GAZA WAR DAY 115: Israel THWARTED as Biden and Iran DEESCALATE Tensions | America First Ep. 1286GAZA WAR DAY 115: Israel THWARTED as Biden and Iran DEESCALATE Tensions | America First Ep. 1286
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00:15:30.000Come to an indirect agreement not to escalate the situation.
00:15:35.000And I'm talking about the United States and Iran.
00:15:39.000The United States has made it clear over the past two days they don't seek a broader war, and specifically they don't want to go to war with Iran.
00:15:48.000And in a major development today, the Iranian-backed militia that was responsible for the attack has said that they will no longer attack the United States
00:15:59.000In Iraq, Syria, and Jordan, which is a major pivot.
00:16:04.000So we've talked a little bit about the specifics here, but it wasn't Iran that launched the attack.
00:16:11.000It was a militia based in Iraq, sponsored by Iran, which conducted the attack on American troops, which killed three on Sunday.
00:16:23.000And that was just the latest in nearly 170 attacks by these militias on US troops since the start of the war in Gaza.
00:16:34.000But as of today, that militia has said, under pressure from Iran, and they made it clear that that was the impetus for the decision, that militia that launched that attack and most of the other attacks has said henceforth they are suspending any and all attacks on US personnel.
00:16:57.000So that's a pretty big deal and we'll see if they...
00:17:02.000Commit to that if there's follow-through and they're not the only Iranian-backed militia in Iraq, but they are the biggest one and they are responsible for most of the attacks.
00:17:14.000So it would seem that based on the statements made by the Iranian regime and by the American government and now with this commitment to cease attacks on Americans, it would seem there's a sort of
00:17:29.000Indirect agreement on behalf of all parties not to escalate the conflict further, so that's good news We'll also be talking tonight And I don't know how much we're gonna get to because there's a lot of news But we'll also be talking tonight about a new report from the BBC Which says that the Israeli air campaign in Gaza has destroyed or over half of the structures in the Gaza Strip half of the buildings and
00:17:58.000And this is an idea which we talked about.
00:18:01.000I don't remember exactly the last time we discussed it.
00:18:04.000It must have been in December or maybe earlier this month.
00:18:08.000But it became clear early on in the conflict that it would seem that the objective of the Israeli military is not necessarily to kill everybody in Palestine, although it may seem that way.
00:18:25.000But it would seem that the real goal of the air campaign is to destroy all the buildings in Gaza.
00:18:32.000Because from the start, that is what the IDF has been targeting.
00:18:37.000They've been conducting basically non-stop airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, which is not a very large territory, from the beginning.
00:18:45.000And many of the strikes, and even some of the strikes on the ground, aren't even targeting personnel.
00:18:54.000And this was noticeable from the beginning, how many buildings were being destroyed.
00:18:59.000And you might say, well, what would be the purpose of this?
00:19:03.000Well, if you understand the history of the conflict, going back to the very beginning, I'm not talking about October 7th, I'm talking about the Nakba, I'm talking about 1948.
00:19:12.000If you understand the history of the conflict, the presence and existence of a large Arab-Muslim-Palestinian population poses
00:19:24.000A latent threat to the existence of an Israeli state.
00:19:28.000And the Israelis would really prefer that the Palestinians just not even be there.
00:19:49.000And in the meantime, Israel has had to fend off challenges and attacks from larger states like Egypt, Syria, Iraq.
00:19:58.000And recently I ran, but now with this campaign against the buildings, it's quite clear what they're doing, which is when the war is finished, there will be potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians dead, and all of the infrastructure in the Strip will be gone.
00:20:19.000And so even if there's no more fighting, even if there's no more
00:20:24.000Excuse me, there's no more bombing campaigns, there's no more shooting.
00:20:28.000There will not be a home for most of the Palestinians to return to.
00:20:34.000And for the ones that do return, there's going to be no schools, there's going to be no hospitals, there will be no farms to supply food.
00:20:43.000So what they're really doing is they're making the Gaza Strip completely uninhabitable, and they are forcing a situation where everyone else will have to accept Palestinian refugees, where
00:20:58.000When all of this is over there will either be a very very small population that returns or is even able to return.
00:21:07.000I mean literally able to go back because most of the buildings will be destroyed and the ones that are not able to go back
00:21:16.000Again, they're forcing a situation where other countries will have to step in and accept them as refugees.
00:21:23.000Two million people, just a little bit more than two million people in the Gaza Strip, nearly all of them have been displaced.
00:21:31.000They have been quite literally pushed, because of how the campaign has been conducted, they've been pushed from the north into the south, and then from the south to the southern border of the Gaza Strip, and now nearly all of those people are living in tents,
00:21:46.000Just miles away from the border with Egypt, while Israel rolls over and conducts a scorched earth campaign and destroys all the infrastructure.
00:22:53.000She gave a big speech to a Somali audience and she has weighed in on this emerging conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia over a breakaway territory called Somaliland.
