an agreement made where Hamas is about to release
00:01:54.000 50 dual citizens. I imagine, I'm guessing that that's all the dual citizens, so that's about
00:02:00.040 a quarter of the known hostages. There's 210 that's known. There's also, keep in mind, there's
00:02:07.820 one to 200 Israelis still missing, unconfirmed whether they're dead somewhere in the southern
00:02:17.260 Israel on the border or within Gaza, or they're also hostages. But there's at least 210 confirmed
00:02:23.740 hostages minus 50 that will be released, which explains why they haven't entered yet, and it
00:02:31.560 makes a lot more sense to people here on the ground. Yeah, I mean, it's a bizarre situation
00:02:37.660 to be talking about civilian hostages in wars. Prisoners of war are captured all the time,
00:02:44.480 and they're treated in certain ways. They have certain rights that are protected. They're not
00:02:51.040 treated as criminals, by the way. They're just detained until the hostilities are over. But it is
00:02:57.600 unprecedented. In fact, it is not considered war to take civilian casualties. That is terrorism,
00:03:06.040 barbarism. The Latin term in law is humani hostis, which means it's basically being a pirate. It's
00:03:14.800 being an odious terrorist. And the fact that the West is negotiating with these terrorists is so unusual,
00:03:24.440 but it's being treated as sort of normal, isn't it? I mean, this, quote, war between a nation and a
00:03:31.560 terrorist group, and you have Secretary of State Blinken negotiating and splitting the difference.
00:03:38.160 It's just so weird that we consider this normal, I guess.
00:03:42.740 Yeah, it is, isn't it, Ezra? And the fact that there's still news networks out there that
00:03:46.960 will refuse to call them terrorists when they're literally still holding 210, at least 210 hostages,
00:03:55.540 you know, only a couple of kilometres from here. We're 600 metres from the border. It's really quiet
00:04:02.560 at the moment. So that could have something to do with this latest announcement and the process of it
00:04:09.020 happening. I do imagine if that is all the dual citizens, which it makes sense it is, it's about a
00:04:15.900 quarter of the hostages. So if that is all the dual citizens, I imagine we're going to see that
00:04:23.260 entrance into Gaza soon after that. The night, Saturday night, Friday night, sorry, the night that
00:04:31.040 was rumoured that the IDF forces would enter. And in the 11th hour, two American citizens were,
00:04:40.340 the first two American citizens were relieved. It was intensive bombardment from Israel, which is
00:04:49.560 what you would expect prior, hours prior to any sort of entrance. So we'll be here, we'll watch this
00:04:56.300 space closely. And I'll tell the viewers, anyone that does want to watch it, while I'm sitting here and
00:05:00.700 waiting to see it unfold, I'm bringing people along on the journey so they can actually tune in live at
00:05:07.980 the truthaboutthewar.com and watch it unfold with us.
00:05:14.460 Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're there. And I'm glad you're safe so far, thank God. And of course,
00:05:19.740 take steps to stay safe. I know that's a difficult thing to say in a war zone.
00:05:24.980 Something else happened today that I have not looked at too carefully, because I don't think I have the
00:05:31.660 heart for it. There have been skeptics, it would be a positive way of phrasing it, but there have
00:05:38.680 been deniers, sort of like Holocaust deniers, who said, no, no, the Jews didn't really get massacred
00:05:45.160 by Hamas terrorists. They weren't really raped and tortured. And I understand that today, 200 foreign
00:05:51.740 journalists were shown the most graphic and barbaric evidence. They were asked not to film it,
00:05:57.840 because these are children and women and some men who are, you know, uh, who are part of families and
00:06:06.960 who it's a spectacular and horrific news story that ought to be told. But how do you tell that
00:06:13.040 when there's a mother and father crying? So I understand that 200 journalists
00:06:16.660 were shown the most shocking proof firsthand. And, um, I've seen some reports from journalists who were in
00:06:25.360 there, um, that, that it was just, you know, I'm sure they'll get post-traumatic stress from what
00:06:31.340 they saw. Uh, do you have any news on that or did you, did you follow that online?
00:06:35.040 Yeah, well, we were invited to that and I chose specifically not to go because I could see how
00:06:41.040 many journalists were going to it. And, uh, and, and because I knew that after the fact, some of
00:06:46.740 these videos will be released anyways. Um, I just, you've got to choose on the ground, you've got to
00:06:52.460 choose where you're going to be, especially when you're one team, uh, we're choosing to be here,
00:06:56.600 which interestingly to note for you is this, unlike the, um, the, the space that we were,
00:07:02.980 the point, um, the vantage point that we were a few nights ago, where we were, uh, under a lot of
00:07:08.340 fire, 50 rockets directed at us. And, and to keep in mind that in this area, the iron dome has
00:07:14.520 actually been switched off. Um, that is to save money because it has been evacuated to 30,000 people
00:07:21.460 have been evacuated from this town alone. And similar, there's hundreds of thousands displaced
00:07:26.700 Israelis at the moment living in camp tents, as well as in hotels in, in, uh, across Israel,
00:07:33.080 especially a lot, but also Ramat Khan. Um, so they've turned off the iron dome here so that,
00:07:39.460 uh, because each, each rocket costs them $60,000 US to, to basically, um, within that, um, system.
00:07:48.840 So, um, uh, when we were in that spot, there was a lot of rocket fire in our direction.
00:07:54.080 And when we're running backwards and forwards to the, uh, to the protection, to the bunker.
00:07:58.280 Um, but in this spot here is where the media, it's a good vantage point over Gaza. So all that
00:08:03.040 there is Gaza, right? But the media kind of comes here in the day. Um, they get their, uh, piece,
00:08:08.840 the cameras or they prerecord and pretty much, uh, well, definitely last night we were the only
00:08:14.880 ones left at the moment. There's a couple of interviews, two other international crews still
00:08:20.300 here. It's only early. It's about 8 PM. The, it usually gets quite lively from about now. So it is,
00:08:25.880 it is, um, it is interesting to note that it is particularly quiet, which I'd, I'd speculate has
00:08:33.800 to do with, uh, the transfer of those 50 hostages, which would be a logistical operation because I'm sure
00:08:41.540 they're not keeping the 50 in one space and we know about the tunnels that are underneath there.
