Learn English with Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg delivers a speech at Oxford University in support of Hamas on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. by the terrorist group on September 11th, 2001. Steven Spielberg's speech focuses on the West's failure to recognize its own values, and the consequent importation of people who believe that the West is actually deeply evil. He also asks the question: Is there a moral equivalency between Israel and Hamas in terms of targeting terrorists while attempting to minimize civilian casualties? And does that make them equivalent in any way to the Nazis and the Germans in World War II, when there was no such thing as a cost of war? or the Israelis and the Palestinians in WW2? and why Israel is doing to Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Germans during World War 2, and why the Palestinians are doing to the Israelis. Spielberg's remarks were delivered at a time when anti-Semitism is at an all-time high in the UK, and anti-Israel hate crimes are on the rise in London, and in Nottingham, England, where a Jew was heckled in a Muslim mosque, and a Muslim woman shouted at a Jew in a hijab in a mosque in response to the speech he gave at a pro-Hamas march. In this speech, Steven Spielberg explains why the West doesn t have the moral qualifications to condemn Islamic terrorism, and how we are not immune to evil, and what we can do to fight evil. He also points out that we are all the more evil because we live in a world where you're not immune from evil, because we don't have a black and white logic, we're not white and white, we don t have to be black and black and blue, we have to have black and brown and brown like that, we can be all the time we're all the same, and we're just not black or brown and white and brown, and that we're supposed to be white and black, and so on, and it's not black and grey and white. We're not all that we need to be more black and red, and white like that? in this speech by Steven Spielberg, not white, not more brown and blue and brown in the movie, not just black and yellow and black not more and more, not less, but more brown, we need more black, not better, and not more, and more white
00:00:00.000Last night, I visited Oxford University in Great Britain.
00:00:03.000My wife had some hesitance about me visiting the UK at all, given safety concerns.
00:00:07.000After all, on Saturday, some 100,000 people marched in support of Hamas.
00:00:11.000Anti-Semitic hate crime is apparently up 1,350% in London over the last few weeks.
00:00:16.000Imams shout in Nottingham, O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me, kill him.
00:00:21.000But we felt that it was important, particularly at a time when the West seems unsure of its moral qualifications to condemn absolute evil in the form of Hamas, to go to Oxford.
00:00:29.000After all, Oxford is a thousand-year-old institution, one of the chief intellectual lights of the West.
00:00:33.000If we in the West lose Oxford, it's a good indicator the West as a whole is in trouble.
00:00:37.000Well, I'm here to report the West is in trouble.
00:00:51.000But the institution itself has been honeycombed with people who are in full support of Islamic terrorism.
00:00:56.000My opening remarks last night focused on the West's shyness about its own values, its failure to recognize that not everybody thinks like Westerners do, and the consequent importation of people who believe that the West is actually deeply evil.
00:01:08.000Those remarks were borne out in the actual event, when student after student approached the microphone to offer a bevy of morally obfuscatory arguments in support of Hamas.
00:01:17.000The most common was the clearly specious and horrible argument that Hamas, burning babies alive in their cribs, raping their mothers, shooting them, and torturing fathers, was somehow morally equivalent to the Israeli Defense Forces targeting terrorists while attempting to minimize civilian casualties.
00:01:31.000When pressed, however, student after student admitted the real goal.
00:01:34.000The destruction of the state of Israel.
00:02:25.000Now I get to ask my question, if you don't mind.
00:02:28.000So, my question is, do you believe that there is a moral difference between Hamas going into, for example, Kfar Aza, and murdering entire families, and Israel attempting to target terrorists and accidentally hitting civilians?
00:02:40.000Israel is effectively doing the same because Gaza is the most densely populated region in the world.
00:02:45.000There are 15,000 people per square mile.
00:02:47.000So there's a massive unity because they're there.
00:02:51.000Israel has killed 3,500 children in the past year.
00:02:59.000So just to be clear, your logic is that if you're a terrorist group located in a densely populated area and you hide behind screens, you're not immune.
00:03:16.000Sorry, since 2005, 23 out of every 24 conflict deaths have been Palestinian.
00:03:21.000I don't see any moral equivalency there.
00:03:23.000It's clearly On just what the IDF is doing to the Palestinians, because there's a vast disparity between the number of Palestinians being killed and the number of Israelis.