00:23:07.000And I think we may save that for tomorrow because that's actually a big story.
00:23:14.000And if you want to read up on it, there have been some developments.
00:23:18.000The government of Ethiopia and the government of Somaliland have signed a memorandum of understanding.
00:23:25.000And we don't know the details of it, but the rumors are that Ethiopia will be sold a portion of land on the Somaliland coast where they will be able to build a naval base and a commercial port and that will give Ethiopia access to the water.
00:23:41.000Now technically they have access to the water through Djibouti, but they have to pay a lease to use the ports from Djibouti.
00:23:51.000And this deal will give them the rights to own the land outright.
00:23:57.000But this is a big problem because Somaliland is not a real state.
00:24:01.000It's not a member of the United Nations.
00:24:02.000It's not recognized by any country in the world other than Taiwan.
00:24:07.000And so this is a threat to the territorial integrity of Somalia.
00:24:10.000It's a big problem because the African Union's headquartered in the capital of Ethiopia and a big
00:24:18.000Foundational tenet of the African Union is they can't challenge the sovereignty of the member states because there's so much revolution and secession that goes on in Africa.
00:24:27.000So it's causing all kinds of problems.
00:24:30.000It's a little bit of a complicated geopolitical situation.
00:26:01.000When the Jews on the Republican side, or anywhere for that matter, say, I'm a Jew first, an Israeli second, they think that's great, and they say the same thing.
00:26:13.000And we've been subjected to so much of that since the war in Gaza broke out, from everywhere, from the presidential candidates, from the conservative media, and that's just fine.
00:26:25.000And that tells you who's really in control.
00:26:27.000Next time you hear somebody say it's progressives or it's the Muslims.
00:26:32.000When a Muslim goes out and says that, she gets condemned by everybody.
00:26:37.000When a Jew goes out and say that, they get condemned by nobody.
00:26:43.000Pretty obvious, but we'll probably cover that tomorrow.
00:26:47.000Before we get into the news tonight, I want to remind you to smash the follow button here on Rumble and Cozy to get a push notification whenever I go live.
00:28:37.000And I would think they'd have a better response because they've been doing it for so long they faced all these criticisms from me in particular as well and he just really had not only were his responses not good they were actually harmful to the group like
00:28:56.000It would be better if he just never said anything than what he said in his response, which I think happened over the weekend.
00:29:02.000So, anyway, I was going to respond to it today.
00:29:29.000And so I guess Antifa found out that some well-known like legit neo-Nazi bought all this land.
00:29:37.000This guy from the National Socialist Movement.
00:29:41.000Which if you've ever heard of it, National Socialist Movement is like the cringiest, like stodgiest, like white nationalist 1.0 group you've ever seen.
00:30:38.000religious pagan thing and that's whose land they're using to build this and it's like talk about vindication this is everything that's wrong with that scene because that stuff is just for freaks
00:30:58.000I mean, I've made it very clear where I stand on the issues and what I'm about and my vision.
00:31:05.000And my vision is rooted in my religion.
00:31:20.000And if anybody says, oh, there's an apparent contradiction between your worldview and Catholicism, there isn't.
00:31:27.000Because we are Catholic, we are subordinate to the Catholic Church and all of that.
00:31:35.000Now, I have disagreements with the Pope, political disagreements, but on theological and moral matters, we are 100% in agreement with the Catholic Church.
00:31:45.000And we have people, I assume, that are Protestant or that are Muslim, but that is the core of our worldview.
00:32:25.000And that is why we really are distinct and break away from the old school white nationalist or even alt-right movement in America and Europe.
00:32:35.000And I said a little bit about this last week that I'm really unwelcome in the white nationalist circles because I'm too Christian and I'm a little bit too reactionary.
00:32:45.000They don't like that I'm forcefully Christian.
00:32:48.000They don't like that I'm anti-feminist or so critical of Israel and the Jews.
00:32:56.000And here you go, kind of combining, it's almost synthesizing those two things I talked about last week, the Patriot Front stuff, the WN stuff.
00:33:39.000So he, like Patrick Casey in Identity Europa, kind of learned a similar lesson from me and from my activism that if they were going to be successful, they had to at least brand it as red, white, and blue.
00:33:52.000They had to at least brand it as American, even if that's not 100% what they believe.
00:33:57.000But the problem with them is these guys still can't achieve escape velocity
00:34:05.000from the old white nationalists in America and I don't know if it's out of desperation because they need those guys resources and they can't say no or if it's out of ideological affinity like on the low they still support this weird pagan occult stuff
00:34:23.000But either way, it is holding these guys back.
00:34:46.000Two, most likely, if you find yourself with a 60-year-old neo-Nazi,
00:34:52.000You're probably going to jail because all those old groups are either run by feds or they're totally infiltrated by feds or the feds are up their ass and so far up their ass you could see them coming out of their mouth, okay?
00:35:09.000So that's just like, if that doesn't vindicate everything I've been saying these guys, they either are unwilling to create standards
00:35:19.000And say, like, we are American and we are about putting America first and so on.
