GAZA WAR DAY 191: Iran ATTACKS Israel With MASSIVE Drone and Missile Strike | America First Ep. 1319GAZA WAR DAY 191: Iran ATTACKS Israel With MASSIVE Drone and Missile Strike | America First Ep. 1319
The Iran strike on Israel on Saturday marks the first time ever that Iran has directly attacked Israel with missiles and drones, and it s a big deal in terms of the technology involved, and the risk to regional peace and stability. We'll talk all about it tonight on America First, hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes ( ) and Betsy Grigoriadis ( ), and our featured story will be all about the Iran strike, and what it means for the future of the Middle East and the relationship between the United States and Iran. Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to all new episodes and listen to the latest news and discuss the most important topics in politics, entertainment, and world affairs. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code: "UP" to receive 20% off your first month with discount code "UP20" at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! and become a supporter of our show by visiting anchor.fm/americafirstpodcast and we'll give you 5 stars! Thank you so you can help spread the word of our new show! about what's good, not bad, and just plain ol' good stuff! and we won't forget to rate, review, review and subscribe to the show you're listening to our newest episode! Subscribe and review it! in iTunes! If you like the show, tell a friend about what you think it's good and share it on your podcast! or share it with a fellow podcasting pal! we'll be listening to it on Anchor.fm! if you're looking for more like that and leave us a review and more like it's a review, subscribe to us on iTunes, review us on your thoughts on your favorite podcasting platform, and subscribe on your favourite podcatcher or review it on the podcasting app, and more of your favorite streaming platform, etc. etc. and more! Thanks for listening and sharing it on social media! - nicholas j.fuentes - Nicki and much more. -p=1p&t=1s=3s=1&q=3p&referencing=3&qid=3q&ref=a&q&q_t=4q&a=3QQ&a&s=8q&f=5q&list=3
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00:08:22.000I said it was gonna happen later on Saturday.
00:08:26.000and we got into all the specifics so you know everybody else in the world I think they're playing catch-up but we've been talking about it basically really since October 7th to be honest with you but we'll get into all of it you know if you've seen the show lately a lot of it's going to be familiar but we are going to of course get into
00:08:49.000What's new, which is what actually transpired.
00:08:52.000And the news on Saturday is that Iran directly attacked Israel from Iranian territory with hundreds of drones and cruise missiles.
00:09:03.000And that was in addition to other Iranian proxies that launched their own attacks on Israel from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
00:09:13.000So it was a combined attack using different means from four different countries, both Iran proper and its proxies.
00:09:20.000And they all struck two, specifically two targets in Israel, both military targets.
00:09:27.000They struck the Golan and they struck a base, I believe, in the south.
00:09:31.000And Iran says they attacked the airstrips from which the attacks against the Iranian embassy in Syria originated back at the beginning of the month.
00:10:25.000And now they're pretty much here to stay and so this was a it's a major change in terms of the technology unprecedented in that regard but maybe more importantly it was unprecedented because this is the first time ever that Iran has directly struck Israel.
00:10:43.000As you know, and as we've talked about on the show before, Iran and Israel have been engaged in a proxy war for decades.
00:10:52.000And they fight each other, but they fight each other in covert ways.
00:10:57.000Israel will bomb Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and they will conduct sabotage or assassinations inside of Iranian territory.
00:11:12.000And of course the big risk is that this will escalate into a regional conflict
00:11:41.000Which directly involves Iran and Israel fighting against each other, and then most probably will draw the United States into a direct confrontation with Iran as well.
00:11:52.000And that's the big risk that we've talked about since the beginning.
00:11:56.000And it's a big risk because this is what Israel desires, and it's what they've desired for 45 years, but more intensely in the past 10 or 15 years.
00:12:38.000And this is another thing we've talked about on the show, although a bit more sporadically, which is this logjam in Congress.
00:12:46.000Ever since Kevin McCarthy was overthrown at the end of, or rather the beginning of, October 2023, Congress has not been able to pass military appropriations bills and fund the government, and that's because of a showdown over Ukraine aid and funding for border security.
00:13:04.000And it seems like potentially this attack on Israel by Iran may help break that logjam.
00:13:11.000There's now more pressure on Congress to give money to Israel.
00:13:38.000And we'll also be talking... I didn't even get into this yet in the intro here.
00:13:43.000We're also going to talk about what happens next.
00:13:47.000Because that is, of course, what's on everybody's mind.
00:13:52.000Will there be a breakout of World War III?
00:13:56.000Will this cause a reciprocal tit-for-tat escalation?
00:14:02.000A series of attacks, counterattacks, reprisals that will, like dominoes, lead us to an all-out war in the Middle East.
00:14:13.000And then ultimately an all-out war against all of the revisionist powers in the world, which would consist in Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, among others.
00:14:27.000And I don't think that it will happen imminently, but the risk of this has just gone up because of the unprecedented nature of this attack.
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00:17:03.000A real dinner, like, we'll be hanging out and I will, like you, we will become like friends.
00:18:27.000To finally see, and the visuals, and the story, and the fanfare, and the flags, and the leader came out, Khamenei, the Ayatollah, and we Romans saluted, and we cheered, and screamed, death to... No.
00:18:59.000You know, the missiles took like 10 hours and then, or I'm sorry, the drones took like 12 hours and the missiles took like 10 minutes and...
00:19:51.000You know, for the first time, instead of Israel murdering innocent people in Gaza, there were some harmless little missiles lobbed over the region.
00:20:11.000So the big development is that this attack commenced on Saturday.
00:20:18.000As I said a moment ago, Iran directly struck Israel for the first time.
00:20:24.000And that's really the most significant aspect about this, which I want you to keep in mind.
00:20:30.000Because, as I said, and we're about to break down all of the background here, Iran and Israel have been in a state of conflict since 1979.
