The world s most evil regimes have long relied on America s media to provide them cover, and today is no different. CNN's Wolf Blitzer and the New York Times, for example, draw moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel when it comes to targeting civilians, and when Israel strikes a Hamas commander near a refugee camp. But according to Blitzer, Israel's legitimate military actions are apparently morally equivalent to Hamas' slaughter of babies in their cribs. This, of course, follows hard on the heels of CNN's coverage of a major blood libel attack in which the entire legacy media parroted the lie that Israel had struck a hospital, killing a lot of people. In reality, in reality, a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad hit a hospital near a parking lot near the hospital. The damage was done, and the only question is: How bad was the damage? Too late, though, because this is how it works at the media. We'll get to that the next time we get to the case in favor of morality and stand up for the worst people in the world's worst people, because that has never been worth it, no matter how chaotic it may seem. You might want to diversify, as it is, because it has never, ever been worth zero. You want to want to get into something that is worth zero, because you might want something that has been worth something, though it is chaotic, and might be worth something worth zero? And for every means we have to escalate, the next way, the enemy can match us in a give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation, and a terrible escalation? And that s going to end in a stalemate, or a give and take negotiations, or terrible escalations, and for every chance we have a terrible chance of victory? We ll get to get to zero in the next episode of the next one, we ll get there soon, we'll get that next week, right here, soon, by the end of the week, by a little bit, by way of a tweet or two, by tweet me . Tweet Me! Timestamps: <3 - - - What do you think of this? - Timestimated number of people killed in a rocket attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in Gaza by Israel's attack on the Golan Heights? -- -- What would you like to see?
00:00:00.000In 1968, at the beginning of the Tet Lunar New Year, the Viet Cong violated a temporary ceasefire by launching a major invasion across South Vietnam.
00:00:08.000The offensive was a military catastrophe for the Viet Cong.
00:00:11.000It essentially defenestrated them as a serious fighting force in South Vietnam and ended with them retreating from all captured territory.
00:00:18.000The military loss, however, was not the real story.
00:00:23.000Walter Cronkite, America's most trusted news anchor, was in actuality a partisan leftist, but he masqueraded as an objective journalist.
00:00:30.000And so, on receiving news of the Tet Offensive, Cronkite went on the air and proceeded to inform the American people that the war in Vietnam was being lost.
00:00:37.000He flew to Vietnam to investigate the situation himself, and upon his return, he said this.
00:00:42.000For it seems now more certain than ever That the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
00:00:49.000This summer's almost certain standoff will either end in real give-and-take negotiations or terrible escalation.
00:00:57.000And for every means we have to escalate, the enemy can match us.
00:01:02.000And that applies to invasion of the North, the use of nuclear weapons, or the mere commitment of 100 or 200 or 300,000 more American troops to the battle.
00:01:13.000And with each escalation, The world comes closer to the brink of cosmic disaster.
00:01:19.000The Vietnam War wasn't primarily lost on the battlefield.
00:01:22.000It was lost in the hearts and minds of the American people, and it was lost in large part because of the American news media.
00:01:28.000The American news media has rarely covered itself in glory covering foreign policy.
00:01:32.000The New York Times famously covered for Stalin's Holodomor his starvation of millions of his own citizens in Ukraine, deploying corrupt and venal Walter Duranty to cover for the evil dictator.
00:01:42.000The New York Times largely backpaged the Holocaust itself.
00:01:46.000The world's most evil regimes have routinely relied on America's media to provide them cover.
00:01:51.000Hamas is an evil, genocidal terrorist group, yet they receive widespread sympathy because the media create that sympathy.
00:01:58.000They do so through a variety of methods.
00:02:00.000First, and most obviously, they draw moral equivalence between Hamas, which targets civilians for death, both Israeli and its own, and Israel, which seeks to avoid killing civilians when it targets members of Hamas.
00:02:11.000Take, for example, Wolf Blitzer's questioning of an IDF commander yesterday after Israel hit a Hamas command tunnel network in Jabalia, a major city in the Gaza Strip often characterized by the media as a refugee camp.
00:02:24.000But even if that Hamas commander was there amidst all those Palestinian refugees who were in that Jabalia refugee camp, Israel still went ahead and dropped a bomb there, attempting to kill this Hamas commander, knowing that a lot of innocent civilians, men, women, and children, presumably, would be killed.
00:03:09.000I mean, we, as you know, we've been saying for days, move south.
00:03:13.000Civilians that are not involved with Hamas, please move south.
00:03:18.000I'm just trying to get a little bit more information.
00:03:20.000You knew there were civilians there, you knew there were refugees, all sorts of refugees, but you decided to still drop a bomb on that refugee camp attempting to kill the Hamas commander.
00:03:30.000That's Blitzer repeatedly blaming Israel for the fact that Hamas deliberately hides beneath civilian areas, and then calling on Israel to effectively preemptively surrender in order to avoid civilian casualties.
00:03:40.000If this were truly a civilian tensor alone, massive tunnel craters simply wouldn't be there.
