GAZA WAR DAY 103: Netanyahu Declares GREATER ISRAEL "From River To Sea" | America First Ep. 1280GAZA WAR DAY 103: Netanyahu Declares GREATER ISRAEL "From River To Sea" | America First Ep. 1280
It's a slower day in the news today, but we have a lot to talk about! President Trump announces his 2020 campaign platform, and we discuss the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Plus, we talk about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new comments on the future of a Palestinian state, and the latest stopgap spending bill in the House, and much, much more! Today's America First is hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes ( ) and Alex Blumberg ( ), and brought to you by Caff Monster - the podcast that helps you figure out what's going on in the world and gives you the answers you need to know to get the most out of your day to day life! Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code: "AVGOODTHANKSGOD" to receive 20% off your first month of VaynerSpeakership! Want to sponsor the show? Subscribe here: bit.ly/sponsoravGOODBYE and support the podcast? Learn more about your ad choices and become a supporter of the show by becoming a patron today! Thanks to our sponsor, caff by checking out Goodbyed.fm/OurAdvertisers! If you like the show, please consider pledging a five-starred rate, review, rating, and a review! We'll be looking out for the next episode on Apple Podcasts! and other ways to support the show in the future! in future episodes! Thank you for listening and supporting the show! The opinions, reviews and reviews are being featured in the show are being sponsored by Good4Good4Goodbye! Your support is much appreciated! - nicholasjf@good4goodbye.co.co/Our ads are much appreciated and much appreciated by you'll get a discount code: Good4good4ofgoodbye and a chance to win a chance at a prize next week! at the end of the month! Good evening! xoxo, nicholofanservice Good morning! XOXO xo - Nicholas J Fuentre Thankyou Thanks, Nicholas J FUENTES & Good evening, XO, Kristian . - EJ & EJ , EJ, EJ&E
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00:08:50.000Very eventful past few days with what's been happening with Iran and Pakistan, but... and the Iowa caucus as well.
00:09:01.000But today it's a little bit of a slower news day.
00:09:04.000Still a big show and still much to discuss.
00:09:08.000Our featured story will be talking about new comments today from the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who had a pretty interesting choice of words today.
00:09:19.000He said that there will be no Palestinian state and that Israel must extend from the river to the sea.
00:09:28.000Which is a reference to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and the implication is that there should be a greater Israel or a expanded state of Israel that will include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip indefinitely.
00:09:48.000Which is completely against basically the entire world.
00:09:56.000Russia, China, Europe, the United States, and just about every member state of the United Nations support the existence of a Palestinian state and don't want Israel to expand.
00:12:31.000Same thing with Eric Cantor, who was famously primaried 10 years ago, 15 years ago.
00:12:40.000So we knew he would be terrible, but thankfully some of the members of the Freedom Caucus made a contract with him.
00:12:48.000And said, we will only vote for you if you commit to doing certain things and also commit to an accountability mechanism so that if you don't follow through, we can remove you.
00:13:02.000And that was the famous motion to vacate, which only required one member to initiate.
00:13:11.000And that would effectively initiate a no-confidence vote.
00:13:15.000And so Kevin McCarthy failed us on many things throughout the last year and finally the straw that broke the camel's back was the stopgap spending bill back in September.
00:13:25.000Government was set to run out of money at the end of September 2023 and Republicans said we're not going to give the government money unless they secure the border.
00:13:35.000Unless there's some agreement to fund border security and a commitment to cut spending.
00:13:41.000And Kevin McCarthy wouldn't make that deal.
00:13:46.000He wouldn't even serve that up to the Democrat-controlled Senate.
00:13:51.000So, in the end, Kevin McCarthy made a deal with the Democrats and totally cut Republicans out of the process and passed a spending bill
00:14:01.000A clean spending bill that gave Biden everything, gave him all the spending that he wanted, and got more Democrats to vote for it in a secret deal than Republicans.
00:14:33.000And this new stopgap spending bill is going to extend the amount of government funding for another six weeks and then they'll make a deal in March by March they'll have made a deal that will fund the government through the rest of the year and when you think about it this is like that was our entire two years
00:14:55.000The GOP got two years with control of the House and this is what we got from it.
