When it comes to Israel's current war against Hamas, there is a clear gap between the sides on a moral level. One side, Hamas and its allies, seeks to murder civilians. The other side, Israel seeks to save civilians. That s why Hamas locates its military assets in civilian neighborhoods. And that s why Israel is a democracy with high levels of transparency, a free press, and a robust democracy with highly aggressive opposition parties. That doesn t mean that Israel doesn t get things wrong. It does mean that the media does not make lying its central principle in military matters. And as it turns out, as it does with everything else, the media are only interested in one thing: moral parity between parties to a conflict. They only seek that one moral parity when they seek to seek parity of parity of one of the two parties. And when we're talking about one party, what we're actually talking about is one that seeks to seek that moral parity. How we're watching a genocidal monster, and how we're suddenly, shockingly credulous about what we have to say What we're really watching is a group that just slaughtered babies. We don't know how many people died, but we know that we don't need to know the real number, because it's not even close to the number that the terrorists claim to have been killed. We know that it's probably much higher than the number of people that actually died in the attack on the hospital in Gaza on the other side of the border. - and yet we're still don't even know the true number of dead people that was actually there? We can't even begin to get a grip on the truth about that's been reported by the truth, because we're not even half of the truth? We have no idea what's being reported by Hamas's version of what's actually happened. We don t even know what's really happened, and we don t know the truth. What's more, we're just waiting for us to come to the truth and we're supposed to believe it we have no longer care do we really care about the truth or not are we really do care about that much about the facts, do we care enough to care enough about it? or are we or do we want to know what s being told the truth to be honest about it or care about it ? and we just want to believe that it really matters?
00:00:00.000When it comes to Israel's current war against Hamas, there is a clear gap between the sides on a moral level.
00:00:05.000One side, Hamas and its allies, seeks to murder civilians.
00:00:08.000That's why they slaughtered 1,400 innocent Jews in Israel and have planted their military sites directly in civilian areas while attempting to stop their own civilians from escaping those areas.
00:00:17.000Hamas openly acknowledges, they say, that they use civilians as human shields.
00:00:22.000The other side, Israel, seeks to save civilians.
00:00:24.000That's precisely why Hamas locates its military assets in civilian neighborhoods.
00:00:28.000If Israel were truly a human rights monster that didn't care about civilians, Hamas would have no incentive to shield its weapons with innocent Gazans.
00:00:36.000On the one side, Hamas has a health ministry that routinely lies.
00:00:39.000In 2014, for example, Hamas's interior ministry website issued instructions to online activists, including the following statement.
00:00:46.000Quote, anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank.
00:00:54.000Don't forget to always add innocent civilian or innocent citizen in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
00:01:01.000They also say, quote, avoid publishing pictures of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza City censors.
00:01:06.000This would provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in the Gaza Strip, unquote.
00:01:10.000Because Hamas runs a tyrannical terror state, media members are routinely told what to report, which is why that same year in 2014, The Washington Post admitted.
00:01:18.000it comes to body counts, the Hamas health minister was quote the only game in town.
00:01:22.000They threatened reporters. That same minister acknowledged that he maximized the count of
00:01:26.000civilian casualties. The New York Times in 2014 recognized that Hamas inflates such statistics
00:01:31.000as well. The other side, Israel is a democracy with high levels of transparency, a free press,
00:01:37.000a robust democracy with highly aggressive opposition parties.
00:01:39.000The current Prime Minister of Israel has been dragged by that media and opposition through scandal after scandal.
00:01:44.000That doesn't mean that Israel doesn't get things wrong.
00:01:46.000It does mean that Israel does not make lying its central principle in military matters.
00:01:51.000One side, Hamas and its esteemed colleagues in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has a very long history of firing rockets that end up hitting their own people.
00:01:59.000In 2022, for example, Israel estimated that some one-fifth of all 1,000 Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets fell within Gaza.
00:02:06.000During the current war, over 7000 rockets have been fired at Israel.
00:02:09.000At least 400 of them fell short and hit Gaza.
00:02:11.000Here are just some video examples from the recent past.
