In the wake of the worst terror attack in the West since 9/11, it s time to take a look at how the West failed to understand its own enemies, and how they took advantage of it. Today, we re going to look at what happened in Gaza, and why it s so easy to blame the other side, and who is responsible for the massacre of innocent children, women, and men in Gaza on the West s incompetence, incompetence, and willful ignorance. We ve all been taught to believe that if we all have the same priorities, we can negotiate with anyone and everyone, and that everyone is reasonable, everyone wants the same thing. In fact, everyone has different priorities. People have many different priorities, and people have many priorities. For many people, their priority is not freedom. It s adherence to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law. For others it s belief in the murder of Jews across the world, and their priority isn t economic development, it's belief in a belief in murdering their own human beings. And after all, what kind of human beings wouldn t care if their own babies were getting killed by rockets? What kind of people would care if they were getting their own children killed in their cribs in their own cribs? And why does Hamas care? Because they care about the 2.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza? So when Israel strikes at Hamas targets, then they re putting their own civilians in harm, then it s putting Israel in the way of their own people? Well, well, let s just put the blame on Israel, because they re not a reasonable human being, are they not? ? Because after all of them are dead, they re getting a chance to live in peace and prosperity? They re all a little better than us, aren t they? Israel is not a normal human being? The answer is: they re a terrorist group, they are a group that s a terrorist? . Is it not a country that cares about the Palestinians? What are they a reasonable group? Do you know what they are doing? Is that a problem? or is it a problem that needs to be solved? Or is it just a problem they are not a problem or are they just a bunch of people who are not going to get their own way, or do they just want to be a little more than a little bit more like us?
00:00:00.000Let's talk about how all this happened.
00:00:02.000It happened because we in the West don't understand our enemies and they know that and they exploit that.
00:00:07.000In 2004, President George W. Bush gave an address at the United Nations in which he said one of the most naive things any president has ever said.
00:00:15.000He said, this is a direct quote, when it comes to the desire for liberty and justice, there is no clash of civilizations.
00:00:21.000People everywhere are capable of freedom and worthy of freedom.
00:00:24.000The desire for freedom resides in every human heart.
00:00:26.000It's a direct quote from George W. Bush, 2004.
00:00:29.000That was idiocy then, and it's idiocy now.
00:00:33.000People have many different priorities.
00:00:35.000For a lot of people, their priority is not freedom, Western notions of freedom.
00:00:39.000It's adherence to fundamentalist interpretation of Quranic law.
00:00:42.000For many, their priority isn't economic development.
00:00:46.000It's belief in the murder of Jews across the world.
00:00:48.000But this peculiar Western belief system that everyone wants freedom has led the West down two separate and equally stupid paths.
00:00:56.000Path number one, which we saw over the course of the last 25 years, was nation building.
00:01:00.000That's what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.
00:01:02.000The West fooled itself into believing that tribal peoples with different priorities really, really wanted iPhones and sexual liberation, and that if we offered those things, they would welcome us with open arms.
00:01:12.000Instead of pursuing a realistic foreign policy designed to protect America's interests, we launched off into a utopian world of our own making, and we failed.
00:01:21.000Yet we continue to pursue that path today.
00:01:23.000We continue to act as though, for example, it is Israel's job to build up the infrastructure in Gaza or provide them water and power, even while Hamas murders babies in their cribs and put its own civilians in harm's way.
00:01:33.000That's ridiculous, and it's going to fail.
00:01:36.000Path number two was the path of willful ignorance.
00:01:38.000You see, if we all have the same priorities, we can negotiate with anyone and everyone.
00:01:46.000Even if things get a little out of hand from time to time, even if a couple of weeks a year rockets fly from Gaza into Tel Aviv, that's just the frustration of reasonable people with reasonable priorities, and it's just all a cycle of violence.
00:01:57.000This path leads to failure and mass death.
00:02:00.000It lulls the West, including Israel, into a false sense of security.
00:02:04.000People who have different priorities, monsters like Hamas, take advantage.
00:02:29.000We need to go through it in detail so you can see just what a lie we all fell for, so many Americans fell for, that everybody has the same priorities, and why that big lie is gonna get more innocent children, women, and men murdered, raped, and burned.
00:02:43.000Again, this is a senior Hamas official on RT, speaking in Arabic, talking about exactly how Hamas perpetrated this massacre.
00:02:52.000We're gonna stop and start it because we need to explain exactly what he is saying in detail.
00:02:55.000He's just saying all the quiet parts out loud.
00:03:00.000In the past couple of years, he says, Hamas has adopted a rational approach.
00:03:05.000It did not go into any war, and did not join the Islamic Jihad in its recent battle.
00:03:10.000But all of this was Hamas' strategy in preparing for this attack.
00:03:14.000Of course, we made them think that Hamas was busy governing in Gaza, that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, and has abandoned the resistance altogether.
00:03:22.000All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack.
00:03:54.000As far as the notion that Hamas was ever a reasonable actor, Israel lulled itself into a sense of complacency about this.
00:03:59.000Well, sure, they'll launch a few rockets every so often, you know, mostly just to prove to their own people that they're still a terrorist group.