00:03:45.000The ground actually collapsed after the bombs hit.
00:03:50.000But according to Wolf Blitzer and CNN, Israel's legitimate military actions are apparently morally equivalent to Hamas' slaughter of babies in their cribs.
00:03:58.000This, of course, follows hard on the New York Times accepting the word of Hamas about military strikes and casualties, resulting in a major blood libel in which the entire legacy media parroted that Israel had struck a hospital killing 500 people.
00:04:09.000In reality, a misfired Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket hit a parking lot near the hospital.
00:04:16.000Because this is how it works at the media.
00:04:19.000We'll get to the next way that the media undermine the case in favor of morality and stand up for the world's worst people in just one second.
00:04:26.000First, With all this turmoil in the world, with the economy on tenterhooks, with it seeming as though everything is chaotic, you might want to diversify into something that has never been worth zero.
00:04:36.000You might want to diversify into precious metals the same way that I do.
00:04:39.000We keep on spending and spending and spending and spending, and Joe Biden's going to keep spending and spending.
00:04:42.000The devaluation of the dollar is coming.
00:05:31.000So, the first strategy is the moral equivalent strategy.
00:05:34.000It is the easiest strategy the media love, the moral equivalent strategy, because it allows them to pretend that Western countries targeting bad guys are the same as the bad guys.
00:05:46.000Comedian Norm Macdonald tweeted in December 2016, quote, What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear
00:05:51.000device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims.
00:05:55.000Macdonald's joke is actually the media's strategy for moral equivalence.
00:05:59.000As antisemitism rises around the globe, as millions of radical Muslims, including in the West, march in favor of Hamas, the media are treating Muslims all over the world as a victim group.
00:06:09.000Thus, the New York Times ran an op-ed today, in the midst of the widest global increase in antisemitism of my lifetime, decrying the supposed rise in Islamophobia.
00:06:16.000The author was one Rosina Ali, quote, a journalist who covers war, Islamophobia, and the Middle East.
00:06:21.000Her article explained, quote, For those who experienced waves of harassment and government surveillance in the years after September 11th, the President's pledge of unwavering support for Israel set off alarm bells.
00:06:32.000Yes, according to this New York Times columnist, supporting Israel is cover for Islamophobia.
00:06:36.000She also insists that, quote, from college campuses to places of work, people are facing retribution for expressing support for Palestinians that is being misconstrued as anti-Israel or pro-Hamas.
00:06:47.000That is a lie, given that protests against Israel began even before Israeli counter-strikes, and these protests routinely feature chants for the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:06:57.000They're not exactly hiding the message.
00:06:59.000As for Ali herself, her Twitter feed shows that on October 7th, the date of Hamas's massacre, she didn't tweet at all.
00:07:05.000But she did retweet a post complaining that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was telling civilians to leave potential war zones in anticipation of military action.
00:07:12.000In fact, Ali has posted precisely zero times decrying Hamas's brutality.
00:07:17.000But she did find time to retweet posts calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
00:07:21.000Finally, there's the third media strategy.
00:07:23.000Pretending that anti-Semitism isn't a major problem.
00:07:26.000It's actually just a side effect of political contentiousness.
00:07:29.000Which means, in the end, it's really springing from the cycle of violence.
00:07:33.000Which means, in the end, it's really springing from Israeli policy.
00:07:36.000Which means, in the end, it's really coming from the Jews, the media.
00:09:32.000Why do you think it's acceptable to tear down missing posters of kidnapped people?
00:09:38.000Well, the people who are supposedly pro-Palestinian but not pro-Hamas, they're making it very difficult to make that case when they're ripping down posters of people kidnapped by Hamas.
00:09:46.000Again, by the way, it should be pointed out here that zero of the pro-Palestinian protests that are supposedly also not pro-Hamas have called for Hamas to surrender.
00:09:55.000As in, you can't find anyone who's doing that.
00:09:57.000So this is all pretty clear evidence of widespread anti-Semitism, no?
00:10:01.000Well, not according to the New York Times.
00:10:03.000Here's how the New York Times is reporting all of this, quote, Displaying the posters has become a form of activism, keeping the more than 200 hostages seized by Hamas in full view of the public.
00:10:12.000But removing the posters has quickly emerged as its own form of protest, a release valve, and also a provocation by those anguished by what they say was the Israeli government's mistreatment of Palestinians in the years before October 7th and since the bombing of Gaza began.
00:10:26.000Not only the third strategy, but the first strategy.
00:10:28.000You get the third strategy, which is to pretend that anti-Semitism doesn't exist, and the first strategy, which is moral equivalence.
00:10:34.000Because obviously, Israel targeting terrorists and accidentally hitting civilians is the same as Hamas kidnapping small babies and keeping them in tunnels.
00:10:42.000But the New York Times has more, quote, the battle has inflamed already tense emotions
00:10:46.000and it captures one of the most fervently debated questions of the war, whose suffering should command public attention
00:11:12.000Now, by the way, this is the same New York Times that was out there ripping on people, destroying their lives for not posting the Black Lives Matter square or the obligatory lawn sign saying Black Lives Matter.