00:03:32.000I mean, I would certainly hope that Israel is doing more.
00:03:34.000I'm just asking you, if based on the numbers, more Germans died than Brits in World War II, did that mean that the British were wrong in World War II?
00:04:00.000I agree that war is terrible, but this is not a just war.
00:04:04.000What is really sad is that this is not a just war.
00:04:07.000There's a difference between fighting and not fighting.
00:04:11.000So it's not a just war today, and it's not a just war when you fight war against people who murder 1,500 people.
00:04:21.000Israel has been killing civilians for the past 75 years, and there was no headlines about it, and there was nobody who said that the Palestinians would just wipe out all the civilians.
00:04:36.000Israel will put down its guns tomorrow, there will be a second holocaust.
00:04:40.000If the Palestinians put down their guns tomorrow, we'll be a Palestinian state.
00:05:17.000I will point out here that just for the sake of the fact, there is a state in the Middle
00:05:29.000East where Jews and non-Jews have equal rights.
00:05:32.000That'd be the state of Israel, where 20% of the population is Arab Muslim.
00:05:37.000Also, there are zero Jews living in the Gaza Strip, zero Jews living in the Palestinian areas of the West Bank, zero Jews living in Lebanon, zero Jews living in Jordan, zero Jews living in Saudi Arabia, zero Jews living in Egypt, zero Jews living in Syria.
00:05:59.000Literally student after student just admitted, full scale, that Israel should not exist.
00:06:04.000To put it mildly, the experience was somewhat discomforting.
00:06:08.000It's not all that easy emotionally to stand across from student after student calling for the extermination of Jews between the river and the sea.
00:06:16.000At modern universities, it is now considered erasure to mention that men and women are different.
00:06:20.000But it's considered perfectly acceptable to openly justify and excuse the murder of innocent Jewish men, women, and children.
00:06:26.000Radicalized Muslim students in the most important Western institutions feel no qualms whatsoever about calling for the obliteration of the Jewish state.
00:06:34.000Anti-Semitism runs rife in these halls, obviously.
00:06:37.000And what's even more disturbing is the tolerance with which it is met.
00:06:42.000There's certainly no feeling that such Jew-hatred is out of bounds.
00:06:45.000And that's why the West is in trouble.
00:06:47.000As I said last night, in 1933, the Oxford Union Society infamously voted 275 to 153
00:06:53.000for the proposition, quote, this house will under no circumstances fight for its king and country.
00:06:57.000That pathetic statement, which became known as the so-called Oxford Oath,
00:07:01.000gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the West.
00:07:03.000It reportedly led both Hitler and Mussolini to the conclusion that the British were internally weak and must pray for aggression.
00:07:09.000The modern version of the Oxford Oath is what we see today in the West.
00:07:13.000The belief that the values of king and country aren't worth defending in the face of a muscular form of Islam that seeks the total obliteration of its enemies.
00:07:21.000In just one second, we'll get to the fact that the media and many of our politicians are parroting the exact same line.
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00:08:29.000So, if Oxford is in trouble because the values of the West are being shunted off to the side in favor of a version of radical Islam that calls for the extermination of Israel, the rest of the world is following suit with its moral equivalents.
00:08:40.000Amidst Israel's attempts to reroute Hamas from the Gaza Strip, Hamas is now receiving a helping hand from the international community and the legacy media.
00:08:47.000While Hamas sits on vast stockpiles of water, food, and medicine, the international community and legacy media are placing responsibility for Gaza's civilian population on, wait for it, Israel.
00:08:57.000According to no less an anti-Israel authority than the New York Times this weekend, quote,
00:09:02.000as supplies of virtually every basic human necessity dwindle in Gaza, one group in the
00:09:06.000besieged enclave remains well-stocked, Hamas. Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of
00:09:10.000fuel for vehicles and rockets, caches of ammunition, explosives, materials to make
00:09:14.000more, stockpiles of food, water, and medicine, according to senior officials.
00:09:18.000A senior Lebanese official said Hamas, which is estimated to number between 35,000 and 40,000 people, had enough stock to wait to keep fighting for three to four months without any resupply.
00:09:26.000With Gazans facing a humanitarian catastrophe, Hamas' stockpiles raise questions, says the New York Times, about what responsibility, if any, it has to the civilian population.