00:20:41.0001979 is when the Muslims took control of Iran.
00:20:47.000Iran used to be a Western, United States-aligned country until the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
00:20:56.000And they declared the Islamic Republic, which is the current regime in control now, and they became a Muslim state and truly a pariah state in the world and in the Middle East and against the United States.
00:21:11.000And ever since then, Israel and the United States have both been in a state of conflict with Iran.
00:21:17.000They have applied sanctions, financial sanctions, as well as arms embargoes.
00:21:23.000Israel has conducted, as I said, sabotage, assassinations, and throughout the past 10 or 15 years there has been a very hot proxy war
00:21:33.000Between the two factions, between these two sides, as Iran has expanded its influence in the region.
00:21:40.000So this has been a long time coming, but what is truly unprecedented about this, which you need to understand, is that this is the first time that the Iranian military has directly attacked Israeli territory from Iran, by Iran, and attacked Israel in Israel.
00:22:02.000And that may sound like a convoluted category, but as we'll get into with some of this background, that is not how the United States and Israel have conducted their aggression or their hostilities against Iran for the past 45 years.
00:22:21.000All of it has been a shadow war, a proxy war.
00:22:26.000So, what is so significant is that this is the first time that this conflict has emerged from the shadows and now become truly an overt war.
00:23:41.000And as far as we know, almost nobody was even injured.
00:23:46.000And what Iran struck were two military targets, and Iran says that those were the air bases from which the Israeli attack was launched against the Iranian embassy in Syria earlier in the month.
00:24:01.000So it seems as though it was largely a symbolic action.
00:24:08.000And you hate to say that because I think for a lot of people it seems counterintuitive.
00:24:12.000How could bombing a country with hundreds of missiles and drones be symbolic?
00:24:19.000But of course, Iran knew that nearly everything would be intercepted.
00:24:26.000Israel is famous for its Iron Dome, which is an extremely sophisticated anti-missile system, and that is only one of the anti-missile systems that Israel has.
00:24:37.000And that's in addition to the assets that have been deployed in the region by NATO powers.
00:24:43.000Like the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.
00:24:50.000So Iran had to know that launching slow-moving, low-yield projectiles, such as those suicide drones, would result in a military failure.
00:25:04.000In the sense that they would not hit their targets, they most likely would be intercepted, and the targets they hit, it would not be devastating impact.
00:25:14.000And the same is true of the missile salvo they launched as well.
00:25:51.000Iran's attack involved more than 120 ballistic missiles, 170 drones, and more than 30 cruise missiles, according to a report by the Associated Press news agency.
00:26:03.000The Israeli military also said the vast majority of the projectiles were intercepted outside the country's borders, so they didn't even arrive in Israel for the most part, with help from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Jordan.
00:26:18.000Israel's military added that a small number of hits were identified in a base in southern Israel.
00:26:25.000Minor damage occurred to the infrastructure, it said.
00:26:28.000Another base was hit in the Golan Heights, but it was a secretive spying facility.
00:26:34.000So Israel has not released any of the information about the impact or the casualties there.
00:26:43.000With no casualties and very little damage to infrastructure.
00:26:50.000Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Sunday that the United States also intercepted dozens of missiles and drones launched at Israel from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
00:27:00.000So those were coming from Iran's proxies, which would be the Shiite militias, part of the Popular Mobilization Force in Syria and Iraq, and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels,
00:28:30.000And I noticed that a lot of people on social media, and I'm talking specifically about conservative commentators, didn't even know how to react.
00:28:39.000Because on the one hand, something like this has all the hallmarks of what conservatives, Zionist conservatives, would normally speak up about.
00:28:51.000The fact that Israel is under attack by radical Muslims.
00:28:55.000You would think that is something that every conservative would be extremely vocal and adamant about.
00:29:02.000On the other hand, I think many of them had a hard time talking about this because it is so cut and dry that Israel was wrong.
00:29:14.000This was a counter attack by Iran, which is a key detail that many people, I think, are leaving out.
00:29:22.000Many people have tried on social media to paint this as aggression from Iran, which is frequently described as the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism.
00:29:34.000Or they characterize this as aggression from Muslims more broadly.
00:29:39.000But the problem with this is that it is not aggression.
00:30:20.000And I've said this before, attacking an embassy is the biggest mistake, it is the biggest transgression, arguably, that a state can commit.
00:30:34.000Because diplomatic personnel and diplomatic infrastructure, such as embassies, consulates, ambassadors, they are treated as sacrosanct by international law.
00:30:45.000And the convention that protects embassies and diplomatic personnel is a foundation of the United Nations and the entire international legal framework.
00:31:28.000If Israel can bomb an Iranian embassy in Syria, what would stop them from bombing an Iranian consulate or embassy building in any other country in the world?
00:31:41.000If Israel can attack Iran's embassies, if that's legitimate, then what would stop Iran from retaliating against an Israeli embassy in any other country where Israel maintains an embassy?
00:31:53.000What would stop Iran from bombing an embassy in the United States, which is something that almost happened 15 years ago?
00:32:01.000So, justifiably so, every country considers diplomatic personnel and facilities to be absolutely untouchable in any conflict, even the most intense, total, you-cannot-touch-the-embassies.
00:32:17.000And yet, this is precisely what Israel did two weeks ago.
00:32:23.000Israel bombed a consular building, part of the Iranian embassy, inside the capital of Syria, which violates several rules.
00:32:52.000Even though, and you could say, that if Israel and Iran are engaged in a war, that the United States clearly backs Israel in the war, in the course of that conflict, the United States may not condemn or disavow Israel for bombing legitimate Iranian military targets, or legitimate military targets belonging to Iran's proxies.
00:33:22.000Especially if the United States will continue to call itself the guarantor and the protector of the so-called rules-based international order.