00:35:25.000And they're just, out of desperation, accepting anything they can get, which is the stuff that is obviously, like, alienating and insane and counterproductive and blasphemous.
00:35:38.000So, either it's this uncomfortable marriage of convenience, or they actually have affinity with these groups, in which case,
00:35:49.000In which case, if you still think that that has any kind of momentum, or that has any kind of cachet, in 2024, I mean, it's like I said the other day, you're just beyond help.
00:36:01.000You're either too stupid to see how dumb all this stuff is, or you're in on it.
00:36:42.000Hitler would absolutely hate this kind of like
00:36:48.000Stodgy cringy Freak show that is this Gen X boomer white nationalist thing you got going on in America And you know because they they say they have this religion around Hitler Hitler would probably like Jared Taylor Hitler would probably he might like Richard Spencer he would not like whatever whatever that whole thing is about and
00:37:15.000So, we'll probably cover that a little bit more on Thursday, but I thought that was unreal.
00:37:19.000So, I mean listen, if you are a young person, stay, obviously stay away.
00:37:25.000The things we have learned in just the past three or four days, all I had to do was just really give a basic criticism that no one can really rebut.
00:37:35.000And you've seen all these things come out just since where it's like, okay, all the members are anonymous, and they think the cops are okay with what they do, and they're building pagan temples for white nationals 1.0.
00:38:48.000Do not put on a mask, fly across state lines, join a fucking militia, and march around screaming about how whites are the only Americans.
00:38:58.000Like, I don't know how that even needs to be said.
00:39:00.000Do not put on a uniform, fly across state lines, and go to a compound that's built by a 60-year-old neo-Nazi and build a pagan temple to the Great One Hitler.
00:39:11.000Like, does that even need to be said at this point?
00:39:38.000But I'm going to show you why you're wrong.
00:39:40.000I think we'll do a big stream Thursday about some of these developments because people need to hear it.
00:39:44.000This stuff has got to be called out because you know where this is going to go?
00:39:49.000It's going the same way and the same place that Charlottesville was going towards, that January 6th was going towards, and that is another one of these honeypots where they're going to set everybody up and it will be used, they'll be activated, like a light switch getting flipped on.
00:40:08.000And this is going to be a big problem for everybody.
00:40:11.000Because a lot of these groups kind of went away for a long time, and then all of a sudden in the past couple years, you get the Blood Tribe.
00:42:11.000This has been going on with much lower intensity since the war in Gaza began, and even a little bit before that.
00:42:20.000And I gave you the big background last night, so I'm not going to go over every aspect of it tonight.
00:42:25.000But since the war in Gaza began, these militias inside of Syria and inside of Iraq have really stepped up their attacks on American personnel.
00:43:25.000And the United States has been responding to each and every one of these strikes by attacking the militias, or even attacking Iranian personnel.
00:43:35.000Not just the militias that are backed by Iran, but Iranian personnel themselves.
00:43:40.000And it's been escalating on the part of the United States in the past month or two.
00:43:46.000For example, three weeks ago, the United States killed one of the top commanders of an Iranian militia inside of Iraq.
00:43:56.000In addition to that, the United States has also been targeting Iranian Revolutionary Guard facilities and personnel.
00:44:02.000So the militias are not, they don't answer to Iran, not formally, not officially, and they're not technically under the command of Iran either.
00:44:13.000But the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is.
00:44:15.000It's a paramilitary wing of the Iranian Armed Forces.
00:44:19.000So the United States has been escalating in the past month by killing higher-ranking militia members and by directly attacking the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iraq and Syria.
00:44:31.000And this is all part of the broader crescendo of hostilities.
00:44:35.000It's been escalating everywhere on all sides ever since it started.
00:44:40.000It's been escalating in Lebanon, it's been escalating in Yemen, it's been escalating in Iran, and Iraq and Syria is just one among other fronts where the war is escalating.
00:44:52.000The difference, though, about the theater in Iraq and Syria, and ostensibly Jordan, is that these are the locations where Americans are under attack.
00:45:05.000It's a little bit different everywhere else.
00:45:07.000On Israel's northern border, Hezbollah is attacking Israel.
00:45:12.000In the West Bank, it's Palestinians rebelling against Israel.
00:45:20.000In Yemen, it was, up until December, the Houthi rebels attacking Israeli shipping.
00:45:28.000What is happening recently, and I want to point out these different trends, what is happening recently is that more and more Americans are being attacked.
00:45:37.000In Iraq and Syria, that's where the American personnel is, and Americans are under attack by Iranian forces, Iranian-backed forces in those countries.
00:45:47.000And recently, the Houthis are attacking American commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
00:45:52.000And now Americans and Houthis are engaging each other directly.
00:45:57.000So not only is the conflict escalating everywhere, and not only are Americans conducting more deadly and more expansive strikes in Iraq and Syria, but the engagement between America and Iran is increasing, it's widening.