00:11:23.000Here's the Daily Dot playing the same exact game, quote, Some are wondering if the posters are being strategically placed to entrap those who tear them down, many of whom support the Palestinian people.
00:11:33.000Yes, you see, those posters have short skirts.
00:11:47.000The Jews are causing it by putting up pieces of paper with the faces of babies that have been kidnapped by an evil terrorist group and will likely die in tunnels never seeing their first birthday.
00:12:02.000I mean, this breathing thing is annoying.
00:12:06.000Hamas and its allies are relying utterly on the legacy media, both in America and in Europe, to cover for them and to provide political pressure on politicians to cut their support to Israel in the midst of their war with Hamas.
00:12:16.000That's precisely why Hamas is planting civilians in harm's way.
00:12:20.000To maximize casualties for the cameras.
00:12:23.000Hamas would not do that if the media were not playing along.
00:12:28.000The media's responsibility for the current conflict is massive.
00:12:31.000The media have consistently and repeatedly pretended that Hamas terror is the same as legitimate military response, thus incentivizing the terror for the cameras.
00:12:40.000The media have repeatedly and consistently suggested That if Israel hits civilians while attempting to kill terrorists, this is the equivalent of what Hamas does, thus incentivizing, creating the full incentive for Hamas to get as many civilians killed as possible.
00:13:07.000The answer is that the legacy media is salted with members of an international left dedicated to the proposition that the West, Israel included, is itself fatally flawed and colonialist.
00:13:16.000All the college radicals we were supposed to ignore, they were going to grow up, they were going to pay taxes, get jobs.
00:13:20.000Well, they did grow up and they went into journalism.
00:13:23.000These media outlets hire local partisan activists to freelance for them, including Hitler supporters, anti-Semites, to cover the Gaza Strip.
00:13:32.000These media outlets see their mission as the restoration of justice in the universe.
00:13:35.000Justice, of course, meaning the destruction of the West's power in the name of the supposedly oppressed of the Earth.
00:13:41.000If the legacy media get their way, the West will fall into disarray.
00:13:44.000And so far, they are succeeding admirably.
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00:14:47.000Okay, so, on the international front, the battle in the media is a major part of what is going on.
00:14:54.000Because on the ground, Israel is winning.
00:14:56.000Last night, as mentioned, Israel struck a series of tunnel complexes under the Jabalia quote-unquote refugee camp.
00:15:04.000I'm saying quote-unquote because it's actually just a city.
00:15:06.000People are calling areas in the Gaza Strip refugee camps as though these people are going to be imported into Haifa or something.
00:15:13.000There are giant buildings that have been there since 1948 and before.
00:15:17.000So many of the quote-unquote refugee camps that you're seeing are actually just cities.
00:15:21.000And calling refugee camps is a way of weaponizing them against the future of the state of Israel.
00:15:25.000But Israel did strike a bunch of tunnel complexes.
00:15:28.000They've killed an enormous number of members of Hamas's leadership.
00:15:31.000They're penetrating deep into the Gaza Strip, particularly in the northern portion of the Gaza Strip.
00:15:36.000And so that's creating desperation on the part of Hamas, which you are seeing in them now attempting to say that they're going to release some passport holders.
00:15:43.000American passport holders were being held up by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:15:46.000They're not being allowed to leave via the Rafah crossing.
00:15:49.000Apparently, Hamas is now thinking about maybe allowing that to happen because they're trying to create some sort of sentiment that they're not all that bad.
00:15:55.000I mean, they are releasing people with dual passports.
00:15:58.000You'll see Hamas in future weeks, I would assume.
00:16:01.000Say the same about dual passport holders among the hostages that they are currently holding in an attempt to buy off America, for example.
00:16:06.000You may see them take some people with dual nationality, Israeli-American nationality, and release some of those people in an attempt to buy off the Americans.
00:16:14.000Which, of course, is a sickness of its own, because now you have Nazi-type selection, in which if you have the right passport, you go to the right and live, and if you have the wrong passport, you go to the left and you die in the tunnels with these evil monsters.
00:16:28.000So what Hamas is relying upon is that the international community will stop Israel from finishing them off.
00:16:33.000That's what they're relying upon right now.
00:16:35.000Because on the ground, Israel is in fact winning.
00:16:39.000Which is why you are seeing ancillary groups like the Houthis suddenly decide to get in.
00:16:43.000All of these groups are being run by Hamas.
00:16:45.000Yesterday, the Yemen Houthi rebels entered the war with Israel.
00:16:49.000After it launched drones and missiles at the south of the country earlier today, all that stuff was shot down.
00:16:53.000The Houthis are part of the Iranian Axis of Resistance.
00:16:55.000It must be noted at this point that the Iranian Houthis were a State Department-labeled terrorist group under the Trump administration.
00:17:01.000One of the first moves of the Biden administration was to remove the Houthis from the terror list, despite their charming slogan, death to the Jews, death to America.