00:08:47.540 So, uh, I, I imagine the next 24 hours is going to be particularly interesting once they are released
00:08:54.440 and then whether the Israeli defense forces are going to move straight in. Uh, I, I find it hard
00:09:02.040 to believe that they're going to wait any more time to negotiate about the rest of them because,
00:09:06.140 uh, I dare say, even if they do manage to get the rest of them, Israel promises,
00:09:11.540 their civilians, uh, promises, the world has to show their enemies that this is, this can't happen
00:09:18.860 again. So they need to win this war for so many reasons. They need to dismantle Hamas for several
00:09:24.340 reasons. So I don't imagine Hamas releasing any Israeli, um, soldiers. I can't imagine the horrors
00:09:29.900 they're going through right now, men, women, children, babies in there. I know that, um, the,
00:09:36.040 the socialist left and the jihadis that are, are marching in their hundreds of thousands around the
00:09:41.200 world are not talking about that. Um, they're only showing the devastation that is in response
00:09:47.900 to the fact that there are still hostages to the fact that they were on the streets here. Um,
00:09:53.480 terrorists two weeks ago went house to house looking for Jews to butcher, maim, rape and kidnap.
00:10:00.520 Um, but, uh, so I would encourage all the viewers, you know, if, if this story does matter to you and
00:10:06.600 it should matter to you, uh, the truth about the war.com, you can follow the latest and, and we're
00:10:11.600 also, we started last night, these live feed, um, where it's very casual. We're just, you're watching
00:10:17.300 it with me and I'm talking to people in the comments, uh, including some trolls, but, uh, we've
00:10:22.160 got, uh, tonight we're, we're a little bit more prepared, um, because, you know, as it's, you know,
00:10:27.880 I noticed through this, there is a lot of hate in this conversation and it, and we are outnumbered.
00:10:33.160 We are outnumbered. We've got the mainstream media, um, you know, publishing stories, uh,
00:10:40.080 based on the word of terrorists, um, publishing as fact feeding the army of, you know, just
00:10:48.620 look at the Muslim world. Most of the Muslim world, not all today, but most of the Muslim
00:10:52.980 world take these opportunities to show their true colors and hate on the Jews. Um, and then
00:10:59.120 on top of that, their, their unholy alliance with the socialist left who also hate the Jewish
00:11:04.280 state for their own reasons and Jews for their own reasons. Um, so you, you can feel it.
00:11:09.480 I, you know, I'm feeling it. My family's feeling it. Everybody's feeling the kind of hate, even
00:11:14.220 the fact that we're doing this, but it's important for people to keep talking about. And it's important
00:11:18.340 that even in the face of all that hate to stand up and, and, and stand for what is right.
00:11:25.700 It's, it's uncomfortable, even as somebody who, who has family here, who has served here. Um,
00:11:32.280 do you know, I, I, I can understand. I've seen so many in the political space who have
00:11:36.180 backed, you know, walked back their support because they're, they're, they're feeling
00:11:40.700 that, that barrage of hate. Um, but then I want to, you know, I want to commend those also that are,
00:11:48.140 that are brave enough to withstand it. And I, I, I, I, I know that for me, maybe it's easier
00:11:54.200 because, you know, I have, I have to care. We're talking about my, my family's own existence,
00:11:59.560 but, um, for those that don't have a dog in the race, uh, uh, and I, and I think everyone
00:12:03.920 should care because the fact is, even if you think you don't have a dog in the race, the
00:12:07.240 fact is, as we've seen around the world, they're coming to a city near you and they come for
00:12:12.880 the Jews first and then they'll come for each and every one of us in Canada and Australia
00:12:18.140 and the U S next.
00:12:19.520 Yeah, I think you're right. Well, I mean, thank you for the update there and, uh, thanks
00:12:24.200 for doing journalism around the clock. And, um, I appreciate you being there on behalf of
00:12:29.360 our viewers because we simply can't trust the mainstream media. I think the hospital story
00:12:34.760 from last week proves that where Hamas announced that a hall, a hospital was destroyed by an
00:12:39.660 Israeli missile. They said 500 were dead. None of those facts were true. The hospital was
00:12:44.160 not destroyed. It wasn't hit at all. There were not 500 dead. It was not an Israeli
00:12:47.860 missile. Apparently it was a missile from Palestinian Islamic Jihad and there was a fire in a parking
00:12:54.860 lot. Um, so, uh, from the BBC to the New York times on down, every journalist ran with that
00:13:01.400 story and then politicians ran with that story, including Justin Trudeau, who then took half
00:13:06.120 a week to, to quote, look into it. And, uh, but, but that point in time, the lie had spread
00:13:11.600 around the world and there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that a billion people in the
00:13:20.400 world believe that lie because the mainstream media propagated it. Well, Avi, thanks very
00:13:26.160 much. And folks, you can keep an eye on what Avi's doing at the truthaboutthewar.com. And
00:13:31.040 if you feel moved to do so, please chip in to help cover the cost of his journey, including,
00:13:36.000 uh, his personal protection that he's wearing there. Thanks, Avi. Thanks, Ezra. All right.
00:13:41.760 There you have it. Well, um, I, I mentioned earlier a concept and I don't want to go too
00:13:47.540 far, too far down it, but, um, there is a kind of person that is so destructive that the law
00:13:57.720 over the course of time has a special category for them. And they include slavers like slave
00:14:04.820 ships and terrorists and pirates. And when, when we hear the word pirate in 2023, we sort
00:14:11.700 of laugh because the only pirates we know about are the, are the fun ones like captain
00:14:15.860 Jack Sparrow and pirates of the Caribbean. But, um, pirates, uh, there still are atrocious
00:14:24.260 pirates in the world and pirates are kidnappers and murderers and hostage takers. And, um, and
00:14:32.700 if you can go to that page, I put in the live stream, Olivia, I just want to read a little
00:14:38.380 bit about, it's a Latin phrase, hostis humani generis, which means an enemy of all mankind.
00:14:48.620 And this is just a Wikipedia entry. So it's, uh, it's not perfect, but it is a legal term of
00:14:54.920 art that originates in admiralty law. Like I say, for slave ships before the adoption of
00:15:01.100 public international law, pirates and slavers were already held to be beyond legal protection.
00:15:07.420 And so it can be dealt with by any nation, even one that had not been directly attacked.
00:15:13.020 A comparison can be made between this concept and the common law of writ of outlawry, which
00:15:18.660 declared a person outside the King's law, a literal outlaw subject to violence and execution
00:15:24.540 by anyone. The ancient Roman civil law concept of proscription and the status of homos. I don't
00:15:30.780 know how to say that word sacred conveyed by prescription may also be similar. Thanks.
