What's the best place to stand in the middle when it comes to Israel and its enemies? The middle. The middle is comforting. It gives you the illusion that you're being even-handed, that you see nuance and complexity where others just see black and white. And yet, when attacks on Israel are chalked up to political differences and shrugged away, it turns out that scenes of brutally massacred children, women, and men tend to upset the moral stomach. But then, the stomach settles again. All it takes to return to that sophisticated neutrality is a few false platitudes, a few comforting lies. And the most comforting lie is that Israel has to be warned about human rights because secretly, if it weren't for the intervention of the West, the Jews would just be like Hamas. Then there's the second lie: That we must all remember the vaunted peace process. Yes, the peace process that was obviously and clearly and openly stated a ruse undertaken by Yasser Arafat in order to provide the jumping-off point for a genocidal war on the Jews. But the lie is a stupidly offensive lie, and it's dangerous because, once again, it places the blame on Israel for murder of Jews in Israel. If only the Jews had made more concessions to the Arabs, Israel wouldn't be the victim of antisemitism, would it be so easy to forget about the "two-state solution"? And what does that have to do with anti-Semitism? And why is it so important to the anti-Judea and anti-Zionism? the lie goes that we don't actually get murdered when Jews get killed when Jews don't get killed? So, it's actually the Jews' fault when they do get killed, it s actually the Jew s fault? And if they don t get murdered, it is actually the Jewish fault? That's a question that we should all be asking the question, not the Jews don t do anything about it, is it? The answer is: Yes, they don't have to make painful concessions when it s all a problem, it doesn't need to do so. So when we get killed by Jews do get murdered by other people, does it ? so does it have to be the Jews do it because it's all the work they should be blamed for it? And does it really have to happen because they're actually the fault ? it's the Jews ? And so on?
00:00:12.000No one hates your viewpoint enough to make you their opponent, and yet you get to stand apart from everyone, tut-tutting both sides.
00:00:18.000When it comes to Israel and its terror-supporting enemies, the West has, for some decades, taken precisely that middle position.
00:00:24.000Sure, Israel should be able to defend itself, but not too much.
00:00:27.000Yes, Israel has the right to exist, but it must make concessions to those who openly seek Israel's destruction.
00:00:33.000When Israel's enemies pursue the worst atrocities in four generations, it's difficult to maintain that position of steady neutrality.
00:00:39.000In which attacks on Israel are chalked up to political differences and shrugged away, it turns out that scenes of brutally massacred children, women, and men tend to upset the moral stomach.
00:00:51.000All it takes to return to that sophisticated neutrality is a few false platitudes, a few comforting lies.
00:00:57.000Three of those lies in particular have been provided in significant supply by the hard left and its allies in the legacy media.
00:01:04.000The first lie is that Israel must be warned not to engage in human rights violations.
00:01:09.000We hear this all the time from the president of the United States, from the United Nations, from the president of France, from the media.
00:01:14.000The idea is that if Israel's leadership isn't reminded in the wake of the worst pogrom since the Holocaust, those rude Jews might do something truly evil.
00:01:26.000The purpose of the lie is really simple.
00:01:27.000To get Israel to stop defending itself at the first available opportunity.
00:01:31.000See, if you warn the world that Israel has to be warned not to pursue atrocities, and then, as inevitably happens in a war, something awful happens, Israel can be blamed, and they can quickly be shoved back into the box of moral equivalence.
00:01:45.000Of course, this lie is a lie and it is a stupidly offensive lie in the same way that it is a lie when the United Nations warns the United States about human rights violations.
00:01:57.000Its enemies openly cheer the death of civilians, both Israel's and their own.
00:02:00.000By all rights, the entire political and media infrastructure ought to be using their supposed moral suasion on human rights to convince Hamas to release hostages and protect, you know, Gazan civilians.
00:02:10.000But of course, there's no interest in that.
00:02:14.000Israel has to be warned about human rights because secretly, if it weren't for the intervention of the West, the Jews would just be like Hamas.
00:02:28.000The peace process that was obviously and clearly and openly stated a ruse undertaken by Yasser Arafat in order to provide the jumping-off point for a genocidal war on the Jews.
00:02:38.000The peace process that has ended in the election of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the leadership of the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad in the West Bank.
00:02:45.000We must, and the lie goes, remember the two-state solution.
00:02:49.000Of course, this lie is dangerous, too.
00:02:51.000It's dangerous because, once again, it inevitably places the blame on Israel for murder of Jews in Israel.
00:02:57.000If only the Jews had made more concessions.
00:02:59.000Other than, you know, the partition plan of 1947 accepted by the Jews, rejected by the Arabs, or the Egyptian-Israeli peace deal of 1979, the Arab states boycotted Egypt after Anwar Sadat's peace with Israel for almost a decade, the Oslo Accords themselves, Ehud Barak's 2000 Camp David proposal rejected by Yasser Arafat, Who then initiated a violent terror war resulting in the death of 1,184 Israelis, the Gaza withdrawal of 2005, Hamas was elected and has been launching terror attacks ever since, Ehud Olmert's 2008 peace plan rejected outright by Mahmoud Abbas without a counter-offer, and even Donald Trump's so-called deal of the century rejected before even being seen.
00:03:32.000But the lie goes, Israel must continue to make painful concessions.
