EZRA LEVANT ｜ Two opinion polls — one will give you hope the other will scare you
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In this episode, Ezra takes you through a bunch of interesting opinion polls, including one that gives you hope, and one that frightens you. Plus, a special interview with a woman who lived through China's cultural revolution, and she'll talk about the madness on North American campuses.
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Hello, my friends. Big show today. I want to take you through a bunch of very interesting
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opinion polls. We'll look at everything from Trudeau's popularity to Elon Musk's popularity
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and what Americans think of the war in the Middle East. I'll also have for you a special
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interview with a woman who lived through China's cultural revolution, and she'll talk about the
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madness on North American campuses. That's ahead. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber
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Okay, thanks very much. Here's today's podcast.
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Tonight, two opinion polls. One will give you hope, and the other will scare you. It's October 24th,
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I saw a few opinion polls in the past few days that I'd like to share with you. Let me tell
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you the encouraging one first. It's from Nick Nanos, who's pretty sympathetic to Trudeau. I'm
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not saying he's inaccurate. I'm just saying he sort of leans that way. I'll let him do the talking.
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Here's his headline. Trudeau at eight-year low in preferred prime minister tracking,
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while Polyev at eight-year high for a conservative leader. Inflation pulling ahead of all other
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issues, says Nanos. Trudeau at eight-year low on preferred PM tracking. Polyev at eight-year high
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for a conservative party leader in tracking. So Nanos does the poll on a really regular basis to get
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those, you know, week-by-week movements or month-by-month. Here's a map, a province-by-province
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model of what Nanos' numbers would look like if it was an election today. So this fella, say,
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okay, what would that look like in Alberta, NBC, etc.? It would be 212 seats for the conservatives,
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huge majority, just 67 for the liberals and 33 for the NDP, and the model suggests seven seats for
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the Greens, which makes me very sad for Victoria and Vancouver Island. Sort of terrifying, actually.
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19 seats for the block and almost one for the People's Party in Portage-Lisgar, but the difference
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between almost one and one is enormous. Look at the map, though. I find BC to be the most shocking. I
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guess, firing Jody Wilson-Raybould for being too honest and ethical wasn't appreciated by that province.
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It's pretty much liberal-free. Really, just Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax are going liberal,
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and looks like maybe about 10 or 15 seats total in the greater Toronto area. Some liberals in
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Winnipeg, but looks like pretty much a wipeout west of Hamilton. It's sort of amazing. Now,
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that's just a poll. It's just a moment in time, but all the polls we see are on the same trend,
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right? Here's another slide from a recent Nanos poll. It measures issues. Inflation, cost of
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housing, jobs. Those are the top three issues they test, but really, aren't those all versions
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of saying the same thing? How's your job going? Can you afford things? How's inflation? How's your
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cost? So, it's the same bundle, don't you think? So, the blue lines there are what people said last
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month. Green is what people say this month. So, you can see all the cost of living issues have
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really grown in just one month, but look at the environment, though. Now, I'm not against the
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environment. Clean water, clean air, clean soil. Everyone wants that, but I think these days all
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Trudeau talks about is global warming and carbon taxes, and on that, nobody cares. That line is
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plunging, isn't it? Global warming, talking about stuff that's imaginary. I know what clean drinking
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water is. Dirty air. If we didn't have those, everyone would be worried, but puffs of CO2 in the air?
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No one can afford that luxury concern anymore. Certainly not when they're being reminded that
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Trudeau thinks he can solve that problem with a higher carbon tax on you, as if that will dent
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the world's carbon dioxide emissions, half of which come from China. I note that terrorism concerns have
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doubled from one to two percent, still very small, but growing. And remember, much of this poll was
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taken before the terrorism in Israel. I guess having street marches of masked men calling for Hamas-style
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intifadas here, well, that can make some people nervous. So that poll gave me some hope, but remember,
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an election could be up to two years away if Trudeau really wanted to stretch it. And you know how the
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media will work hard on getting every NDP voter to strategically vote for the liberals. ABC, they'll say.
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Anybody but the conservatives, anybody but Polyev, they'll say. And we haven't even begun to see how
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explosively biased the CBC state broadcaster will be. I mean, they're awful to begin with, but they know
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that Polyev will defund them. They know this could be their last election if they don't stop him.