00:09:35.000Ah, there it is, that fabled New York Times objectivity.
00:09:38.000Hamas steals billions of dollars from its citizens to fund its war machine.
00:09:41.000And that, quote, raises questions about what responsibility, if any, it has to the civilian population.
00:09:47.000Now imagine that sentence in, like, any other context.
00:09:50.000Is there any question the United States government has a responsibility for its civilian population?
00:09:54.000That's literally the purpose of a government.
00:09:58.000But being a genocidal, Jew-hating terrorist means you don't have to take responsibility for the civilians you supposedly govern.
00:10:04.000You might not have any responsibility for those citizens at all.
00:10:07.000In fact, Gaza hospitals right now are complaining about a lack of fuel, but Hamas currently has 260,000 gallons of gas and diesel on hand.
00:10:15.000But no matter, say, the members of the West, the people at the UN, Hamas has no responsibility.
00:10:20.000Which is why Hamas's friends are able to lament the plight of civilians in Gaza after having funded their impoverishment and the current conflict created by Hamas.
00:10:28.000$8 deployed to Gaza over the past 20 years have been embezzled by Hamas and used for its murderous plans.
00:10:33.000But now the international community and legacy media say it's up to Israel to make humanitarian provision for Gaza's civilians.
00:11:21.000They say that their civilians are the responsibility of the people they just murdered en masse.
00:11:25.000Here is Hamas official, Moussa Abou Marzouk, just yesterday.
00:11:30.000He says, many people are asking, this is the interviewer, since you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels, why haven't you built bomb shelters where civilians can hide during bombardments?
00:11:43.000And he says, we have built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed.
00:11:52.000Those tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes.
00:11:56.000We are fighting from inside the tunnels.
00:12:00.000Everybody knows that 75% of the people in the Gaza Strip are refugees.
00:12:04.000And it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them.
00:12:11.000According to the Geneva Conventions, it is the responsibility of the occupation to provide them with all the services as long as they are under occupation.
00:12:25.000But according to this, it is amazing to hear members of an actual honest-to-God genocidal terrorist group citing the Geneva Conventions in their own defense.
00:12:35.000If a population elects a terrorist leadership, that terrorist leadership consolidates its control by wiping out its political rivals, that terrorist leadership steals billions of dollars in aid and impoverishes its own citizens in the process, and then the terrorist leadership murders 1,500 Jews and kidnaps another 233 people, then so long as the terrorist leadership hides in tunnels underneath civilian populations, the terrorists have to be left alone.
00:13:13.000Anyone in the world calling for a ceasefire but not calling on Hamas to surrender?
00:13:17.000In fact, those who are calling for a lengthening of the conflict by shipping in more resources for Hamas to steal?
00:13:22.000Cannot pretend to care about human life, either Israeli or Palestinian.
00:13:25.000There is a reason that both Hamas and the United Nations, again, one of the worst places on earth, are calling for a ceasefire.
00:13:30.000It has nothing to do with human rights, and everything to do with stopping Israel from protecting its own citizens, the mass murder of whom created this conflict in the first place.
00:13:39.000In just one second, we'll get to, again, the insane calls for a ceasefire in the face of Hamas's continued barbarity.
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00:15:02.000It was established in like June of this year.
00:15:04.000And then it was broken by 2,000 Hamas terrorists rushing into civilian areas and murdering everyone they saw.
00:15:09.000There was a report yesterday that came out from Hamas body cam footage that Hamas literally took a baby and put the baby in the oven and then baked the baby alive while raping the mother repeatedly.
00:15:22.000And yet people are still calling for a ceasefire and pretending that because Hamas is hiding in a highly dense civilian area, that means that they're now immune from attack.
00:15:29.000The logic of which, by the way, completely defeats the purpose of having rules of war.
00:15:35.000If the idea of the rules of war is to minimize civilian casualties, then those rules of war have to dissuade people from doing precisely what Hamas is doing.
00:15:43.000Hamas is using the rules of war To apply to everyone else and not itself, which seems like an amazing way of fomenting terrorism.
00:15:52.000The entire purpose of the Geneva Conventions was to get people who were participating in violent action into military uniforms so they could be separated from the civilian population.