00:33:32.000Remember that the reason the United States has sanctioned Russia so forcefully and propped up the Ukrainian armed forces is because they say that Russia's invasion of Ukraine violates those rules of the rules-based international order.
00:33:50.000And the same goes for the sanctions against Iran and the military buildup against China.
00:33:57.000So the argument goes, these revisionist powers must be contained because they break the rules.
00:34:04.000Well, if the United States is the enforcer, self-appointed, and the guarantor of a rules-based international system, well the sacrosanct rule that every country, no matter how radical, agrees upon is you cannot bomb embassies.
00:34:20.000So why then did the United States not condemn Israel's attack on Iran's embassy two weeks ago?
00:35:54.000It's a completely appropriate and reasonable response.
00:35:59.000But of course conservatives came out and said, this is Iranian aggression.
00:36:04.000Another thing that I heard, and I want to clarify this and then we're going to go even deeper into the history here in the background, because this is part of a long trend, another thing that I heard about this strike, maybe this is the next, this is the next least establishment thing that a person could say,
00:36:24.000The most establishment take is Iran is the aggressor and Iran is sponsoring terrorism.
00:36:29.000I think maybe the next gradation away from that is I heard Michael Knowles and I think Candace Owens and a few other people say something to the effect that when you look at the picture of Iranian missiles flying at Israel
00:36:45.000And the anti-missile system launching projectiles counter those missiles, people said, wow this is a photograph and the United States is paying for both sides of this.
00:37:10.000People like, I think psychologically they find it appealing to say, well the problem is both sides.
00:37:16.000And so I saw people say, when I look at the picture of Iran bombing Israel and Israel countering, I see a war where the United States is fueling both sides with our tax dollars.
00:37:28.000And I saw that and I was a little disappointed to see it from Candace.
00:37:31.000I'm not surprised to see it from other people.
00:37:35.000I understand, as I said, psychologically why that is an attractive opinion for most people.
00:38:14.000Since and before the founding of the current modern state of Israel, the United States has supported Israel with weapons, foreign aid, diplomatic support, you name it.
00:38:27.000Since 1948, when Israel declared its independence, and even before,
00:38:33.000The United States has, both in very legal ways but also in clandestine ways, armed Israel, trained Israel, sold them our most advanced technology, shielded them at the United Nations, given them diplomatic and political cover, and I don't need to tell you how.
00:38:52.000It's on full display when you look at the annual AIPAC conference and everybody's in attendance from both sides, Republicans and Democrats, Presidents, Speakers of the House, Leaders of the Senate, you name it, they're everywhere.
00:39:06.000And the United States has done so in every conflict.
00:39:10.000And not only has the United States supported Israel since and before its founding, Israel has been completely dependent on that aid.
00:39:20.000They have been totally dependent on our military support in every conflict they have fought in.
00:39:30.000In 73, it was the largest airlift of weapons, one of them, in history.
00:39:35.000And if the Nixon administration hadn't provided it, probably Israel would have been destroyed.
00:39:41.000Israel procured its nuclear arsenal by stealing it from us, which is their only guarantee of survival.
00:39:48.000What's more, not only have we provided support for Israel in every conflict and since before their founding, and not only have they been totally reliant on it for defense and offense, but also they have been the largest cumulative recipient of American foreign aid since 1948 as well.
00:40:07.000They have gotten more than any other country combined in the past 70 years.
00:40:13.000And if you look at the contemporary second and third largest recipients of foreign aid, they're also indirect subsidies for Israel because they are Jordan and Egypt since and as part of peace agreements that they made with Israel.
00:40:32.000When they say Iranian missiles at Israel and the Iron Dome countering it, they say we're supporting both sides.
00:40:40.000It's certainly true of the Israel side.
00:40:45.000We have sponsored them since their founding and before uncritically full spectrum in every way such that they have become dependent on it for both defensive and offensive capabilities and they've received more of it than any other country cumulatively and even other countries that come close are pursuant to Israel's security needs.
00:42:56.000They've been bombing Iranian militias and Iranian proxies, and they've been killing Iranian scientists and blowing up Iranian infrastructure inside of Iran with impunity for years.
00:43:55.000And I saw, you know, the only argument that I could think of, because it's so black and white, the only, if we could even steel man the opposition, I'll give you both sides so you think I'm not biased, the only argument I could even think of when people say that we support Iran is two things.
00:44:14.000One, they say that Joe Biden gave six billion dollars to the Iranian regime in August 2023.
00:44:52.000Donald Trump tore up the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed American sanctions on Iran.
00:44:59.000Part of that was secondary sanctions, meaning that Trump would sanction other countries that continue to do business with Iran.
00:45:07.000So it's not just that we would not do business with Iran, we said we would not do business with other countries that do business with Iran.
00:46:28.000At the time of the October 7th attack, which came just two months after the money was unfrozen, that money was held in an intermediate institution in Qatar.
00:46:41.000So the money was unfrozen in South Korea and sent to an intermediary as part of the deal in Qatar, which is allied with Iran.
00:46:50.000After the October 7th attack, Qatar refused to remit the funds to Iran.
00:46:56.000The United States made them freeze the money.
00:47:22.000And it's a very similar story about the funds with Obama.
00:47:26.000It had to do with the original Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA, in 2015.
00:47:31.000So, people will honestly compare the United States giving Israel, from taxpayer money, a quarter of a trillion dollars over the life of the State of Israel, and veto anti-Israel resolutions, and replenish their Iron Dome, and sell them the most sophisticated tech.
00:49:47.000Allegedly, they killed 1,200 people, although I think there's serious doubts about that number for reasons which maybe we'll get into in another show.
00:49:55.000And if you think that's blasphemous somehow, I would point to some of the lies about October 7th, such as how they said that there were 40 beheaded babies in southern Israel.
00:50:07.000That was a lie that was repeated for months.