00:15:46.000I mean people that are actually going to fight as opposed to what they're doing now.
00:15:53.000And I saw a really interesting, and this is the last thing I'll say because I'm only introducing the topics tonight, but I saw this really interesting graph the other day and it showed the ideological, I guess it showed the
00:16:09.000Various White House staffers position on the ideological spectrum.
00:16:14.000You know, every presidential administration brings in like four or five thousand of their own personnel.
00:16:21.000There's hundreds of thousands of personnel in the executive branch, but from one president to another they only replace about four or five thousand of them.
00:16:32.000And so this graph showed the ideological sway of the White House personnel between the various administrations.
00:16:41.000And I don't have it in front of me right now, but it was incredible that in the Clinton, Obama, and Biden White Houses, all their personnel are super liberal.
00:16:51.000They're all far more liberal than the Bush or Trump personnel were conservative.
00:16:59.000And actually, the Trump personnel was as close to the center as any administration out of the last five.
00:17:12.000I mean, I saw that graph the other day and that's just a visualization of what I've been talking about for years, what we've all known for years, which is that that was the big mistake and the historic missed opportunity of the Trump first term, which is that he got in, but he brought with him Rubio and Cruz and Bush alum,
00:17:37.000And they were the ones setting all the policy.
00:17:40.000So what good is it if Trump wins if the people running the whole executive branch aren't loyal to him and don't even believe in what he believes?
00:17:51.000So, similarly, it's not enough because, I mean, the way things are shaping up now, although it's always unpredictable, it looks like Republicans will be swept into office.
00:19:29.000So I don't know I don't want to hype it up too much, but it should be a fun night It's gonna be a big marathon stream.
00:19:35.000I'll be here all night covering the results and you know, this is really a critical race because I Mean I said this on Tuesday, I think that it's pretty definitive after Iowa that the primaries over
00:19:52.000There just isn't a path, mathematically.
00:19:55.000Like, no one is pulling ahead in New Hampshire.
00:19:57.000No one's pulling ahead in South Carolina.
00:20:00.000No one's pulling ahead in Super Tuesday.
00:23:35.000Here I am having a blast, having a good time, and I'm a little bit late and everybody freaks out, baring their fangs because the show wasn't exactly on the dot.
00:24:58.000We will resume doing the show at night by popular demand.
00:25:05.000But what I want to say is this because maybe we're just not really on the same page you know you guys are not happy but maybe that's just a miscommunication because you see we're really planning on relaunching the show soon that's what I've been working on is we're really changing everything about the show this year
00:25:28.000And so I'm kind of just been phoning it in lately because I've been doing a lot of work during the day on redoing the show.
00:25:38.000And so I don't have a date yet, but in very short order, we're going to be just completely changing everything about the show.
00:25:46.000And I'm going to be doing the show actually at 8 o'clock in the future.
00:25:50.000So I'll let you know when that happens.
00:25:51.000But that's why I've been kind of... Because this is kind of like the last two months of the show as it is.
00:25:58.000With the green screen and with the, you know, very casual.
00:26:02.000And so there'll be some more information on that later.
00:26:57.000It reminds me of when I was in high school.
00:26:59.000I would, you know, she'd be screaming in the doorway and then I'd be like, fine, and then I would go in the bathroom and sleep on the floor.
00:27:20.000Well, I can't sleep while you're there.
00:27:23.000Like, I can't fall back asleep when you've got the lights on and you're watching me, yelling at me.
00:27:27.000But I also am not going to get up and do what you tell me.
00:27:31.000So then I would be like, fine, I'd get up and then I would go in the bathroom, lock the door, fall asleep, start the shower, fall asleep on the floor.
00:30:18.000It really... And you know, you know the worst thing?
00:30:21.000And you want to know the absolute worst thing?
00:30:26.000Keith Woods gets to be on Twitter, you know?
00:30:30.000So it's not even... It would be bad enough if we were all banned and no one was getting red-pilled.
00:30:39.000But even worse is, you know, everybody else gets to have a great time, including and especially Keith Woods, but I get singled out and banned?
00:30:51.000I almost think they're doing that deliberately.