00:04:05.000But in reality, they want to be like a normal governing power.
00:04:09.000They actually want to be a normal governing power.
00:06:13.000They say it, and they say it out loud, and they assume that you are so sophisticated that you know better than they do what they are thinking and saying.
00:07:31.000Okay, but in traditional Western thought, the way you care about your kids is not by killing them.
00:07:36.000And the way that you care about your citizens is not by putting them directly in the line of an airstrike so that you can sit underground waiting to kill Jews.
00:08:32.000That you will believe that the Jews are the bad guys.
00:08:33.000Even after the Jews get slaughtered in their beds, you will believe that if only the Jews had just given a little more, only a little more.
00:08:39.000Now, this does betray something else about the West.
00:08:43.000And latent Jew hatred that exists across the West, because let's be real about this.
00:08:48.000None of this conversation was happening after 9-11.
00:08:50.000Went a lot of conversation in the United States about, well, you know, when we go in and we bomb from 30,000 feet and we kill a load of civilians, the real question is the human rights.
00:09:09.000But when Israel has its borders permeated by terrorists who murder 1,200, 1,300 Jews, murder 1,300 Jews in a widespread assault lasting hours on end, when that happens, then it's like, wow, those Jews, man.
00:09:24.000You know, they really got to be a little more careful, those Jews.
00:09:40.000Everyone on the left at least bought it.
00:09:41.000And people who said that it wasn't true, those people were marginalized.
00:09:45.000People who said, wait, no, no, no, Hamas, it's true, the Palestinian Authority too, they care significantly more about killing Jews than they care about the well-being of their own citizens.
00:09:52.000Everybody in the West went, no, that can't be true.
00:11:53.000I also want solutions to every problem.
00:11:55.000Not every problem has a good and easy solution, particularly not a good and easy solution that involves you sitting down at a table and writing some words and signing a piece of paper.
00:12:03.000It is not a shock, therefore, that Robert Malley, who was placed on leave earlier this year for allegedly mishandling classified material, it turns out that he was probably in bed with the Iranians.
00:12:14.000According to the New York Post, the Biden administration's former special envoy to Iran should face extensive scrutiny for his permissive stance toward the Tehran regime after it aided Hamas and Hezbollah in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel, critics said on Monday.
00:12:25.000Representative Daryl Issa of California told the New York Post, Robert Malley deserves extensive scrutiny yesterday, today, and tomorrow, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran was implicitly involved.
00:12:35.000And by the way, Hamas again saying that Iran was involved in all of this.
00:12:39.000ISIS said Mali and others created an incredibly permissive environment for Hamas, for Iran to do all these things.
00:12:44.000That is Gabriel Naranjo, former special advisor on Iran at the State Department.
00:12:49.000Naranjo served under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo under Trump, said Mali and his negotiating team, quote, purposefully funneled billions of dollars to Iran through lack of sanctions enforcement and provision of sanctions relief that has given them somewhere between 50 and 80 billion dollars over the last two and a half years alone.
00:13:05.000A senior House Republican aide told the New York Post the cash influx followed an even more generous payout of $1.7 billion that the Obama administration made to Iran in 2016.
00:13:15.000And this is all driven, again, by that myth.
00:13:22.000And so we assume that they actually care about their own people, but they don't care about their own people.
00:13:26.000And again, this has pervaded the entire left.
00:13:29.000Judith Butler, feminist theorist, who for sure would be dead if she lived in Hamasistan.
00:13:33.000If she lived in the Gaza Strip, Judith Butler would have been tossed off a building decades ago.
00:13:37.000Here is Judith Butler defending Hamas.
00:13:39.000I think, yes, understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left is extremely important.
00:13:50.000That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.
00:13:56.000It doesn't stop those of us who are interested in non-violent politics from raising the question of of whether there are other options besides violence.
00:14:07.000So again, a critical important engagement.
00:14:10.000I mean, I certainly think it should be entered into the conversation on the left.
00:14:14.000There it is, Judith Butler standing for Hamas and Hezbollah who would certainly murder her
00:14:21.000if she were living in their territory.
00:14:23.000Now the reason this is all relevant is because all of the narrative in the current Middle East situation is going to shift very quickly.
00:14:29.000And it's going to shift very quickly because people go back to their political priors.
00:14:32.000Their political priors, very often, are just oriented toward the hands-off, don't care, cycle of violence, who am I to take sides, I don't know anything, that book.
00:14:43.000And people have the blinders stripped from their eyes for just a moment, and then they'll go right back to priors.
00:14:48.000Since biblical times, when God literally spoke to the Israelites and then five seconds later they were building a golden calf, this is how people are.
00:14:55.000For just a moment in time, clarity strikes them and then the clarity goes away and they go right back to what they were doing five seconds ago.
00:15:01.000And so the way that that is going to take place is you're going to see a bunch of people who express tremendous sympathy for the now 1,300 dead Jews in Israel.
00:15:08.000They're going to express sympathy for the parents of the burned babies.
00:15:12.000They're going to express sympathy for the husbands of the raped wives and the kidnapped.
00:15:16.000They're going to express sympathy for that.