00:50:09.000I think they're still talking about it, but which has been thoroughly refuted at this point.
00:50:15.000So I don't think it's radical to say that if they consistently lied about dozens of babies being found decapitated, and they said, no, we saw the footage, we saw it happen, and it turned out to be a lie, I think it's fair to say the 1200 number should be subject to similar scrutiny.
00:50:31.000In any case, it starts on October 7th.
00:50:35.000Hamas, which is actually a Sunni militant Islamist group backed by the Muslim Brotherhood, and also backed by Iran.
00:50:46.000They invaded Israel on October 7th, and that is what initiated this current Israeli campaign in Gaza, in addition to several other fronts across the Middle East region.
00:51:02.000The attack on October 7th because it's very important to get into these details and why we're here and why people are talking about America fighting Iran.
00:51:14.000So what we found out after the October 7th attack
00:51:20.000Because there were so many questions about it, is that Israel, I think at this point it's been proven, knew that the attack was coming, and deliberately stood down as it happened.
00:51:34.000Because to understand this conflict, you must understand that Gaza is small, poor, and has been blockaded by Israel for almost 20 years.
00:51:45.000It's a very small population of just over 2 million people.
00:52:41.000They spy on this border, they've got automatic turrets, they've got drones, cameras.
00:52:47.000It is fortified, it is surveilled, and it's not even that big.
00:52:51.000And nothing's getting in there without their approval.
00:52:55.000Israel was aware of intelligence up to over a year before the attack on October 7th that Hamas was planning an operation like the one that unfolded on October 7th.
00:53:07.000They even witnessed Hamas training for such an operation.
00:53:12.000And when Hamas invaded on October 7th, it took the State of Israel hours to respond.
00:53:21.000Now consider that the manner in which Hamas conducted the invasion was with the most rudimentary primitive implements that we've seen in a modern war.
00:53:31.000They literally flew in on hang gliders.
00:53:40.000And motorbikes, and dinghies, little rafts, and boats.
00:53:45.000And it took Israel, which is an intelligence superpower, consistently ranked in the top three or two intelligence agencies in the world, which has access to the most sophisticated, technologically advanced weapons from the United States, maybe more than any other ally of the United States.
00:54:06.000It took this country hours to respond to this incursion.
00:54:11.000So I think there's very serious questions about whether Israel saw it coming and as it happened whether they deliberately stood down and allowed it to take place for a short time.
00:54:42.000Why is that important to get into tonight and why is it relevant?
00:54:47.000Because what the attack from Gaza did, in effect, was shake the Israeli consciousness and change their understanding of geopolitics in the region.
00:55:00.000Because for 20 or 30 years Israel has had a very insecure,
00:55:06.000And precarious stability with its neighbors?
00:55:10.000Hamas is an Islamist government that controls a territory right on their border.
00:55:18.000Palestinian Authority, which is not as radical, but has some radical elements, controls a territory in their east.
00:55:25.000And on their northern border is Hezbollah.
00:55:28.000Which is a huge militia comparable to a state-backed military which receives missiles and training from Iran through Syria.
00:55:40.000So it's been a very uneasy peace that Israel shares with its neighbors for 15 years or something.
00:55:47.000But Israelis had gotten complacent and so had in some ways the United States.
00:55:54.000What October 7th did was convince Israel, and also give them a mandate, that Israel is not safe as long as Hamas and Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority is on the other side of their borders.
00:56:09.000For the past 17 years, Israel's lived with these forces on their borders.
00:56:14.000But after October 7th, if Israelis and the world witnessed that an Islamist government, no matter how small, no matter how poorly equipped,
00:56:25.000As long as they existed on the other side of that border with that hatred or animosity, they could cross over and kill civilians or take hostages and visit war and destruction upon the people of Israel.
00:56:38.000And if that is possible, if Israel is not safe with Hamas on the other side of its borders, then it creates a very specific and particular mandate.
00:56:49.000Which is that Israel then has the right and maybe the responsibility to wipe out those forces that exist on its borders.
00:57:00.000If Hamas is capable, and if it is still radical enough to be willing to cross over that border, no matter how fortified and surveilled, and kill 1,200 people and take hostages, then the Israeli government has the mandate to wipe out Hamas, and not just Hamas.
00:57:19.000If Hamas was capable, then Hezbollah is even more capable.
00:57:23.000So they've got to take out Hezbollah too.
00:57:26.000And they've got to take out the Palestinian Authority as well.
00:57:29.000And if Iran is sponsoring all of these players then Iran has to be dealt a decisive blow too.
00:57:37.000Because the message of October 7th is that the status quo is untenable.
00:57:43.000It's an unacceptable security posture.
00:57:46.000If Hamas could carry out that attack then Israel cannot accept
00:57:50.000Iran's presence and their backing of these militias, and they cannot accept them on Israel's borders.
00:57:59.000And that may clue you in to why the Israeli government may have allowed Hamas to attack.
00:58:16.000We didn't have to go into Iraq, we didn't have to invade Afghanistan for 20 years, but it was a transgression that demanded and mandated a response.
00:58:27.000That is why some say that it, and not to, you know, get into a huge detour here, but you understand there's a logic behind these false flag operations.
00:58:37.000A significant enough atrocity gives the government a power
00:58:43.000To do things that wouldn't ordinarily be tolerated, or wouldn't ordinarily be considered appropriate, or in that country's best interest.
00:58:53.000So, understanding what October 7th did, we can then understand what has happened ever since.
00:59:00.000Now understand Hamas is the group that carried out the attack.
00:59:05.000And Hamas is a relatively small and poorly equipped group.
00:59:15.000Arguably, it would be impossible for them to ever carry out competent aggression or serious hostilities against the State of Israel.
00:59:25.000And Israel very quickly blockaded Gaza, cut off all the food, fuel, electricity, medical supplies, conducted a brutal air campaign, bombed everything, and then they invaded and they cleared all the territory and have razed all the infrastructure.