00:30:53.000It's like a little Divide and Conquer.
00:30:55.000You know, it's like when Gus was being nice to Jesse in Breaking Bad.
00:33:49.000Honestly, I didn't even feel anything.
00:33:50.000I mean, I'm like annoyed by it, but when they posted that, it didn't even faze me.
00:33:57.000There's something to be said about that.
00:33:58.000Paul Town kind of taught me that years ago.
00:34:01.000He told me a story a few years ago about how he like made 50 grand and then like lost it instantly for some reason.
00:34:08.000And this was years ago, and he said that getting money like that and then losing it, and he was like a kid when that happened, it made him not have the same sort of attachment, I guess.
00:37:11.000But those are the big theaters of the conflict and so it's heating up in every single one of them.
00:37:16.000That's been the story we've been covering for months and just to go through briefly some of these other developments.
00:37:23.000So Israel continues to strike Lebanon.
00:37:26.000They've been bombarding southern Lebanon with artillery and airstrikes.
00:37:30.000Today there was a fifth strike by the United States against the Houthi rebels.
00:37:35.000So we did one last Thursday, last Friday, I think we did another one on Monday, we did another one yesterday, and then a fifth one today.
00:37:47.000And this is the story, it says, President Biden acknowledged on Thursday that his strikes against the Houthis are not working to stop the Yemeni group but vowed they would continue anyway as the U.S.
00:38:00.000military bombed Yemen for the fifth time within a week.
00:38:03.000Central Command reported that it launched more strikes in Yemen, claiming to target Houthi anti-ship missiles.
00:38:10.000Later on Thursday, the Houthis said they targeted another U.S.-owned ship, the Chem Ranger, a Marshall Island-flagged chemical tanker.
00:38:19.000The Houthis said the attack resulted in direct hits, but CENTCOM said in its press release that the crew observed missiles impact the water near the ship.
00:38:30.000Since Biden ordered the first strikes against the Houthis last week, the situation has escalated dramatically.
00:38:36.000The Houthis are now targeting American commercial shipping, hitting two U.S.-owned cargo ships with missiles earlier this week, and more shipping companies have suspended transit through the Red Sea.
00:38:49.000escalation, the Houthis made it clear they would stop attacks on Israel-linked commercial shipping only if the bombing in Gaza ended.
00:38:59.000So we are now in a full-fledged war with the Houthis.
00:39:05.000Initially the Houthis were only bombing Israeli commercial shipping and now since the United States has begun an air campaign against the Houthis on the ground in Yemen, they're now attacking our ships.
00:41:14.000It says, quote, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians in drone strikes in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning as the military carried out a raid in the city of Tulkarm.
00:41:26.000The airstrike in a refugee camp, which comes amid an ongoing military raid in the city, killed four Palestinians in Al-Tamam.
00:41:34.000The Israeli military prevented ambulances from entering the camp, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
00:41:41.000The attack took place hours after another air attack killed five people near Balata refugee camp in Nablus.
00:41:49.000A large contingent of Israeli forces stormed the city and camp of Tal Karm at dawn on Wednesday.
00:41:56.000Military vehicles, tanks, and bulldozers attacked on three fronts, leading to violent confrontations in the camp.
00:42:03.000The military surrounded, blocking all its entrances, and deployed snipers in buildings at the main entrance as well as in adjacent and surrounding buildings.
00:42:12.000Earlier, an Israeli drone targeted a car driving east of Namblus, killing five Palestinians.
00:42:18.000Since the start of Israel's war on Gaza, the West Bank has experienced a level of violence not seen since the Second Intifada.
00:42:27.000Israeli army raids and attacks by settlers have killed around 360 people in the West Bank, according to the Palestine Health Ministry.
00:43:17.000Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has told the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state when the conflict in Gaza ends.
00:43:28.000In a news conference, a defiant Netanyahu vowed to press on with the offensive in Gaza until complete victory, the destruction of Hamas, and return of the remaining Israeli hostages, adding that it could take many months.
00:43:42.000Israel's allies, including the United States and many of its foes, have urged a revival of the long-dormant two-state solution, in which a Palestinian state would sit side-by-side with an Israeli one.