00:03:36.000If they don't, Jew murder is inevitable.
00:03:39.000So when Jews get killed, it's actually the Jews' fault.
00:03:43.000Finally, there's the third and most comforting lie, that anti-Zionism, the wish for the destruction or non-presence of the State of Israel, has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.
00:03:53.000That lie is currently being encouraged by the equation of antisemitism with Islamophobia.
00:04:00.000The antisemitism we see today on college campuses is part and parcel of the antisemitism that ended with the slaughter of 1,500 Jews in the Gaza envelope.
00:04:07.000Hatred of Jews is the driving force behind hatred of Israel.
00:04:11.000But in order to restore any semblance of moral cover for hating Israel, you have to separate anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism.
00:04:18.000This allows you to hate Jews while pretending to just hate Israel.
00:04:21.000The easiest way to accomplish this is to downplay the obvious reflection between international Jew hatred and attacks on Israel, and instead to subsume anti-Semitism under a broader, different rubric of lack of multicultural tolerance.
00:04:34.000Now, this is a lie, and it's an obvious lie.
00:04:37.000Of course, there are occasional acts of targeting of Muslims.
00:04:39.000And they are nothing like the targeting of Jews.
00:04:45.000They do not occur anywhere near as frequently.
00:04:47.000They are not spurred by the sort of cycle of violence in the Middle East talk that you keep hearing about.
00:04:52.000All of these comforting lies are useful in allowing the morally idiotic to attempt to regain a moral high ground via a falsely restored moral equivalent.
00:05:00.000And how eager they are for that moral equivalence!
00:05:05.000How many people are itching for some terrible thing to happen?
00:05:09.000In the war so they can blame Israel and then go right back to Israel and its opponents, they're just the same.
00:05:13.000A site gets bombed by Israel that is a Hamas site and some of the shrapnel hits the wall of a church and some people get killed and it's Israel was targeting a church.
00:05:23.000This moral equivalent allows, for example, leftist Jews to pretend they won't be lumped in with their fellow Jews by the intersectional coalition.
00:05:30.000It allows the intersectional to pretend that they are on the side of the righteous, even as they make excuses for Hamas.
00:05:35.000It allows the international community to continue to pressure Israel after the biggest mass murder of Jews since, again, the Holocaust.
00:05:42.000Never again does it apply, after all, if the Jews, in the end, are part of the problem.
00:05:46.000And so, after approximately one week of global dyspepsia with the evil of Hamas, the world is gradually returning to its steady diet of moral equivalents.
00:05:56.000This is why the New York Times was so excited to run with the false story of an Israeli airstrike on a hospital, believing a genocidal terror group from the jump.
00:06:04.000That story would have made their lives so much easier.
00:06:06.000Even in their retraction yesterday, they're still claiming the problem wasn't that they trusted Hamas, but that they just moved too fast.
00:06:11.000It was really not their fault after all.
00:06:12.000Quote, the early versions of the coverage and the prominence it received in a headline, news alert and social media channels relied too heavily on claims by Hamas and did not make clear that those claims could not immediately be verified.
00:06:22.000The report left readers with an incorrect impression about what was known and how credible the account was, says the New York Times.
00:06:28.000Of course, the real problem was trusting Hamas at all.
00:06:34.000The only reason to trust Hamas from the jump is because, again, you wish to restore that moral equivalence.
00:06:38.000Moral equivalence between a legitimate state that protects its citizens and a terror group that seeks the extermination of that other state's citizens and shields its own rockets with civilians.
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00:08:24.000Because again, the narrative is switching, and it's switching really fast, really fast.
00:08:28.000Now, I would just like everyone to remember, after 9-11, it took a couple of years for the narrative to switch to the overarching evil of America and America's role in the Middle East.
00:08:38.000And maybe, maybe actually bin Laden was right.
00:08:40.000Maybe it was American imperialism that drove, it took a little while to get there.
00:08:44.000When it comes to the Jews, it takes like five seconds.
00:08:47.000So Jews get slaughtered, by the way, in overwhelmingly peacenik leftist areas of Israel.
00:08:52.000One of the things that is so amazing about this is that Hamas could not be clearer and its advocates could not be clearer in who they want to see die.
00:09:01.000The people in, for example, Kibbutz Beri, which is one of the places that was completely ravaged, like half the population is dead in Kibbutz Beri, in the last Israeli election cycle, these are not members of Likud.
00:09:15.000About three quarters of that kibbutz voted for the left-wing or far left-wing parties in the Israeli elections.
00:09:22.000It's the equivalent of terrorists attacking, like, the center of San Francisco.
00:09:26.000And yet the idea is, from, you know, all of the terror apologists, that the real reason this is happening is because of the intransigence of the Jews, or whatever.
00:09:33.000When the real reason this is happening, of course, is because the Jews have this pesky insistence on not dying, on living, on breathing, There's a cartoon that's going around that's fairly accurate that shows a Hamas terrorist with a bomb strapped to his chest and a baby saying, I want to kill all the Jews.
00:09:50.000And then on the other side is Bibi Netanyahu.
00:09:51.000And in the center is the international community saying to Netanyahu, can you meet him halfway?
00:09:56.000And that's essentially the status quo ante that we are now reverting to.