00:02:15.000On October 17th, Islamic Jihad destroyed a hospital in Gaza when a rocket aimed toward Israel misfired and landed in Gaza.
00:02:27.000This isn't the first time, while thousands of rockets are fired toward Israel, rockets fail.
00:02:36.000These failed rocket launches caused mass destruction and the death of countless innocent individuals inside Gaza.
00:02:42.000Now, here's a map of all the failed launches during this war alone.
00:03:04.000You can see this map blankets the entire Gaza Strip from south to north.
00:03:09.000One side, Israel, has a precision military that seeks to hit as many military targets in as efficient a way as possible.
00:03:14.000That military routinely passes up shots on military targets if too many civilians will be harmed.
00:03:19.000So, with all of this said, naturally, when a hospital allegedly blew up in the Gaza Strip yesterday afternoon, and Hamas immediately claimed that the explosion was an Israeli airstrike and that 500 people had been killed, the media used their heads.
00:03:31.000They decided to wait for all the information to emerge because, you know, Hamas are liars.
00:03:43.000A failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket hit the hospital.
00:03:46.000Actually, to be more accurate, it hit the parking lot next to the hospital, doing no apparent structural damage to the building.
00:03:51.000We still don't know how many people actually died.
00:03:53.000We don't know the real number of casualties.
00:03:55.000It took Israel weeks to determine how many people had died in the assault on its southern border.
00:04:00.000Hamas threw out the number 500 within 15 minutes of the rocket falling.
00:04:03.000There's only one reason the media jumped to listen to Hamas.
00:04:06.000The media have an insanely strong stake in creating moral equivalence between Israel and its terrorist opponents.
00:04:12.000They operate under a soft-headed mindset that seeks moral parity between parties to a conflict.
00:04:17.000But, as it turns out, they only seek that moral parity when one of the parties is Jews.
00:04:22.000If we're talking about, say, Russia-Ukraine, the American media treat every Russian claim with a grain of salt and believe pretty much everything put out by the Ukrainian government.
00:04:29.000If we're talking about a full-on terrorist group that just slaughtered babies, however, our media are suddenly, shockingly credulous.
00:04:35.000They suddenly believe what the terrorists have to say.
00:04:40.000What we're actually watching in real time, as a genocidal Jew-hating terror group laundered a lie about a Jewish massacre of innocents at a Baptist hospital, is what we call a blood libel.
00:04:49.000That term dates back to the year 1144, when Jew-haters charged the Jews of Norwich, England, with ritually murdering a young boy named William for religious purposes.
00:04:57.000Frequently, such blood libels claim that Jews used Christian blood to bake Passover matzah.
00:05:01.000Similar blood libels were used for centuries, all the way through the time of the Nazis.
00:05:05.000They are still repeated very frequently in Arabic language media in the Middle East.
00:05:09.000The goal is obvious, to turn the Jews into monsters and thus to justify their murder.
00:05:13.000Blood libels historically have led to pogroms, to expulsions, to genocide targeted against Jews.
00:05:35.000Legacy media hatred for the state of Israel is decades old, really dating back to the post-67 era, and has cost thousands of lives on all sides.
00:05:42.000If the West had taken seriously Hamas' own words, or for that matter, the words of the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, Israel never would have been forced into dangerous concessions to terrorist groups that have ended with thousands of deaths.
00:05:53.000But the media continue to pretend that moral equivalence is the story in the Middle East.
00:06:47.000The way they are written is the claim.
00:06:49.000And then at the very end of the claim, Palestinian officials say.
00:06:52.000Now, if you let it off with Palestinian officials say hundreds killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, everybody would know to take it with a bit of a grain of salt because, you know, Hamas lies.
00:07:19.000Israeli air attacks have killed hundreds of Palestinians in Al Akhli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, where thousands are seeking medical treatment and shelter from heavy bombardment.
00:07:43.000What actually happened is that Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has thousands of rockets in the Gaza Strip, they were firing rockets on Israel because, you know, that's- It was a night ending in Y. And so it's time to try to kill some Jews in Ashkelon or something.