00:46:14.000Because, and I'll just give you an example, in October the only point of engagement was that Iraq and Syria, inside Iraq and Syria, Iranian militias were bombing Americans.
00:46:27.000Fast forward three months later, and now America is basically committed to a perpetual war against the Houthis directly in Yemen, and the Yemenis are attacking American shipping in the Red Sea, and now Americans are killing Iranians, and Iranians are killing Americans in Iraq, Syria, and Jordan.
00:46:47.000So, there's a few ways in which the conflict is intensifying and unfolding.
00:46:52.000So, three Americans were killed in Jordan.
00:46:54.000It was the first time in the conflict that Americans were killed by Iranian-backed militias.
00:47:00.000And like I said yesterday, it was a little bit of a mystery because these bases have air defense.
00:47:07.000And that is what has mitigated the casualties.
00:47:09.000That is what has made them not deadly.
00:47:12.000Is that when the Iranians will send over a drone or a missile, these American facilities have air defense.
00:47:20.000So in many cases, they're able to evacuate because they will detect an incoming projectile or they're able to shoot it down.
00:47:29.000This is a base called Tower 22, which is a pretty significant military installation and they have air defense.
00:47:36.000So, initially, and even now, there's a big question, which is, how did this suicide drone, which was sent by this militia, how did it even get to the base?
00:47:48.000And they came up with this, initially they said, well, the air defense malfunctioned.
00:47:53.000Then they came out, and this is their story now, they say that, well, it's actually even changed in just the past 24 hours.
00:48:02.000Yesterday they said that an American drone was returning to the base, and as the American drone was returning, an Iranian suicide drone kind of came in the back door, so to speak.
00:48:15.000And because it was flying low and flying quickly, and came in right on the tail of this American drone, it was able to bypass the defense.
00:48:25.000So they came up with this story that, like, the defense was turned off for the American drone to come in, and then before it came back on, the Iranian drone hit.
00:48:37.000And I said yesterday, that doesn't sound right.
00:48:39.000I don't, I'm not an expert on the technology.
00:48:43.000But it doesn't sound like that's how any of this works.
00:48:47.000Because it would seem like that would be a pretty big vulnerability if, like,
00:48:51.000Wouldn't they just send all their drones after the American drones?
00:50:18.000And I said yesterday that these stories, which seem dubious and change all the time, suggest some kind of cover-up.
00:50:26.000And the obvious motivation, why would somebody sabotage the American defense shield at an American base in Jordan?
00:50:34.000Because if Iranians kill Americans, it gives Americans a strong incentive to attack Iran directly and to escalate the war, which is something that Israel desperately wants.
00:50:45.000And Israel is on the border with Jordan, and Israel, I think there's strong evidence that suggests that they were responsible for the terrorist attack in Iran three weeks ago,
00:50:55.000It would be part of a pattern that Israel is attempting to provoke the two sides to attack each other.
00:51:01.000They want to provoke Iran into attacking Israel or the United States.
00:51:05.000They want to provoke the United States to attack Iran because Israel wants the U.S.
00:51:54.000So, when I say the blood is on the hands of the Iranians, I mean that in the most nominal and the narrowest way possible, in the public perception, the perception of the global village,
00:53:10.000There's probably a strong incentive that he attacks Iran directly.
00:53:14.000That the blood has to be paid for by other blood.
00:53:17.000If Iran is training and arming and directing these militias that killed Americans, it would logically follow that America has to kill the Iranians.
00:53:30.000Again, this is the logic of... This is not me saying this.
00:53:41.000So one pressure is that in order to demonstrate strength and in order to keep up deterrence, he's probably going to have to attack Iran directly in some capacity.
00:53:55.000Or it's got to be a very intense strike on the militias.
00:53:59.000The reason it has to be an attack on Iran directly is because 1.
00:54:03.000Again, it has to be more severe than everything so far.
00:54:14.000So it's either got to be a very brutal strike against militias, against proxies, or it's got to be sort of a tepid attack on Iranian facilities inside of Iran, a drone facility.
00:54:26.000It's got to be an attack on their Navy.
00:54:30.000The other pressure is that both the Iranian regime and the United States do not want a war with each other.
00:54:37.000Iran immediately came out on Sunday and said, we didn't direct this, we didn't order this, we are not responsible, and this group does not answer to us.
00:54:46.000And they also reiterated and said, we don't want a war with the United States.
00:54:51.000And the United States has also said, we don't want a war with Iran.
00:55:29.000It says, quote, President Biden said on Tuesday that he had decided on a U.S.
00:55:35.000response to the drone attack on a remote outpost in Jordan on Sunday that killed three American soldiers and injured more than 40 others
00:55:43.000But leaving unstated what that decision was.
00:55:47.000Asked by reporters outside the White House whether he had decided on a response to the lethal attack, Mr. Biden said yes, but declined to provide further details.
00:55:57.000John Kirby, a national security spokesman, refused to elaborate on the remark and said it was very possible the United States would carry out a tiered approach, which is not just a single action, but potentially multiple actions over a period of time.