00:10:00.000Okay, so, I mentioned three big lies here.
00:10:02.000The first big lie is that Israel has to constantly be pressured to maintain human rights.
00:10:17.000Has Joe Biden ever, ever publicly said under any circumstances, Vladimir Zelensky, your country is under attack by the Russians, but we have to make sure that you really maintain human rights.
00:10:27.000Now, have Ukrainian forces violated human rights in certain occasions?
00:10:31.000Of course, because it's a war and that's what happens.
00:10:33.000But you don't see Joe Biden out there every single day being like, well, you know, those Ukrainians, you never know, they might go crazy.
00:10:51.000The only place you ever hear this lie is with regard to Israel, as though Israel is equivalent with its opposition.
00:10:56.000So Israel, this allows the perverse logic by which you see morons on television, or terror apologists masquerading as morons on television, saying things like, well, you know, Jews were killed in Kibbutz Beri and Kfar Aza, but also babies are being incinerated in Gaza.
00:11:11.000You mean for completely different reasons?
00:11:13.000Meaning, yes, it's horrible and awful when babies die in Gaza, and that is all the fault of Hamas, which launched the war and is keeping, physically, babies in places they should not be keeping the babies.
00:11:23.000I saw yesterday a clip of some dolt on British TV suggesting, for example, that, you know, it's of no consequence when Israel warns civilians to get out before it hits a building.
00:11:34.000That's a catch-22 because if Israel didn't warn, then it would be an atrocity.
00:11:37.000But if Israel does warn, then it's still an atrocity.
00:11:40.000So in other words, when Israel takes precautions to save civilians, according to this idiot, this obviously is because Israel doesn't care about human rights.
00:11:46.000But if Israel didn't give the warning, then also Israel would not care about human rights.
00:11:51.000And Joe Biden promotes it because again, there is this, the moral equivalence must be restored so we can all go back to our comforting illusions about how everyone in the world thinks like us.
00:11:59.000There are no true barbarians in the world.
00:12:02.000There are not people who seek the act of destruction of the West and the murder of children.
00:12:06.000And if only we could sit down at a table together and have tea, We would all be best friends.
00:12:11.000And it's a lie, and it's a stupid lie, and also it's an anti-Semitic lie in the sense that, again, it equates a moral state, which Israel is.
00:12:19.000It has a legitimate military that pursues legitimate military goals with a murderous ISIS-like gang in Hamas, a Nazi group that broadcasts its own atrocities on television, and teaches its children that atrocities against Jews are an active public good.
00:12:35.000So Joe Biden yesterday, he tweeted out along these lines, And this is, again, typical Joe Biden.
00:12:41.000This is the foreign policy wisdom of the morons.
00:12:44.000Biden said, Israel has a right to defend itself.
00:12:46.000We must make sure they have what they need to protect their people today and always.
00:12:49.000So far, the tweet should stop right there.
00:12:55.000So Biden says, at the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have discussed how Israel must operate by the laws of war.
00:13:00.000Again, the implication being that if it were not for Joe Biden twisting Netanyahu's arm, he'd be going in there with the tanks and just running over kids.
00:13:06.000Just for fun, which of course is absurd.
00:13:08.000Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:13:11.000They've undergone dozens of rounds with thousands of rockets fired at Israel.
00:13:18.000And Israel has never engaged in the sorts of human rights violations that Biden seems to be implying Israel would engage in if he weren't there kind of, you know, massaging them to stopping.
00:13:26.000Quote, that means protecting civilians in combat as best they can.
00:13:28.000We can't ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace.
00:13:32.000That's why I secured an agreement for the first shipment of humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
00:13:37.000And we cannot give up on a two-state solution.
00:13:38.000We'll get to the two-state solution lie in just one second, because again, there is no one for Israel to negotiate with.
00:13:45.000But again, the lie here, the implicit lie, and it is a lie, is that in the end, it's because of Israeli intransigent and also the Israelis, they're really mean.
00:13:52.000And if they weren't so mean, if they weren't so mean, none of this would be happening.
00:13:57.000We'll get to more on this momentarily first.
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00:14:40.000Okay, so, it's not just Joe Biden who's telling this big lie number one, which is that Israel, if it weren't for America, Israel would just be gloves off murdering people.
00:14:49.000Barack Obama, of course, does this as well.
00:14:51.000Now, Barack Obama, I said many, many years ago, is effectively anti-Semitic in his approach to Israel.
00:14:55.000This has been true since he became president.
00:14:57.000Barack Obama is the only president in American history who tried to deny aid to Israel in the middle... He literally tried to stop the resupply of Iron Dome in the middle of a war in 2014.
00:15:08.000Barack Obama stocked his administration with people who despise Israel.
00:15:12.000Most anti-Israel president in my lifetime, bar none, not close.
00:15:15.000And so it's no sho- Which again, melds with Barack Obama's anti-colonialist worldview, which is really a left-wing worldview left over from the 1960s.
00:15:25.000The basic idea being that the West and its tentacles are everywhere and must be fought everywhere.
00:15:29.000There was a shift in how Israel is perceived on the far left.
00:15:32.000From 1948 to 67, Israel was considered Actually, an anti-colonial state because it had thrown off the British and had allowed the indigenous people of Judea, namely the Jews, to return to their homeland.