00:15:18.000And then the entire narrative is going to shift because Israel is going to do what it has to do in order to stop Hamas from ever being a threat to its citizenry again as any normal nation would.
00:15:26.000You're already starting to see it on social media.
00:15:29.000All of the narrative has now shifted toward what's happening in Gaza.
00:15:32.000It's so terrible what's happening in Gaza.
00:15:34.000Now the only way to make that shift is if you assume that what's happening in Gaza is now Israel's fault.
00:15:42.000Now, here is how to think about this morally.
00:15:44.000If I burn down your house and murder your children, and then I go back to my house and I hide behind my child, and the police show up to arrest me or to shoot me, and I hide behind my child, it is my responsibility that I'm hiding behind my child.
00:16:02.000I would be the evil actor in this scenario and you would not call off the attempt to arrest or shoot me if I had burned down your house and murdered your child.
00:16:31.000It means they have an extensive terror network underground.
00:16:34.000They built this extraordinary tunnel network using every bit of cement they could find over the last 20 years that was supposed to be used for building infrastructure.
00:16:41.000But again, they don't give a shit about the people living in Gaza.
00:16:43.000And so they took all of that and they built a bunch of tunnel systems that are living down there with their air conditioning and their generators.
00:16:48.000And meanwhile, on the surface, they're telling people not to leave the populated areas that Israel is going to have to clear and bomb so as to prevent this thing from turning into urban warfare.
00:17:01.000What Israel is doing, militarily speaking, is they are clearing the ground.
00:17:04.000They are blowing up all these buildings, and they are essentially turning it into flat ground, and then they're going to have to go into the ground invasion, and they're going to have to smoke out Hamas terrorists who are hiding underground in these tunnels.
00:17:17.000And the world is going to instead decide that because Hamas is literally telling civilians not to leave the area so that they get killed, that Israel is supposed to call off its attack and leave Hamas in place.
00:17:41.000And two, the way that policy works in the Middle East is that every demonstration of military weakness is an encouragement of further violence.
00:17:48.000If Hamas is still ruling the Gaza Strip at the end of all of this, the chances that Hezbollah is going to launch an invasion from the north at some point are extremely high.
00:18:09.000And so Israel has to restore that sense of invulnerability, impregnability, and military stability.
00:18:15.000That's what Israel has to restore here.
00:18:17.000So, on the ground they actually have to restore the situation, and then to a broader world of radical Muslims who wish to murder every Jew in their bed, they have to restore the idea that if you cross us, we will kill you.
00:18:41.000So right now, Israel has turned off the water and the power.
00:18:43.000And they've announced the water and power in the Gaza Strip are going to remain off until Hamas releases the hundred or so hostages that they are currently holding.
00:18:52.000And already you're starting to hear rumblings from the world.
00:18:54.000Oh, well, isn't that collective punishment?
00:18:56.000And the answer is, well, when Hamas has honeycombed itself into these areas, how exactly would you expect Israel to accomplish its goals?
00:19:03.000I wasn't aware that after you murder everybody's children, they have an obligation to provide you water and power.
00:19:10.000I was under the weird impression that Israel has a moral obligation greater than the governing body of the Gaza Strip to the Gazan citizens to protect them.
00:19:20.000Israel's using that responsibility, by the way, by actively warning people out of these areas, trying to push people out of the areas.
00:19:25.000One of the reasons for turning off the water and power is because the only people right now in these areas who have water and power are the people underground.
00:19:30.000Everyone else doesn't have water and power.
00:19:32.000You turn off the water and power, presumably people will leave because they don't have water and they don't have power.
00:19:37.000And everybody who's underground in the tunnels, who does have water and power, because again, they misdirected every piece of money, every piece of material into building these terror tunnels.
00:20:09.000Because again, they're counting on the idea that they are like you.
00:20:12.000And that you will look at what they're doing and say, no one would do that.
00:20:14.000No one would tell their own civilians to stay in harm's way.
00:20:17.000Israel has spent the last 20 years building bomb shelters so that every time a rocket flies into Israel, It's either shot down by Iron Dome or people go into the bomb shelters.
00:20:29.000That was part of their tactic here, is that Israel cares enough about its own citizens that when the rockets start flying, Israel does not leave its own citizens out there.
00:20:48.000Real question, why doesn't Gaza have water?
00:20:50.000You may have noticed if you live in the United States or any other decent country, that if you live in a far-flung village on a hill somewhere, you have water and you have power.
00:21:53.000According to the UK Telegraph, they literally took the pipes that were meant to move potable water in and out of populated areas and sewage out.
00:22:03.000This is according, this is a film from the Hamas military wing.
00:22:08.000And it actually shows them taking pipe that was shipped in, in foreign aid, cutting it up and using it, relathing it, to make rockets to fire at Jews and kill them.
00:22:29.000And then it's Israel's responsibility?
00:22:31.000So you spend the last 20 years having money shipped to you to build water and power infrastructure, you take all that money, use it on guns, terror tunnels, rockets, and then you have the gall to suggest that Israel, the people you just murdered, have a responsibility to provide to you the water and the power?
00:22:51.000I'm gonna need an explainer on that one.
00:22:53.000Here's the video, by the way, from Hamas, of what they do with the water pipes that are shipped into them as aid.