00:56:14.000Mr. Biden has vowed to retaliate and has met twice this week with his national security aides to discuss targets in Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
00:56:23.000He could order strikes on Iran's proxy forces, a major escalation of the attacks the United States has conducted in recent weeks in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
00:56:33.000Or Mr. Biden could opt to attack the Iranian suppliers of drones and missiles, perhaps including inside Iranian territory, which would pose a much higher risk.
00:56:44.000His first targets could well be members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, many of whom are based in Syria and Iraq.
00:56:51.000Mr. Biden emphasized on Tuesday that he was seeking to avert a broader regional conflict, telling reporters as he prepared to depart for a fundraising swing in South Florida, he said, quote, I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East.
00:57:37.000So that's that's the next step up is attacking Iranian personnel, but outside of Iran.
00:57:44.000So you can attack non-Iranian personnel outside of Iran, you can attack Iranian personnel outside of Iran, up to attacking facilities or assets inside of Iran, and then maybe the most severe option to be attacking Iranian personnel inside Iran.
00:58:04.000So that's your sliding scale of severe options.
00:58:09.000You can attack the militias outside Iran.
00:58:12.000You can attack Iranian personnel outside Iran.
00:58:15.000You can attack facilities or assets inside Iran up to Iranian personnel inside Iran.
00:58:55.000So they don't have to respond immediately.
00:58:58.000Because if they responded immediately, all at once, it would have to be very severe.
00:59:04.000If it happens in a tiered, or escalating, or staggered, or even a gradual fashion, the only reason they do that is it affords them more time.
00:59:14.000That's the only reason you would do it in layers like that.
00:59:18.000Because that means that if we strike once and everybody goes, oh, boo, that wasn't enough, or oh, that was too much,
00:59:27.000Then they could say, oh well, wait until the next one.
00:59:30.000So, that I think gives them time for there to be a negotiation inside Iraq, inside Iran.
00:59:38.000And the reason I say that is because there seems to be a mutual understanding on the part of both Iran and America, on the part of Tehran and D.C.
00:59:50.000Iran doesn't want the war because Iran knows that Israel desperately wants the war and they know that what Israel wants and what they're most likely going to get or probably going to get is America to attack Iran's nuclear facilities or some sort of devastating airstrike or a wider engagement of America which would
01:00:14.000Diminish Iran's proxies across the region.
01:00:18.000So Iran knows that the more America gets involved, it's just going to damage their assets.
01:00:24.000It's just going to be very damaging for them and their interests.
01:01:42.000Because it reduces the odds of a miscalculation where one side is going to inadvertently cross a tripwire and trigger an obligatory response.
01:01:53.000And to understand foreign relations, you've got to understand it's about these triggers.
01:02:23.000It prevents miscalculations regarding when these tripwires get activated, when these triggers happen, so it's a good sign.
01:02:31.000And then the other big development is that the Iranian militia that launched the deadly attack has come out today in a formal official statement and they have said they are suspending all attacks on Americans, which is a huge deal if they stick to it.
01:02:48.000There's a few groups that are backed by Iran operating in Iraq.
01:03:08.000They won't attack Americans in Iraq, Syria, or Jordan going forward.
01:03:14.000They also said that they had done that at the behest of Iran, and officials that are part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Iraqi government officials were part of the negotiations.
01:03:29.000So, Iraq came in and said, look, to the militias, they said, look, you cannot attack Americans because the more that you attack Americans, the longer it takes for the Americans to withdraw.
01:03:42.000Moreover, the more these militias attack Americans, the more the Americans conduct strikes in Iraq.
01:03:48.000And that makes the Iraqi government look illegitimate.
01:03:51.000Because that is technically a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
01:03:55.000If Iraq is just a battleground between Iran and the United States, then they don't really have sovereignty.
01:04:05.000So the Iraqi Prime Minister has said since the beginning they have pressured these Iranian militias not to attack the United States for those two reasons.
01:04:15.000And now the Iranians have come in, and this has been said by the militias and Iran, they have pressured the militias to stop conducting the strikes, and largely for the same reason.
01:04:26.000The longer that the United States stays in Iraq, that's worse for Iran, and the more that America gets attacked, the less they want to leave.
01:04:35.000But also, I think Iran recognizes that the more strikes there are on the United States, it's beginning to backfire.
01:04:42.000Initially, the strikes on the American facilities were a form of pressure.
01:04:49.000And that was meant to communicate to Washington that as long as America backed Israel, America was going to be brought into the conflict, America would suffer.
01:04:59.000But it's beginning to backfire, because if Americans start dying, even if it's an Israeli operation, it's an Israeli false flag, American bases get attacked, not a big deal.
01:05:11.000American soldiers die, it achieves the opposite effect.
01:05:15.000Now America has to get more involved, which is the opposite of what Iran wants.