00:15:42.000And then after the Jews won in 67, the Soviet Union decided that Israel was too pro-Western.
00:15:49.000And so they chinned up this whole new post-colonialist nonsense where Israel is actually a Western colonial occupier, which is an amazing switch in time to save time.
00:15:58.000That's how he talks about the state of Israel on a routine basis.
00:16:01.000In fact, in a speech that he made while he was president, talking about the roots of the state of Israel, he didn't attribute it to Israel's historic presence.
00:16:07.000He didn't attribute it to, you know, Jewish history or Jewish presence.
00:16:09.000He attributed it all to the Holocaust, meaning Israel was a colonial state, right?
00:16:25.000So he throat clears for a couple of paragraphs about how Hamas is bad, right?
00:16:31.000It's been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless women, children, and the elderly.
00:16:38.000As I stated in an earlier post, Israel has a right to defend itself, but, but, right, and there's the big but, as we say, but, even as we support Israel, we should also be clear that how Israel prosecutes this fight against Hamas matters.
00:16:52.000In particular, it matters, as Joe Biden has repeatedly emphasized, that Israel's military strategy abides by international law, including those laws that seek to avoid, to every extent possible, the death or suffering of civilian populations.
00:17:02.000Upholding those values is important for its own sake, because it is morally just and reflects our belief in the inherent value of everyday life.
00:17:07.000By the way, if you cared about any of this, the first priority is the destruction of Hamas.
00:17:11.000They're the biggest human rights violators on the planet right now.
00:17:15.000And yet, I don't see Barack Obama talking about that sort of stuff.
00:17:20.000He, by the way, he says that he supports Biden's call for the United States to support Israel in going after Hamas, dismantling its military capabilities, and facilitating the safe return of hundreds of hostages to their family.
00:17:30.000But, by the way, that is not the deposing of Hamas.
00:17:53.000Even the most carefully planned military operations often put civilians at risk.
00:17:58.000As President Biden noted during his recent visit to Israel, America itself has at times fallen short of our higher values when engaged in war.
00:18:03.000And in the aftermath of 9-11, the US government wasn't interested in heeding the advice of even our allies when it came to steps we took to protect ourselves against Al Qaeda.
00:18:10.000Now, after the systematic massacre of Israeli citizens, a massacre that evokes some of the darkest memories of persecution against Jewish people, it's understandable.
00:18:17.000Many Israelis have demanded their government do whatever it takes to root out Hamas and make sure the attacks never happen again.
00:18:22.000Still... Again, two big butts in one piece.
00:18:26.000Still, the world is watching closely as events in the region unfold.
00:18:30.000Any military strategy that ignores the human cost could ultimately backfire.
00:18:36.000If Israel defends itself, they're just going to be planting the seeds for more anti-Semitic attacks, which means it's really Israel's fault.
00:18:42.000It's really Israel's fault in the end.
00:18:43.000If Israel goes in too hard and they take out Hamas, but Hamas has put too many civilians in front of its rockets, well, all that's going to do is it's going to create more terror against Israel.
00:18:55.000Because, again, the Israeli government's decision to cut off food, water, and electricity to a captive civilian population threatens not only to worsen a growing humanitarian crisis, it could further harden Palestinian attitudes for generations.
00:19:05.000Oh, the vaunted Palestinian attitudes, because as we know, they are extremely pliable right now and have been for 30 years.
00:19:10.000So much pliability, so much attempt for peace, so many peace-seeking people who don't exist.
00:19:42.000Because Israel provided five to ten percent of all the water in the first place.
00:19:46.000By the way, there's still full power and water in the south of Gaza.
00:19:49.000The entire purpose of cutting off the water and power in the north is to send people to the south so you can do military operations in the north.
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00:21:18.000Okay, so again, Barack Obama, long essay, lecturing the Jews, of course.
00:21:23.000He says, finally, in dealing with what is an extraordinarily complex situation, again, there's the complexity, there's the, oh, so much nuance, so much complexity, because standing in the moral middle allows you to stand with the bad guys while pretending that you're not.
00:21:34.000He says, in dealing with what's an extraordinarily complex situation where so many are in pain and passions are understandably running high, all of us need to do our best to put our best values rather than our worst fears on display.
00:21:45.000That means actively opposing antisemitism in all of its forms everywhere.
00:21:48.000It means rejecting efforts to minimize the terrible tragedy the Israeli people have just endured.
00:21:52.000Notice the Israeli people, not the Jewish people, the Israeli people.
00:21:55.000As well as the morally bankrupt suggestion that any cause can somehow justify the deliberate slaughter of innocent people.
00:22:00.000It means rejecting anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, or anti-Palestinian sentiment.
00:22:04.000It means refusing to lump all Palestinians with Hamas or other terrorist groups.
00:22:07.000It means guarding against dehumanizing language toward the people of Gaza.
00:22:12.000How about none of this has been dehumanizing?
00:22:14.000Civilians in Gaza are still civilians, and it's Hamas's fault they are in the way.
00:22:19.000Quote, it means acknowledging that Palestinians have also lived in disputed territories for generations, that many of them were not only displaced when Israel was formed, but continue to be forcibly displaced by a settler movement that too often has received tacit or explicit support from the Israeli government.