00:59:42.000And they did it with a very small force.
00:59:44.000They say that at any given time there were no more than 30,000 Israeli troops in Gaza in this latest operation over the past few months.
00:59:56.000It's not like this was a major ground war or anything like that.
01:00:01.000It's not like Hamas really stood a chance.
01:00:04.000And Hamas is the one that launched the attack on October 7th.
01:00:07.000But Israel has been busy elsewhere besides Gaza.
01:00:13.000Ever since October 7th, they've not only been bombing Gaza, but they've also been bombing Lebanon.
01:00:18.000They have been bombing Lebanon and they've withdrawn
01:00:22.000Thousands, tens of thousands of their civilians from the northern border that they share with Lebanon, which is home to Hezbollah.
01:00:29.000And in recent months, they have not only been bombing Hezbollah in Lebanon, and escalating their bombing campaign against Hezbollah, and moving the strikes deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory, but they've also issued an ultimatum to Hezbollah.
01:00:47.000They've said that if Hezbollah doesn't retreat from the Israeli border, if they don't withdraw and move north, deep into Lebanese territory, then Israel will destroy Hezbollah.
01:01:00.000And you can understand that those threats and the escalating attacks against Hezbollah have everything to do with the October 7th attack.
01:01:14.000Israel said it's not sufficient that we wipe out Hamas, which was the aggressor on October 7th.
01:01:22.000But if we cannot tolerate Hamas on our border in the South, then we also can no longer tolerate Hezbollah on our border in the North.
01:01:30.000If Hamas can launch an attack like this, and Hamas is backed by Iran, and Hamas is an Islamist, anti-Israel group, then why would we tolerate Hezbollah, which is even bigger, and is also an Islamist group, backed by Iran, dedicated to opposing the State of Israel?
01:01:52.000Israel said we're going to destroy Hamas and they also said once we're done with Hamas we are also going to eradicate Hezbollah because just as we will not tolerate Hamas on our southern border now, and it's been the status quo for just as long since the end of the second Lebanese-Israel war, they said now we will no longer tolerate the presence of Hezbollah in the north.
01:02:13.000We're going to revise that previous geopolitical understanding.
01:03:05.000They will not tolerate Iran with its nuclear program and with its sponsorship of all these militias across the region which are dedicated to opposing Israel.
01:03:17.000So ever since October 7th, Israel has used the attack by Hamas to instigate and provoke hostilities with its other adversaries using that as a mandate so that Israel can neutralize them and ultimately change
01:03:34.000The geopolitical balance in the region.
01:03:37.000What Israel wants to do, just like they invited aggression from Hamas and then received a mandate to destroy Hamas, they're inviting a mandate from Hezbollah.
01:03:51.000They want to provoke Hezbollah into an October 7th-like attack.
01:03:58.000Because that would give Israel the mandate, they would be justified to respond by destroying Hezbollah like they did Hamas.
01:04:07.000And similarly, Israel seeks a confrontation with Iran.
01:04:12.000Israel is escalating hostilities, they are provoking Iran by killing their generals, by doing things which the whole global community considers sacrilege.
01:04:25.000Because they want to invite a similar attack on Israel just like October 7th so that they can have a mandate to neutralize Iran's capabilities in the same way that they did to Hamas and in the same way they seek to do with Hezbollah.
01:04:41.000So this, all of this, is Israel's war.
01:04:44.000All of this is being orchestrated by Israel.
01:04:49.000And specifically the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
01:04:53.000Benjamin Netanyahu, part of the Likud far-right Jewish maximalist government, is part of a long line of extremely aggressive, nationalistic Jewish Zionists.
01:05:36.000That's a practical agenda that they want Israel to pursue through military coups, sabotage, conquest, subterfuge, and of course with the diplomatic and military support of the United States.
01:05:52.000So Netanyahu decided that he was going to change the geopolitical status quo of Israel
01:06:17.000And tit-for-tat strikes with these Iranian militias to leverage their eradication of Hamas into a mandate to eradicate or neutralize other powers such as Hezbollah and such as Iran.
01:06:30.000They invited October 7th so that they could genocide Gaza and defeat Hamas.
01:06:35.000They're genociding Gaza and attacking deep into Lebanon to provoke an attack by Lebanon so that they can destroy Hezbollah.
01:06:44.000They are antagonizing Hezbollah and genociding Gaza and conducting provocative strikes against Iranian assets in Syria and Iraq to provoke an attack by Iran so that they have a mandate to go and neutralize Iran's nuclear program.
01:07:00.000And by the end of all of this, the Middle East will be terraformed into a place where Israel will completely dominate the region and enjoy regional hegemony.
01:07:12.000They will have gone in one century from being 1% of the population of Palestine to being the regional hegemon of one of the most geopolitically significant regions in the entire world.
01:07:31.000It took them less than a century, and this is all part of it.
01:07:35.000And what is criminal is that they are using their stranglehold of American politics to do it.
01:07:42.000They could do none of this without support from the United States.
01:07:49.000If the United States stopped giving Israel military aid tomorrow, Israel would have to stop its campaign in Gaza the next day.
01:08:05.000They could not defend themselves from Iran.
01:08:09.000They have no conventional means to defend themselves, much less conduct aggression against all their neighbors at the same time.
01:08:18.000They're only allowed to do that because of an unlimited blank check guarantee by the United States, which is secured by their corrupt stranglehold and bribery over our government.
01:08:30.000Clearly the population doesn't support this.
01:08:34.000And public opinion, in general, has turned decidedly against Israel in the war.
01:08:40.000And even our own government doesn't want to fight Iran, doesn't want to fight Hezbollah.
01:08:44.000We've begged and pleaded with Netanyahu not to provoke them into a war that we know we will have to fight against them.