00:23:56.000Quote, Palestinians living in the border areas of the Gaza Strip rely on wells to secure drinking water and to irrigate their crops as Hamas-run local municipalities fail to assume their responsibility to supply water to these areas.
00:24:11.000In an August 25th statement, the Hamas-affiliated Water and Environmental Quality Authority announced a ban against the digging of water wells in all Gaza governance under the direct pretext of fighting a severe decline in groundwater levels and quality due to over-exploitation of the aquifer into which the wells are drilled.
00:24:26.000The authority said its decision is based on the Palestinian Water Law No.
00:24:29.0003 of 2002, which prohibits unlicensed drilling.
00:24:34.000The authority called on all citizens who already drilled water wells to rectify their legal status in the next three months, obtaining a license, but Gazans believe the ban is designed only to obtain money in exchange for issuing license for drilling wells in the first place.
00:24:47.000Nabil Sultan, a resident of Al-Gal border area in the Northern Gaza Strip, told Al-Manar, I've been living in the area for seven years.
00:24:53.000The houses are not connected to the water supply or sewage network, so we mainly rely on drilling wells to obtain water.
00:24:58.000He said the decision would mean that people die of dehydration.
00:25:02.000These are the, by the way, according to the deputy head of the Palestinian Water Authority, this is 2021.
00:25:10.000He told Almonitor that there are 10,000 water wells in the Gaza Strip, including 300 wells for the municipalities, 2,700 wells for the agricultural sector, and 7,000 private wells the citizens drilled without obtaining a proper permit.
00:26:48.000Egypt has discussed plans with the United States and others to provide humanitarian aid through its border with Gaza Strip, but rejects any move to set up safe corridors for refugees fleeing the enclave.
00:26:59.000Because they are afraid that those civilians are honeycombed with Hamas terrorists, who will then endanger the stability of the Egyptian regime.
00:27:06.000Because, let's see, Palestinian refugees put in danger the stability of the Jordanian regime, which resulted in Black September in the 1970s and the expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from there.
00:27:17.000They then completely wrecked the regime in Lebanon, turning, again, a stable Christian-ruled country into a disaster trash heap They've completely taken over the Gaza Strip and wrecked it.
00:27:29.000This would be the PLO followed by Hamas.
00:27:32.000And Egypt is like, no, we're not interested.
00:27:35.000So according to the international community, increasingly, the way this works is that the people who are responsible For every aspect of Arab-Muslim security in the Gaza Strip are the Jews who just got murdered by Hamas.
00:28:38.000In a minute, my nation would reach those ends that have been drawn near me.
00:28:43.000The entire 510 million square kilometers of planet Earth will come under a system where there is no injustice, no oppression, no treachery, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity, and no killings and crimes like those being committed against the Palestinians and against the Arabs in all Arab countries.
00:29:05.000In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and other countries.
00:29:34.000This was your actual job for 20 years.
00:29:37.000And then start a terror war that results in retaliation in which the water and power are not available to anyone except the fighters living underground.
00:30:17.000Quote, To show anger, especially next Friday, so that'd be this Friday, in Muslim countries and also among Muslim diaspora around the world.
00:30:24.000He called it the Friday of Al-Aqsa Flood.
00:30:26.000And he said this will send a message of rage to Zionists in America, which is why every synagogue in the region, in America, across the world, is taking up new security measures on Friday.
00:31:20.000He asked political pressure from Muslim leaders and Muslim nations to stop Israel's military invasion of Gaza.
00:31:25.000Again, no ask from them for, you know, some sort of resources for the millions of refugees who are going to be created by their terror war.
00:31:33.000And the most important thing, quote, he asked all Muslims around the world to carry jihad by their souls, to fight and be martyrs for al-Aqsa.
00:31:40.000He wants Muslims to fight against the Jews, starting with Muslims who live in the countries surrounding Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, to go to the borders and try to enter each by their own means.
00:31:49.000So he wants more border incursions, which will get civilians killed.
00:31:57.000For the press, because he knows that the gullible, stupid Western press will then pretend that this is a massacre on the part of the Israelis as opposed to an attempted invasion by Hamas.
00:32:05.000He said this is the time for jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory.
00:32:09.000He asked the Mujahideen to go in long caravans to spill their blood on the land of Palestine.
00:32:15.000You said funds are important, but today we are asking for your blood and souls.
00:32:18.000So the question as to what comes next is still very much an open one.
00:32:23.000Iran obviously knew that Hamas was planning the attacks.
00:32:25.000The United States is claiming that Iran didn't really know the scale or the size of the attack, but obviously they're providing all of the resources.
00:32:31.000They're the single biggest funder of Hamas.
00:32:34.000Joe Biden, again, the Biden administration has had ongoing negotiations with the government of Iran for years at this point.
00:32:41.000They've handed them billions of dollars in assets.
00:32:42.000It's one reason for them to downplay exactly what happened here.
00:32:45.000Meanwhile, Hezbollah is the single biggest recipient of Iranian foreign aid.
00:32:49.000They receive $700 million a year from Iran.
00:32:51.000Its missile stockpile runs to 100,000 or more, and those rockets are significantly more accurate and deadly than the Hamas rockets.