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So that Nanos poll gladdened my heart a bit. I look forward to more polls that touch on immigration,
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by the way, from both a housing cost point of view and a violent extremist point of view. I mean, how does this
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make you feel? A million unvetted migrants a year? Maybe we ought to hit pause on that. I think people
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are worried. They're just not asked that question by pollsters. Hey, before I leave the subject, let me
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show you a slide from another Canadian pollster, David Coletto of Abacus, another pro-liberal firm.
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But look at this chart here. Pretty much the most people ever saying they disapprove of Trudeau.
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More than 50% and only 27%, almost exactly half as many saying they approve of Trudeau. But look at
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where the lines really start to split apart. They were pretty much equal since the, you know, during
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the last election in the fall of 2021. But then the trucker convoy started and Trudeau brought in
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martial law, deployed riot police and seized bank accounts. And February 2012, 2022, that's when
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Trudeau's numbers really started to fall. I think the truckers forced some issues there. They deserve
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some credit. Here's the next poll I want to talk to you about, though. It's an American poll. This is by
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a pollster called Harvard Harris. It's a fairly reputable pollster. You've probably heard of it.
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I'm not going to show all of it to you, but I really enjoyed going through it. Those Americans
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have some high-powered pollsters that we just don't have up here. By the way, and this is not what I want to
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focus on, I just couldn't help mention you. Trump is the most popular choice for president in this
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poll, at least the highest approval, with RFK Jr. in second place for approval. Biden's in third,
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Kamala Harris, and then Elon Musk. This is for approval. Elon Musk is loved by Americans. Isn't
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that funny? Because the media party hates him. He's too freedom-oriented. Page 16 of this poll, and this
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is not even what I want to show you. It's just, I can't help but telling you, inflation is the number
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one issue. And look at that. Immigration is the number two issue. Most Canadian pollsters will not
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even ask about immigration. They're too afraid of what people would say. Terrorism and the current
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Israel-Hamas war are growing as issues, too. Look at page 19 of this poll. Most Americans think Joe
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Biden is too old and is losing his mind. I think that's unfortunately a factual truth, and many Democrats
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seem to know him. Page 29. By the way, this poll suggests that it's a three-way race with Biden
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and Trump and RFK Jr. running as an independent. And in that three-way race, Trump wins handily.
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I'm just saying, that's what the poll says. Harvard poll, it's not exactly Republicans.
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What I really wanted to show you, though, was page 39. It talks about the war. 70% of Americans say
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they're following the war closely. I believe that. And 86% say, obviously, it was a terrorist attack,
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no matter what the media says, no matter the fact they don't say the word terrorist. Now, look at page
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42 of the poll. Which side are you on? 84% of Americans say they're on Israel's side. 16% say
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they're on Hamas's side. That's too many who were for Hamas, but I still like, I mean, how many issues
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do you have 84% of any country agreeing on? So that feels somewhat comforting to me.
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But look at the age breakdown. If you're talking about seniors, people over 65,
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95% are for Israel. Still low 90s for the over 55s. But look at the young people. Look at people in
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college, people on Instagram and TikTok. It's 52% to 49% for Israel. Essentially, a statistical tie.
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How? How? How did that happen? How did young people side with barbaric murderers, rapists,
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torturers? How? How did that happen in America? It can't just be ascribed to unassimilated immigrants,
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by the way. If you're at 48%, you're talking to a lot of natural born Americans, old stock Americans,
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if you want to use that phrase. It's not just new income, new immigrants. I'll tell you what it is.
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It's our institutions, our schools, our universities, our social media. And that's what we'll talk
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about when we come back after this short break with a woman who lived through this kind of
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institutional indoctrination. In communist China. Stay with us.
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You know, just a few days before the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel, I was in one of my
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favorite cities, Calgary, because Dr. James Lindsay was giving a speech, a rather professorial speech,
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if I might say, about the roots of woke, of what Marxist critical theory, what cultural Marxism was
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all about. And I was riveted. And he spoke for about 90 minutes. And there were a thousand people
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in the room. I thought, boy, he's being a little bit professorial here, a little bit high intellectual.
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But this populist crowd was hanging on his every word because they had never heard an explanation of
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where did woke come from? What is its purpose? And how can you find all these supposedly contradictory
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groups, but all dedicated to the revolution? But that was the point. And my eyes were so opened by that.