00:23:29.000And then, of course, he refers to Thomas Friedman and Ben Rhodes and all the people who agree with him on the super moral complexity of the situation, which really amounts to Israel is to blame.
00:23:42.000Big lie number one is Israel has to be pressured because if they don't, they're just going to violate human rights.
00:23:45.000And you can see it from all the usual pro-Hamas suspects that would include the venerably stupid AOC, a woman with barely one brain cell.
00:23:53.000I mean, she does not even have two to rub together.
00:23:55.000It's war crimes, according to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, straight from the bar in Brooklyn.
00:24:01.000Hamas has absolutely engaged in horrific attacks and every single day there are more details that are released about what occurred on October 7th that shocks the human consciousness and shocks our conscience, our collective conscience.
00:24:19.000However, we do know as well that war crimes do not constitute and are not an appropriate response for other war crimes.
00:24:33.000Shooting a baby in the head in the backseat of a car is exactly the same thing as you're aiming at a Palestinian rocket that is being fired by Hamas from behind an apartment building and civilians get killed in the process of you destroying that rocket launcher behind an apartment building.
00:24:47.000And if we don't encourage those pesky Jews and they're defending themselves, you know, those human rights violators... Here again is CNN guest Rula Jabriel doing the same exact routine.
00:24:56.000Israel is trying, she says, to expel Palestinians, which is weird since Israel withdrew... By the way, the only people who have been expelled from the Gaza Strip in the last 20 years are Jews.
00:25:07.000Forcibly removed from 21 communities in the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:25:11.000Weird how the expulsion of Palestinians since 1948 has changed the Palestinian population in the land of Israel and the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from approximately 1.2 million to almost 7 million people.
00:25:25.000Worst ethnic cleansing effort of all time.
00:25:30.000I mean, what Israel is suggesting to those countries, but also to the Palestinians, we would basically expel you Millions probably.
00:25:38.000And this is a definition of ethnic cleansing.
00:25:41.000If you're allowing refugees to exit but never to enter to the land they belong to, you're basically creating a massive refugee crisis.
00:25:48.000So a country that is already paying the prices of other refugee crises.
00:25:52.000So the only alternative that they're trying to ask the administration Pressure Israel to create, basically, a place where, if you really care about human life and the sanctity of human life, and international law as well, Israel is the ultimate power that can determine what to do with, you know, refugees.
00:26:33.000This talk of ethnic... Israel did not want to be in the Gaza Strip.
00:26:37.000They don't want to be in the Gaza Strip.
00:26:39.000The only reason that there is a refugee problem right now is because Hamas uses civilians as not only its human shields, but as its targets for indoctrination.
00:26:49.000No state, no state on earth would accept a population in its very midst that seeks its open destruction.
00:26:55.000And if they do, that's a suicidal state.
00:26:58.000If Israel had its druthers, Israel would have turned the Gaza Strip into Hong Kong.
00:27:07.000The lie is that, again, it's always Israel.
00:27:09.000It's always, go back right to the moral equivalence.
00:27:12.000An idiot who resigned from the State Department named Josh Paul, former director of the State Department's Bureau of Political Military Affairs, he resigned from the State Department.
00:27:20.000Because he says that the United States needed to force Israel to abide by human rights.
00:27:26.000He said, on October 7th, when Hamas massacred Israeli civilians, I felt sick to my stomach, both because of the horror being visited upon innocents, and because I knew what would come next.
00:28:13.000If you admit that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism, the calls for a two-state solution become untenable.
00:28:18.000The reason they become untenable is because everyone in the Palestinian Authority, in Islamic Jihad hierarchy, everyone, and by the way, large sloths of the Palestinian population, are anti-Zionist.
00:28:28.000When I say large sloths, I mean nearly everyone is anti-Zionist.
00:28:31.000So if you admit that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism, you're admitting that that population is anti-Semitic.
00:28:36.000And you can't make a deal with anti-Semites.
00:28:37.000So instead, there has to be this self-flattering Western bizarre view that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are two separate things.
00:28:44.000Again, that was completely exploded October 7th, when a group of very left-wing, many of them peace activists, in Israel were slaughtered wholesale.
00:28:56.000That was destroyed, but they're gonna go right back to status quo ante.
00:28:58.000So, if anti-Semitism is not anti-Zionism, if these are two separable things, then what is anti-Semitism most like?
00:29:03.000Ah, well the best way to hide this is to pretend that anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are two aspects of the same thing.
00:29:08.000They're just part of a broader rubric of a cycle of violence that when Muslims call for the destruction of, radical Muslims call for the destruction of the state of Israel, when they go into the streets of Sydney and shank ass the Jews, that's just part of a cycle of violence in which Jews are doing the same thing to Muslims.
00:29:23.000And it's just a cycle of violence altogether.
00:29:26.000And it really has nothing to do with Israel per se.
00:29:28.000So we can put pressure on Israel, which just got absolutely destroyed in the South.
00:29:33.000We can just, so that's the goal here, right?
00:29:37.000And you're seeing the administration do this like all the time.
00:29:40.000And Norm MacDonald had a tweet from 2016 that started to go viral again.
00:29:45.000And it should go viral because it's really funny.
00:29:47.000In which he said, quote, what terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate
00:29:51.000a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans, imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims.