00:43:55.000During Thursday's news conference, Netanyahu said Israel must have security control over all the land west of the River Jordan, which would include the territory of any future Palestinian state.
00:44:07.000Although it doesn't say the wording, he specifically said, from the river to the sea.
00:44:13.000Which is ridiculous because, of course, when the Palestinians say, from the river to the sea, the Jews say that's genocidal.
00:44:24.000Like, when Congress called the presidents of Harvard and UPenn before hearing, they said that that was genocidal rhetoric.
00:44:35.000They grilled Claudine Gay and Eliza McGill
00:44:40.000And said, when students chant, from the river to the sea, that's calling for genocide.
00:44:46.000And if you allow them to say that, you're allowing genocidal rhetoric.
00:44:49.000And Elon Musk banned that expression on Twitter.
00:44:54.000Because they say that for Palestine to be free from the River Jordan to the Eastern Med, that would entail their not being an Israeli state.
00:45:31.000And similarly, I think it's fair for the Israelis to say, from the river to the sea, and that means that they want to control the security situation in the whole place.
00:45:40.000But of course, they don't even quote that because there's an obvious double standard.
00:45:45.000Netanyahu can say that and that means that Palestine will never have sovereignty, but I guess that's fine.
00:45:52.000But the article goes on it says Netanyahu has spent much of his career opposing Palestinian statehood but the very public rebuttal of Washington's diplomatic push and Determination to stay the current military course shows the chasm widening with Israel's Western allies The White House has repeatedly tried to influence Israel's military policy urging more precision guided weapons rather than blanket airstrikes discouraging ground offensive
00:46:20.000And calling for a two-state solution with a role for the Palestinian Authority in the post-conflict Gaza.
00:46:27.000But Washington's advice has frequently fallen on deaf ears or been met by outright rejection, often publicly so during visits by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
00:46:38.000So understand, by the way, that the entire world supports a Palestinian state, okay?
00:46:44.000All the key players, the P5 plus one, the European Union, and every other country, they literally all support this.
00:46:53.000The United States has always supported a Palestinian state.
00:46:58.000United Kingdom, France, Germany support a Palestinian state.
00:47:47.000What's incredible is that when Russia or Iraq or Libya undertakes a human rights violation or invasion of a neighboring state or develop an illicit nuclear arsenal, there are at least some countries that are willing to oppose them and pressure them.
00:48:12.000The West was more alone than it historically has been, but all of NATO rallied, and Japan rallied, and they all came out and said, this is wrong.
00:48:25.000In like 1999 and around that time, the Senate and the United Nations were all in agreement that Saddam had to go.
00:48:31.000Even though, you know, we ended up doing it at the behest of Israel, there was a consensus that his actions were wrong, he had to be opposed.
00:48:39.000In this case, the entire planet, the whole planet, there's a consensus.
00:51:06.000I don't really care about them that much.
00:51:09.000Now, we can say that in a moral sense what is happening to them is wrong and the morally righteous thing to do is for them to have a state, but I don't care that deeply.
00:51:19.000What bothers me is that that's the American policy.
00:51:22.000That is what is good for the United States.
00:51:25.000It's the right thing to do, incidentally, but it's also in our best interest.
00:51:30.000Because to create a Palestinian state might begin to stabilize the Middle East, and it might actually allow us to conduct better diplomacy with Muslims, with the Muslim world.
00:51:45.000That's the part that's offensive, and it's a very fine line, because I've noticed a lot of people since the war in Gaza broke out, it's a lot of bleeding heart stuff, and I am sympathetic to Palestine, but at the same time, these Muslims, they don't care about us.
00:52:59.000So, like I said at the top, excuse me, at the top of the show, many of you would be forgiven for not remembering this, but one of the biggest stories of 2023 was the hostile removal of Kevin McCarthy by the Freedom Caucus.
00:53:19.000And we have a little development on that story.
00:53:22.000So today, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, the new Republican Speaker, passed another stopgap spending bill with all Democrats, with majority Democrat support and barely a majority of Republicans supporting this bill.
00:53:39.000This is the third time that this has happened.
00:53:42.000And to understand the significance, we got to go back a couple years.