01:08:52.000And yet we do it anyway because it is a corrupt bargain.
01:08:56.000So just as we were utilized by Israel to defend Israel from the Arabs from 1948 to 1973,
01:09:07.000Just as the United States was used to clear out Saddam Hussein in Iraq and destabilize Assad's regime in Syria, we are now being used to wipe out the remnant, which is the last remaining anti-Israel power in the region, Iran, and all of its ragtag proxies in five other countries.
01:09:31.000It's happening exclusively because of our support for Israel.
01:09:49.000It's all about getting these other countries to attack Israel so that Israel can run to the United States and we can fight their wars for them.
01:09:59.000Israel wants to be attacked so that the United States can come in and give them everything that they need, and put our aircraft carriers there, and shoot down the missiles launched at Israel, which is a reprisal for what Israel did, and help them with an airstrike against Iran's nuclear program, and help them against Hezbollah, and veto anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations, and keep supplying them weapons and bombs to prosecute everything that they're doing.
01:10:30.000And what happened this time is that Israel, as I said, attempted to provoke Iran.
01:11:25.000And they calibrated a retaliation, and as I said on Friday, there were limitations on either side.
01:11:34.000The reaction could not be too minimal, or it couldn't be nothing at all, because if Israel can bomb an Iranian embassy and Iran doesn't reply or doesn't reply forcefully enough, then that would indicate
01:11:50.000That Israel can do anything to Iran and get away with it.
01:11:53.000If you can do the most disrespectful sacrilegious thing in the realm of international politics and not get hit back, then it would justify everything up to that and maybe even more.
01:12:07.000So it couldn't be nothing and it couldn't be minimal, but it also couldn't be too severe that if they
01:12:15.000Killed a lot of Israelis or did a lot of damage or it was too severe or extreme in other ways that it would drag the United States in or force Israel to retaliate against Iran.
01:12:28.000Because if Israel were forced to counter-retaliate and bomb Iranian soil or kill Iranians then Iran would be trapped and then have to come back at Israel.
01:12:41.000There would be no off-ramp and the United States would be forced into this conflict at some point to defend Israel or attack Iran.
01:12:49.000And both Iran and the United States do not seek a war with each other.
01:12:53.000So for the past two weeks, Iran was calibrating a response that would not be so weak that it would invite more aggression from Israel, but not so strong that it would draw the United States in to defend Israel or attack Iran.
01:13:09.000Was an attack which had a symbolic significance.
01:13:12.000It was launched from Iranian territory and from Iran's proxies.
01:13:18.000But it would not destroy anything significant or kill anybody.
01:13:23.000Iran knew the missiles would be intercepted.
01:13:26.000Iran knew the missiles wouldn't kill anybody.
01:13:29.000They were launched at legitimate military targets and military targets, they say, which were connected to the initial strike.
01:13:38.000So it was very visible, it was very dramatic, there was a symbolic significance, it was unprecedented in a symbolic way because of where the attack originated, and the fact that it was hundreds of projectiles, the damage that it could have wrought if the anti-missile systems were ineffective for whatever reason.
01:14:03.000And they can be in certain circumstances.
01:14:07.000But which would not devastate Israel in any meaningful way.
01:14:12.000Which would give them a mandate to retaliate with the support of the United States.
01:14:19.000And it appears that they were largely successful because the President Joe Biden said that the United States will not help Israel attack Iran.
01:14:30.000The United States says that it was a victory for Israel to shoot down all of Iran's missiles, and that Israel should just take it on the chin, basically, and call it a win.
01:15:25.000May attack Iranian proxies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, but may not attack Iran directly because Israel does not have the capability to attack Iran directly with airstrikes without America.
01:15:41.000Although there are other ways that Israel can strike back at Iran, they operate inside Iran.
01:15:47.000They conduct assassination, sabotage, terrorism, so they may strike back in that way also.
01:15:54.000But we don't know what the scale or size of the attack will be.
01:15:57.000The United States is discouraging them from doing so.
01:16:01.000And there's reports that the Israeli government is not taking calls.
01:16:05.000Bibi Netanyahu will not accept calls from foreign leaders because he knows they will pressure him not to respond.
01:16:12.000The United Nations, China, the United States, Europe have all discouraged Israel from retaliating.
01:16:20.000But Netanyahu doesn't want to hear it.
01:16:22.000And he doesn't want to hear it because this is exactly what he wants.
01:16:28.000So, we'll see what Israel's response will be, but what is more important is not to look at these particular actions, it's to look at the entire timeline.
01:16:40.000The United States killed Qasem Soleimani.
01:16:43.000Israel has repeatedly killed high-ranking IRGC and scientists in 2021 and 2022 and 2023.
01:16:52.000They were responsible for multiple terrorist attacks inside of Iran this year.
01:16:57.000They killed seven personnel at the embassy.
01:17:00.000This is part of a years-long crescendo of provocations against Iran of a shadow war.
01:17:08.000And as I said, the significance of this attack is that now that Iran has attacked Israel, it's no longer a shadow war.
01:17:15.000Israel bombing an Iranian embassy, and Iran bombing Israel from Iran, this is the month that the Israel-Iran war became legitimate.
01:17:26.000And even if Israel's counterattack against Iran isn't as provocative, a barrier has been passed, a barrier has been crossed the past couple of weeks.
01:17:38.000Israel and Iran, on both sides, this is the only thing that's legitimate, on both sides, although Israel's mostly responsible, have now legitimized the conflict by attacking each other directly.
01:17:51.000And so I imagine now there will be more direct attacks against each other.
01:17:57.000Which whether again the specificity of the particularities of this counter-attack by Israel are less important than the fact that a general climate now of overt hostility has been created.
01:18:12.000It would have been unthinkable, maybe five or six years ago, that the United States would aid Israel in a direct war with Iran.