00:29:55.000And that is precisely the line that is now being taken by so many members of the media.
00:30:01.000So many members of this administration, so many members of the left.
00:30:04.000Is that, oh my God, the rise in Islamophobia that's going to be attendant on the murder of 1500 Jews
00:30:08.000is just kind of, it's going to boggle the mind.
00:30:10.000The rise in antisemitism, the rise in Islamophobia that's going to be attendant on, you know, seeing hundreds of thousands of people march in solidarity with terrorists, wow, we can't allow that.
00:30:18.000And antisemitism and Islamophobia, they are both just from the same place.
00:30:27.000That doesn't mean there aren't people who aren't racist against Muslims, or who see people with brown skin and don't like them.
00:30:36.000That is a very different thing from what we are seeing right now, which is the desire to full-scale exterminate the State of Israel because it's filled with Jews.
00:30:43.000If the State of Israel were not filled with Jews, they would not be interested in exterminating it, would they?
00:30:47.000In any case, here was Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday.
00:30:50.000She was asked about the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States, which, yeah, I mean, Jews don't feel comfortable on campus because many of them have been beaten up.
00:30:57.000Jews in Skokie are being confronted with mass protests in favor of Hamas.
00:31:05.000Every Jew I know personally, like literally every Jew I know personally, is obtaining a gun.
00:31:19.000And the answer is, again, it's that desire to separate off anti-Zionism from anti-Semitism by instead lumping together anti-Semitism and Islamophobia under some sort of broad rubric of all discrimination is bad.
00:31:31.000Here is Corrine Jean-Pierre, incompetent press secretary.
00:31:44.000Look, we have not seen any credible threats.
00:31:49.000I know there's been always questions about credible threats.
00:31:53.000And so I just want to make sure that that's out there.
00:31:55.000But look, Muslim and those perceived to be Muslim have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks.
00:32:03.000And certainly President Biden understands that many of our Muslim Arab Americans and Palestinian American loved ones and neighbors are worried about the hate being directed at their communities.
00:32:14.000And that is something you heard the President speak to in his address just last Thursday.
00:32:30.000Because if you can swivel into Islamophobia from a question about anti-Semitism, this allows you to avoid the real-time, real-world implications of the fact that anti-Israel is anti-Semitic.
00:32:44.000By the way, Corinne Jean-Pierre, I mean, she pretty much said it openly yesterday in a follow-on, in a follow-on question.
00:32:49.000She was asked about whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism on college campuses.
00:32:52.000And she's like, I know John Kirby addressed the protests on college campuses, and I appreciate that the president respects First Amendment rights to protest.
00:33:04.000But does the president view anti-Israel protests and sentiment on college campuses as anti-Semitism?
00:33:11.000So look, I'm not going to get into what's happening across the country at different universities.
00:33:33.000When she says this sort of stuff, just remember, her president ran And it's going to run again on protesters in Charlottesville shouting about things, right?
00:33:46.000Anti-Semitic, racist protesters in Charlottesville.
00:33:49.000I remember her saying things like, well, you know, that is the First Amendment right.
00:34:04.000But when you see it manifest every single day on college campuses, where thousands of people are marching in solidarity with a terrorist group, as well, that is free speech.
00:34:14.000Because again, the idea here is that you can be as anti-Israel as you want to be, up to and including the slaughter of Jews.
00:34:20.000And that's basically just like Islamophobia.
00:34:21.000By the way, just on the merits, can we point out here that the number of anti-Jewish incidents in 2022 There are 1,590 federally reported incidents related to religion in terms of hate crimes.
00:34:42.000So in other words, five times, five times as many hate crime incidents against Jews as against Muslims.
00:34:48.000But the administration is focusing in like a laser beam on Islamophobia.
00:34:51.000Again, the idea of doing that is to lump together all forms of discrimination so you can pretend that anti-Semitism is not a difference in kind from Islamophobia and that all of it springs from just, you know, people who are mean in their hearts as opposed to In actual political position that the state of Israel should be eviscerated and that the Jews ought to go as well.
00:35:08.000In a second, we will get to big lie number three, which is the one that is the most comforting to people, which is, can't we just do a two-state solution?
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00:38:11.000Alrighty, and then there is big line number three.
00:38:13.000So big line number one is that Israel has to be pressured because if they are not pressured to maintain human rights, they're going to violate human rights.
00:39:23.000If you did suggest such a thing, people would laugh you out of a room, but that is now the adopted mode of literally everyone in Western politics.
00:39:30.000Well, we can't let this two-state solution die.
00:40:32.000You know what would've happened in the Palestinian Authority areas?
00:40:35.000Were they not siphoning money off to their personal bank accounts?
00:40:38.000Mahmoud Abbas is worth now tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:40:41.000You know what would've been happening if they had not been building up terror groups and indoctrinating their kids to hate Jews as a tool against the Jewish state?
00:40:46.000You know what would've been happening?
00:41:15.000When Joe Biden says, we cannot give up on a two-state solution, Israelis and Palestinians equally deserve to live in safety, dignity, and peace.
00:41:21.000They may equally deserve to live in safety, dignity, and peace, but only one side is seeking to live in safety, dignity, and peace.
00:41:27.000You think Israelis are fond of having to draft their 18-year-old kids and then put them at checkpoints?