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And in that same vein, I encountered this tweet three days ago by a survivor of Mao's cultural
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revolution, someone who was born in the Soviet-style communism of that country. Well, I don't have to
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say Soviet-style. Mao had his own even worse version of communism. Here's the tweet itself. It shows
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Black Lives Matter flags and queers against Israel apartheid flags and Hamas flags. And Sheevan Fleet
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wrote the same people, the same cause, the same ideology, and the same goal. And I would not have
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understood that were it not for the lecture that Dr. James Lindsay gave a couple weeks ago, a few weeks
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ago now in Calgary. And so what a pleasure to have back the author of that simple but profound tweet,
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Sheevan Fleet, the author of the forthcoming book, Mao's America, A Survivor's Warning. I can hardly wait
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to get my hands on that book. But today we're going to talk about that very interesting tweet. Sheevan Fleet,
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great to see you again. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule. Congratulations on the book.
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We'll have a proper sit-down where we go through the book. I want to read it first so I have some
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smart questions to ask about it. Yeah, thank you. But you have given us a great education
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on the ways of the Maoist revolution and how it is being replicated by cultural Marxism in North
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America. Can you explain for our viewers, who maybe missed your last appearance on the show,
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explain how you would say that Black Lives Matter, the Pride, you know, Queers for Palestine and the
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pro-Hamas movement, how are those the same people with the same goal? Explain that for people who might not
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know how that could possibly be true. Yes. Some of them look kind of contradictory, but it is not. It's very
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consistent because it runs on the same, I call it, operating system and it's called
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oppressors versus oppressed. That's what I was indoctrinated. And that's how Mao carried out his revolution.
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And it's always, people are always divided into two. And one is the villain and the oppressor and the
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other is the oppressed, the victim. And everything you look, you look through that lens and then you put
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your value based on that lens. That means black and white thinking. That means oppressors, bad and
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oppressed good. That anything that oppressed due to the oppressor is justified. Anything. Okay. That's
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exactly how the revolution was carried out in China during the land reform in the early 1950s, 1951 to 1953.
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Mao took over China after that and then mobilized the peasants to go against the landlord, the property
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class, because they were the bad guys. They were the oppressors. They confiscated their land and then they
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labeled them the oppressor and then struggled and had struggle session against them. And they beat, tortured and killed
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two million of those landlords. Their crime, wealth, or just their own a little bit more than their neighbor.
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And during the Cultural Revolution, they carry out the same principle, oppressor versus oppressed. Who are
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the oppressors? Now they were the teachers and the, and the principals because Mao called them the reactionary,
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bourgeois intellectual authority. So overnight they become the enemy and that justify for the red
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guards to go after their teachers and their prince. The first killing took place in the Cultural Revolution in
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1966 was done by a group of young girls. Young girls, eh? Young girls from 12 to 16, from a very, very
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prestigious high school in Beijing. They killed their principal because their principal is labeled
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as the oppressor or the enemy. And actually there's no consequence. Some of the killers, because they're
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from the elite school and they're from the elite family, some of them immigrate to America and
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enjoying their American dream. And their principal, no justice. And that's exactly what I see happening in
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America, especially today on our streets and on campuses through the same lengths. They had the same way of
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thinking, black and white. Oppressors, bad, oppressed, good. Anything is justified. That includes killing,
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raping, and kidnapping. Because that's done to the oppressed, by the press to the oppressor. Same ideology,
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same people. Why could they do that? Because they're from the same indoctrination mills. And the red guards,
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in fact, they were indoctrinated by the SECP. And here, they were indoctrinated by the Marxist-run
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universities and the secondary schools. Wow. That's how they think the same.
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You know, it was amazing to hear Dr. James Lindsay's speech, and he compared the red guard,
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which was young people, as you point out. Young people. And he called, he compared it to the green guard,
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which is what he called environmental extremists, including Greta Thunberg. And he called, he also
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talked about the rainbow guard, which would be the critical gender theory, queer theory.
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And that's how it can make sense. Because we see these queers for Palestine. And I keep thinking,
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in Hamas-controlled Gaza, if you're gay, there are no transgender people who go out and about in drag.
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They would be thrown off the top of apartment buildings. That's how they're treated. So I keep
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thinking, how on earth could you be an out-of-the-closet, flamboyant, gay man or woman,
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supporting a regime that believes that you should be murdered for your homosexuality?