00:15:34.700 I just want to read that. That's enough for that. But my point is terrorists are not
00:15:41.500 within the laws of war. And you might say the laws of war, what's that? That's a joke. No,
00:15:45.660 there are laws of war, the laws of war, which we've heard a lot about from people criticizing Israel
00:15:51.740 are don't deliberately attack civilians. Don't, um, you know, if, if someone surrenders, take them
00:16:00.060 prisoner, don't murder them. Those are a couple of examples. Um, now of course you might say, well,
00:16:08.780 hang on, didn't the allies firebomb the city of Dresden, Germany? Didn't the allies drop nuclear
00:16:15.660 weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on purpose? And, um, and even by asking those questions,
00:16:22.860 you can see that there is no war that does not have civilian casualties and the legal arguments,
00:16:29.100 I suppose, um, would be that those were necessary strategic steps to defeat those countries.
00:16:35.900 In the case of the atom bombs, um, it was a shocking, um, decision on purpose that caused the
00:16:44.380 Japanese emperor to surrender, saving a million casualties. But the idea of
00:16:51.820 killing civilians inadvertently or collaterally is obviously as old as war itself. And actually,
00:16:59.580 and although everyone's against killing civilians, civilians being killed happens in every war
00:17:06.700 and it is not on its face illegal. Obviously, everyone wants to be as careful as possible.
00:17:12.140 But one of the reasons why Hamas is that legal category that I just showed you
00:17:20.380 is that they deliberately hide behind civilians. They deliberately target civilians
00:17:27.340 with their rockets aimed at Israel. And just this astonishing thing of taking civilians hostage and
00:17:34.540 torturing them. And like, that's just not done in war. You take soldiers as prisoners of war, but you don't torture them.
00:17:45.020 During the Second World War, uh, Canada and the other allies took thousands of German soldiers
00:17:52.140 prisoner. And they didn't torture them. They, they actually sent them in many cases to Canada,
00:17:58.060 where we had prisoner of war camps in, for example, my home province of Alberta.
00:18:04.060 It's just astonishing that we have normalized the taking of civilian hostages and their torture
00:18:11.820 as, as if that is not the, it would be, it would be as if negotiating with slave traders or pirates in
00:18:19.340 eras past. And, um, um, the fact that Hamas's terrorist leadership hangs out in Doha, Qatar,
00:18:29.900 with the knowledge and protection of the dictator there would be as if there was a
00:18:36.620 city in the Caribbean where the pirates could stay with the consent of the local mayor or whatever.
00:18:44.380 But even that I'm not properly, I mean, pirates typically stole money. They didn't engage in
00:18:49.980 brutal barbarism against civilians. Now, some pirates, um, absolutely did slave trade raids.
00:18:57.020 I won't get into that. Anyhow, hostage humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
00:19:04.300 I, um, I think about this. I mentioned in my discussion with Avi there that Justin Trudeau,
00:19:10.140 can you call up Trudeau's original tweet about the hospital if you can find it? So there's this
00:19:17.740 hospital that Hamas said had 500 casualties. In the end, I don't know if there were actually any,
00:19:23.340 because it looked like the hospital itself was not hit by anything. Um, so when Trudeau condemned
00:19:31.100 that hospital attack, implying that it was Israel, and then when he took days to,
00:19:36.060 to, to acknowledge that he was misled or allowed himself to be misled. Yeah, here it is. Let me,
00:19:42.940 let me read this.
00:19:46.700 I'm horrified by the loss of life at Al-Ali Arab hospital in Gaza. Okay. I think anyone would be
00:19:54.620 horrified by the loss of life at a hospital. I'm not sure, again, what the final numbers are there.
00:20:01.260 Hamas said 500. I don't know if anyone was actually killed.
00:20:06.540 My thoughts are with those who lost loved ones. Okay.
00:20:10.300 It is imperative that innocent civilians be protected and international law upheld. Okay.
00:20:16.540 Together we must determine what happened. Okay. There must be accountability.
00:20:22.140 What's the date on this? Can you scroll down? So this was, uh, six days ago. And on Saturday night
00:20:30.700 at 10 PM, the defense minister said, oh, by the way, yeah, it was Hamas. But so you saw his last
00:20:37.660 line there. There must be accountability. Okay. So what, where, where's the follow up there? So now we know
00:20:44.460 who did the attack, the defense department itself, as if Canada did any direct investigation. Here's Bill.
00:20:51.740 Uh, yeah, you know what? Um, I don't know if you can find Bill Blair's tweet, but on 10, at 10 PM
00:20:59.660 on Saturday night, he put out a statement on Twitter saying, oh, hey guys, we've finished our
00:21:06.620 investigations. Oh, would you look at the time? It's 10 PM. Um,
00:21:10.460 Um, which, which is the most, which is just so on the nose. We are deeply saddened by the loss of
00:21:19.180 life caused by the explosion at Al Arab hospital in Gaza on October 17. In order to determine what
00:21:25.500 happened, the prime minister asked me to task the Canadian forces with preparing an independent
00:21:30.300 analysis. Today I'm releasing its findings. So at 9 51, you can see at 9 51 PM,
00:21:35.260 Bill Blair quote releases its findings. Do you think the Canadian forces did any investigating on
00:21:42.380 their own? Do you think any Canadian soldiers went to Gaza? Do you think Canada had a spy plane
00:21:48.140 in the region? Do you think they had spies on the ground? Of course not. Canada, Canadian government,
00:21:53.740 if they did anything, and I don't even acknowledge that they did, um, they would have read what the
00:21:58.540 Israeli government, the French government, and the American government had published, or frankly,
00:22:03.820 what a lot of other media outlets had published, including Al Jazeera, which literally showed a
00:22:08.780 rocket fired by the terrorists landing on Gaza, as apparently a large percentage of them do.
00:22:14.940 But go back, um, to Trudeau's tweet, just for one second, if you'd be so kind,
00:22:20.140 you can see the last sentence that he had there. He demanded accountability.
00:22:26.940 Accountability. Okay. So now that he has investigated, as if he did any investigation
00:22:33.580 himself, there must be accountability. So, so when's that part coming? Oh, we thought that a liberal
00:22:43.020 democracy that had just had 1400 of its citizens raped and murdered, we thought that they did this
00:22:48.540 by accident. So we demanded accountability from them. But now that we found out it's literally
00:22:53.980 a criminal terrorist group. We're not so interested in accountability anymore.
00:22:59.980 So they're actually treating this hostess humani generis, this slavery, barbarian,
00:23:08.860 beyond the pale of law, terrorist group, nicer than they would treat Israel. That's Trudeau for you.