00:17:09.000So now they've decided that they are going to enter the war.
00:17:10.000Now, do they have the projective power to seriously impact Israel?
00:17:42.000The reason that Hezbollah has not gotten in full scale is because My theory of this entire conflict is that this was generated by Iran in order to stave off the Saudi peace process.
00:17:53.000I think everybody who understands geopolitics understands that this is what's happening right now.
00:17:57.000And the reason is because that process has been working amazingly well.
00:18:03.000Ali al-Noimi, who's the head of foreign affairs and defense committee in the UAE parliament said quote,
00:18:07.000from the UAE perspective the Abraham Accords are here to stay. We want everyone to acknowledge
00:18:10.000and accept that Israel is there to exist. That is, that's a strong statement. Okay, so the
00:18:16.000Iranians were afraid that they would be boxed in.
00:18:18.000They were afraid that a Saudi, Egyptian, Jordanian, UAE alliance, that this would effectively create a massive counterbalance boxing them in, in the Middle East.
00:18:27.000And so the Iranians struck out using Hamas.
00:18:30.000Now, my guess is that they didn't think Hamas was going to succeed in this terror attack as far as it did.
00:18:35.000They probably believed that Israel's wall was going to hold, that the, this is not the first time that people have tried to breach the wall.
00:18:41.000They probably figured that they would attack with 1,500, 2,000 terrorists, Pretty much all of them would be killed, but they would end up killing a couple of hundred Israeli civilians and kidnapping 10 or 20 of them.
00:18:52.000And this would be enough to create a serious Israeli military response, but not enough that the world would actually be okay with allowing Israel to do that sort of thing.
00:19:00.000And so it drives Saudi off the ball in terms of creating a peace deal with the Israelis.
00:19:05.000That was probably the original intent.
00:19:06.000And then it turns out that Hamas succeeded beyond its wildest imaginings.
00:19:09.000They ended up killing 1,500 people inside Israel and kidnapping over 200 people.
00:19:14.000They couldn't help themselves because this is how much they hate Jews.
00:19:17.000And so Iran, I think, feels a little bit like the dog that caught the car.
00:19:20.000Hamas is about to get taken off the board.
00:19:22.000Hamas was one of their knights on the chessboard.
00:19:24.000Hamas is about to get completely destroyed and eviscerated, as well it should be.
00:19:28.000And the last thing they want is probably Hezbollah, which is a significantly more powerful piece on the border city of Rukh.
00:19:33.000They don't want that being taken out by the Israelis as well.
00:19:36.000So instead, they're sort of prodding around the edges.
00:19:38.000But all of this, again, is the result of the success of Israel's military activities right now.
00:19:44.000Meanwhile, Egypt is saying that it is not going to take in anyone, anyone from the Gaza Strip.
00:19:51.000In fact, which by the way, this should be an indicator of just how dangerous Egypt perceives The people in the Gaza Strip to be to their country in terms of how many of them are supportive of Hamas.
00:20:04.000That's Egypt's perspective, not Israel's.
00:20:07.000Mostafa Madbouly, who's the country's prime minister, said, quote, We are prepared to sacrifice millions of lives to ensure that no one encroaches upon our territory.
00:20:14.000He said Egypt would never allow imposed solutions or the settlement of regional issues at its expense.
00:20:20.000So that is the current situation in the Middle East.
00:20:22.000The only way, literally the only way that Hamas can win and survive is with the help of a media pushing the West's political leaders into a position of weakness.
00:20:31.000That is their goal, and they may get what they want.
00:21:40.000The media are doing their best to sow seeds of dissent, to create serious problems.
00:21:45.000One of the ways that they are doing this is also by suggesting that Joe Biden's low polling numbers are due to his support for Israel.
00:21:53.000Now, the evidence on that is incredibly scanty.
00:21:55.000The fact is that Joe Biden has really bad poll numbers because he's a really bad president.
00:22:00.000And so those poll numbers pre-exist his support for Israel in this particular conflict.
00:22:05.000It's something that statistician Nate Silver has pointed out.
00:22:10.000He says that there's really no way to sort of correlate his success with regard to Israel with his electoral success.
00:22:20.000You're seeing a bunch of left-wing activists like Gideon Rackman, who's a chief of foreign affairs commentator for the Financial Times, writing, Gaza is very bad news for Biden's re-elect prospects.
00:22:28.000Young voters and progressives are a key part of the Democratic coalition.
00:22:31.000Many are furious about the administration's support for Israel.
00:22:34.000If they stay home or vote for Cornel West, Biden is in big trouble.
00:22:38.000So, number one, none of them are voting for Cornel West.
00:22:40.000Cornel West is not going to get a lot of the vote.
00:22:41.000But, as Nate Silver points out, there's been no change overall in Biden's approval rating since 10-7.
00:22:46.000Biden's policy is popular with parts of some Democrats and unpopular with others.