00:33:02.000You know, all of this bodes very ill for the possibility of avoiding a regional war unless, unless the West makes clear this thing has to stay contained.
00:33:10.000On the Israeli side, Benjamin Netanyahu has now formed a unity government with Benny Gantz, so all the talk about all the divisions in Israeli society that we've been covering for the last year and a half...
00:33:18.000All of that stuff went away immediately.
00:33:20.000I think one thing that's really important to note here, and again, I have tons of friends and family on the ground in Israel, my wife's family particularly, tons of them on the ground in Israel.
00:33:29.000The unity in Israel among the citizens has literally never been greater.
00:33:32.000The response of Israelis to this is absolutely astonishing.
00:33:36.000People are flying back in there, packing all flights back in if they're abroad, in order to rejoin the Israeli military reservists who have been called up.
00:33:43.000Many reservists who have not been called up, they have 150% reporting rate.
00:33:48.000Literally, more people are reporting that have been called up for duty.
00:33:51.000Civilians are showing up at military bases with food, with clothing, with sleeping bags, with whatever is necessary.
00:33:59.000If the reservists don't have proper equipment, people are right now in pretty much every community, every Jewish community across the world, organizing shipments of that into Israel.
00:34:08.000The social solidarity in Israel and the morale in terms of unity has never been higher.
00:34:13.000Everybody is, of course, deeply disturbed by what happened.
00:34:17.000Everybody is in a state of mourning, but everybody also understands what has to be done over there.
00:34:20.000And the videos that have emerged from Israel of the unity are truly amazing.
00:34:25.000People who five seconds ago were at each other's throats over things like judicial reform, all of that's gone by the wayside.
00:34:31.000One of my favorite videos, a video of a Tel Aviv restaurant.
00:34:32.000Tel Aviv is a very left-wing area of Israel.
00:34:35.000Tel Aviv restaurants, which are very secular and they're not real big on the Orthodox, they have koshered their kitchens because they want to make sure that the Orthodox can actually eat food from their restaurants.
00:34:45.000Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, he has now suggested that the goal is to entirely wipe Hamas off the map, which of course it must be for both strategic and geopolitical reasons.
00:34:54.000You have to wipe Hamas off the map because you have to make sure that they can't do anything remotely like this again.
00:34:58.000And also Israel has to restore deterrence because if the deterrence is not restored, then this is only the beginning for the state of Israel.
00:35:05.000Meanwhile, as you can see, all of the worst actors in the world are calling for an immediate ceasefire.
00:35:09.000Of course, Beijing called for an immediate ceasefire, which is absurd.
00:35:14.000Israel has not even begun at this point.
00:35:16.000Israel also today had to bomb the airport in Damascus and Aleppo.
00:35:20.000They had to do that because there was a massive Iranian shipment of arms that was coming in.
00:35:25.000The strikes targeted runways at the airport to prevent this Iranian flight from landing in Aleppo to ship more weapons over to Hezbollah.
00:35:31.000An Iranian Mahan Air flight that was about to land in Syria turned back to Tehran.
00:35:35.000According to the Jerusalem Post, Mahan Air is usually used to transport weapons operatives and funds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah into the region.
00:35:46.000The political response from the United States has been split.
00:35:50.000It's virtually large swaths of it in both parties are pro-Israel.
00:35:55.000To this point, the rhetoric from the Biden administration has been absolutely correct.
00:35:59.000And it should be, considering that 22 Americans were murdered in this terrorist attack.
00:36:04.000And there are currently many hostages who are Americans being held in the Gaza Strip.
00:36:08.000John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, he reported on this yesterday.
00:36:14.000I think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing and that we may in fact find out that more Americans are part of the hostage pool.
00:36:28.000Well, the Americans obviously have a rather large interest.
00:36:32.000We, as Americans, have a rather large interest in getting our hostages back.
00:36:36.000And certainly on a geopolitical level, we have an interest in, one, avoiding a regional war that will undoubtedly break up.
00:38:09.000You know, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu for I don't know how many times, but again this morning, and already we're We're surging additional military assistance to the Israeli Defense Force, including ammunition, interceptors to replenish the Iron Dome.
00:38:27.000carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean, and we're sending more fighter jets there in that region.
00:38:33.000And made it clear, made it clear to the Iranians, be careful.
00:38:42.000Yeah, well, I mean, they'd best be careful because, again, if this does broaden out, the consequences are going to be disastrous for everyone involved, but mostly for the Iranian regime.
00:38:52.000Meanwhile, of course, the response from people on the right has largely been correct.
00:38:57.000Ron DeSantis, of all the candidates, he and Nikki Haley have, of course, had the strongest responses.
00:39:01.000Ron DeSantis' response yesterday was excellent.
00:39:02.000Here is Ron DeSantis talking about what Israel needs to do in the Gaza Strip.
00:39:06.000I wondered, as a veteran, what do you think that should look like?
00:39:13.000So I think the reason why we've gotten to this point is because for decades, Israel would respond to acts of terror, but they would be very careful to do it in ways that were considered, quote, a proportionate, and that would not get them international condemnation.