00:23:17.740 Yeah. Um, and I think because Trudeau and other Canadian politicians like Jagmeet Singh,
00:23:27.260 and of course the media in general gave credence to the claim that Israel did that hospital attack,
00:23:32.940 I think anti-Semitism around the world was inflamed like a, like a gale force wind hitting a forest fire.
00:23:41.820 And astonishing things started to happen around Canada itself. And that's the thing people say,
00:23:48.140 actually, you're too focused on this war. No, I don't think so. Um, 9 11 didn't happen in Canada
00:23:55.260 either, but that certainly, uh, was of great interest and concern to me. Um, a number of Canadians were
00:24:02.300 killed in 9 11, but that's not the sole reason it was interesting and terrifying to me. It was a horrific
00:24:10.860 huge, you know, before, uh, before that point in time, it was an unimaginable, um, horrific terrorist
00:24:19.740 crime. Like I say, deliberately targeting civilian office buildings, um, unthinkable before that time.
00:24:29.660 And of course it launched, it launched the world into two decades of war that cost trillions of
00:24:36.140 dollars, cost thousands of lives and destabilized the world. Destabilized Iraq, gave it to Iran,
00:24:42.620 destabilized Libya. So many terrible things came from that. And, um, I believe the same is happening
00:24:52.140 here. There were, if I'm remembering correctly, about six Canadians who were murdered. And apparently
00:24:58.780 there's some Canadian hostages that may be released. I don't know if I believe that. But that's not
00:25:04.620 actually the main reason I'm concerned. I'm concerned because the world seems to be lurching towards war.
00:25:10.300 And more acutely than that, I'm concerned about what's happening here on the ground in Canada and to a
00:25:18.140 greater extent on the ground in the UK and on the grounds in the US as well, which are countless
00:25:26.060 thousands of mainly Muslim migrants who are, who, who say that they support Hamas. But we can't just blame
00:25:37.260 it on immigrants because there are many Canadian born, including white Christian supporters and
00:25:46.220 sympathizers of Hamas who would probably call themselves woke, who see in Hamas a revolutionary
00:25:53.980 force to take it to the man. And the man apparently being Israel or America or Jews or really anything.
00:26:01.340 So you have this Islamist progressive coalition, foreign Islamists matched up with domestic
00:26:13.900 communists, I would say. And I've, I'm terrified by what they're doing on the streets of Canada. For
00:26:20.940 example, in Toronto, the city where I am, there's a small restaurant chain called Landwer,
00:26:26.300 L-A-N-D-W-E-R, Cafe Landwer. And I've been there a few times. It's a great restaurant,
00:26:31.340 very fresh, healthy, lots of coffees and teas and breakfast food and bakery.
00:26:37.500 Sort of yummy food. They were named after Moshe Landwer, which you can maybe detect is a Jewish name.
00:26:44.860 He opened the first Landwer Cafe in Berlin in 1919, which was, as you can see, about 20 years before
00:26:57.180 the Second World War. Apparently Landwer managed to escape Germany with his family in the 30s.
00:27:03.900 And so now there is a land, Cafe Landwer in Toronto. Now there are several of them.
00:27:07.660 So Cafe Landwer is not an Israeli government institution. It's got nothing to do with Israel.
00:27:15.180 In fact, it was a Jew in Berlin who was chased out of Berlin.
00:27:21.020 And now the namesake restaurant is in Toronto. I don't even know if it's owned by Jews, frankly.
00:27:27.420 The ones I've been to have a very multiracial staff, as many things in Toronto do.
00:27:32.220 But a mob of pro-Hamas extremists were screaming and shouting at the restaurant and those in it,
00:27:45.260 implying it's a Zionist target. Here, take a look.
00:27:48.220 That's just a quick clip taken by the Hamas protesters themselves. I've seen some other clips, too.
00:28:07.180 Imagine that. You're just a Canadian. And by the way, I have no idea if those people in the restaurant
00:28:13.260 are Jewish or not. I'm not able to tell that just on site. But that is absolutely identical
00:28:23.020 to what happened to Cafe Landwer the first time around 104 years ago. Or I guess they weren't run
00:28:31.260 out of Berlin 104 years ago. They were founded in Berlin 104 years ago. And they were run out of Berlin
00:28:36.220 like 90 years ago. And the Germans had a phrase, Kauf nicht, Kauf nicht bei Juden. I don't know if I'm
00:28:45.420 saying that right. But that means don't buy from Jews. There was a boycott on Jewish owned shops and
00:28:52.300 restaurants and companies. And Nazis would stand, brown shirts would stand outside. Can you just go to
00:28:57.980 Wikipedia and type in Jewish boycott Nazi? Because there's a lot of photos of that from the 30s and 40s.
00:29:10.140 Yeah, just Wikipedia is fine. I just want to show some images. And I mean, in Berlin, for example,
00:29:17.260 they had department stores and restaurants. And that looks sort of, you know, that's got a,
00:29:26.620 what do they call that? An art deco. Yeah, scroll down. Let's see. So there's a Jewish owned
00:29:30.460 department store. And they're having a boycott there. I don't know if there's more images.
00:29:35.660 But if you go to the Wikipedia link, I'm pretty sure they'll have them.
00:29:45.580 Yeah, like, yeah, let's just look at that one right there. So here you have what I think
00:29:50.220 are brown shirts. Deutsch. I can't quite see that. I think it says,
00:30:04.300 oh yeah, you can see it in the small text at the bottom. Kauf nicht bei Juden.
00:30:08.380 Forgive my accent. Don't buy from Jews. So they're standing outside a Jewish owned store
00:30:14.300 and they're wearing signs saying, don't buy from Jews. There's another one.
00:30:23.580 You can see they've taped it to the window. And you see, I don't know, Deutsch means Germans.
00:30:28.460 And I don't know what that middle line says, but the bottom one says, don't buy from Jews.
00:30:31.900 Kauf nicht bei Juden. And I guess they were just scratching out any Jewish names.
00:30:40.380 Here, members of the SA in front of a Jewish shop during the boycott of Jews, April 1st, 1933.
00:30:45.580 So it's very early on. The SA were the predecessor to the SS.
00:30:53.580 It was basically a paramilitary Nazi group, similar to the paramilitary pro-Hamas protests
00:30:59.980 as we've seen in Canada this past week. I see some terrifying news out of Kingston.
00:31:07.420 Can you call up that story?
00:31:11.180 Kingston, Ontario police say 18-year-old arrested after driver nearly strikes pedestrians at pro-Israel rally.
00:31:21.100 Oh, really? Here, let's read a little bit from the story.