00:08:03.000Well, as we'll see, because all the evidence says so.
00:08:07.000Visual evidence, audio evidence, geolocating evidence, all of it says so.
00:08:11.000So the media didn't just get it wrong, they bought a terrorist lie, broadcast it to the world, And then, they're slowly having to backtrack that lie.
00:09:28.000The IDF waited until they could actually gather the evidence, and then they revealed that actually, no, it was not an Israeli airstrike on a hospital.
00:09:38.000In fact, Israel goes out of its way not to hit hospitals.
00:09:41.000Well, because as I've said multiple times on this show and others, Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip Is located directly above Hamas headquarters.
00:09:48.000This has been well known for decades at this point.
00:10:05.000Because Israel understands that the human damage and the public relations damage that would be done by doing such a thing would be catastrophic.
00:10:14.000So, yesterday the IDF spokesperson revealed that actually Islamic Jihad fired the rockets that fell short.
00:10:20.000Here he was announcing that yesterday.
00:10:22.000I want to give you an announcement of the event that occurred in the hospital in Gaza.
00:10:28.000I can confirm that an analysis of the IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the al-Hali al-Maadi hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit.
00:10:45.000Intelligence from few sources that we have in our hands indicates that the Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.
00:10:57.000I repeat, this is the responsibility of Islamic Jihad that killed innocents in the hospital in Gaza.
00:11:07.000So you say, but I don't know who to believe.
00:11:08.000Should I believe the official military of a democratic ally of the United States, or should I believe the terrorist group?
00:11:13.000Well, good news, Israel actually then provided evidence that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
00:11:17.000So first of all, there is surveillance footage from one of the Moshavim, that is one of the villages that is located around the Gaza Strip.
00:11:22.000It was one of the places that was assaulted during the Hamas attack on Southern Israel.
00:11:27.000This is surveillance footage from Nativ HaAsara, and it shows the barrage of rocket fire from Gaza.
00:11:33.000You will see in this footage that one of those rockets doesn't make it all the way out.
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00:17:13.000This is from Hamas members talking to one another going, uh oh, it looks like we, it looks like one of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets hit, you know, near one of our hospitals.
00:18:48.000That they fired the rocket from right next to the hospital.
00:18:51.000Two, they're admitting that it fell in the parking lot near the hospital.
00:18:54.000Three, they're admitting to lying to the entire international media about all this.
00:18:58.000Now, you could make the case for the media that they're just credulous and stupid, except that they've known for decades that the Palestinian authorities routinely lie about this stuff.
00:19:47.000At a certain point, it becomes purposeful.
00:19:48.000I don't know how many times you can promote the moral equivalence blood libel lie of equating actual terrorist murderers with Israelis attempting to defend themselves before you become complicit in the lie and part of the lie.
00:20:01.000Hamas literally laundered a blood libel into full public view.
00:20:04.000And by the way, blew up the Middle East.
00:20:07.000I mean, we'll talk about that in a second.
00:20:08.000These lies have tremendous effect internationally.
00:20:11.000And you guys went all along with it, didn't you, in the legacy media?
00:20:15.000Could it be because it hits all of your political erogenous zones, where you get to claim moral equivalence between Israel and its enemies?
00:23:23.000And when you cover for them, you become complicit in their evil.
00:23:25.000And our legacy media have been dedicated for decades to the proposition that evil must never be looked in the eye, it must be coddled.
00:23:31.000It must be treated as though, actually they're not evil.
00:23:34.000They're not maybe, sure they're lying and we know they're lying, but we'll pretend they're not lying and maybe we can, you know, maybe we can massage their shoulders and force Israel to make concessions to the lying genocidal murderers.
00:24:00.000They do not tend to kill hundreds of people in a single strike in the way- Maybe they didn't.
00:24:06.000That Israeli high explosives, especially these bunker buster bombs that are used to target these Hamas tunnels under Gaza City, do have the potential to kill hundreds of people.