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And the only possible answer is both regard themselves as oppressed people who would do
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anything to get the oppressor. And, and so they're all for revolution. You know, homosexuality
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or environmentalism or Hamas or Black Lives Matter. Those are just different variations on the theme.
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The theme being revolution. Is that, I mean, that, once I heard that, it clicked.
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Can I explain, can I explain a little bit more? So why do you think that it makes sense that,
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you know, the same people that decry a misgendering, a simple misgendering,
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somewhat, sometimes it's honest misgendering, they consider that crime. They consider that actual
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violence. And then in front of this real atrocity, they justify. If you put that lens,
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and then look at things that make perfect sense. And when I say the same goal, what's this,
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what's the goal? Who is the ultimate oppressor? That's the United States of America. And that's
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their after. That's their real goal. They want to dismantle this country and, and, and dismantle
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capitalism, the free market. That's their goal. So everything else put together, simple communism.
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And that's something I experienced. And that's exactly what's going on here with a little bit
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different variation. But the same is the same. And I guess that's why there's such a push from the
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left, including from the media, to doubt and, and raise skepticism about the torture of these Israeli
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victims. To say, oh, it didn't happen. It's, it's fake news. We interviewed a young woman in Mississauga
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who said, it's completely not true. None of Hamas would never do any of those things. But if they did,
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it was totally justified. Like it was an amazing, um, psychological trick she did. But I guess the
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reason they have to say that is because if they admit that their side did the raping, murdering,
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torturing, kidnapping, then, you know, maybe the Israelis and the Jews were the oppressed and not the
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oppressors. So they have to force things back. Well, they were the oppressors and that's why it was
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justified against them because you're allowed to murder an oppressor, even if that oppressor is
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like a two year old baby. It's shocking to see what this looks like in real life. But I guess that's
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how it was in communist China. There were atrocities. Tell us about that. I mean, you already said 14,
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15, 16 year old girls murdered their school principal. Was, was violence the way, I mean,
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how many people were killed in these sort of oppressor versus oppressed, uh, or oppressed versus
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oppressor, uh, Marxist battles? Millions, millions. And I can tell you one story, maybe relate more to
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what happened in God, uh, in, uh, Israel. Okay. During the Cultural Revolution in October of 1966,
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that's the beginning of the Red Guards movement. They killed, um, 1700 people in Beijing, but that's
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not enough. They went on to the neighboring county and they went to, uh, 48 villages and killed those
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former oppressor, meaning those people that used to own land or their parents used to own land.
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They killed hundreds of them. They tortured them and they split little baby into halves. Oh my God. And, uh,
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for what? For what? For one thing, the ideology tells them those were enemies. Anything down to them
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is justified. So I have to tell Americans the first step to commit violence like those Red Guards did
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is to accept, justify, and to celebrate violence. That's what we see on American campuses. That's
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what we see on the streets. And that is not a warning. That is violence coming in the near future,
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if we don't stop it. Wow. Now, let me ask you a question. Again, some of my questions are emanating
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from that speech I heard Dr. Lindsay give, um, let's say that the violent revolution is successful
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as it, as it has been in, in various countries. What happens to these contradictions? Like,
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I mean, God forbid, and I certainly hope that we win this battle, but let's say there were queers for
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Palestine and there was Hamas and let's say they succeeded. Uh, would there be a liquidation?
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Would there be a, would there be an internal, uh, settling of scores? Like what happened
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in Mao's China once certain things were accomplished? Once the Red Guard killed the landowners, killed the
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professors, killed the four olds, killed intellectuals, killed the old school. What was done with the killers?
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Like you've got this group of- I know. What happened then? That's something those, uh, uh,
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progressive activists should know. They will be the next. That's what happened to the Red Guards. After they did
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what Mao wanted them to do, that means got rid of all those in power, um, and took power back for Mao,
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and did all this damage, and destroyed all those four olds. What happened to them? They were exiled. Exiled to
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the countryside, to work in the fields. Some of them were sent to virgin land to cultivate those land,
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and many, many of them suffered so much afterwards. In today, uh, China, many mental hospitals have a
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special division for just those young, uh, people that were sent to the countryside, and then they never
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recovered. And those, those people were called the lost generation. And that's what happened to the, uh,
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uh, um, Mao's youthful idiots. And this same thing, absolutely no doubt. The same thing will happen to
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the PMMs and Tifa, those, uh, trans activists. The same thing. They just need you now to make chaos,
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to help them to get power. After your youthful is over, you will be sent to gulags, or worse.