00:31:25.020 Kingston police say an 18-year-old man is facing charges following an alleged hate-motivated incident
00:31:29.500 last week at a pro-Israel rally in the city. Around 100 people gathered at Market Square on October 17th
00:31:35.100 for a pro-Israel demonstration, police said, when the driver of a black pickup truck nearly struck
00:31:39.420 participants who were crossing a nearby street. According to police, the truck was stopped for
00:31:44.540 a red light at the intersection of Brock Street and King Street around 5, 10 p.m., but when the
00:31:48.540 traffic light turned green, the truck did not proceed into the intersection. Instead, police said,
00:31:53.020 the driver suddenly accelerated and turned into the crosswalk, cutting off the rally participants as
00:31:57.980 they crossed the street. The actions of the truck caused the pedestrians to fear they would be struck.
00:32:02.860 They abruptly stopped and jumped back to avoid the speeding truck, Kingston police said in a news
00:32:07.020 release. The driver was arrested and is facing a charge of dangerous driving. Kingston police also said
00:32:12.140 it's believed the driver's actions were motivated by hate. Police did not identify the accused in a news
00:32:17.020 release sent Friday. Kingston police said investigators are aware of a male individual who was also affected
00:32:23.340 by the driver's actions. Police are asking that this individual contact Sergeant Nesanagan
00:32:28.860 at that email address. It'd be very interesting. I should say that it is common practice by police
00:32:39.740 to wait until a first appearance in court to name an accused. So the fact that they don't have his name
00:32:49.180 there, which they know the name and he's not a minor, he's 18 years old, I think we will get that name
00:32:56.780 quite shortly. It'll be interesting to see how this is covered. Would you agree with me
00:33:02.700 that had it been a right wing MAGA hat trucker type that had threatened to run their vehicle into, say,
00:33:14.860 a Muslim family, that that would be the lead story in every newspaper and newscast in the country and Trudeau would
00:33:20.780 have already weighed in on the subject and there would be human rights complaints and national days
00:33:26.300 of remembrance or whatever. Do you doubt it? It's funny I mentioned truckers because during the trucker
00:33:35.020 convoy there was a man in Winnipeg, could you find a headline to that effect? There was a man in Winnipeg
00:33:40.300 who attempted to run his vehicle into trucker protesters. I wonder if you can find that,
00:33:48.060 Olivia. I don't remember more details than that. I think he was charged and convicted. And the fact
00:33:55.420 that I don't know that terrorist's name and that I'm having trouble remembering the details is not that
00:34:03.500 I'm not interested in it, but it had received such modest press coverage. Um, whereas, of course,
00:34:11.180 if the shoe was on the other foot, yeah, there you go.
00:34:17.820 Now I remember saying far left activist pleads guilty to running over freedom protesters. 43-year-old
00:34:23.100 David Alexander Zegarak admitted to ramming his vehicle into a group of protesters demonstrating
00:34:29.420 against COVID-19 restrictions last year in Winnipeg. I remember that now. That's an unusual name,
00:34:35.180 Zegarak. Look at that photo there. Yeah, show that picture if you can.
00:34:42.140 Other than Rebel News, and I mean, obviously we did learn about it from other media,
00:34:48.460 but it's so under covered as in so little coverage of it.
00:34:53.420 And, and, and I suspect that's probably the last you'll hear about this Kingston case.
00:35:00.940 They simply don't want that to be the narrative. The narrative is the Jews are the ones to blame.
00:35:12.540 Palestinians are their victims. Even though 1400 Jews were just murdered,
00:35:18.620 raped, and tortured, and 200 more kidnapped in Israel.
00:35:29.740 Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. I have a prediction
00:35:32.860 that the, um, accused 18-year-old in Kingston, my prediction
00:35:38.220 is that he's not even Palestinian. My prediction is that he, I mean, listen,
00:35:43.180 I'm just absolutely speculating here. Uh, I predict that he is Muslim, but not
00:35:49.420 Palestinian. The reason I say that is that there's not an enormous number of Palestinians
00:35:55.420 in Canada, but across our institutions, um, being a Palestinian radical is considered the litmus test
00:36:06.780 for being in the in-group, frankly, for white woke leftists as well.
00:36:13.340 Maybe that's who it is. Maybe that's who, um,
00:36:18.140 tried to ram his pickup truck into those Israel protesters. But I, I'll bet you a dollar wasn't
00:36:23.340 actually a Palestinian. Not that I think a Palestinian wouldn't or couldn't do that, but just that
00:36:27.740 that this bloodlust is far larger a phenomenon than I think we've admitted before.
00:36:38.140 It's shocking to me. I mean, take Sarah Jamma. That's the MPP, the member of the provincial
00:36:44.300 parliament, who was finally kicked out of the NDP today, uh, for her anti-Semitic pro-terrorist comments.
00:36:51.580 She's never been to Israel in her life, never been to the West Bank or Gaza Strip in her life.
00:36:58.860 Um, I, I'm trying to think where she came from. I think she may be Somali.
00:37:04.540 There really is no connection whatsoever between Somalia and Gaza.
00:37:08.940 Um, she's a, a woke leftist, Black Lives Matter, disabled rights activist.
00:37:15.820 Um, like that's a bundle of things, but Palestinian is not one of them.
00:37:23.340 But she, but every woke activist in the country, yeah, Ontario NDP kicks,
00:37:28.860 kicks Hamilton MPP Sarah Jamma from caucus after controversial Gaza comments.
00:37:34.300 Party leader Merit Stiles said Jamma's actions since her comments have broken the trust of colleagues.
00:37:40.140 Um, can you imagine how extreme she must be?
00:37:46.380 If the NDP won't be a home for her?
00:37:50.780 Uh, I mean, they'll take anyone.
00:37:54.140 It's quite something.
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00:42:55.580 We're involved in a lot of interesting things, I think.
00:42:59.100 I mean, sometimes I marvel at all the different projects we have on the go,
00:43:03.820 in all the different cities, too.
00:43:05.820 You know, I admire my fellow independent journalists at True North and Western Standard,
00:43:12.380 and there's actually more of them now than that.
00:43:15.580 I think we were trailblazers.
00:43:18.540 But I think what Rebel News does well is, first of all, we have a video news reporting focus.
00:43:24.700 So we have commentary, of course, that's what I do every night.
00:43:27.900 But I think one of our great strengths is we're on the ground with a camera showing you what happens.
00:43:32.620 That's what Avi's doing in Israel.
00:43:34.060 Now, tonight, there was no war because this hostage release was happening.
00:43:39.980 So there wasn't much to look at visually.