01:05:21.000So in the first few months of the war, when Americans were getting attacked over and over,
01:05:25.000This was a way to bitch out Washington, because Washington doesn't want to get mired deeper into the conflict, and every time they get attacked, they kind of have to.
01:05:36.000So they have to go to Israel and say, hey Israel, please stop bombing Gaza, please de-escalate, because we don't want to get attacked, we don't want to get involved in a war with Iran,
01:05:51.000When there was a temporary pause, when there were these, they don't want to call them ceasefires, when there were these humanitarian pauses at the end of November, the attacks on American personnel stopped.
01:06:04.000So there was about a two-week period, end of November, beginning of December, when Israel stopped bombarding Gaza and allowed
01:06:13.000Humanitarian corridors to open up and for people to be able to come out and access medical supplies and things like that.
01:06:22.000And during that period, the attacks on Americans stopped.
01:06:25.000That tells you that that's the purpose of those attacks.
01:06:29.000When that period ended, the attacks resumed.
01:06:32.000So clearly, it's leveraging Washington's desire not to get further into the conflict so that Washington will put pressure on Israel.
01:06:42.000But again, if Americans die, the opposite happens.
01:06:45.000It pressures the United States to get further involved against their wishes.
01:06:50.000So the other big story is that Iran is leaning on the militias and saying, hey, you have to go and make this public statement and say we're not attacking the Americans.
01:07:03.000It says, look, we crossed a trip wire, we're sorry, won't happen again, please don't go to war with us.
01:07:11.000And this is that story from the New York Times.
01:07:15.000It says, quote, In a surprise move, an Iran-linked militia in Iraq that the Pentagon said was likely responsible for a lethal drone attack on a U.S.
01:07:24.000base in Jordan over the weekend, announced on Tuesday that it was suspending military operations in Iraq under pressure from the Iraqi government, excuse me, and from Iran.
01:07:35.000The militia, Kataib Hezbollah, or Brigades of the Party of God, is the largest and most established of the Iran-linked groups operating in Iraq.
01:08:02.000Intensive negotiations in recent days aimed at pushing Kataib Hezbollah to stop its attacks.
01:08:10.000Iraq's Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, started pushing for a halt several weeks ago, according to government advisors.
01:08:19.000He was endeavoring to start negotiations on an eventual withdrawal of U.S.-led military presence in Iraq, but the American side had not wanted to negotiate while under fire.
01:08:30.000Kataib Hezbollah and other groups had ignored the Iraqi government's request to stand down, but once the attack in Jordan on Sunday took American lives, Mr. Soudani demanded a complete halt.
01:08:42.000Soudani reached out directly to Iran, according to a military strategist for the Revolutionary Guard.
01:08:48.000Mr. Soudani made the argument that he was trying to negotiate what Iran most wanted, which was an end to the American presence in Iraq, and the attacks were undermining his government's ability to do so.
01:09:00.000So this is another very positive sign.
01:09:03.000So hopefully it looks like Israel has been thwarted.
01:09:07.000Again, Israel's main objective, ironically in the war in Gaza, is eventually they want an American strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
01:09:19.000If you've been following this, you know that.
01:09:22.000For years, that is what Netanyahu has wanted.
01:09:25.000That is what older governments in the 80s and 90s wanted.
01:09:29.000Although that predated the Iranian nuclear program a little bit.
01:09:33.000But Iran has been the big adversary since the revolution.
01:09:38.000They have had other priorities for a time.
01:09:40.000Saddam Hussein and the Assad family was a bigger priority.
01:09:45.000But ever since the war in Iraq, it is now Iran has been priority number one, and especially since they had began to enrich uranium and create highly enriched uranium that could be used in a nuclear bomb.
01:10:01.000So what Israel wants out of the war is they want to go to war with Hezbollah and defeat them decisively or diminish them substantially.
01:10:14.000They want to most likely annex the Gaza Strip, maybe the West Bank, and they want strikes on Iran and their nuclear facilities.
01:10:24.000And they want to achieve that by provoking Iran into attacking Israel or the United States, or provoking the United States into attacking Iran.
01:10:36.000One other story, and we're going to have to do this one quickly because we're almost out of time here, but the other story I wanted to talk about with regard to Gaza is this.
01:10:45.000So we're talking about Israel's strategic aims.
01:12:36.000So, beginning in the end of October, Israel invades North Gaza.
01:12:41.000And the bombing is brutal, and the ground operations begin.
01:12:45.000Short humanitarian pause at the end of November.
01:12:49.000About a month or so ago, Israel began their invasion of the South.
01:12:54.000And they've specifically targeted a city called Khan Yunis, which is one of the most populated cities in South Gaza.
01:13:01.000And their invasion, which started in the North, they basically have taken control of the entire border and they penetrated Gaza City, they're now pushing South from the North.
01:13:11.000And they're telling all the people that they evacuated to the south to move further south and move towards the border.
01:13:18.000And again, from the beginning, Israel has never said what their objective in the war is.
01:13:24.000The only thing they have said is that they're going to defeat and destroy Hamas.