00:39:29.000Because the minute they start doing anything, they're always under the microscope.
00:39:33.000I think in this situation, we in America, we just got to stand with them.
00:39:36.000The goal should not be a, quote, proportionate response.
00:39:39.000It should be the elimination of Hamas and the terrorist infrastructure that has grown up in Gaza.
00:39:46.000And so that will be something that will be more significant than what Israel's been willing to do in the past.
00:39:51.000I think they're more than capable of doing it.
00:39:55.000That, of course, is exactly exactly right.
00:39:58.000Meanwhile, President Trump, who, again, was an excellent president for Israel, the best president in Israel's history for Israel.
00:40:06.000The narcissism of him obscures his actual political accomplishments.
00:40:12.000This is a guy who did the Abraham Accords.
00:40:14.000This is a guy who gave Israel the aid that it needed in the middle of rocket wars with Hamas.
00:40:19.000And yesterday he chose to bizarrely attempt to humiliate the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:40:26.000Because he was given bizarre information that after his loss in the 2020 election, that Netanyahu rushed to congratulate Biden, which of course is not true.
00:40:33.000He's one of the last world leaders, actually, to congratulate Biden.
00:40:35.000In any case, here was Donald Trump going after Netanyahu personally in the middle of a war and talking about how Hezbollah is smart for attacking from the north, which is weird, since there is literally no other place that Hezbollah could attack from.
00:40:45.000They're located in the north of Israel.
00:40:48.000That's like suggesting that Mexico would be smart if they attacked America from the south.
00:40:52.000Like, where else would they attack from?
00:41:07.000And so when I see sometimes the intelligence, you talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week.
00:41:16.000They've got to straighten it out because they're fighting potentially a very big force.
00:41:23.000And when they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious and they're smart.
00:41:32.000And boy, are they vicious, because nobody's ever seen the kind of sight that we've seen.
00:42:12.000But the fact of the matter is that that is bizarre, bizarre stuff.
00:42:16.000And attacking the Prime Minister in a current time of war, with a unity government in Israel, by the way, with a bunch of people who disagree, but they do agree on the survival of the Jewish state, is a very bizarre move.
00:42:26.000Meanwhile, the left is doing what the left does.
00:42:28.000They are moving predictably into anti-Israel territory.
00:42:31.000Bernie Sanders, who, as I have said before, is about as Jewish as a ham sandwich.
00:42:35.000He continues to be one of the world's worst moral exemplars.
00:42:40.000He put out a statement saying, right now the international community
00:42:42.000must focus on reducing humanitarian suffering and protecting innocent people
00:43:08.000Bernie Sanders says, The United States has rightly offered solidarity and support to Israel in responding to Hamas' attack, but we must insist on restraint from Israeli forces attacking Gaza and work to secure UN humanitarian access.
00:43:19.000Let us not forget that half of the two million people in Gaza are children.
00:43:22.000Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished for the acts of Hamas.
00:44:29.000She does not represent the Democratic Party.
00:44:32.000And what you are hearing from the leaders of the Democratic Party, no one more emphatic than President Biden yesterday, who gave one of the most stirring and pro-Israel speeches that any president has ever given.
00:44:45.000Okay, I also noticed that you're not willing to throw Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, open terror supporters, out of your caucus.
00:44:57.000Gretchen Whitmer doing the same sort of nonsense.
00:44:59.000Gretchen Whitmer, of course, is the governor of Michigan, and she put out a statement calling for peace and said literally nothing about what had actually happened to the Jews.
00:45:10.000So apparently she did not name Israel in her statement.
00:45:12.000She also did not condemn Hamas or its terrorism in her statement.
00:45:15.000Instead, she said, we need peace in the region.
00:45:18.000And then she followed up with a second post that said that her support for Israel is steadfast.
00:45:21.000She also failed to mention Hamas in that post.
00:45:25.000And of course, none of that is particularly surprising from some of the radical Democrats and people who are operating at the behest of radical Islamic fundamentalists, including people like Ilhan Omar.
00:46:36.000That was in response to a Sky News journalist saying, Now, let me point you out here, at this point, that even if you believed that were true, which is an utter, complete lie, that Jews living in, say, Efrat deserve to be murdered because they're living in Efrat.
00:46:51.000Even if you believed that lie, because you're a sicko, the Jews who were murdered here were not living in the settlements.
00:46:57.000The Jews who were murdered here were living in the Negev, in the areas surrounding the Gaza border, which has been Israeli territory since 1947-48.
00:48:03.000I just don't think that's their obligation.
00:48:05.000Meanwhile, the media already shifting into the anti-Israel position as they congenitally were predisposed to do.
00:48:11.000The BBC has now said that they are going to refuse to call Hamas terrorists terrorists.
00:48:16.000John Simpson, who is the World Affairs Editor, who has routinely used the word terrorist to describe people in his own Twitter account, he says BBC will not be using the word terrorist to describe Hamas terrorists.
00:48:25.000Quote, terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally.
00:48:30.000It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
00:48:39.000Like, I assume the word terrorist has a definition, but I'm noticing that you don't apply that definition to actual terrorists when those terrorists are murdering Jews.