00:16:01.000Hamas is doing precisely the reverse and then relying on the Geneva Conventions, supposedly, which of course is absolute nonsense.
00:16:06.000Again, we all know that their headquarters are located under Al Shifa Hospital.
00:16:11.000Now, for PR reasons, Israel will not bomb that hospital, I would imagine.
00:16:14.000But, if they did bomb the hospital, let's be perfectly clear, that is a military site, according to the Red Cross.
00:16:20.000Once you transform a civilian site into a military site, it is a military site.
00:16:23.000You cannot claim immunity at a site simply because you choose to violate the laws of war.
00:16:28.000Otherwise, what you're doing is incentivizing people to violate the laws of war.
00:16:31.000That's the entire purpose of them violating the laws of war.
00:16:34.000I mean, by the way, this is directly from the Red Cross, quote, the laws of war prohibit direct attacks on civilian objects like schools.
00:16:40.000They also prohibit direct attacks against hospitals and medical staff, which are specifically protected under international human rights law.
00:16:46.000That said, A hospital or school may become a legitimate military target if it contributes to specific military operations of the enemy and if its destruction offers a definite military advantage for the attacking side.
00:16:57.000If there's any doubt they cannot be attacked, hospitals only lose their protection in certain circumstances.
00:17:02.000For example, if a hospital is being used as a base from which to launch an attack, as a weapons depot, or to hide healthy soldiers and fighters.
00:19:28.000It's about the underlying position, which is the state of Israel is fundamentally illegitimate and that anything done to people in this area is apparently excusable and justifiable.
00:19:37.000That is the underlying logic to this entire thing.
00:19:41.000Now, in a miraculous event yesterday, very rare that you get a piece of good news in a situation like this, Israeli tanks went into Gaza yesterday, and in the process of going into Gaza, they actually ended up freeing one of the hostages, which is pretty amazing.
00:19:57.000And you have to assume in this position that the hostages are effectively dead because Hamas has no interest in releasing them if they wanted to.
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00:22:41.000I'm not just using World War II because it's a matter with which people are passively knowledgeable.
00:22:46.000I'm using World War II because it is the closest comp.
00:22:48.000Hamas has the exact same goal as the Nazis, and they pursue strategies that are absolutely similar to those of the Nazis when it comes to the Jews.
00:23:02.000There's no actual real comparison on a moral level except for the Nazis.
00:23:07.000But the media have swiveled full into moral equivalence mode.
00:23:10.000They went directly from Jews getting slaughtered is bad to Palestinian civilians who are dying as a result of Israel targeting terrorists is the same thing.
00:23:19.000Which by the way, again, just to point this out, Israel has complete air superiority in the Gaza Strip.
00:23:24.000If Israel wished to do what its detractors say that it wants to do, we would not be talking about a few thousand people dead, tragically.
00:23:32.000We would be talking about hundreds of thousands of people dead.
00:23:36.000Like in Syria, where no one seems to give a sh**.
00:23:39.000It's pretty incredible that Israel is targeted as a human rights abuser on par with Hamas.
00:23:43.000But again, it's a disingenuous argument, just as you saw in that debate with that student at Oxford University.
00:24:03.000But if all you focus on in Gaza is the fact that it's ugly in Gaza without mentioning anywhere that it is Hamas's fault that it's ugly and that the governing party in that conflict could surrender tomorrow and end the bombing tomorrow, then all you are doing is providing justification for Hamas.
00:24:19.000All you are doing is preventing Hamas from being ousted.
00:24:24.000So, piece after piece now about the costs of war, the costs of war.
00:24:28.000Now, again, you don't see this in virtually any other conflict covered by the legacy media.
00:24:34.000You don't see, for example, pieces about the great suffering of the Russian people thanks to the destruction of their economy thanks to the Ukraine war.
00:24:43.000You never hear a piece about the cost on the ground in Russia from the war.
00:24:46.000Certainly not without the context of Vladimir Putin started the war by invading Ukraine.
00:24:50.000When it comes to the Gaza Strip, then we are treated to all of the images of the suffering on the ground.
00:24:55.000Well, it's important that people are suffering, but it's important mainly because the pressure should be on Hamas to stop the suffering by surrendering today.
00:25:03.000But that's not what the media are doing.