00:22:54.000But, again, the media are now creating pressure, particularly Pro-Hamas members of the media are creating pressure on Biden by essentially suggesting that if he were to lose the election, it would be because he's too supportive of Israel, which is an amazing statement considering that in the United States, supporting Israel over Hamas is like a 70-15 prospect in terms of the polling data.
00:23:16.000Naturally, John Zogby, who is a member of the pro-Palestinian caucus, he was commissioned by the Arab American Institute to poll Arab Americans just to show Joe Biden how angry they are.
00:23:28.000Showing that just 17% would support the current president in the 2024 election.
00:23:33.000The polls surveyed Arab Americans across the country, including battleground states.
00:23:36.000Two-thirds of Arab Americans have a negative view of President Biden's response to the current violence in Palestine and Israel.
00:23:41.000Only 17% are ready to vote for him in 2024.
00:23:45.000But Biden is not the only candidate losing support.
00:23:50.000The majority is not claiming to prefer the Democratic Party.
00:23:53.000In 2008 and 2016, Democrats outnumbered Republicans 2 to 1.
00:23:57.000In this poll, 32% of Arab Americans identified as Republican, compared to 23% who identified as Democrats.
00:24:01.00059% of Arab Americans reported experiencing discrimination.
00:24:04.000of Arab Americans reported experiencing discrimination.
00:24:08.00070%, 74% of Arab Americans aged 18 to 34 reported facing discrimination.
00:24:13.000So let's just point out here, we should point out here that this poll does not suggest that these people
00:24:20.000are going to swivel and vote for the most pro-Israel president in the history of the United States,
00:24:24.000Donald Trump, who's likely to be the Republican nominee or Ron DeSantis, who if anything is even more pro-Israel
00:24:31.000But this is ginned up in order to put pressure on Biden to abandon Israel.
00:24:36.000And you're seeing the media do this over and over and over.
00:24:38.000So, you have an article from Politico, Suggesting former aides to Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign are collecting signatures for a letter urging the vice president to, quote, seek an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, calling Israel's Gaza campaign a genocide.
00:24:53.000The draft letter, which was obtained by Politico, amounts to an attempt to dial up pressure on one of the Biden administration's most familiar faces.
00:24:59.000It encourages the Vice President to support a ceasefire resolution introduced by Representative Cori Bush.
00:25:04.000The draft letter says, we must mourn the tragic loss of Israeli life targeted by Hamas.
00:25:08.000However, we must firmly and unequivocally reject the Israeli government's exploitation of these deaths.
00:25:15.000They're exploiting the deaths to get rid of Hamas, despite the fact that, again, they literally surrendered the entire Gaza Strip to Hamas and left them in control for 18 years.
00:25:24.00018 years while Hamas was firing rockets at them.
00:25:27.000But they're exploiting the tragedy in order to do what?
00:25:30.000Expend Israeli blood and treasure going back into an area they wish they had never seen?
00:25:37.000But again, the goal here is to generate dissent inside the Democratic Party.
00:25:42.000Same thing in the Wall Street Journal.
00:25:43.000Mollie Ball, who's a left-wing reporter, the left, is tearing itself apart over Israel.
00:25:47.000To many on the left, the Israel-Hamas war is spurring what feels like a permanent rupture, where previously sublimated differences become impossible to ignore, and everyone must choose sides.
00:25:56.000Both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates describe a feeling of disillusionment as relationships fracture and harsh words are exchanged.
00:26:02.000The result, many predict, could be a breach that splits Democrats for a generation with untold political consequences.
00:26:35.000The media don't know what the hell they're talking about, as per our usual arrangement.
00:26:38.000If you are Arab-American, Muslim-American, or Palestinian, you feel like you don't matter.
00:26:42.000You feel invisible, said Waleed Shaheed, a progressive strategist and former spokesman for the Justice Democrats.
00:26:46.000That, of course, would be AOC's brand of the party.
00:26:50.000So again, the goal here by many members of the media is to prop up the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party so as to create a groundswell of dissent inside the Democratic Party, causing Joe Biden to turn away from what has been so far pretty solid support for Israel.
00:27:05.000And that, of course, is effectively what the AOC wing is there to do.
00:27:10.000That's what the AOC wing of the party, the Cori Bush We can't be silenced about Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign.
00:27:40.000Also, I assume that if you were to pursue an ethnic cleansing campaign, typically what you don't do is tell all the civilians to get the hell out of the way while you bomb military targets.
00:27:48.000Israel has overwhelming air superiority.
00:27:50.000If Israel wanted to cause, right now, hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Gaza Strip, it has the military capacity to do so.
00:27:56.000Israel is not doing that because they don't want to do that.
00:28:28.000She put out a tweet saying, This month, I co-sponsored a resolution condemning Hamas for hostage taking and urging their immediate release.
00:28:34.000We must ensure the safe return of hostages and the protection of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.
00:28:51.000By the way, this is a fundamental truth that I think has been under-noticed by a huge percentage of the Western population for a very long time.