00:48:46.000I just noticed this, of course, follows hard on the widespread media questions about exactly what happened.
00:48:52.000There are all these people online who are, and this is now kind of the new normal, is in the aftermath of every tragedy.
00:49:28.000And that was a baby who was killed for the crime of living in a Jewish community and being Jewish.
00:49:34.000Was that picture of the dead baby enough for you?
00:49:36.000If it wasn't enough for you, I have another picture of a dead baby, this one charred beyond all recognition, burned.
00:49:42.000So, yes, for all of you who need pictorial representation of dead Jewish babies in order for you to understand the evil of Hamas, this is for you.
00:49:52.000Meanwhile, the press immediately shifting into context mode.
00:50:48.000If you hit a Hamas target and they put kids in the Hamas target, that is not the same thing.
00:50:53.000But it's, you know, just people doing, somebody did something, as Ilhan Omar might say.
00:50:57.000But don't worry, the entire article is about how, really, this is about Netanyahu, this is about Bibi, it's about the Israelis, of course.
00:51:04.000Well, this operation was surely planned by Hamas leaders months ago.
00:51:06.000I think its emotional origin, says Thomas Friedman, can be explained in part by a photograph that appeared in the Israeli press on October 3rd.
00:51:12.000Well, I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
00:51:14.000So they say they've been planning this for two years.
00:51:16.000And you say that a photo that came out October 3rd is what drove it.
00:51:25.000The photo was taken by the team of Israel's communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, who was attending a UN postal conference in Riyadh, and they were conducting a prayer service.
00:51:33.000One of them took a picture of a colleague wearing a traditional Jewish prayer shawl and a yarmulke while holding up a Torah scroll with the Riyadh skyline in the window beyond.
00:51:42.000That photo ignites a powerful and emotional rage in many Palestinians, says Thomas Friedman.
00:51:46.000So, Israel should not pursue peace with the Saudis because it might piss off terrorists, is Thomas Friedman's take.
00:51:52.000For them, that picture is the full expression of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's supreme goal to prove to all naysayers, indeed to rub their noses in the fact, that he can make peace with the Arab states, even Saudi Arabia, and not have to give the Palestinians a single inch.
00:52:04.000Thomas Friedman is in the crowd of people who would rather not see peace in the Middle East and see conflict continue, so long as he can be proved right in his bizarre notion of the centrality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
00:52:15.000He wants to be proven right more than he wants people to live.
00:52:17.000That is seriously Thomas Friedman's position in all of this.
00:52:20.000And that is the position of so many of these sophisticates.
00:52:22.000And if it takes a few dead Jews and a bunch of dead people in Gaza to prove that, well, he's okay with that.
00:52:50.000And he was giving a press conference about what happened.
00:52:52.000And CNN, went full CNN, started talking about how Israel is engaging in collective punishment.
00:52:57.000It's collective punishment because, of course, when terrorists honeycomb themselves in a civilian population, it is now the job of the people who were murdered to give up and surrender, probably.
00:53:08.000So you let the inhumanity of your opponent make you surrender, and apparently lie prostrate at their feet.
00:53:15.000So President Herzog was having none of that.
00:53:18.000Here he was yesterday going after CNN in colorful and much-deserved fashion.
00:53:24.000But listening to your answers in the last few minutes, I'm a little confused.
00:53:29.000Because on one hand you say that Israel abides by the rules of war and is very careful to avoid the loss of civilian life in the Gaza Strip.
00:53:40.000But at the same time you seem to hold the people of Gaza responsible not trying to remove Hamas. Let me finish. Do you hold a
00:53:48.000missile in your kitchen, in your living room? Can I ask my question? A missile that is
00:53:53.000sent on our head here and if there will be a siren it's a missile from that kitchen.
00:55:10.000If this happened in your country, if it happened in the United States, if it happened in Britain, if it happened in France, if it happened in Germany, if it happened in any of these other countries, do you think they would be sitting there saying, oh, well, you know, we really have to be careful about turning off the water and the power for a few days.
00:55:26.000We really have to, you know, this is, we have to, such restraint we have to show.
00:57:39.000You should not have to, as a Western citizen, sit there and be told that your government does not have the duty and the right to protect you from mass murder in your own kitchen.
00:57:51.000The fact that this is the culmination of Decades of absurd Western nonsense that has been applied, applied predominantly to Israel.
00:58:00.000You see it applied to the United States.
00:58:01.000So you see applied to the UK a little bit, but predominantly to Israel because Israel lives in the neighborhood.
00:58:05.000And so that means it comes up a lot more often with Israel.
00:58:09.000But this again, All the people in the media who are deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as Israel attempts to kill terrorists and simultaneously tell civilians to get out, all those same people who are chiding Israel today, all those same people, if somebody came into their home and murdered their children and raped their wives and dragged them off to some hellhole somewhere, how much do you think they would be concerned about, you know, the temporary stoppage of water and power?
00:58:43.000Well folks, there are a lot of people asking how they can help Israeli citizens right now, help Jews on the ground, Christians, Muslims, all people who are unifying to fight Hamas or who have been victimized by Hamas or both.
00:58:53.000Well, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground right now.