00:43:42.220 But being there on the front line of a conflict with a camera, I think, is one of the things we do.
00:43:48.140 The number of cities we're in, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa.
00:43:54.620 It's incredible, and, of course, Australia.
00:43:58.300 We do conferences.
00:43:59.900 I'd like to get some ads for Rebel Live, some freshened up ads, because I'd like to see you there if you're going to be in the Calgary area on November 18th.
00:44:09.980 We've got a great lineup that day, and I'd love to see you there.
00:44:13.020 Books, you saw Tamara Leach in one of those projects there where we published her best-selling autobiography called Hold the Line.
00:44:23.100 We published other books, too.
00:44:24.700 We published Avi's autobiography.
00:44:28.360 We published a new edition of 1984.
00:44:33.800 Can you put that on the screen just for a second?
00:44:35.520 And maybe I have an affection for this project because it was my idea, but I think that the book 1984 is such an important book, and it's in the public domain now because the author died more than 70 years ago.
00:44:56.760 So his work, anyone can publish it now.
00:44:59.340 So what we did, as you can see there, is we took the book, and we commissioned an amazing graphic artist, Paul Ravosh, to do 30 original pieces of artwork, very gripping, to illustrate the book.
00:45:19.540 So it's not a comic book.
00:45:21.680 It's the original manuscript, unaltered.
00:45:25.800 Not even one letter is different.
00:45:27.320 But there are 30 of those images in there.
00:45:32.720 And even the text is laid out in a nicer font.
00:45:35.800 It's easier to read.
00:45:36.940 So I'm very proud of this book.
00:45:38.280 It's not going to be a white-hot bestseller at any one given moment.
00:45:42.840 I'm hoping that it's going to be a slow burn all the time.
00:45:46.460 People buy it and read it.
00:45:48.900 And so that's an example of another project.
00:45:53.340 Yeah, show that image that you had there.
00:45:54.860 I'll just show a couple of the interior images.
00:45:58.640 I should have a copy of the book here that I just flipped through.
00:46:03.420 Big Brothers Watching You.
00:46:05.280 That's a theme from there.
00:46:08.000 Two Minutes of Hate.
00:46:09.960 There was all these ideas that we got from that book.
00:46:14.340 And it's so relevant.
00:46:15.820 That's two minutes of hate, which was a concept for hating the official enemy for Trudeau.
00:46:21.680 That would have been the unvaccinated, of course.
00:46:25.820 Thanks for showing that.
00:46:26.860 I just wanted to mention some of the things Rebel News is doing.
00:46:29.480 And I'm very proud that our whole team does them.
00:46:31.340 I want to – let's see how we're doing for time.
00:46:38.840 We have about just over 10 minutes left.
00:46:41.520 There's three more items, news items, I want to get to.
00:46:45.760 Let's wrap up with the war and Hamas and terrorism with an interesting video that came as a bit of a surprise over the weekend.
00:46:53.860 Justin Trudeau has not been to a synagogue since the horrific attack on Israel some 17 days ago.
00:47:09.940 He just hasn't – didn't occur to him to do it.
00:47:13.820 He's not for the Jewish state.
00:47:16.120 He hasn't said anything about these hate rallies on the street.
00:47:20.080 So that would be off-brand for him to show any support for the Jews, even after the death threats or the attempted, you know, driving the truck into people.
00:47:31.640 The idea that Trudeau would actually go to a Jewish synagogue and say, hey, I'm with you, it would never occur to him.
00:47:40.080 Rather, he went to a Muslim mosque.
00:47:42.480 But it was so interesting that because he wouldn't fully come out and say, go Hamas, kill Israel, like he wouldn't go all the way, they booed him, which is interesting.
00:47:58.300 I mean, I don't know how much more pro-Hamas you can get.
00:48:03.240 He literally promised them $50 million.
00:48:06.760 So – and listen, he's not alone.
00:48:10.700 Joe Biden is sending $100 million to Hamas.
00:48:13.260 And when I say Hamas, I mean Hamas, the terrorist group, runs Gaza.
00:48:19.340 And so when you give aid, you're giving it to Hamas.
00:48:23.100 So both Biden and Trudeau are rewarding Hamas for their attack on Israel.
00:48:28.380 But that's not enough, apparently.
00:48:31.280 I want to show you the reaction when Trudeau showed up at a greater Toronto area mosque.
00:48:37.800 Take a look.
00:48:38.880 The Prime Minister has been a good friend to the Muslim community of Canada.
00:48:44.220 I've been making fun of Muslims all year.
00:48:46.220 The Prime Minister has a difficult, difficult situation in which he is dealing with.
00:48:55.880 As well, we have the Prime Minister here.
00:49:00.040 We have ministers of the Crown here.
00:49:02.520 We have MPs here.
00:49:04.220 We ask all of you.
00:49:07.980 We ask all of you to listen to him.
00:49:13.120 And if you want, please engage in dialogue.
00:49:18.040 Because dialogue is important, not yelling at each other.
00:49:21.720 That's what he called up.
00:49:22.740 Please, please, help us welcome the World War War.
00:49:27.780 Because I'm Trudeau.
00:49:29.960 You're not respecting the guests more than in my health.
00:49:33.380 Shame, shame.
00:49:39.880 How many more Palestinian shelter need to be cladded?
00:49:43.040 How many more before you call for a ceasefire?
00:49:46.060 Boo!
00:49:47.740 Boo!
00:49:48.100 I guess if you really believe that Israel is illegitimate,
00:50:15.980 if you believe that they are mass murderers,
00:50:19.600 then I suppose you would think that Trudeau has not gone far enough.
00:50:26.500 And perhaps the people saying those things mean them and believe them.
00:50:32.920 I mean, I guess that would be Occam's razor.
00:50:35.200 The simplest explanation for people saying things is that they mean them.
00:50:39.060 They're certainly taught that way in universities.
00:50:45.140 All the woke activist groups think that way.
00:50:48.720 The mainstream media won't even call Hamas terrorists.
00:50:52.720 So if you relied only on the mainstream media, you would not think they're terrorists.
00:50:58.320 You would think Israel's a terrorist.
00:51:00.160 I mean, after all, didn't they bomb that hospital and kill 500 people?
00:51:03.320 Well, I guess the idea of deprogramming that hate cult isn't even...
00:51:12.880 I mean, that to me is the long-term crisis.
00:51:16.180 I don't know what will happen in this war if we'll see a total global conflagration.
00:51:24.820 But what I've seen in Canada is a long-term problem of people who feel compelled to joyously celebrate
00:51:37.440 the slaughter and barbaric torture and murder of Jews.