00:41:31.000Do you think that's something they love to do?
00:41:33.000Would you love to do that with your kids?
00:41:37.000Because if they don't, they will be overrun and murdered in their beds, as we saw, But this is the lie, and they're gonna keep pushing this lie.
00:41:48.000This is also, that lie by the way, this lie that everyone seeks the same thing, is also why you end up with the bizarre spectacle of John Kirby, who's the spokesperson for the National Security Administration, saying that it would be very bad to revoke the visas of Hamas supporters.
00:41:59.000If somebody is out there supporting Hamas and they're on a visa, they're not even an American citizen.
00:42:03.000American citizens have free speech rights.
00:42:05.000But, if you are a visa holder, You do not have the ability to support a terror group.
00:42:09.000In fact, we won't give you a visa if you support a terror group.
00:42:11.000And it can be applied retroactively, legally speaking.
00:42:14.000And he's going to pretend that if you're a visa holder, let's say that you're a foreign student from Egypt and you're out there in the streets shouting, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
00:42:23.000And you're holding up a poster of a Hamas terrorist.
00:42:27.000He's saying, no, no, you have a right to be here.
00:42:31.000But again, it goes back to this baseline There's been an uptick on the right among some Republicans who have called for students or foreign nationals who are demonstrating in some of these pro-Palestine demonstrations or, you know, allegedly pro-Hamas demonstrations to have their student visas pulled or face deportation.
00:43:04.000What is the administration's response to those kinds of remarks and that kind of rhetoric?
00:43:10.000I would just tell you that you don't have to agree with every sentiment that is expressed in a free country like this to stand by the First Amendment and the idea of peaceful protest.
00:43:22.000That does not apply to importing terror supporters into America.
00:43:34.000And they've only put more pressure on the two-state solution.
00:43:36.000Now, in a second, we're going to get to the real, the real issue here.
00:43:40.000The real issue here is that people, people who are, who despise Israel want to see it destroyed.
00:43:45.000People who are, who are, participating in these lies.
00:43:49.000They're doing so either out of moral cowardice or because reality being reality, it turns out that the people Israel is fighting, they don't just hate Israel, they also hate the West.
00:43:57.000And many of their fellow travelers also hate the West.
00:43:59.000And what this really is, what we are watching in real time, and that's what's so disturbing, is the Franz Fanon Coalition of the Wretched attempting to destroy Western civilized institutions in the name of the supposedly colonialized.
00:44:12.000That's what we are actually watching in real time.
00:46:47.000I witnessed their brutality firsthand when I was in prison, when they tortured so many Palestinian people for suspicion of collaborating with Israel.
00:46:58.000So, again, he goes on, he suggests that the fight right now is that Israel is actually on the West side, even if the West doesn't want to acknowledge it.
00:48:15.000Sociology is a made-up field of study almost entirely.
00:48:17.000There are some good sociology books that have been written, but as a field of study, it is a mishmash of absolute garbage, stupidity, and some interesting insights.
00:48:25.000But 1,700 sociologists Including signatures from professors at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Brown, Berkeley, signed a letter in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian people.
00:48:40.000Quote, sociology as a discipline is rooted in recognition of relationships of power and inequality.
00:48:45.000As sociologists and human beings, we unreservedly condemn the latest violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli regime.
00:48:53.000The entire, by the way, the entire thing does not mention at any point what Hamas did.
00:49:32.000Quote, we join people around the world who are raising their voices in protest of this assault on human life.
00:49:38.000As educators, it is our duty to stand by the principles of critical inquiry and learning.
00:49:42.000To hold the university as a space for conversation that foregrounds historical truths and that contextualizes this past week's violence in the context of 75 years of settler colonial occupation in European empire.
00:49:52.000Okay, I mean, they're just saying the quiet part out loud right there.
00:49:55.00075 years, you may notice, does not date you back to 1967.
00:49:57.000It dates you back to 1948, the establishment of the state of Israel.
00:50:01.000They are saying Israel must be destroyed.
00:50:03.000Israel must be destroyed because it is, in their words, a colonial outpost.
00:50:07.000Israel must be destroyed because the West cannot be allowed to exist in any form, even in indigenous form, in the Middle East.
00:50:14.000It cannot be allowed, according to these people.
00:50:15.000That would be an act of colonialism, of settler colonialism.
00:50:19.000And that means that any Jew who's living in the region, in the inside of France-France, ought to be victimized by violence.
00:50:25.000Revolutionary violence is part and parcel of decolonization.
00:50:29.000These are people who not only live in the West and have benefited from the West, these are people who sit at the highest institutions of learning in the West.
00:50:37.000They are calling the war that Israel is now waging on Hamas a genocidal war, which is weird because again, generally when you commit genocide, you don't warn the civilians first, you just kill them.
00:50:56.000They say this stance follows in the tradition of the civil rights movement, anti-war, and anti-apartheid protests of decades past.
00:51:01.000Aligning ourselves with these freedom struggles, we call on all of our colleagues to stand in solidarity with Palestinians and against settler colonialism, imperialism, and genocide.
00:51:09.000And this letter is so revealing because this is really what it's all about.
00:51:12.000The same people who believe that Israel is a colonial settler imposition believe that the West is entirely colonial settler imposition.