00:29:02.000For hardcore radical left-wingers, for radical Islamists, for fundamentalists of many stripes, it turns out that truth is not even a secondary priority.
00:31:22.000In the media, we're also playing up protests against Antony Blinken.
00:31:25.000Yesterday, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, was testifying before Congress, and here's what he had to say about what he had seen Hamas do.
00:31:34.000A family of four, a young boy and girl, six and eight years old, and their parents around the breakfast table.
00:31:42.000The father, his eye gouged out in front of his kids.
00:32:01.000And as we've said repeatedly, as President Biden has repeatedly made clear, Israel has not only the right but the obligation to defend itself and to try to take every possible step to make sure this doesn't happen again.
00:32:14.000So, he's testifying about that, and he's completely correct.
00:32:17.000They didn't focus on what Blinken actually had to say.
00:32:20.000What they focused on is protesters disrupting Blinken.
00:32:22.000Now, again, these protesters are garbage human beings and morons.
00:32:26.000What they're doing is they sat in the back of the room, holding up their hands, stained red with ink, to suggest that Tony Blinken has blood on his hands.
00:32:35.000Now, they wouldn't do this with regard to Hamas.
00:32:38.000And I just will point out here, an odd and disturbing parallel.
00:32:41.000Here are all these people holding up their red hands to show that America has blood on its hands or whatever the hell that is.
00:33:31.000There is an odd echo, odd historical echo here.
00:33:34.000And the people holding up their red hands to the camera.
00:33:36.000Last time I saw hands that red, it's when there were, you know, actual members of the Palestinian Authority holding up their red hands after having butchered an Israeli soldier who mistakenly drove into Ramallah.
00:33:48.000I mean, it's hard not to see that particular picture.
00:33:51.000That picture was pretty famous back in the day.
00:33:53.000By the way, this administration is now talking about giving the Palestinian Authority control over the Gaza Strip, which is the Palestinian Authority is literally paying the families of the terrorists who murdered people in the Gaza envelope.
00:34:05.000So that would just be kind of changing one horse for the same horse of a slightly different color.
00:34:12.000That's what the Biden administration is now talking about.
00:34:13.000Now, the question is, will the Biden administration go weak-kneed on all of this because of all of the press coverage and because of the supposed internal dissent, despite the fact that, again, the polling data in the United States suggests broad and wide support for Israel in this conflict.
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00:35:44.000Alrighty, so the big question is, will the Biden administration continue to have a spine?
00:36:17.000How quiet she goes when it comes to left-wing anti-Semitic protesters.
00:36:20.000When it comes to morons in khaki pants marching in Charlottesville, that is the spur for an entire presidential campaign.
00:36:27.000When it comes to hundreds of thousands of students around the world marching in coordination with Hamas slogans, then she's like, I don't know if they're extreme.
00:36:39.000Does President Biden think the anti-Israel protesters in this country are extremists?
00:36:45.000What I can say is what we've been very clear about this.
00:36:48.000When it comes to anti-Semitism, there is no place.
00:36:51.000We have to make sure that we speak against it very loud and be very clear about that.
00:36:58.000Remember, when the president decided to run for president is what he saw in Charlottesville in 2017, when he saw neo-Nazis marching down the streets of Charlottesville.
00:37:10.000Okay, well, I'm glad that you brought up Charlottesville.
00:37:14.000and he was very clear then and he's very clear now.
00:37:18.000He's taken actions against this over the past two years and he's continued to be clear.
00:37:24.000There is no place, no place for this type of violent despite this kind of rhetoric.
00:37:30.000Okay, well I'm glad that you brought up Charlottesville.
00:37:33.000I mean, how about campus radicals pulling down posters are extremists?
00:37:37.000How about people who are chanting from the river to sea are extremists?
00:37:40.000Well, she did have some words about Islamophobia.
00:37:42.000Now, I swear, the White House's attempts to equate what's going on with anti-Semitism in this country with Islamophobia are totally, they're insane.
00:38:20.000The president knows that Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number, certainly of hate-fueled attacks, right, as we talk about what we're seeing here.
00:38:33.000And so he also understands that many of our Muslim Arab American and Palestinian American Loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities.
00:38:43.000And so leaders at every level of this administration will continue.
00:38:46.000We're going to continue to engage, engaging with the Muslim community, the Arab American community, and Palestinian American leaders to hear their concerns.
00:38:55.000And also to hear their feedback on how best certainly to combat the discrimination, the hate and discrimination that they're seeing as well.
00:39:04.000Again, the Norm Macdonald tweet just coming to life right here.
00:39:06.000By the way, I feel like I should just show you what the actual anti-Semitism versus Islamophobic stats look like in terms of reported hate crimes and such.
00:39:15.000According to the Anti-Defamation League, not a place that I'm a huge fan of, but they're the best source for measuring this sort of stuff at this time, the ADL has recorded more than 1,200 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States through May 2023, and they have seen a 388% uptick in incidents after Hamas's attack.
00:39:31.000On Israel, I just want to show you the scale here.
00:39:33.000This is how you can fool people with stats.