01:14:08.000Unless you kill the leaders, I don't see how you really destroy Hamas.
01:14:13.000And moreover, if... I mean, one, there's 30,000 Hamas members, so do they plan on killing 30,000 people?
01:14:21.000And if they do, how are they going to approach potentially tens or hundreds of thousands other Palestinians that have been radicalized by the conflict and want to join Hamas in the West Bank or in the Gaza Strip?
01:14:36.000So this idea of defeating Hamas doesn't really make any sense.
01:14:41.000But then there was a big report, and there's been some analysis on this ever since the conflict started, but there's a new one that came out today, and it said that Israel has destroyed more than half of all the buildings inside the Gaza Strip.
01:15:47.000More than half of Gaza's buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its retaliation for the attacks on October 7th.
01:15:56.000About 1.7 million people or more than 80% of Gaza's population are displaced.
01:16:04.000So, basically the entire population has been moved, has been displaced by the bombing and the fighting.
01:16:12.000It says nearly half are crammed in the far southern end of the Strip.
01:16:17.000Satellite data analysis obtained by the BBC shows the true extent of the destruction
01:16:23.000The analysis suggests that up to 175,000 buildings across the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, which is between 50 and 61% of Gaza's buildings.
01:16:36.000The southern city of Khan Younis has been particularly badly hit in recent weeks, with more than 46% of its buildings damaged or destroyed.
01:16:46.000And in just the last two weeks, more than 1,500 buildings have been destroyed or damaged there.
01:16:52.000The IDF has repeatedly justified its actions by noting that Hamas embeds itself in civilian areas and explained destruction of buildings in the light of targeting fighters.
01:17:03.000But questions have been asked about destruction of buildings firmly in control of the IDF.
01:17:09.000So they're destroying buildings that even they occupy.
01:17:13.000The international press says, why are you destroying all these buildings?
01:17:17.000And Israel says, well, that's where the terrorists are.
01:17:20.000And the press says, okay, but you're demolishing buildings that you occupy.
01:17:27.000They'll take over a hospital and then blow it up.
01:17:32.000So you're blowing it up because terrorists are there, but you control it.
01:17:38.000So, one example they give, they say, is the Isra University in northern Gaza, initially badly damaged before being blown up completely in a controlled explosion.
01:17:51.000The video was widely shared on social media and the IDF says the approval process for the blast was being investigated.
01:17:58.000So, even though there were no fighters in there, they finished the job.
01:18:01.000They badly damaged it in fighting, then they went in and then did a controlled demolition.
01:18:08.000And notable that it's a university, okay?
01:18:18.000It says many of Gaza's historic sites have also suffered extensive damage, including the Al-Omari Mosque, originally built in the 7th century.
01:18:26.000Further analysis shows large areas of previously cultivated land had been extensively damaged.
01:18:33.000Although Gaza was heavily dependent on imports before the start of the war, a lot of its food came from farming and food production inside the Strip.
01:18:41.000Aid agencies say half of the population is now facing starvation.
01:18:46.000Experts fear the damage to Gaza's agriculture will be lasting.
01:18:50.000Previous conflicts such as those in Syria and Ukraine have shown that rehabilitating farmland is extremely difficult.
01:19:50.000The satellite images captured on December 3rd and January 14th show a dramatic change.
01:19:56.000Now, nearly every patch of accessible, undeveloped ground in an area of northwest Rafa have been turned into a refugee camp for displaced people.
01:20:07.000When it launched its campaign against Hamas, Israel told Palestinians living in the north and central Gaza to move south for their own safety.
01:20:14.000Many have ended up in Rafa and face an uncertain future.
01:20:19.000So, in light of everything that we know now, it seems very clear what Israel is doing.
01:20:26.000They have deliberately and methodically pushed the entire population south, and if you just look at a map of the Israeli campaign, that's what it looks like.
01:20:39.000They told everybody go from the north to the south, they took over the north, and now they're moving from the north-south, and they're pushing the people that are south further south.
01:22:05.000They either intend to severely diminish the population or get rid of the population altogether.
01:22:11.000It's an ethnic cleansing, is what it is.
01:22:15.000They either want to make it so that the entire Gaza Strip is uninhabitable, so that even if the Palestinians wanted to return, they literally couldn't.
01:22:26.000Because there's no food, and there's no hospitals, and there's no schools, and there's no housing.
01:24:11.000They'll take them if they want to keep getting all that U.S.
01:24:13.000military aid, and other countries will, and America presumably will.
01:24:19.000So that's what's going to happen first, is first they're going to dramatically lower the population of 2 million, which is what they wanted from the beginning, by destroying all the infrastructure so that it's not hospitable for resettlement.
01:24:39.000And then, when a tiny, tiny population returns, Israel's going to straight up annex the Gaza Strip.
01:24:45.000They're going to take complete military control over the place, and then they're going to start to settle it, and they're going to annex it, just like they did with the Golan, just like they've done with the settlements in the West Bank, just like they've done with East Jerusalem.