00:24:15.000And we should say, finally, that there are instances in the past where the Israeli military has said things in the immediate aftermath of an incident that have turned out not to be true in the long run.
00:24:25.000And the one example I'll give you is that when the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akhle was killed in the occupied West Bank, The Israeli military initially said that she was killed by Palestinian gunmen and it was only months and months later that they admitted that it was likely an Israeli soldier who fired the fatal shot.
00:24:46.000Okay, and that was a massive scandal inside Israel.
00:24:49.000And you know who revealed that it was the Israeli soldiers who fired the shot?
00:25:55.000As a student of Jewish history, I'm really looking forward to seeing what new anti-Semitic trope from history can be dropped directly into the middle of this conflagration of garbage.
00:26:27.000Of course they're going to sting the frog.
00:26:29.000The media are not the frog, though, because here's the thing.
00:26:31.000The media know full well what the scorpion is.
00:26:34.000They're not bamboozled or shocked by this.
00:26:36.000They know what Hamas is, and they report it credulously because it backs their broader narrative, which is that there is a cycle of violence in the Middle East, not one side seeking the genocidal extermination of the other side, and the other side simply wanting to be left alone.
00:26:49.000I repeat, for the one millionth time, Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, leaving the entire thing to the control of the Palestinians and Hamas.
00:26:56.000And they promptly built it into a mini-terrorist state that launched the worst terror attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:27:01.000And the media immediately turned around and go back to moral equivalence land.
00:27:06.000And Jake, what those images add up to is a mass casualty event that could change the international opinion of what Israel is doing right now.
00:27:17.000It could shift international opinion against them.
00:27:20.000It's already shifted that opinion in the Arab world against Israel.
00:27:27.000Israeli news channels are still covering hostage families.
00:27:31.000Arab news channels are covering the destruction inside Gaza.
00:27:36.000So I noticed that you guys are all very credulous about that.
00:27:39.000Again, if you're that credulous about the claims of terrorist groups, it makes me think you have some latent feelings about this conflict.
00:27:46.000Not so latent feelings, maybe we should say.
00:27:47.000Speaking of people who don't have latent feelings about this conflict, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the terrorist caucus in the U.S.
00:27:52.000Congress, they decided immediately to parrot Hamas' claims and blast them out at full volume.
00:27:57.000Rashida Tlaib, terror sympathizer, she tweeted out, Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital, killing 500 Palestinians, doctors, children, patients, just like that.
00:28:04.000President, this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and help de-escalate.
00:28:08.000Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans like me.
00:29:32.000Well, you know, I think what's important to note about a ceasefire is that it's not one-sided.
00:29:37.000Hamas has been sending thousands of rockets into Israel as well, and what is important is for us to identify our goal in terms of what safety means, in terms of what defense means.
00:29:46.000But if I may, Congresswoman, I think the position from Israel's perspective is that there was already an attack.
00:29:52.000And Hamas already committed an attack.
00:29:55.000After that happened, do you really believe that they should not respond to that?
00:30:02.000I think what is important in terms of response is Israel does have a right to self-defense.
00:30:10.000I think what we need to take a look at in this situation is if collective punishment qualifies as defense.
00:30:20.000Our Congress is filled with clowns and she's the driver of the clown car, AOC.
00:30:24.000The fact that the media prop her up as somebody who knows things, this idiot bartender from Brooklyn, we're supposed to pretend that she knows things?
00:30:31.000Either she's absolutely ignorant or she's just an adjunct to the Hamas caucus or both.
00:30:36.000At this point, I'm going to go with both.
00:30:38.000So, Joe Biden arrived in Israel today and met with the Israeli government.
00:30:43.000In the immediate aftermath of this, he put out a statement about how outraged he was about the hit on the hospital.
00:30:47.000Again, it might have behooved him to wait for five minutes to see if the facts actually come out.
00:30:50.000Meanwhile, John Kirby, who's the national security spokesperson, He said that he would be asking, that Biden would be asking Netanyahu tough questions as a friend, which is always, yeah, after your people get slaughtered, you know, definitely want to answer questions from the American president.