00:25:05.000The media are attempting to draw a moral equation between babies being slaughtered in Kibbutz Berri And civilians being killed because they're sitting atop terror tunnels and being forced to stay there.
00:26:56.000Why do you think that journalists are dying in Gaza?
00:26:58.000Could it be because if you're a journalist in Gaza, you are literally dictated to by Hamas?
00:27:03.000Hamas does not allow freedom of movement in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:07.000And this is why you see CNN reporters who are not in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:10.000They're on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip.
00:27:11.000You have freedom of movement in Israel.
00:27:13.000You have hundreds of reporters in Israel on the ground right now, drinking in bars in Tel Aviv, and then going and covering the conflict wherever they want inside the state of Israel.
00:27:21.000If you report from inside the Gaza Strip, you're under the control of Hamas.
00:27:25.000But now you have journalists, and many of them are just activists posing as journalists.
00:27:29.000Some of them are freelancers who are big fans of Hitler, as we'll get to in just one second.
00:27:33.000You have a lot of these people who are now reporting the horrors that are in Gaza.
00:27:37.000I'm sure it's a horrible situation inside Gaza.
00:27:39.000That is, in fact, the point of a war, is to make a horrible situation for your enemy, not for the enemy's civilians.
00:27:45.000But if the civilians are indistinguishable because the terrorists refuse to allow them to be distinguished, that is the fault of the terrorists.
00:27:51.000But again, the Washington Post strips away all context, and so we just get videos of journalists talking about the plight of journalists in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:57.000Where again, there is no freedom of speech in the Gaza Strip.
00:27:59.000They cannot print freely in the Gaza Strip.
00:28:02.000If you print anti-Hamas material in the Gaza Strip, they will kill you.
00:28:05.000They will kill you, but we're supposed to believe that the great threat to journalists is, of course, Israel in general.
00:28:10.000So here's the Washington Post doing this nonsense.
00:28:16.000Hospitals and the bombing of churches, mosques, women, children, ambulances, all have been targeted, as well as journalists in the homes of journalists.
00:28:30.000And The Washington Post just puts that up without any doubt, without any sort of attempt to even fact check that sort of stuff.
00:28:39.000I mean, it really is an amazing demonstration of the disgusting bias of the media.
00:28:44.000By the way, this particular lady, who apparently has no posts on Twitter or anywhere else prior to the outbreak of Israel's retaliation against Hamas, she does sign letters like the Palestine Solidarity Open Letter for the GSA Students Association calling for full divestment from the State of Israel and blaming everything on Israel.
00:29:04.000So again, the idea that she's some sort of objective journalist just chronicling what's going on in Gaza.
00:29:09.000Lots of suffering is going on in Gaza.
00:29:10.000But why we should trust a person like this activist to talk about Israel quote-unquote targeting ambulances?
00:29:16.000But the Washington Post just prints this stuff uncritically because this is exactly what they do.
00:29:38.000But, what a greater evil is, is allowing terrorists to govern entire territories from which they create mass terror attacks against civilians.
00:29:46.000At the Times, the whole idea is present tons of context when it comes to actual terrorism.
00:30:37.000Take any responsibility for its own civilian population.
00:30:39.000This is a ginned-up campaign by the legacy media and people who wish to destroy the state of Israel to pretend that Israel is the moral equivalent of Hamas and thus to come to some sort of ceasefire arrangement allowing Hamas to live.
00:30:51.000Leading in that department is the idiotic Thomas Friedman, who, again, I'm never going to get over the fact that there are people who actively believe that Thomas Friedman and his ilk are intellectual.
00:31:00.000Thomas Friedman has the brains of a kumquat.
00:31:03.000That dude's entire job consists of going around to foreign countries and listening to taxi drivers transcribing what they say, if it's self-flattering, and then printing it.
00:31:10.000And yet that guy is the foreign policy expert at the New York Times.
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00:32:45.000We're gonna get to more from the New York Times' Thomas Friedman.
00:32:48.000First, I gotta just mention here that the New York Times is so little concerned about actual morality that they legitimately hire people who are fans of Hitler.
00:32:58.000There's a Hitler-loving reporter in Gaza who was literally rehired by the New York Times.
00:33:03.000Literally rehired by the New York Times.