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Hmm. Now you say that the Cultural Revolution started in 1966. Of course, Mao, uh, took over,
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I guess, 17 years earlier, if my, if my history of dates is correct. So he had basically one
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generation to teach these young people to hate. And I look at the Hitler youth. Hitler didn't have
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quite as much time, but he did train young people to hate. Um, and, and that was a peaceful,
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liberal Christian country, but he had his way with them. In Gaza, they have had control,
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the Hamas has had control there for more than 15 years. And, and we've seen videos of young people,
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as young as kindergarten, being taught not just to hate Jews, but to deal with Jews violently.
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What scares me is that you have a whole, that all of Gaza has been put through this brainwashing,
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the same way the Red Guard were the same way the Hitler youth were. And that even if Israel is able
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to smash the Hamas terrorist group and kill its leaders and kill its terrorists, what scares me
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is you've got millions, literally millions of Gazans who have been indoctrinated, propagandized,
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taught to hate, even trained to kill. How do you denazify them? How do you, like, what did,
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did China eventually try and pull the plug? Did Mao, he said he, when he thought the Red Guard did the,
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outlived their usefulness. How do you turn around a madness like that? How do you end the craziness?
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Well, as you said, the, uh, hate came from, um, um, indoctrination. Hate was taught in China. Hate is
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been taught in Gaza and here in America. Right. So the hate is the active ingredient for
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a totalitarian regime. They have to have the, uh, the hate in order to divide people, in order to
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control them. And in Hitler's Germany, it was easier. It was, uh, hating someone who have a different
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religion or who have, uh, belong to a different race. In China, it was a little difficult because
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we're all Chinese. Most of 95% of us were Han Chinese, have the same language, same, you know,
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same people. And it took them 17 years. Exactly. From 1949 to 1966, 17 years, totally, totally brainwashed.
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I have to tell you a little story so you can have better understanding. So in 1957, Mao launched an
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anti-rightist campaign to weed out those people that have incorrect thoughts. By 1966, there's no
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rightist. There's no, nobody or the young people, very few of them have incorrect thought. They all had
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the correct thought that they were taught. So that is the power of indoctrination. After a few generations,
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yes, it's all brainwashed, absolutely believing nothing, but they were taught. And that's,
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is exactly going on in our school. It's absolutely terrifying. I mean, it's one thing for me to talk
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about Gaza and Hamas, but, and yes, a lot of the people marching in the streets of Britain and Canada
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are Muslim immigrants to our countries, but it, you absolutely have to notice the, uh, native-born or the,
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the born in Canada, born in America, born in Europe, white post-Christian Marxists who grew up
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in London, New York, Toronto, Calgary, and were corrupted by our woke institutions, not by
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a terrorist group called Hamas, not by an Islamic fascist, but by our institutions, our schools.
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That's, that's just as scary. And we have responsibility for that. We can't blame
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the white antisemitism on Islam. Something happened in North America to foster that indoctrination. And,
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and that cannot be blamed on radical Islam. That's something else.
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It's here. It's absolutely, it is. It came from, uh, the, uh, our institutions. It came from the, uh,
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universities and our secondary schools. So that's what I always say. Those were the result of
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indoctrination. And, uh, I would think that what's happening on the street is more concerning about how our
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young people are thinking more so than the conflict over there in the Middle East.
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We should be very, very alarmed that we have the young generation who do not know right from wrong
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and who believe in one thing. And that is the ideology they were taught. And that's
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absolutely black and white thinking. You're either wrong or either right, uh, or, or right. You're
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either good or bad. And that is, uh, what do we see in America today?
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And as you point out, the violence in Mao's Red Guard, the violence in Hamas, and even the
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violence of the Black Lives Matter movement, which rioted and committed arson across America,
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that is the response to people who have wrong thoughts. Well, what a education to catch up with
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you. We've been talking with Xi Van Fleet. She's the author of Mao's America, a survivor's warning.
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Now, is that book available yet? I haven't read it yet. Is it for sale yet?
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It is for pre-order. It will come out October 31st.