00:53:46.000Republicans predicted a red wave in the 2022 midterms and there was no such red wave.
00:53:52.000We won a four-seat majority, which is like nothing.
00:53:57.000And we won a four-seat majority in the context of record high inflation, record high crime, a war in Ukraine,
00:54:10.000When you look historically at how these cycles work, Obama was elected in 2008, and then Republicans won the House in 2010.
00:54:19.000Trump won the presidency in 2016, and the Democrats won the House in 2018.
00:54:31.000It follows, and in addition to, not only did you have all these problems, but the historical norm is that Republicans should have swept in with the big majority.
00:55:09.000Rhonda McDaniel, she just keeps getting the position and Republicans have lost every election since 16.
00:55:17.000Since before she was the chair of the RNC.
00:55:25.000So that was a disaster, but Republicans get in, they have a very small majority, and they were not able to come up with the Speaker of the House because whoever was going to become the Speaker needed to basically win every Republican vote in the conference.
00:55:40.000They needed to get every Republican to vote for them.
00:55:43.000And the only candidate for Speaker that could even come close was Kevin McCarthy, who's a big fundraiser and an establishment guy and has served in there for a long time.
00:55:53.000And so the Freedom Caucus came in and they held up his nomination for a long time.
00:55:58.000I think they held it up for about a week.
00:56:34.000There were a lot of things they wanted to do and they said we don't trust you so we also want to be able to force a no confidence vote with just one member.
00:56:44.000Meaning that any single member of Congress could put to a vote whether McCarthy should stay on as Speaker.
00:56:52.000Anyone could put it to the floor and then the whole Congress has to vote on whether they keep or get rid of McCarthy and then elect a new Speaker.
00:57:05.000And McCarthy passes a big spending bill and gets no concessions.
00:57:10.000And then the Biden administration breaches the debt ceiling.
00:57:14.000They need a raise in the debt ceiling.
00:57:16.000And Kevin McCarthy raises the debt ceiling through to 2025 after the presidential election with no conditions, with no concessions.
00:57:27.000They didn't release the Capitol footage.
00:57:30.000They said they weren't going to impeach Biden.
00:57:33.000And then at the end of 2023, the government was running out of money.
00:57:39.000They were headed towards another government shutdown.
00:57:43.000And the House Freedom Caucus, the Republican hardliners like Matt Gaetz, said we are not going to pass a spending bill that funds the government unless we get money to secure the border and unless we get a commitment to cut spending.
00:57:57.000And Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republicans, told them no.
00:58:01.000He said, no, you're asking for too much.
00:58:28.000You need to give us this or we're going to have a problem.
00:58:32.000So Kevin McCarthy just cut him out of the deal.
00:58:34.000Instead of negotiating with his own conference, he just went to the Democrats and said, I'll just get the Democrats to vote for my spending bill.
00:58:42.000And we'll give the Democrats everything they want, and...
00:58:46.000And a hundred establishment Republicans will join together with the Democrats and will pass a spending bill and completely override any objections from Republicans.
00:58:59.000Everyone thought the government would shut down and then at the last minute Kevin McCarthy unveiled his big deal, a secret deal he made, that in the event of a shutdown he would cross sides and work with the Dems to pass their bill and fund the government.
00:59:52.000Mike Johnson worked with the Democrats to pass another stopgap bill that will fund the government for another six weeks, cutting out all of the Freedom Caucus out of the deal.
01:00:02.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
01:00:04.000It says, quote, the US Congress has passed legislation to fund the government through early March, avoiding a partial government shutdown on Saturday.
01:00:14.000House of Representatives passed a short-term funding measure about two hours after the Senate passed it, despite political tensions.
01:00:21.000Once signed into law by President Joe Biden, the $1.6 trillion piece of legislation will punt the fight over government spending into March.
01:00:32.000In November, Congress approved a two-part funding measure
01:00:38.000Some key funding would run through January 19th, while the rest would have money to continue until February 2nd.
01:00:45.000In the end, Mr. Johnson was only able to cobble together a bare majority of Republicans voting on the bill, with 107 backing it and 106 opposed.
01:00:55.000Democrats supplied the bulk of the vote.