00:33:05.000And that's not the only person who the New York Times is happy to hire.
00:33:09.000Barry Weiss points out, a few days ago, the paper published a story about the atmosphere in Saudi Arabia after the October 7th massacre.
00:33:15.000And they quoted a person named Sultan Alamer, a grad student in Harvard's Center for Mideast Studies.
00:33:19.000Alomar is presented as an expert by the New York Times, but he also tweeted, literally the day of October 7th, quote, what a sweet day.
00:33:27.000That is a person quoted as a foreign policy expert by the New York Times.
00:33:31.000In 2021, the New York Times published a flattering profile of a professor named Rafat al-Arir, praising him for his decision to teach Israeli poets.
00:33:39.000They also published an op-ed by this person.
00:33:41.000Well, yesterday, he joked about whether or not an Israeli baby burned alive in an oven was, quote, cooked with or without baking powder.
00:34:23.000He was India's Prime Minister in late November 2008 when 10 Pakistani Jihadist militants from Lashkar-e-Taiba group, widely believed to be linked to Pakistan's military intelligence, infiltrated India and killed more than 160 people in Mumbai.
00:34:35.000What was Singh's military response to India's September 11th?
00:34:54.000Two, India is bordered by a nuclear power called Pakistan.
00:34:58.000And if India were to retaliate in significant fashion against the Pakistani military, World War III would be imminent, whereas Israel is bordered by Hamas, which is a terrorist group which is hiding in tunnels.
00:35:09.000But what exactly is Thomas Friedman asking for?
00:35:11.000So first of all, he attempts to actively compare Bibi Netanyahu, the elected Prime Minister of the State of Israel, to Hamas.
00:35:18.000He actively attempts to do that because he says that Bibi wasn't purely in favor of the two-state solution.
00:35:23.000Now, by the way, I cannot emphasize enough the insane blindness of talking about a two-state solution.
00:36:06.000Quote, A pause could allow the people of Gaza to take stock of what Hamas's attacks on Israel have done to their lives, families, homes, and businesses.
00:36:12.000What exactly did Hamas think it would accomplish with this war for the people of Gaza, thousands of whom were traveling to work in Israel every day or exporting agricultural products and other goods across the Gaza-Israel border just a few weeks ago?
00:36:22.000Hamas has gotten way too much understanding and not enough hard questions from the people of Gaza.
00:36:28.000By the way, when he talks about the people who had work permits, many of the people who had work permits into Israel were informers for Hamas.
00:36:34.000They found on the bodies of the dead Hamas terrorists maps of each of these Moshevim in the Gaza envelope.
00:36:42.000It listed the exact locations of the houses, the number of inhabitants of the houses, how many men, women, and children were in each house.
00:36:48.000That was because there were people who were being let through by Israel to bolster the economy of the Gaza Strip and they were immediately taking the information they gained.
00:36:57.000Information like how many children are in a house and handing it over to Hamas so Hamas could slaughter them.
00:37:03.000But Thomas Friedman's idea here, this is a big idea.
00:37:05.000His big idea is that if Israel just stops, then Hamas will come out of its tunnels, and then the people of Gaza will hold them accountable.
00:37:10.000Which makes perfect sense since for 20 years they've not held them accountable, and they elected them, and in the last available poll, Hamas is pretty popular in both the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:37:20.000But here's Thomas Friedman's moronic idea, because again, this dude has, I'm not sure he has two neurons shrubbed together.
00:37:25.000Quote, I want to see Hamas's leaders come out from their tunnels under hospitals and look their people and the world's media in the eye and tell everyone why they thought it was such a great idea to mutilate and kidnap Israeli children and grandmothers and trigger this terrible blowback on their children and grandmothers of their Gaza neighbors, not to mention their own.
00:38:09.000Or maybe that won't happen and maybe Gaza, if it were left in the control of Hamas, would turn into even more of a terror state and would incentivize Hezbollah to attack from the north because Israel would then be perceived as weak.
00:38:19.000But this is what the New York Times is.
00:38:22.000They need the moral equivalence because if there is one premise that drives the Western media more than any other is that the West is not morally superior.
00:38:29.000That is the premise that drives the Western media.
00:38:32.000It leads to the imbibing from the Marxist playbook and the post-colonialist playbook That all inequality of outcome is attributable to Western evils?