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And I really hope that your audience will get the book. In the book, I really describe
00:30:28.640
what happened in China and compare everything that is going on today. When you see that comparison,
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when you see that parallel, you realize what's going on in America today is a full-blowing Marxist
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revolution, which burned China to the ground. And if we don't stop it, it will burn America to the
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And Canada, too. Well, that's one week from now. When that book is available, I'm going to read it,
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and I want to read it so my questions to you are a little bit more precise and a little bit on
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point. But I would love to have you back. And it's sort of telling that the book is coming out
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on Halloween. Halloween is about pretend horrors like ghosts and Frankenstein.
00:31:10.880
What you're describing is actually, I mean, just in sheer absolute numbers, Mao is responsible for
00:31:22.160
Yeah. So I look forward to reading that book as a warning. It's called Mao's America Survivor's
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Warning. So we'll have you back when that book is out, and we'll have a good, hearty discussion
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going through it chapter by chapter. And until then, keep up the fight. Keep talking about freedom.
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And keep trying to warn us. Keep trying to wake us up, Shi.
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All right. What a pleasure. Shi Van Fleet, the author of the forthcoming book, Mao's America.
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We will read it, and we will interview her again.
00:32:02.400
Yes, Ezra. So on the front line here at the Israel-Gaza border. So the last 24 hours has been
00:32:08.320
interesting. When we left off yesterday, there was talk of a hostage release of 50 hostages,
00:32:14.400
which didn't eventuate because the IDF, the Israeli government, refusing to give into the demand of
00:32:24.480
Hamas to transfer fuel to the terrorist organization. So in response, Hamas did not release the 50
00:32:33.840
dual-citizen hostages that they were planning to hand over. Instead, they released two hostages,
00:32:40.640
two elderly women, an 85-year-old, today speaking for the first time to the media.
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Within her, it was actually quite telling what she was saying in her full, when you listen to her full
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press conference and questions and answers. But one thing I note is haters of Israel certainly cutting
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certain bits of what she was saying, trying to prove that somehow, there we go, that's the first bit of
00:33:12.320
noise that we're seeing in the last few hours here. But after, what we did see is Israel haters using
00:33:21.920
her press conference, cutting small segments, trying to act like she was saying that Hamas was treating
00:33:27.440
them well. But yeah, obviously cutting out the context, including the context that they still have
00:33:32.720
her husband in there. So obviously, in the back of her mind, trying to protect him. On top of that,
00:33:39.920
we saw overnight, the IDF eliminating the Hamas leader responsible for the Baeri Kibbutz massacre.
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And in the last few hours, eliminating about, they're reporting about up to 10 Hamas terrorists,
00:33:56.400
trying to infiltrate the Kibbutz Zikkim through the water. So there's a lot going on at the moment.
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However, it has been pretty quiet in the last few hours, besides for that latest explosion you just
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heard with us. Otherwise, we, the team did go down and followed up a few stories close to the border
00:34:18.880
in Ashkelon, speaking to visiting a man's house that had been hit directly by one of the rockets
00:34:27.200
from Hamas, just kind of showing the impact and the daily life, the last 20 years for Israelis
00:34:33.680
along this border. Remember, these rockets is not a new thing. They have, you can see in the video,
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he has, they have to build apartments with the bunker inside. That's part of regulation when you
00:34:46.560
build here, especially in Ashkelon. So they've been quite used to that. But he did say on that
00:34:51.520
specific day, on the day of the attack, October 7, the barrage was heavier than usual, much heavier than
00:34:58.320
usual. And he got tired of going into the bunker. He was actually about to walk out and make a coffee
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when his wife banned him. He was more scared, he says, of his wife than he, he was of the threat
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of rockets. But lucky he listened to her because that was a direct hit. And you can see the footage
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of the, the horrific impact that could have. He's thankful and he's grateful. And he says, you know
00:35:23.760
what, he, he may have lost his apartment and all his stuff and his belongings that means a lot to him.
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But he has his, you know, he's grateful that he's not like many of the other victims of that horrific
00:35:35.760
day of the war and the siren after siren after siren. And on the 10th, you know, my wife actually
00:35:41.840
saved me alive because they were hitting, they were launching their rockets indiscriminately. I mean,
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in order to hit and to kill Jews as many as possible. So on the 10th siren, I decided, okay,
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I should go out from the shelter inside the apartment, make coffee. So I did it. And there
00:36:01.600
was once again a siren and my wife called me back. I didn't want to hurt her. I'm just married,
00:36:06.480
you know, it's very dangerous. I mean, even more dangerous than the rockets. So I came back,
00:36:12.000
closed the door, and then I saw the flash of orange light. I mean, the blast, heat, explosion.