00:31:06.000How many tough questions has Joe Biden asked Zelensky as a friend?
00:31:11.000Has Joe Biden asked a lot of tough questions of Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine as a friend?
00:31:14.000I don't hear that sort of language applied anywhere, except with regard to the Israelis, of course.
00:31:18.000Here was John Kirby trying to, again, start making the room for both sides in it.
00:31:21.000Then Biden got on the ground, and as we'll see, he backtracked this thing pretty strongly.
00:31:26.000When he talks to Prime Minister Netanyahu and to the War Cabinet, he's going to be doing a few things.
00:31:32.000One, he's going to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead.
00:31:42.000And he'll be asking some tough questions.
00:31:44.000He'll be asking them as a friend, as a true friend of Israel, but he'll be asking some questions of them.
00:31:49.000He's also going to make it clear that we continue to want to see this conflict not widen, not expand, not deepen.
00:32:10.000I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.
00:32:18.000And based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.
00:32:25.000But there's a lot of people out there who are not sure.
00:32:27.000So we've got to overcome a lot of things.
00:32:33.000So he was asked, by the way, why he believed that.
00:32:35.000And he says, what I was shown by my defense department, not by the Israelis, by the American Defense Department, the British Foreign Secretary actually tweeted out this morning that everyone got it wrong, admitting that it was all a lie that was made up and that everyone got it wrong, including in the international community.
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00:35:24.000Well, when the media launder terrorist lies into full public view, that has some pretty predictable consequences.
00:35:38.000Already, there are forces in the Middle East that wish to see this conflagration spread.
00:35:41.000Now, it is in the interest of America to keep this thing contained.
00:35:44.000They don't want Hezbollah getting into the war.
00:35:46.000If they do, Israel is going to go whole hog against Hezbollah.
00:35:48.000If Israel does that, Syria may come in, Iran may come in, and suddenly you have a regional war that may expand outward to include Sunni states and may go nuclear.
00:35:55.000This is something the United States wishes to minimize.
00:35:58.000In order for that to happen, however, it would really help if the media would stop promulgating blood libels against the Israelis.
00:36:03.000That actually end ongoing negotiations.
00:36:05.000So already, again, you have forces that are seeking to maximize the amount of conflict in the region.
00:36:08.000That, of course, would include Hezbollah, another terrorist group, an evil genocidal terrorist group on Israel's northern border that also happens to run the Lebanese government by proxy at this point.
00:36:18.000According to the Jerusalem Post, Hezbollah denounced what the group said was Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza hospital.
00:36:36.000Embassy in Beirut just hours after the incident.
00:36:40.000Again, all of this promoted by the American media.
00:36:44.000These massive protests spread pretty much everywhere.
00:36:47.000So huge protests in Lebanon that ended with the evacuation, apparently, of the American Embassy in Beirut because people were trying to set it on fire.
00:36:53.000There were also massive protests in Jordan.
00:36:55.000We have footage from Jordan where massive protests broke out around the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.
00:37:03.000You can see, look at the size of that protest.
00:37:04.000Of course, 70% of the population of Jordan is Palestinian Arab, which makes perfect sense, because originally the entire area was, quote-unquote, Jordan, was Transjordan, and then Transjordan was sliced off.
00:37:15.000The entire area was, quote-unquote, British Mandate Palestine.
00:37:17.000Transjordan was sliced off, that became Jordan.
00:37:18.000So, naturally, a huge percentage of the population is Palestinian Arab.
00:37:22.000Then you had massive protests in Qatar, which is an Iranian proxy state and ally, worked very, very closely with the genocidal dictators in Iran.
00:37:31.000So here they were protesting in Qatar.
00:39:56.000The West did an amazing job, by the way, in importing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people who sympathize with terrorist groups.
00:40:02.000It turns out that was an amazingly smart move.
00:40:06.000Yep, that's a lot of people who... If you're on, let me put it this way, if you're on the West on an immigrant visa and you support Hamas, the West should deport you.
00:40:14.000It should not be a particularly controversial statement.