01:18:20.000After the past couple weeks, it is no longer unthinkable.
01:18:24.000Now that people see Iran bombing Israel and Israel bombing Iran, we are now in a paradigm where this is happening.
01:19:04.000It's the beginning of a path that will lead to a war with Iran, which will completely neutralize Iran, and that will be the end of a decades-long project for Israel to neutralize all of its adversaries in the entire Middle East.
01:19:21.000Starting with Egypt and running through Iraq and Syria and ending in Iran at some point in this decade.
01:19:29.000And they will have wanted to do so before the United States has officially lost its unipolar status.
01:19:37.000This has everything to do with the fact that Netanyahu senses that the United States is on its way out as a global hegemon.
01:19:48.000The time to go after Iran is in this sweet spot where America is too weak to restrain Israel, but strong enough they can still back them up.
01:19:59.000And that's why everyone's making their move now.
01:20:03.000Ironically, everybody would imagine this nightmare scenario of America's adversaries making their move would involve Russia, China, Iran.
01:20:23.000So in the future, in the immediate future, we're going to be watching for an Israeli attack on Iran.
01:20:30.000The scope of the attack is anybody's guess.
01:20:32.000I have no idea what it will involve, although without the United States it seems like it will be limited to an attack on Iran's proxies and maybe something inside of Iranian territory, but it would be more
01:20:48.000Although it could be more extreme than that.
01:20:51.000We'll be watching that very closely and of course this is part of the probably years-long story of a regional conflagration started after October 7th.
01:22:49.000At the same time, we almost have no recourse because Israel has a nuclear arsenal.
01:22:55.000So, if they ever feel abandoned, they could just nuke Iran.
01:23:01.000And then as the global power, we would have to intervene in some way if nukes start going off.
01:23:07.000And the only reason they have nukes is because they stole them from the United States,
01:23:13.000With a very robust and complex infiltration network they built in the United States which encompassed Hollywood directors and scientists and politicians and venture capitalists and you name it.
01:23:28.000But remember, it's an anti-semitic trope to say that they work for Israel.
01:23:35.000It's an anti-semitic trope to say that they control things and only care about Israel.
01:23:39.000They stole the nuclear bomb from us and they're nuclear blackmailing us into destroying their enemies to the detriment of the life of our nation.
01:23:50.000I don't care who you are, you have to oppose this.
01:23:53.000Even if you're Jewish, you have to admit this is going on and it's parasitic and it's pure evil.
01:23:59.000And you're not a patriot if you don't talk about this.
01:24:02.000Any bullsides, obfuscating bullshit, you are not a patriot if you're not talking about this.
01:24:28.000of bombs worth of nuclear material to secure an arsenal so that they could blackmail us into committing suicide to destroy their enemies so that they can live.
01:24:40.000So I don't want to hear anything about Paul Gottfried and the good ones and, you know, and I like Paul Gottfried and I like Ron Unz, but right now I don't want to hear about, well, Muslims are bad too.
01:26:49.000And they want to placate us with some 30 years too late, 50% too little, 3 fucking 100% too little immigration restriction reform, civic nationalism, some Andrew Yang fucking goofball Vivek Ramaswamy national colorblind populism.
01:27:37.000But... And that's the only way... If you only knew how bad it was, you would be as extreme as I am.
01:27:45.000If this sounds radical, if this sounds extreme, if you only knew how bad it was, if you only knew what they had in store for us, you would be as radical, you would be more radical than me.
01:33:32.000I mean, I think he's like a pretentious idiot.
01:33:50.000You know, at least Ye has the good sense to be like, well, I can't read.
01:33:54.000You know, he's like, I don't read and I'm just gonna make something that sounds good.
01:33:58.000And ironically, it's more intelligent.
01:34:01.000When you're just real and you're authentic and you just say stuff like, you know, bleach t-shirt, it comes off more profound than when you're Kendrick and you gotta say, this dick flow free.
01:34:13.000It's like, shut the fuck up, you dumb idiot.
01:35:48.000Because you live next to them, and it smells like pot, and they have shit all over their lawn, and they're screaming at night, and they, you know, commit crime, and seedy characters are showing up, and, you know, nobody wants any part of that.
01:36:01.000Nobody wants to see one of them walking down the same side of the street at night, okay?
01:36:07.000On the other hand, they're extremely musical and are responsible for so much good soulful music that I love, okay?
01:37:08.000You know, you look at some of the Marvin Gaye stuff, like I Want You, very sexual.
01:37:13.000And that was, it's not rap music, it's not talking about I fucked your bitch and gangbang, but it's still very steamy and very erotic and that needs to be controlled.
01:37:31.000got mommy's mommy issues so that's why they need the firm hand of the catholic church to guide them away from that stuff anyway so yeah i don't really take part in this rap hip-hop world war i think it's all shit
01:38:48.000When I go to Home Depot for my job, I'm on time!
01:38:52.000Yeah, well, you know, we're not really the same, okay?
01:38:55.000When you show up to your job to give people a receipt, when you work a kind of a job where you get penalized for not giving a customer their receipt,
01:39:08.000You know, you're the type of low-order individual that can arrive places on time.
01:39:13.000When you're doing higher-order things, like putting the whole civilization on your back, sometimes you're a little incumbent and it takes a little while to get where you need to go.
01:44:17.000yeah um you know i caught like half of it and uh i mean look eric looks great okay sigma as fuck i mean he's been mewing keith woods has been mewing they both look great and uh and evan was tan
01:44:39.000Just I mean he looks like these marble statues that all these wig gnats post all the time.
01:44:45.000So the look was impeccable but Yeah, he's not the best debater.
01:44:51.000He the problem is he's not aggressive.
01:46:37.000You believe in a guy in the sky who grants your wishes?