00:40:07.000In 2001, when this is supposedly a massive Islamophobia outbreak, we're all going, oh my god, it's just like 500.
00:40:14.000At no point does it even approach remotely what Jews go through in this country in terms of anti-Semitic hate incidents, largely from radical Muslims, by the way.
00:40:22.000And then that number stays well under 200 all the way up till 2014.
00:40:31.000And so we're supposed to believe that, according to the ADL, the Jews who are experiencing literally 20 times the number of hate crimes that Muslims are experiencing in the United States.
00:40:43.000I should point out here that there are about 3.45 million Muslims living in the United States.
00:40:47.000There are about 6 million Jews living in the United States, somewhere thereabouts.
00:40:51.000So again, these are very small numbers in terms of the general American population.
00:40:57.000On a per capita basis, Jews are way more likely to be targeted.
00:40:59.000But, of course, whenever there is something that targets Israel and Jews, we have to mention Islamophobia, because the idea is that these are morally equivalent, and it's just a cycle of violence, and the Jews are the ones who are doing the Islamoph- whatever, whatever the stupidity here is.
00:41:09.000Meanwhile, John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, he was asked whether they were classifying people as domestic terrorists for making violent anti-Semitic threats, given the fact that, you know, this administration focused in, like, on, like, homeschooling moms who didn't like public school boards.
00:41:51.000Meanwhile, Alejandro Mayorkas is not firing, apparently, a pro-Hamas member of his staff.
00:41:58.000There's a Department of Homeland Security officer who had criticized Israel.
00:42:03.000This person is Nejwa Ali, a Palestinian DHS employee.
00:42:07.000She made several posts referring to Israel as an apartheid occupation and calling for Palestinian freedom at the expense of an Israeli downfall.
00:42:14.000Is this typical of people who work at DHS?
00:42:15.000Palestine. She's currently on administrative leave. Josh Halley, senator from Missouri,
00:42:20.000sends a letter to Mayorkas calling for her termination. And Mayorkas suggested that he
00:42:27.000might not fire her. Here is Halley versus Mayorkas. Is this typical of people who work at DHS? This is
00:42:34.000an asylum and immigration officer who is posting these frankly pro-genocidal slogans and images
00:42:42.000on the day that Israelis are being slaughtered in their beds.
00:43:15.000When Israel has been invaded and Jewish students are barricaded in libraries in this country and cannot be escorted out because they are threatened for their lives, you have employees who are celebrating genocide and you are saying it's despicable for me to ask the question?
00:43:40.000So in terms of whether the West is caving, whether Joe Biden is going to cave because of the ongoing pressure from the media and from the far left of his flank.
00:43:51.000Joe Biden and Tony Blinken, they're pushing seriously for a lot of aid for Gaza.
00:43:55.000Now here's the problem with that particular push.
00:43:58.000That particular push is quite dangerous, given the fact that if you provide gas supplies into Gaza, Hamas takes all of it, like immediately.
00:44:06.000Who is actually administering all of that?
00:44:08.000And Blinken, the State Department, they still have yet to actually explain who's going to actually hand out that stuff and make sure that civilians get it.
00:44:15.000They keep saying things like, oh, we'll make sure.
00:44:17.000And then you say, well, what if Hamas takes it?
00:44:22.000So the focus right now on putting aid into Gaza, as opposed to what really should happen, which is temporary camps are set up in the Egyptian desert that are administered by the Egyptians, because at least the Egyptians aren't terrorists, so that the aid does not end up going to Hamas.
00:44:39.000That would be the actual solution, but Egypt has not been particularly forthcoming on that particular matter.
00:44:44.000The focus on aid as sort of the be-all end-all of the American effort makes very little sense in terms of Gazan civilian aid.
00:44:53.000Again, dual purpose has been the entire problem throughout this entire conflict.
00:44:58.000Meanwhile, there's a conflict that's breaking out in the US Congress over how to provide Israel with aid.
00:45:02.000So on the one hand, you have the Republicans in Congress who are kind of sketchy when it comes to Ukraine aid.
00:45:07.000They're not in love with the idea of Ukraine aid with not an enormous amount of oversight.
00:45:12.000They're skeptical of what the end of that conflict is going to look like or whether additional military aid is going to allow the Ukrainians to break through Russian lines and save the Donbass and Crimea, given the fact that extraordinary resources have been poured into the country.
00:45:23.000We know a lot of the money is going to corrupt purposes.
00:45:28.000We also know a lot of it is going to fight the Russians.
00:45:30.000And so there are a lot more questions about what's going on in Ukraine after a year and a half of spending tens of billions of dollars in Ukraine than with regard to Israel, which has a very long historic relationship with the United States in terms of military aid and extraordinarily transparent process with the U.S.
00:45:44.000So the Republicans in the House have proposed separating off that aid.
00:45:50.000They're pushing an Israel-only aid bill, according to NPR.
00:45:54.000According to NPR, on the same day House Speaker Mike Johnson took office last week, the Republican-led House passed a resolution declaring solidarity with Israel and pledging to give its government the ability to defeat Hamas.