00:51:40.920 Like the descriptions of...
00:51:48.060 And you don't even need a description.
00:51:50.020 So many of these terrorists live-streamed what they did.
00:51:54.480 And it was horrific.
00:51:56.100 I don't know if anyone under 40 years old might not know the name Carla Homolka or Paul Bernardo.
00:52:03.500 They kidnapped, raped, tortured, killed girls in the St. Catharines area, if my memory is correct.
00:52:12.500 And that was 30 years ago.
00:52:14.300 But probably the most macabre murderer, one of the most in Canadian history.
00:52:20.440 I remember as a young person reading, I was in my early 20s, reading that coverage and feeling sick about it.
00:52:30.320 And I met a reporter who covered those and actually developed a kind of traumatic, post-traumatic stress disorder
00:52:38.420 kind of psychological breakdown from hearing the horrific, horrific details of the barbaric crimes.
00:52:49.360 Imagine if there were celebrations on the street for Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka.
00:52:57.900 If people were cheering them, if people were making posters with them, if people were mocking and denying the deaths of their victims.
00:53:09.240 That's how far I think we are.
00:53:14.300 All right.
00:53:14.980 Well, let's shift gears slightly.
00:53:16.260 Secondly, Parliamentary Committee drops investigation into the hero's welcome for SS officer.
00:53:27.480 This is just quite a story, isn't it?
00:53:30.680 Then Speaker Anthony Roda presented Yaroslav Hunk in 98 as a national hero, but resigned on September 26th under threat of censure by Parliament.
00:53:38.900 So for a brief moment there, when the world's attention was on this Jew-hating Nazi, as opposed to the other Jew-hating neo-Nazis,
00:53:48.180 everyone said, yeah, I want to get to the bottom of it.
00:53:50.800 Yeah.
00:53:51.280 It was Anthony Roda who did it.
00:53:52.780 No one else knew.
00:53:53.660 The RCMP who were doing security for Vladimir Zelensky, they didn't know.
00:53:58.980 And this prime minister's office that micromanages every news detail, they didn't know.
00:54:03.500 And no one knew other than the Speaker of the House.
00:54:06.160 We totally, totally didn't know.
00:54:08.520 Only he knew.
00:54:11.520 So now that the world's attention is focused elsewhere, the government and their allies.
00:54:19.760 Let me read a little bit more here.
00:54:21.140 According to Blacklock's reporter, Cooper, that's Michael Cooper, tabled the motion for the committee to investigate the incident.
00:54:30.320 Most MPs voted not to discuss the issue in public.
00:54:34.020 Then concluded the meeting without comment.
00:54:37.360 So it's done.
00:54:39.240 There will be no inquiry.
00:54:44.700 Because it's too embarrassing for the liberals.
00:54:46.480 And if you ask too many questions about 90-something-year-old Nazis being allowed into Canada,
00:54:52.480 someone might ask about Michael Tromiak, who was Chrystia Freeland's grandfather, who was a Nazi, being allowed into Canada.
00:55:00.600 Someone might ask embarrassing questions about that, and we can't have that.
00:55:06.980 I want to shift gears to what I think is good news.
00:55:10.220 I actually have not read this news story yet.
00:55:12.980 So we'll read it together, you and I.
00:55:14.780 I don't know if you saw it, but last week I had a great conversation with our newest rebel, Robert Krejcik,
00:55:29.600 who's been doing a good job covering the trial in Ottawa.
00:55:33.460 I was there for a day, and I think Robert says I chose the worst day to come
00:55:37.680 because they had a bureaucrat testifying who very early in the day said,
00:55:42.080 I've never met Tamara Leach, never spoken with her, never emailed her, never seen her, no contact with her,
00:55:48.300 I know nothing about her, but now let me testify to my thoughts and feelings about the convoy for the next eight hours.
00:55:56.220 So this is a trial upon which Tamara Leach's freedoms hinge, and her co-accused, her co-defendant, Chris Barber.
00:56:08.220 So your feelings about the convoy and that you need therapy and you just want a shoulder to cry,
00:56:16.300 and that's all very interesting, but her criminal trial is not the place for that.
00:56:20.820 Her criminal trial is to get all the facts into evidence, have that evidence challenged, poked, prodded, reviewed, cross-examined,
00:56:31.740 and put before the judge along with the law, and then determine whether or not Tamara Leach broke the law.
00:56:39.800 Instead, and Robert says I was there for the worst day of it,
00:56:42.780 I listened to hours and hours of some city bureaucrat who didn't know anything about the trial,
00:56:48.320 but just really wanted to talk, and frankly, it was outrageous that the court allowed a literal know-nothing,
00:56:54.600 a confessed, admitted know-nothing, and I'm not saying that as an insult, he just knew nothing.
00:56:59.120 I mean, why don't I go testify about Tamara Leach?
00:57:01.780 I had never actually interacted with her either until after the convoy.
00:57:05.620 I didn't meet her or talk to her until after.
00:57:08.340 So, I can give you my punditry.
00:57:12.320 That's what this guy was.
00:57:13.620 He was a pundit, but he was under oath, being asked questions by prosecutors,
00:57:19.080 at enormous expense to the taxpayer.
00:57:21.160 It was so frustrating.
00:57:22.480 I had thought that I would be going to Ottawa all the time to cover this trial,
00:57:27.200 but I just, I just, I mean, I couldn't.
00:57:32.020 Robert says things more interesting than that have transpired.
00:57:34.860 So, let me read this story.
00:57:35.760 I have not seen this story before.
00:57:36.900 Let's read it together.
00:57:38.340 Can you show me the headline just for one second?
00:57:43.280 Crown drops bail violation charge against Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Leach.
00:57:49.420 The Crown is no longer pursuing a criminal charge against Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Leach,
00:57:55.920 alleged, that alleged she violated her bail conditions last summer.
00:58:01.300 Oh, right.
00:58:02.000 That's when she was in Toronto for a Freedom Gala, and someone took a picture of her, and in the picture was another trucker,
00:58:10.740 and she was arrested for that and jailed for that because, oh, you're breaking your bail conditions.
00:58:15.080 It was a disgrace that she was arrested.
00:58:16.980 They put out a national warrant for her arrest, which is very rare.
00:58:21.400 That's what you do if, like, there's a murderer on the loose.
00:58:23.520 Let me read the story.
00:58:24.300 This, by the way, is in the Toronto Star, which hates Tamara Leach.