01:00:59.000Mr. Johnson has told his colleagues he believes a shutdown could provoke an election year backlash against Republicans.
01:03:12.000And then for two years, when we had the Senate and the White House and the Supreme Court, they said, well, our hands are tied because the Democrats control the House.
01:03:20.000So when they control everything, they do nothing.
01:03:23.000When they don't control everything, they say, hey, we don't control everything.
01:03:30.000And then in the most recent Congress, the last one, they voted to enshrine gay marriage into law.
01:03:35.000They said, we cannot let the voters think that the Republicans will take gay marriage.
01:04:37.000We messed around for all of 2023 with McCarthy, now we got a new guy, and he goes, yeah, well, I can't fix it because we're running an election now.
01:05:50.000I think that's literally every combination.
01:05:52.000They had nothing, they had everything, and they had everything in between.
01:05:58.000At one point, from 20 to 22, Democrats controlled executive, legislative, and judicial.
01:06:05.000From 16 to 18, Republicans controlled, or rather, without judicial.
01:06:09.000Republicans controlled all of it from 16 to 18.
01:06:12.000And there have been various, we've mixed and matched over the years where, you know, we have the Senate but not the House, or the House but not the Senate, we have the White House, or we don't, and there were years even when we didn't even have the Supreme Court.
01:06:28.000And can you name one thing Republicans have done from 2018 until now?
01:18:14.000We have significantly de-industrialized.
01:18:18.000So, I mean, for those two reasons alone,
01:18:22.000And it also has to do with the nature of the conflict.
01:18:26.000You know, Japan attacked us first because they were an expansionist imperial power and we retaliated.
01:18:39.000In the case of Korea and Vietnam, we were talking about a
01:18:45.000Revolutionary pariah state, the Soviet Union, which was seeking to
01:18:52.000Completely overturned the global order led by the United States and the Western powers they were a they were a truly They were a revisionist power the likes of which the world had never seen because there are revisionist powers where they expand and they seek to Dominate the periphery, but this was a country that sought an ideological revision of the whole world they were which is truly unique and
01:19:17.000They were seeking global communist revolution through overt and covert means.
01:19:23.000A truly one of a kind scenario in world history so far.
01:20:55.000The chip industry and the semiconductors Taiwan will still export semiconductors Okay, that's not a problem so and Regardless we should make our own semiconductors.
01:21:13.000That's sort of a problem that Taiwan is making a quarter of the world's
01:21:20.000Semiconductors we should be doing that Europe should be doing that some other country should be doing that So that's really not a sufficient reason.
01:21:27.000We're gonna go to war to protect a semiconductor factory Or a chip factory.
01:21:32.000Let's just build one Rather than go to war with China and you know on some level it just ignores reality of geopolitics, which is that The unipolar moment is over and
01:21:47.000China and Russia are exerting their own sphere of influence.
01:21:52.000And there are two ways we can go about that.
01:21:53.000We can go to war with China and Russia and Iran.
01:21:58.000Or we can negotiate a balance of power that is reasonable, that is based on the changing relative firepower in the world.
01:28:09.000I don't even know what you're supposed to do in that situation because the problem is a lot of these libtards I mean they're just they're just gone but you got to just keep praying for them you got to keep rooting for them because you never know people can always turn around you just got to stay
01:28:29.000You gotta keep that relationship going because you never know when you might be able to get your foot back in the door and you know they might have doubts or whatever but it's tough.
01:28:39.000I guess it just requires a lot of patience.
01:36:25.000I'm the Italian guy, he's the black guy, and I'm driving him through the South, and people are like, you know, he can't eat in this dining room, and I'm like, what the fuck you mean he can't play here?
01:36:39.000I think that movie is so gay, by the way, but I just, I've watched the entire thing on TikTok, because I just see all these, the clips are constantly posted, but I always watch them, because I hate watching.
01:36:52.000That's like me, I'm driving, I'm eating KFC.
01:36:55.000I'm like, here, eat this fried chicken.
01:37:26.000And he is the, uh... Well, that character is gay, but he's the... But he's like the uptight, prissy, you know, sophisticated, sort of cold fish, you know, but once you get to know him, he's cool.