00:51:38.000Higher educators are, for example, at Oxford now going to debate a motion on Thursday calling for, quote, Intifada until victory.
00:51:45.000A motion shared with Oxford members of the University and College Union reportedly states that the branch believes that, quote, only a mass uprising on both sides of the Green Line and across the Middle East can free the Palestinian people.
00:51:56.000Both sides of the Green Line would mean violence inside Israel.
00:52:00.000The Green Line, for folks who are not versed in Middle Eastern politics, that would be the territory held by Israel before the 1967 Six-Day War initiated by the Arabs.
00:52:08.000They're saying that they want violence across the Middle East in order to, quote-unquote, free the Palestinian people, which would amount to what?
00:52:18.000This apparently says, quote, that the war is a direct consequence of decades of violent oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state.
00:53:09.000Okay, meanwhile, in terms of the latest news, two more hostages were released overnight.
00:53:13.000Hamas set free two really, really elderly hostages, and they testified to the fact that Hamas has hundreds of kilometers of tunnels underground.
00:53:22.000Right now, what Hamas is attempting to do is separate off certain hostages from other hostages.
00:53:27.000They've been focusing in on the ones they think will be most sympathetic to the world media.
00:53:31.000So that means people who have connections to American media or dual citizens.
00:53:34.000They are going to hold, presumably, the male hostages that they have taken until they shoot them or kill them.
00:54:38.000There are some people on the right who I think are being fully disingenuous and who are looking for an excuse to jump right on the same moral equivalency bandwagon as the left.
00:54:45.000I think there are certainly people like that.
00:54:46.000We've talked about them on the show before.
00:54:47.000I'm sure we'll talk about them on the show again.
00:54:49.000But one of the moves that's being made in order to stifle Israel's response to this is to claim that if Israel does respond, as it has to respond in order to root out Hamas entirely, that this will end in World War III.
00:54:59.000So yesterday, Tucker had on his program a general named Douglas MacGregor.
00:55:03.000McGregor has in the past suggested that Jewish money is behind American support for Israel and all the rest, but McGregor has military expertise.
00:55:12.000And he is essentially now warning that Armageddon is coming.
00:55:16.000Which, and his proposed solution would be that Israel does nothing.
00:55:20.000Which, by the way, absolutely promotes the idea of Armageddon.
00:55:23.000Because if Israel does nothing after 1,500 of its citizens are slaughtered, and Hamas remains in place, the chances of a broad-scale, multi-front attack on Israel that will require American intervention go up radically.
00:55:33.000But Douglas MacGregor is on with Tucker Carlson.
00:55:35.000Tucker, of course, has been pushing a pacifist line on this since the beginning.
00:55:39.000Here was Tucker with MacGregor last night.
00:55:42.000Do you think that we are moving toward war with Iran?
00:55:48.000And it looks like the chosen destination is indeed Armageddon.
00:55:52.000There doesn't seem to be any real appreciation for the implications for us, and frankly for Europe and the world, as well as the Middle East, of such action.
00:56:03.000For what's worth, McGregor has also been an advocate of the United States basically leaving Ukraine to fry.
00:56:07.000But when McGregor says things like, we are right on the verge of war, the whole point is deterrence.
00:56:16.000This has been true for literally ever.
00:56:19.000But there's been this equation that's now happened on the right, where if you stand up to a terror power, the idea is that this somehow puts America in a position that is weaker, which again, is a not right-wing position.
00:57:42.000So, but again, there's this ugly thing that's been happening, Tucker does it a lot, in which he suggests that if you disagree with him on the tactic to keep the thing contained, he and I want the same thing.
00:57:52.000No war with Iran, no American involvement in this region of the world that amounts to American boots on the ground.
00:57:59.000But the idea is that if you think America should flex its muscles in order to push Hezbollah off the ball, for example, then this means that you actually want the war with Iran, which of course is really Scurrilous.
00:58:14.000The only way is to cram down on Israel.
00:58:17.000What's going to save Israel apparently is some sort of peace deal brokered with Hamas by the Turks who support Hamas.
00:58:24.000That is McGregor's actual solution here.
00:58:27.000The support for Israel is going to erode.
00:58:30.000And at the same time, the anger and hatred inside the region, which already dislikes Israel, is going to be phenomenal.
00:58:39.000So Israel is doing something that I think no one has ever accomplished, at least not in my lifetime, and that is uniting Sunni and Shia against itself.
00:58:49.000That's why I think we have an obligation to save Israel from itself.
00:58:55.000Right now, it's bombs away and everyone is cheering.
00:59:00.000Well, I mean, save Israel from itself how?
00:59:02.000You mean they're going to earn the love of the Sunni and Shia world by not taking out Hamas?
00:59:07.000And allowing its citizens to be slaughtered wholesale and taken hostage?
00:59:10.000And there's a fundamental misunderstanding of the region?
00:59:13.000I'll chalk it up to fundamental misunderstanding and not something more nefarious because that's what it seems to be.
00:59:19.000But again, what is scurrilous is the implication that if you believe that peace through strength is an actual workable strategy in the Middle East, which historically it has been, that if you believe that, that somehow you're in favor of a broader war.
00:59:29.000And that, of course, is not true in any way, shape, or form.
00:59:32.000Alrighty, coming up, we're going to be joined by Andrew Klavan.