01:46:41.000And all this other the church suppressed knowledge, you know all this other stupid shit So, you know, it's not like any of that stuff is compelling, but I didn't get I don't think a super strong Rebuttal and if you look at who spoke more, I think it was clear That Eric just didn't do much of the talking so Yeah, I don't know Wasn't the best
01:48:04.000So it's kind of a complex relationship but uh but yeah he's a very impressive guy one of my favorites really elite elite human being like I don't want to say who I consider elite because then everyone who isn't is going to be butthurt and start gay e-drama because that's just how shit is now but like
01:48:28.000He's one of the... I consider one of the elite people who's actually, like, funny and smart.
01:48:35.000Not a lot of people like that out there, so... I'm a... I'm a admirer and a friend.
01:49:47.000This is like the oldest counter-argument in the book, and everyone argues this, but nowhere has it been demonstrated that Ashkenazi Jews have a vastly superior IQ.
01:49:59.000And even if you break it down, like, they are a learned people.
01:50:17.000Top, what is it, so many thousand students in the country, they don't occupy a disproportionately high number of those positions.
01:50:26.000They're not the highest achieving high schoolers, they're not the highest performing test scorers, and there's certainly not high enough scoring sufficient for them to be overrepresented by 2,000% in the Ivy Leagues, which they are.
01:50:44.000And sometimes even higher, depending on the school.
01:50:50.000I don't think it's been demonstrated reliably that they're much smarter than whites or Asians, and certainly nowhere where they are has it been demonstrated that they are proportionately smarter.
01:51:05.000In the same proportion that they are over-represented in higher education, Wall Street.
01:53:09.000So they say the killing bolt shining in the night but not killing is Iran striking Israel but not killing anyone.
01:53:19.000But you know, they've said this about a lot of things.
01:53:21.000They said this about the Syria strikes in April 2017, and they've said this about other similar gestures like this.
01:53:33.000Some say that we're on star gorging itself on clay, which could be Israel invading Gaza, it could be China invading Taiwan, eventually it could be Russia invading Ukraine because Russia's like,
01:53:48.000Communist, although that's probably less likely.
01:57:00.000No higher state of nirvana than for the martyr that dies in the struggle against Beardson and Tenryo to harm them and to undermine them wherever their influence is.
02:01:26.000And all the other faggot wife guys with their fitted caps
02:01:31.000and their beer and their fucking gay dogs and their astroturf grass are like oh so relatable fuck you fuck you pussy whip bitch yeah all these people posting this like wife and husband content it's so funny when my wife tells me to do stuff i'm such a pussy
02:04:10.000I've been a fan since the deal of days, my 15-year-old son and I are hoping to make it to a pact this summer, he always wants me to wear my America first hat everywhere we go.
02:04:20.000Your coverage of Palestine, the JQ and the current conflict has been spot on.
02:08:28.000You know, and it goes to show Muslims, as much as we may find ourselves on the same side because we both oppose Israel, Muslims are not Christians.
02:08:41.000Greek Roy % $10, The UAE and Qatar Have Been Rising As Middle Powers For Some Time Now.They're Getting Involved In African Conflicts Pursuing Influence Outside The Purely Financial Realm.
02:08:52.000How Would These Gulf States Engage During A Direct US-Iran War?
02:08:56.000Would A Saudi Anti-Iran Coalition Emerge?
02:10:19.000No replay tomorrow for me, time for the early stream, it was excellent.
02:10:23.000What do you think of the Alex Jones types who dismiss the Israeli government and shifting the blame onto the Trilateral Commission and the New World Order?
02:13:32.000I don't understand why can't you debate on religion?
02:13:35.000It's the literal creed her whole belief stands on and you can't defend it?
02:13:39.000Also I find it funny when you say this isn't Christian when there's zero objective morality and it changes to suit her needs in God's vein.
02:13:46.000I've never said that I can't debate on Christianity, I've just said that I'm not an expert in theology.
02:13:51.000And also, these are debates that have gone on for thousands of years.
02:13:57.000And, at the end of the day, things like faith are not a matter of debate.
02:14:03.000I know that may be a controversial position, but at the end of the day, I mean, look, you either believe in God or you don't.
02:14:10.000I've never heard of a debate where someone gets debated into believing in God.
02:14:16.000And some of these things, it's like the historicity of Jesus Christ.
02:14:24.000People can argue for, they can argue against.
02:14:28.000They're talking about the same historical record.
02:14:30.000It's not like there's new information.
02:14:32.000Some people buy it, some people don't.
02:14:35.000Some people look at Tacitus and Josephus, they look at the early Gospels and they say, that's evidence.
02:14:42.000They look at the rise of Christianity, they say that's evidence.
02:14:46.000Some people look at that and say, well that's pretty paltry evidence for God.
02:14:53.000And the same thing goes for even these like Christian and Muslim debates I watch a lot of these debates and Muslims say there are apparent contradictions in the Bible and Christians say well, there's arguments that they're not contradictions, but also the Bible is not the literal Word of God.
02:15:11.000It's an inspired work Okay, well you're sort of at an impasse there so
02:15:41.000Things like, of a religious and philosophical nature, one, not my, it's not my area of expertise, and two, I also don't think, I don't think I've ever seen a debate where it's really compelling on one side or the other when it comes to religion.
02:16:14.000I mean, if you read the Gospel, and Jesus gives Peter the keys, and so on and so forth, you say, well, I mean, that is the scriptural basis for the papacy, for the supremacy of Peter.
02:16:27.000I mean, you know, and that's what it is.
02:16:32.000I mean, a debate about something like Israel, there's a ton of evidence.
02:16:38.000It's pretty clear-cut, one way or the other.
02:16:41.000So, that's how I feel about these debates.
02:16:46.000So it's not that I can't, it's just that, you know, one, I'm a political streamer.
02:16:56.000So I'm not a philosophical, theological expert.