00:58:56.000They're providing critical essentials like food, medicine, and other emergency supplies for vulnerable Jews who need immediate help.
00:59:02.000The need is indeed massive and urgent.
00:59:40.000Now the big problem is, it doesn't matter.
00:59:41.000The reason it doesn't matter is because they still don't have 217 votes.
00:59:43.000So they're still not bringing this to the floor.
00:59:46.000That was just to decide who they bring to the floor as the possible speaker.
00:59:48.000But in order for any of that to happen, All the Republicans behind the door have to actually get together and acquiesce that whoever they picked in that election, they are now going to vote for.
00:59:59.000Even if you voted for Jordan, in other words, behind closed doors, now you're going to move out from behind the closed doors and you're going to vote for Scalise.
01:00:04.000And apparently, they don't have that at the moment.
01:00:07.000Again, it's a very, very narrow victory.
01:00:41.000So they ousted McCarthy to put in Steve Scalise, who has a nearly identical voting record with McCarthy, and who would pursue many of the same exact policies as McCarthy.
01:00:57.000If you're going to make a political Machiavellian manipulation to get rid of the Speaker of the House, you better damn well have a backup plan where you actually win some concessions.
01:01:05.000Apparently, Thomas Massie is now estimating there are at least 20 House Republicans who will not vote for Scalise on the floor.
01:01:11.000He says it will be even more difficult for Scalise to win a majority than it was for McCarthy in January.
01:01:16.000Some lawmakers were frustrated Wednesday by an internal vote earlier in the day blocking a proposal that would have required the winning candidate to secure 217 votes rather than simply have the most votes of any candidate.
01:01:26.000Allies of Scalise have been lobbying against the rules change.
01:01:28.000So again, their idea was that the winning candidate would have to be able to get a majority, and they're like, nah, we'll have an internal vote for no reason, and then we'll try to figure it out afterward.
01:01:39.000This is all going to go really, really well.
01:01:42.000Matt Gaetz, for his own sake, who led this charge, he said he'll support either one of them.
01:01:48.000Eli Crane, another one, has said that he would support either Jordan or Scalise.
01:01:52.000But, don't worry, there are a few people who are saying that they will not vote for Scalise.
01:01:57.000Among them, the attention-getting Nancy Mace.
01:01:59.000I don't know why Nancy Mace thinks that she needs to be on camera all the time lately, but again, when you have a narrow majority, one of the things that you get to do is posture and preen for the camera.
01:02:09.000So Nancy Mace inexplicably joined the chorus of people who provided for McCarthy's ouster.
01:02:13.000She did so on the grounds that McCarthy was too conservative, so good luck getting her on board for Steve Scalise.
01:02:17.000So the other day, she decided, don't worry guys, this is all just humble public servants being humble public servants.
01:02:22.000So Nancy Mace decided to wear a white t-shirt with the, or a white, what would you call this shirt, Savvy?
01:02:32.000It's not a blouse. It's effectively a tube top. It's not a tube top, right? It's really tight.
01:02:37.000In any case, she's wearing like a white t-shirt, a fairly tight white t-shirt that says,
01:02:42.000that has a giant red A on it. Don't worry guys, they're just humble public servants
01:02:46.000seeking to do your bidding. The seriousness of what happens in the world, juxtaposed with the
01:02:52.000idiocy of our political class, is really truly something to behold.
01:02:57.000You have serious things happening in the world.
01:02:59.000Pending regional war in the Middle East, a continuing Ukraine war, global economic slowdown.
01:03:04.000You have all these serious things happening.
01:03:06.000And meanwhile, in the United States, we're running a three-ring circus with multiple clowns of all parties.
01:03:12.000It's bewildering and insane and frustrating.
01:03:15.000Now here is Nancy Mace clowning around.
01:03:17.000She wore a Scarlet A because she's just like Hester Prynne, you see.
01:03:20.000I'm not sure who she committed adultery with, but she's just like Hester Prynne, she explains.
01:03:26.000I'm wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice.
01:03:35.000I'm here to let the rest of the world know and the country know I'm on the side of the people.
01:03:38.000I'm not on the side of the establishment.
01:03:40.000And I'm going to do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences, because I don't answer to anybody in D.C.
01:03:47.000I don't answer to anyone in Washington.
01:04:16.000I plan on voting for Jim Jordan on the floor.
01:04:18.000I've been very vocal about this over the last couple of days.
01:04:22.000I personally cannot in good conscience vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke.
01:04:31.000I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.
01:04:39.000Okay, all of this is slanderous nonsense?
01:04:41.000The notion that he compared himself to David Duke is second-hand talk from, like, the mid-1990s.
01:04:45.000That was a charge that Young's Scalise described his platform as similar to Duke's during a personal conversation with fellow LSU alum Stephanie Grace.
01:04:53.000Grace apparently neither recorded nor published the statement.
01:04:55.000She trotted out many years later, quote-unquote, going from memory, according to Stephen Voss, who writes about this at the Missouri Independent.
01:05:01.000As far as the notion that he spoke at a white supremacist conference, he was asked, in the middle of a political race, he was asked to speak for 15 minutes about taxes at a conference with a name, in the middle of a political race.