00:58:28.780 The Crown is no longer pursuing a criminal charge against Freedom Convoy Organizer Tamara Leach that alleged that she violated her bail conditions last summer.
00:58:36.820 The bail violation was scheduled to be heard in court next week, but the Crown stayed the charge in the hopes of using some of that time to deal with Leach's main charges.
00:58:43.660 Given that the substantive matter has gone on longer than anticipated, the Crown wishes to prioritize it and see that it is competed, that probably means completed, in a timely fashion,
00:58:54.000 Crown Attorney Siobhan Wetscher explained in court Monday.
00:58:57.280 Yeah, they were too busy giving nine hours to this bureaucrat to give you his thoughts and feelings about the convoy.
00:59:04.140 Leach was released on bail in early 2022 after spending more than two weeks in jail following her arrest in the final days of the protest.
00:59:10.260 She was allowed to return home to Alberta.
00:59:11.860 Later that summer, she was arrested in Alberta on a Canada-wide warrant after being photographed with one of those organizers in an award ceremony in Toronto.
00:59:18.760 She spent another month in jail before being released again.
00:59:22.520 Leach's lawyer, Lawrence Greenspan, said the breach charge never should have been laid in the first place.
00:59:27.200 So a small win, but damage done.
00:59:30.440 She served a grand total of 49 days in prison, most of which was for that inappropriate charge that they just dropped.
00:59:38.320 And I would say they dropped it for reasons of government incompetence because they're not managing the trial.
00:59:43.900 But I think I told you this analogy before.
00:59:46.180 I'll say it again.
00:59:47.100 If there's one witness that saw you do something, I was there, Your Honor.
00:59:54.440 I saw it with my own eyes.
00:59:56.560 And by the way, I filmed part of it on my phone.
00:59:59.460 And by the way, there's a closed circuit TV camera that captured it, too.
01:00:04.000 I remember exactly what happened.
01:00:05.820 I saw her do it, Your Honor.
01:00:07.640 I saw it plain as day.
01:00:09.140 That's a terrifying witness.
01:00:10.480 One witness is all you need.
01:00:15.840 But if you've got, is it 22 witnesses that they were planning to call against Tamir Leach?
01:00:21.380 None of them, not none.
01:00:22.700 Most of whom had never even met or heard of or dealt with or emailed or talked to her or knew about her.
01:00:28.500 You're calling 22 witnesses because you got nothing.
01:00:31.980 If you had something, you would just call it.
01:00:35.260 You wouldn't, why would, like, they had this Zexy Lee, who we talked about the other day, who, like me, had never met or heard of Tamir Leach.
01:00:45.680 Or maybe she heard of her, but she had never met with, interacted, observed her at all.
01:00:49.400 But she was given the whole day just to talk about her feelings.
01:00:55.180 That probably works on stupid CBC reporters or other government journalists or people who hate the truckers.
01:01:02.000 But I think that this judge, from what I've seen, what I heard, what I read, I think, I don't think that's working on the judge.
01:01:09.180 In fact, if anything, I think the judge has got the prosecution's number here pretty quick.
01:01:16.820 As you may know, Rebel News published Tamir Leach's autobiography.
01:01:21.140 I mentioned that earlier in the show.
01:01:22.620 And our cousins at the Democracy Fund are crowdfunding her legal defense.
01:01:27.040 And I think the book was a great success.
01:01:29.880 It was the number one bestseller.
01:01:32.540 And I think that the lawyers are going to win, too.
01:01:36.260 I think Tamir Leach is going to win her trial.
01:01:38.140 Now, you should never say that.
01:01:39.400 You should never tempt fate.
01:01:42.060 And a judge doesn't, a judge is sort of poker-faced, right?
01:01:46.160 But the absolute lack of, like, it would not surprise me
01:01:50.540 if Lawrence Greenspawn, the criminal defense lawyer, who's excellent, by the way,
01:01:56.900 and I don't think I would say that lightly.
01:01:59.000 I mean, I met a lot of lawyers in my day.
01:02:00.760 He's excellent.
01:02:02.000 I think there's a real chance he, after the prosecution has done their witnesses,
01:02:07.460 that Greenspawn says, Your Honor, we're calling no evidence.
01:02:13.620 We're calling no witnesses.
01:02:16.220 Let's just go straight to final arguments.
01:02:18.180 There's nothing here, Your Honor.
01:02:19.560 Like, it wouldn't surprise me, because there's so little that the prosecution has.
01:02:25.560 I mean, why even call Tamir Leach as a witness?
01:02:27.880 That would just give the prosecution the chance to cross-examine her.
01:02:30.920 Why even bother?
01:02:31.660 They have nothing.
01:02:32.400 I think it would be quite dramatic for Greenspawn to say, yeah, Your Honor, we don't, we're not going to present any evidence.
01:02:42.600 We're just, we're done.
01:02:44.200 Let's go straight to a verdict.
01:02:46.160 Here's our final thoughts.
01:02:48.740 I'm not sure exactly how that goes.
01:02:50.100 I didn't really practice criminal law when I was a lawyer 20 plus years ago.
01:02:53.740 But something like that, if you know what I mean.
01:02:56.040 Well, it's 2.04.
01:02:58.640 I saw a super chat earlier.
01:03:01.080 Let's just take a look-see.
01:03:03.640 There it is.
01:03:04.600 Frater McBurney, five bucks.
01:03:05.740 I met a friend at Hamilton City Hall.
01:03:07.220 The sidewalk has been under construction all summer.
01:03:09.760 The sidewalk did not need rebuilding.
01:03:11.680 They could have used the money for the homeless.
01:03:13.980 All right.
01:03:16.320 I haven't been to Hamilton in six months.
01:03:20.080 So I, you know, that city, it needs a bit of an infrastructure refresh in some ways.
01:03:26.560 I think a lot of Canadian cities do.
01:03:29.340 Maybe if we could stop wasting money on foolish infrastructure like windmills and solar panels and giving money to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank so China can build infrastructure in Asia.
01:03:40.980 Maybe we could rebuild our own infrastructure.
01:03:44.640 It's 2.04 Eastern Time.
01:03:46.720 I'll be back at 8 p.m. Eastern Time for my show, The Ezra Levant Show.
01:03:50.520 Where I'm actually going to show you, I think, the most impressive journalism I have seen in the 17 days of this terrorist war.
01:04:00.380 And interesting, it was conducted by a Saudi state broadcaster.
01:04:07.080 The best journalism of the war.
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01:04:30.920 All right.
01:04:32.640 From all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters to you at home, until next time, goodbye.
01:04:38.480 And keep fighting for freedom.
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