00:36:18.480
I mean, the building was like, you know, I don't know how to shake it precisely. I opened the door,
00:36:26.000
and if you saw stranger things, like upside down, the same area. I mean, everything is dust,
00:36:34.160
like dust in the air, dust is everything. I mean, the burn thing, this smell of the burn stuff,
00:36:41.760
not a pleasant thing. In addition to that, we also went to see the hospital in Beersheva,
00:36:53.280
which is a large hospital, the largest southern hospital, where a lot of the victims,
00:36:59.520
both civilians and soldiers, were transferred to after the attack. We spoke to the director of the
00:37:05.680
ICU, who basically, again, just reconfirmed some of the horrific stories we've heard,
00:37:15.920
and more from the medical perspective, and somebody that was leading the hospital through all of that,
00:37:21.120
and how unprepared they were at the time for it. You know, he was telling us they had generally one
00:37:26.720
operating theater running, but it was a weekend, and it was a Jewish holiday, and it was Shabbat,
00:37:34.320
and so they really didn't have anything going, but they managed to pull up 13 theaters in a very
00:37:40.480
short amount of time, pointing out that, you know, the idea that this is an apartheid state is laughable,
00:37:46.800
because not only were many of the victims Arabs, but also many of the team, the staff and the doctors
00:37:54.080
and the nurses were Arabs themselves as well. Finally, when we left the hospital, we also managed to
00:38:00.400
catch up with some ambulance paramedics that were first responders on the day. These are not
00:38:06.800
volunteers like we saw yesterday, as we caught up with a makeshift paramedic command center,
00:38:15.920
which was for 7,000 volunteers. This one was actually the state paramedics, the ones that,
00:38:22.160
the Magin David Adom, that is, you know, the paid professional paramedics, and they were the first
00:38:26.960
responders on that day, and they relayed, again, some of the atrocities that happened, you know,
00:38:33.920
just reminding us, reminding the world why Israel is going in to defend its citizens. You know,
00:38:41.360
you've got the hostages in there still, the 210 plus hostages, but, you know, that horrific day
00:38:46.640
where you saw 1,400 civilians butchered, maimed, kidnapped, raped, some of the, you know, some of
00:38:54.720
the scariest scenes you've ever seen in Israel's history. United Hatzalah has 7,000 volunteers.
00:39:01.280
There are people who work for Hatzalah, but those are more the logistics side. In terms of being an
00:39:04.800
EMT and a paramedic, in Hatzalah it's all volunteers. So we all have our jobs, and then in the middle of
00:39:10.160
the day, if there's a call arises, you go and respond to the call, you take time off of work, and you do
00:39:15.040
what's needed, so. Like, it's quite evident just looking around that many of the people
00:39:19.600
here that are volunteering are what, you know, are considered ultra-orthodox Jews. You generally
00:39:25.760
don't see many of them in the army. It's a broad spectrum. It's a broad spectrum.
00:39:30.720
Very broad spectrum. Like, right now, I think you're seeing more of a concentration of the
00:39:33.840
orthodox Jews, of the ultra-orthodox Jews, because a lot of volunteers have been drafted,
00:39:38.000
and they're all over the country. There were, if you turn around and see those pallets over there,
00:39:41.520
those are the empty leftover pallets. This whole place was filled with pallets of water, of dry
00:39:47.840
goods, food. There was clothing. There were, yeah, all of those things. And there were volunteers from
00:39:54.720
the nearby communities that were coming, along with our own logistics people, under the direction of our
00:39:59.840
logistics people, to pack things up for families that were displaced from Stay Road and from other
00:40:04.880
communities here. They were taken to hotels without anything, or to other families without any of their own
00:40:09.680
belongings. And Ikharat Salah took care of creating care packages for those families and for soldiers,
00:40:17.280
who also were brought so quickly to their bases. They didn't have time to prepare, you know.
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And the bases didn't have time to prepare, so they were bringing things also for the soldiers.
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But until tomorrow, we'll be here live at thetruthaboutthewar.com.
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Ezra, so all the viewers that are interested in seeing it unfold, we'll be here to catch it.
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Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.