00:40:16.000It seems like supporting terrorist groups is a pretty baseline thing not to do if you wish to reside in the West.
00:40:21.000Massive protests broke out in Greece as well.
00:40:23.000Terrorist sympathizers were running wild in Spain.
00:40:25.000Around the globe, around the globe, this is a thing.
00:40:41.000By the way, remember all those people we were told are not allied with the terrorists?
00:40:44.000You know, all those people who really hate the terrorists, like Mahmoud Abbas.
00:40:47.000He's the reasonable one in this particular region.
00:40:49.000He's the head of the Palestinian Authority.
00:40:51.000Well, I mean, it is unfortunate then that the Palestinian Authority gave Hamas' terrorist families close to $3 million for murdering Jews.
00:40:58.000That is a thing that actually happened?
00:41:00.000According to Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority, which again, those are the moderates, those are the supposed peace partner, they will pay families of dead Hamas terrorists a combined total of $2.8 million to a pay-for-slay system called the Martyrs Fund.
00:41:12.000The terrorist family would be rewarded around $1,500 and a $353 allowance monthly for life.
00:41:20.000The families terrorists married into receive an even higher amount.
00:41:27.000Those are the people who we are told actually want peace.
00:41:30.000Yeah, Israel should probably make concessions.
00:41:31.000Probably a ceasefire would be necessary.
00:41:34.000Meanwhile, this had dramatic diplomatic fallout.
00:41:36.000So as I was talking about yesterday and throughout the week on the show, the reality is that everyone in the region, except for Hamas, has some interest in this thing coming to a close without it being blown into a broader war.
00:41:47.000Iran doesn't want that because if this thing goes hot and Iran ends up in the war, The leadership of Iran will be dead.
00:41:57.000There'll be a lot of horrific suffering and carnage.
00:42:00.000That's what everybody is seeking to avoid at this point.
00:42:02.000But because of this false report parroted around by the media, and because of that, Jordan has now canceled a summit that was to be held with King Abdullah, the dictator of Egypt, al-Sisi, and Mahmoud Abbas after the blast.
00:42:17.000They decided to cancel that And so that was going to be sort of the lead off for trying to figure out what happens with Gaza.
00:42:24.000That's really what those meetings are about.
00:42:31.000It turns out a lot of people don't necessarily want to live in Gaza because it's actually a crappy place to live when you're governed by either the Palestinian Authority or Islamic Jihad or Hamas.
00:42:43.000Instead, that got canceled because of this false story that was touted around the world by legacy media.
00:42:48.000According to the Times of Israel, the White House confirmed that the Jordan portion of Joe Biden's trip to the Mideast has been canceled.
00:42:53.000He was supposed to hold a summit in Amman with the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority.
00:42:57.000Jordan announced it was scrapping the meeting entirely, which again, goes to show you where their hearts are, does it not?
00:43:03.000I mean, again, why would that scrap the meeting?
00:43:04.000Wouldn't they want the meeting more desperately with the Americans, even if only to pressure the Americans to push the Israelis?
00:43:09.000A White House official said in a statement, the decision to scrap the Amman summit was made after Biden consulted with King Abdullah in light of the days of mourning announced by Abbas following the hospital blast.
00:43:18.000Again, they're all playing up the lie because they want to play up the lie, because they wish to exacerbate the feelings of the so-called Arab street.
00:43:25.000They've been lying to their people for decades and indoctrinating their children in the hatred of Jews, so why stop now?
00:43:31.000So, that is the international situation as it currently stands.
00:43:34.000Now, how fast can this lie be debunked?
00:43:37.000I mean, it's already been debunked in real time, but it doesn't really matter.
00:43:41.000Because in the end, in the end, there are too many people in legacy media who still have a stake in the pre-existing narrative.
00:43:47.000They still have a stake in the pre-existing narrative.
00:43:50.000And they're gonna continue to promote the lie, and the Arab street will continue to pick up the lie, and Arab leadership will continue to pick up the lie, Muslim leadership will continue to pick up the lie, and the conflict will remain intractable, which was entirely the point.