00:38:42.000That all bad things happening on Earth are attributable to the evils of the West, and therefore the West needs to simply pretend that everyone else thinks like members of the West?
00:38:50.000And if Hamas, if we could just sit across the table from Hamas and explain to them how much the children of Gaza are suffering?
00:38:55.000They literally go on RT, on Russian Today, on Russian TV, and they literally say, we do not care about Palestinian civilians.
00:39:02.000And Thomas Rubin's like, well, If only we could show them some suffering.
00:39:04.000Palestinians, my God, these people, these people and the evil that they provide for.
00:39:09.000Because when you make excuses for evil, when you justify evil, when you give free reign to evil, evil thrives.
00:39:15.000And you are complicit in that, Thomas Friedman.
00:39:19.000Even Joe Biden is angry at the New York Times coverage.
00:39:22.000According to a report from Semaphore, Biden told a small group of Wall Street executives in the White House's Roosevelt Room earlier last week he thought that their headline regarding the Gaza hospital bombing that was actually committed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad was irresponsible and could have triggered military escalation in the Middle East.
00:39:40.000The media are now... The Washington Post did this.
00:39:42.000They're using aerial photos of the Gaza Strip to try to identify, specifically in real time, the movement of Israeli troops, and then blast that out on the web.
00:39:59.000By the way, this has been true for anti-American groups since pretty much the end of World War II.
00:40:06.000The Viet Cong relied extremely heavily on the American media to help persuade the American people that they ought to surrender the country of Vietnam to the Viet Cong.
00:40:14.000They knew they could count on the legacy media to do their dirty work and nothing has changed.
00:40:54.000Russia literally met with the leadership of Hamas.
00:40:57.000But then we're supposed to believe in international institutions like the UN.
00:41:01.000Where, by the way, Iran is set to chair the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Social Forum.
00:41:06.000Yeah, we should definitely, definitely listen to them.
00:41:09.000Well, if you're wondering where so much of the support on university campuses in the United States is coming from for Hamas, for example, you really do have to understand the intersectional movement and what exactly it is doing.
00:41:21.000Believe it or not, Ibram X. Kendi has finally emerged from his silence, you know, after Allegedly embezzling money from his entire program and doing nothing with the money to actually, you know, do anything he said he was going to do.
00:41:42.000A statement that is put in beautiful graphic form.
00:41:44.000Quote, according to the Gaza-based Ministry of Health, which the UN considers credible, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 7,000 Palestinians in Gaza, Including 2,913 children since October 7th.
00:41:57.000Building a border wall around Gaza and confining more than 2 million Palestinians in this open-air prison is not self-defense.
00:42:02.000By the way, you know what we usually call a place that is governed by a governing authority that receives billions of dollars in aid from America and other places and has six miles of beachfront property?
00:42:13.000We usually don't call that an open-air prison unless the people who are governing the territory decide to make it so, which is what Hamas has decided.
00:43:17.000But at the same time, when we start talking about intersectionality, which is white supremacy, which is gender, which is capitalism, Americans, White people, I need you to know that your money will not assuage you from your guilt.
00:43:35.000There aren't enough reparations in the world that you can pay us.
00:43:40.000And so you think because you write a check or you slide me something in Venmo that you're absolved and you can tell somebody, well, I gave Dr. Blay $100.
00:44:01.000You're a member of the oppressor class.
00:44:03.000Therefore, you and your ideology ought to be obliterated.
00:44:05.000Anybody who believes that decolonization is an anti-violence effort has not been watching very closely.
00:44:11.000By the way, Yaba Blay has taught at the following faculties, Lehigh University, Lafayette College, and Drexel University, where she was the director of the Africana Studies Program.
00:44:21.000This is the perspective that you are seeing play out at our universities.
00:44:25.000It's the perspective that you're seeing play out internationally as well.
00:44:28.000You wonder why the West has decided to basically commit suicide?
00:44:31.000The answer is the West does not have the stones to stand up for its own values and say.
00:44:36.000That people who are effectively cultural scavengers, people who live off the benefits of the West while condemning the West as a horrible, terrible place that ought to be destroyed, the West doesn't have the power or the capacity morally to say to those people, you're wrong.