01:24:59.000They're just going to annex it, and that's going to be Israeli territory.
01:25:38.000So that will either take immense cajoling by the United States diplomatically, or perhaps Israel would like to see a conflict between Egypt and one of its neighbors to diminish Egypt somehow.
01:25:53.000Maybe that's the goal with what's happening in Somaliland and Ethiopia.
01:25:59.000But certainly Ethiopia and Somaliland, we're going to talk about this tomorrow, they're going to play a part not only in the campaign against the Houthis but also in this increasingly unstable and tenuous friendship between Israel and Egypt.
01:27:59.000Bottle before I started, but I must have forgotten Okay, well whatever we'll just make it quick Okay, let's see what we got here Let me get set up here
01:29:27.000he's not creative he's not original so he's just got a lot of problems like this that's really the issue to tell you the truth but yeah we were all laughing at that in the group chat somebody sent it in there like this guy literally fucking sucks so
01:31:59.000Well, I don't really know what their theory is, so I'd have to look at it, but we do need to be thinking in terms of human capital.
01:32:06.000I don't think social conservatism in itself alienates elite human capital, but I think it is a lot of these cringe, anti-intellectual expressions of it.
01:32:19.000The problem is that a lot of the people that are supporting this stuff are knuckleheads.
01:32:28.000Call of War should be paying you at this point.
01:32:58.000You think they would sponsor my videos?
01:33:00.000I should honestly ask them, because I see them sponsor stuff all the time, like some of my favorite videos on YouTube are sponsored by Conflict of Nations and stuff like that.
01:33:10.000So maybe, maybe I'll approach them, see if I could get some kind of sponsorship, see if I could get a deal.
01:33:39.000It obviously is not a literal meaning.
01:33:41.000It doesn't literally mean don't wash your hands.
01:33:44.000It obviously means that Jews were, and it's true even to this day, the Pharisees were more preoccupied with their rituals than they were with being good people.
01:34:13.000You've already sinned before you even do anything.
01:34:17.000Which is very different from these Jewish notions about rituals, so... I don't know if you're some kind of retard atheist, but obviously taking that out of context.
01:34:27.000I don't really know anything about them.
01:34:41.000Liberang $0.03, do you care at all about treating animals with compassion?
01:34:46.000It seems you're okay with eating them, but are there any limits to that?
01:34:50.000Would you be okay with an animal being tortured?
01:34:52.000No, no, I'm very in favor of humane treatment of animals.
01:34:56.000And I love animals, but we are gonna eat them.
01:35:00.000Because we have been given dominion over the animals.
01:35:06.000So yeah, of course we're gonna eat them.
01:35:08.000But they should be slaughtered humanely and they should be generally treated humanely.
01:43:20.000So, I'm sorry to tell you this, but people need to learn this.
01:43:24.000Now, probably, look, everybody improves their looks by working out, but if you're short and ugly, there's just nothing you can do about that.
01:43:34.000So you should just stop coping with all this bullshit about, well, I have this, you know, complex lifestyle where I, you know, I'm doing red light therapy and I'm eating all this shit and blah, blah, blah.
01:43:47.000It's like, okay, but you look like that.
01:43:50.000Yeah, and you look like that, so you're going to hell.
01:46:21.000BobbyBobinson sent $10, your doubt about the drone strike messaging isn't totally unfounded, but you haven't provided an alternative explanation.
01:46:29.000Do you not have enough information to come to a conclusion?
01:46:59.000Well, I don't even know that I would necessarily counter that, because Greece and Rome, they kind of are the foundation of Western civilization as we know it, but
01:47:24.000That's not really the, I mean, it's really kind of a stupid question.
01:47:27.000I mean, what does that question even mean?
01:47:31.000You know, we don't embrace Christianity because it's the foundation of Western civilization.
01:47:35.000We embrace Christianity because it's true.
01:47:39.000So, I mean, Christianity didn't even originate in Western civilization, although it kind of did on the periphery.
01:47:46.000It initiated with the Jews, or the Hebrews, whatever you want to call it, but it originated not in Rome, but in Judea.
01:48:26.000And that's not, and by the way, that's not to diminish the role of Christianity in the development of Western civilization over the past 1700 years.
01:48:38.000I'm not sure, you know, because certainly Catholicism is what allowed us to retain so much of Greek and Roman developments.
01:48:49.000It was the Catholics that gave us the universities, it was the Catholics that gave us the libraries, and the monks that preserved a lot of the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and so on and so forth.
01:49:04.000So I'm not trying to diminish it, but I'm saying that the idea that, you know, Rome and the Church are in tension, it just isn't true.
01:50:38.000It documents Israel's secret relationship with South Africa where the tested nukes and where they obtained the raw material for making nukes just after the Yom Kippur War.
01:54:39.000He gave it to some stupid bitch who didn't even do anything.
01:54:43.000Then, after I gave my fucking awesome graduation speech that everybody loved, and I walk across the stage to get my diploma, he goes, nice job.