00:43:59.000This has been entirely the point of the Palestinian conflict since the very beginning.
00:44:04.000I repeat, that if you go back to 1947, 1948, Every war creates refugees.
00:44:09.000This is why there are 3.5 million Syrian refugees currently living in Turkey.
00:44:13.000The difference between Israel and its Arab neighbors is that Israel tried to encourage many people to stay, which is why 20% of Israel's population is currently Israeli Arab, meaning Palestinian Arab.
00:44:22.000And also, Israel took in 800,000 Jews from the surrounding regions.
00:44:35.000In a second, we'll get to what comes next internationally and the continuing crisis on America's college campuses.
00:44:40.000First, We do things here pretty differently at The Daily Wire.
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00:44:46.000We launched a chocolate company overnight.
00:44:48.000We just took on Disney, head to head, by releasing 100 episodes of kids' content, tons of content.
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00:46:41.000officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Arab leaders in the region that the U.S.
00:46:44.000is not fooling around by sending so many military assets to the region in support of Israel.
00:46:49.000They added that any decision to use force would be made according to the scope of the Hezbollah attack and Israel's ability to respond.
00:46:54.000This is why, by the way, you've seen Hezbollah doing pinprick attacks in the north.
00:46:57.000The basic idea here is to tie down Israeli troops and materiel in the north to redirect them away from the Gaza Strip, but not go so hard that either Israel strikes full force or that America strikes full force either.
00:47:09.000Meanwhile, Joe Biden is expected to ask Congress for a $100 billion package.
00:47:12.000Again, Joe Biden is trying to package together aid for Israel and Ukraine.
00:47:15.000These are two completely separate issues.
00:47:19.000And the conflict in Ukraine, I've been an advocate of America funding Ukraine to defend itself and to prevent Russia from taking over the territory.
00:47:26.000Also, the intractable battlefield conflict, which is resulting in nothing, is going to need to have an off-ramp.
00:47:32.000And the United States is going to have to take a lead position in negotiating what that off-ramp is with the Russians, as much as I hate Vladimir Putin and think that he's a garbage human being and a dictator.
00:47:40.000So funding for Ukraine is a much more controversial proposition than re-arming the Israelis in the face of an ongoing terrorist onslaught.
00:47:46.000Again, arming Ukraine to defend its own territory, I'm totally fine with, and that should continue.
00:47:51.000Because if not, then Russia wins and walks into Kiev.
00:47:54.000That is something that should be prevented.
00:47:55.000But linking the two issues, they are two completely separate issues, and Congress people should have the ability to decide to vote up on one and down on the other, or vice versa.
00:48:03.000The fact that Biden is trying to link the two in order to cram them through is, I think, strategic bad faith.
00:48:09.000The funding levels, which would cover an entire year, they would also cover border funding and disaster aids.
00:48:13.000They're trying to lump everything together.
00:48:15.000Israel, Ukraine, border funding, another crap sandwich from the Biden administration.
00:48:21.000I don't know why this has to be tied together.
00:48:24.000Many House Republicans are expressing skepticism over combining all of this together.
00:48:28.000Some of the Senate higher-ups, the Democrats run the Senate, of course.
00:48:31.000Mitch McConnell is backing the Biden proposal mainly because he wants to make sure that the aid to Israel gets done and the border security gets done.
00:48:38.000And he's saying, we don't run the Senate or the presidency.
00:48:41.000He says this is all interconnected, but Republicans are going to push for a strong border element.
00:48:45.000In order for that to happen, obviously, Republicans at some point might want to, you know, nominate a Speaker.
00:49:55.000Again, the underlying incentive structure is precisely the same.
00:49:57.000Because if you only have 221 seats in the House, which is what Republicans have, and you need a majority of 217 in order to do anything, that means five Republican Congress people of any stripe can simply sink whatever the entire caucus wants.
00:50:08.000That's what happened with McCarthy, but it can also happen from the left wing of the caucus, which is kind of what happened with Jordan yesterday.