00:46:06.000Now they're introducing a bill aimed to do just that, but not without controversy because the bill would send $14.3 billion to Israel without addressing any funding requests for the war in Ukraine.
00:46:14.000Biden wants to use the popularity among Republicans of support for Israel in order to get them to give a bunch more money to Ukraine.
00:46:20.000Mike Johnson is saying, let's just give the money to Israel.
00:46:22.000What exactly does Israel have to do with Ukraine?
00:46:27.000He's going to fund that by cutting the IRS.
00:47:11.000I mean, there's a few people who have philosophical differences on that and we'll have some intense debates about their opposition to that.
00:47:18.000But look, this is a matter of good versus evil.
00:47:23.000We're going to be releasing that here shortly, but my intention and my desire in the first draft of this bill is to take some of the money that has
00:47:30.000been set aside for the building and bulking up the IRS right now. They have
00:47:34.000about 67 billion dollars in that fund and we'll try to take the 14.5
00:47:38.000necessary for this immediate and urgent need. We'll deal with the rest of that
00:47:43.000So, Biden world is very angry about this.
00:47:46.000They want links between the Ukraine aid and the Israel aid.
00:47:49.000According to Politico, the Biden administration and Ukraine hawks in both parties are trying to break a wall of conservative resistance on Capitol Hill with a determined blitz to pass funding for the war in Ukraine and aid to Israel.
00:47:59.000In an unusual bipartisan offensive on Capitol Hill, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday publicly defended the administration's $106 billion request Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell warned in his speech that threats to Israel and Ukraine are serious and intertwined, and later said conceptually he and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are aligned.
00:48:17.000Now, it is true that Russia is backing both Iran and its proxies in this war, as well as Ukraine.
00:48:22.000Russia is a nefarious force on the world stage.
00:48:24.000They've demonstrated that over and over again.
00:48:26.000I will never understand some on the right who continue to militate in favor of the Russian government led by a dictatorial assassin in Vladimir Putin.
00:48:35.000You can point out all the problems of Ukraine, including their corruption, including long-standing antisemitism in Ukraine, and also say that Vladimir Putin is one of the worst people walking the planet right now, and has been involved in, legitimately, every major conflict, apparently, of the last several years, from Africa to the Middle East, in the worst possible way.
00:48:53.000Using the Wagner Group in Africa, using the Syrians in the Middle East, backing Bashar Assad.
00:48:57.000Like, Vladimir Putin is the nefarious force in the world, without question.
00:49:00.000And so, curbing his military abilities on all fronts is a good strategy.
00:49:04.000It's the reason why I've, in the past, supported aid to Ukraine.
00:49:07.000Not because I love the government of Ukraine, but because I don't believe that Russia should be taking over a sovereign state.
00:49:14.000And not only that, the Russian military should be weakened.
00:49:18.000I'm very much in favor of spending American dollars to weaken the Russian military because the Russian military is using its assets in order to destabilize governments all over the globe, endangering security of America's allies and indirectly America's economy and our national security as well.
00:49:32.000However, If you don't have the support in Congress, then you do have to separate them off.
00:49:37.000I think the backup position, by the way, for Mike Johnson is going to be to put forward a bill that does not take the money from the IRS, but does separate off Ukraine and Israel-aid.
00:49:44.000That's actually smart politics, because again, it makes the Senate now vote up or down on Israel-aid alone.
00:49:51.000And that will tell a pretty big story.
00:49:53.000If the Senate refuses to just give a go-ahead to a passed bill with Israel aid because they want it connected with Ukraine, what they are really saying is that the Israel aid isn't important enough on its own to just pass.
00:50:04.000So that'd be a good political strategy there.
00:50:07.000Here's Chuck Schumer ripping into that strategy.
00:50:10.000The best, most efficient, and fastest way to help is through bipartisanship.
00:50:18.000And that's why I was so deeply disappointed by Speaker Johnson's first major legislative action, a purely partisan action.
00:50:27.000House Republicans released a partisan and woefully inadequate package with no aid to Ukraine, no humanitarian assistance for Gaza, no funding for Indo-Pacific, and poison pills that help wealthy tax cheats avoid paying their fair share.
00:50:45.000Okay, so they're calling that a poison pill?
00:50:48.000So I guess that Johnson's backup step will be, okay, what if I remove the poison pill and I just remove the Israel aid?
00:50:53.000That's a good strategy by Johnson because, again, he has a fractious caucus.
00:50:56.000A lot of his caucus doesn't want additional Ukraine aid.
00:50:58.000Johnson himself has voted against additional Ukraine aid a few different times.
00:51:04.000I think the end outcome is going to be the same, meaning Israel will end up getting the military aid because there is extraordinary support in both House of Congress and from the White House for the military aid.
00:51:12.000But it'll be interesting to see strategically how Johnson approaches that and what sort of ability he's going to have carving off what he perceives to be bad bills from good bills.
00:51:21.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.