00:50:14.000Representative Doug LaMalfa, a longtime Representative Kevin McCarthy ally who voted for him on the first ballot in the Speaker's vote, told reporters that he'll vote for Jim Jordan on the second ballot.
00:50:23.000Jimenez said he would never vote for Jordan, but would consider other candidates.
00:50:29.000But, again, it's unclear exactly whether Republicans can ever get to 17 at this point.
00:50:35.000Byron Donalds, who is obviously a very right-wing, pretty Trump-y congressperson from Florida, he says, yeah, it turns out that pressure campaign against the moderate members of Congress backfired.
00:50:45.000Axios heading into all this was talking about the pressure campaign that had building to vote for Jim Jordan.
00:50:52.000Some were anonymously telling sources that they were getting bullied into voting.
00:50:58.000Was any of that a turnoff for some of these members?
00:51:02.000I've talked to a couple of members where they felt that that's just not what they needed.
00:51:07.000I don't think that's what we should be doing right now.
00:51:09.000And listen, for all of the voters in our country, I think it's important for members to hear your voice, and I totally respect that, but I think that there are members up here who they want to be able to make this decision on leadership and then move forward.
00:51:22.000I think some of the Prussia campaigns have backfired.
00:51:31.000So right now, there are apparently ongoing conversations between the Democrats and some Republicans to empower Patrick McHenry, who's the interim House leader, to just kind of continue with his job.
00:51:41.000So there just won't be a Speaker of the House.
00:51:42.000We'll just move along with Patrick McHenry.
00:51:44.000Clearly, this is a big win for Republicans.
00:51:46.000Clearly, they don't look like they're a bunch of morons in a clown car shooting blanks at each other.
00:52:07.000Jim Jordan is still not Speaker of the House.
00:52:09.000Steve Scalise is not Speaker of the House.
00:52:10.000In fact, nobody's Speaker of the House and hasn't been for several weeks at this point.
00:52:15.000Hakeem Jeffries is now telling CNN that his caucus is open to reaching some form of agreement with quote-unquote traditional Republicans to reopen the House.
00:52:22.000They're talking about empowering interim Speaker Patrick McHenry.
00:52:26.000He said, I have respect for Patrick McHenry.
00:52:32.000I think he's respected on our side of the aisle.
00:52:34.000Apparently, conversations between senior Democrats and Republicans have accelerated in recent days.
00:52:51.000And meanwhile, America's universities continue to be a moral wreckage, a place of moral wreckage.
00:52:57.000University of Pennsylvania is now in crisis because they have not only looked the other way on radical antisemitism, but a lot of their donors are beginning to realize they shouldn't have been sending money there.
00:53:07.000So first of all, Welcome to the party, pal.
00:53:09.000I've been saying for literally 20 years, 20 years, I've been saying that donors, conservative donors, should not be giving money to left-wing colleges who promote garbage.
00:53:31.000Ambassador John Huntsman blasted the University of Pennsylvania's response in recent months to antisemitism and is promising to halt his family's donations to the university.
00:53:39.000The strong criticism from Huntsman comes amid a growing backlash from donors and trustees.
00:53:44.000The controversy began last month when a multi-day event took place on campus at UPenn.
00:53:47.000It was called the Palestine Rights Literature Festival.
00:53:49.000UPenn has acknowledged the event included speakers with a history of making antisemitic remarks.
00:53:54.000UPenn leaders issued a statement ahead of the festival condemning antisemitism broadly, but not the festival specifically.
00:54:00.000A lot of powerful donors have now argued that UPenn leaders have basically allowed this to go on.
00:54:04.000UPenn leader, President Liz McGill, issued a statement Sunday admitting the school did not handle the situation as well as it could have.
00:54:12.000It's not going to be fixed by putting out a statement.
00:54:15.000This is why, also, Leslie Wexner's nonprofit group, the Wexner Foundation, has withdrawn financial support from Harvard University after that giant student group-led letter blasting Israel for the recent terrorist attacks that murdered 1,400 Israelis.
00:54:38.000Hopefully, if something, anything decent can come out of this entire horrific situation, perhaps it would be the defunding of some of our worst colleges and universities.