Tonight's show covers an update on the situation in Gaza, a possible Israeli attack on Lebanon, and a new hostage deal that may or may not be coming together. Plus, a look at the latest in the war in Gaza and a possible new deal between Israel and Hamas. Also, a new segment called "The Baby Boomer Generation" and its impact on the human race. We'll cover this and much more on tonight's show. Stay tuned for a special bonus segment at the end of the show where we discuss the impact of the baby boomers on the world, and the impact it could have on the future of the world. If you like the show, please give a five star rating and a review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. You can also support the show by becoming a patron. Just pay the 1.5 postage and we'll send you a free gift. Thank you so much for all the support, and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! - Nicholas Chafe-Wentz See you next week, everyone! Peace, Blessings, Cheers, Kristian - NANCY CHAFE- - P.S. - Kristian's Note: I'm taking the week off until the new year! I'll be back next week! - KEVIN CHEERS! - PODCAST: - BOBBY'S - THE BONUS EPISODE: (featuring a new song written and performed by my good friend, Rachael and is coming out on the radio and TV show, & - - KELLY MURCHES - JUICY BACHELORO - SONGS - RYAN BOWLER - AND MORE! - THE MOST IMPORTANT EPISODES OF THE DECADE (feat. AND MORE!!) - GIVING YOU A CRITICY THAN YOU'LL BE TALKING ABOUT IT? - CLICK HERE! - RATE $10,000, $5,000 ATTRACTIVATED, $20, $25,000 OFFER A FRIENDS, $50,000 PRODUCED, $15,000 VIP SUPPORTED, FREE, $6,000 IN MONEY, $7 PRICING, AND MORE?
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00:10:47.000Has to move away from their border, and the United States is saying the same thing.
00:10:52.000And this could be a negotiating tactic, because I doubt that Israel really wants a war with Hezbollah.
00:10:58.000But then again, they might just be crazy enough to do it, since they have forces on the northern border, and based on some of the rhetoric, it's possible.
00:11:17.000We're in kind of like the fourth phase of the war, and I'll break down the timeline in a moment.
00:11:26.000But if you've been paying close attention to the war in Gaza, the hostilities had effectively stopped for a couple weeks towards the end of November, beginning of December, when there did appear to be not a ceasefire, but what they have been calling these humanitarian pauses.
00:11:45.000Even though by definition it is a ceasefire, because it is a cessation of hostilities, a stopping, a ceasing of firing,
00:11:57.000And there are reasons why, but they are going to a lot of trouble to not call it a ceasefire.
00:12:03.000And this was in order to get most of the non-male and elderly, so the female, the women, the elderly, civilian hostages negotiated back to Israel.
00:12:18.000But the hostilities have since resumed.
00:12:21.000Whatever there was, if there was a ceasefire, it is now over.
00:12:25.000And so they are discussing with Egyptian and Qatari mediators to see if they could put together a new deal that would see more humanitarian aid going in, cessation of the bombing again, in exchange for more hostages, of which there are 129 that Israel believes remain.
00:13:06.000I don't usually do a big well actually I typically do a break for Christmas But I wasn't planning on it this year, but I'm just trying to get across the finish line to Christmas and nothing going on So it's just it hasn't really happened this week, but I'll be back probably next week.
00:13:24.000I might take a little time off around New Year's I'm thinking of getting out of here
00:13:30.000And taking a short little break because
00:13:35.000Not like I've been missing quite a few shows I feel like lately, but I've been doing a lot of streaming.
00:13:40.000I've been doing the show, I've been doing the Rumble exclusives.
00:13:44.000So, I think I might take a small break.
00:13:47.000And I've also been working on a lot of things behind the scenes as well, so.
00:13:52.000Most likely, of course, I'll be doing a show not on Monday, but I'll probably be back Tuesday and Wednesday.
00:14:04.000probably Thursday Friday I'm thinking right 27 28 29 yes I'm thinking I will at least do a show Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and of course Wednesday next Wednesday is our huge fundraiser it's our big money bomb marathon stream so I think I'll probably do Tuesday we'll do the big stream Wednesday I'll be doing a show on Thursday and then I think I'm take Friday off maybe take Monday off the following Monday all
00:14:31.000So that's kind of like the tentative schedule because I know it's been a little all over the place lately.
00:14:38.000And just another reminder Wednesday I'm doing my huge marathon fundraiser stream and it's for the America First Foundation which is my 501c4 nonprofit.
00:14:53.000and we're gonna be raising a lot of money the goal is to get to I'm thinking 50,000 because that's what we have in terms of matching we have a donor that's gonna match every dollar that's donated up to 50,000 so we're tentatively pushing for
00:15:11.000That's what's covered under the sort of double or nothing money bomb situation.
00:15:18.000And I hinted at some of the projects earlier in the week.
00:15:22.000We're planning on doing a feature-length documentary next year.
00:15:31.000We got a lot of big plans for next year to really take things to the next level So we're starting it with a little round of fundraising crowdfunding at the end of the year, so So that's the plan and like I said all throughout the week, it's gonna be a marathon stream gonna be all day We'll have guests we'll have
00:15:55.000All sorts of other, like, little events and ways to participate.
00:16:00.000My nose is itching like crazy right now.
00:16:43.000And we're just gonna have fun with it.
00:16:45.000We're gonna play around with the format, so Stay tuned for more information.
00:16:49.000I'll be posting more info this weekend, and that'll be that So that's our schedule My last show before Christmas, but I'll probably see you Tuesday, so
00:17:04.000Before we get into the news in Gaza, there is one other thing I wanted to talk about.
00:17:09.000This is one thing that's kind of been going on in the background for the past few days, and I'm sure you've heard the rumors, but there's a very disturbing report that came out this week from CBS.
00:17:22.000Based on some rumors, I feel like we're circulating even before that.
00:17:28.000People have been talking about this now for, I feel like, maybe a week, maybe two, which is that Donald Trump is considering Nikki Haley to be his running mate.
00:17:40.000And it's been all over Twitter, and as I said, it was in this big CBS report, although I feel like it was being discussed even before that.
00:17:50.000They say that he's gonna pick her to be the running mate.
00:18:05.000Because I know that Donald Trump wants a female running mate.
00:18:10.000And that is to compensate for maybe his weakness among women in the electorate.
00:18:16.000And most likely he wants somebody who has a little color.
00:18:21.000And the point of the Vice President on the ticket is to sort of hedge with people that may not be in love with the guy at the top of the ticket.
00:18:31.000At least that's the conventional wisdom.
00:18:32.000Usually you put a statewide office holder from a swing state, or maybe you put in a woman, or maybe you put in a black person, or maybe you put in someone more moderate or someone more extreme, depending on who's at the top of the ticket.
00:19:08.000And I don't know that Nikki Haley was ever considered.
00:19:11.000What's more, not only is she a woman and she's not white, but also she is rising in the polls.
00:19:18.000And she has appeared to have supplanted DeSantis as the runner-up.
00:19:23.000And leading in the second-tier race that's been going on at these debates and everybody that doesn't or hasn't already committed to supporting Trump.
00:19:33.000She's actually now, according to some polls, at 30% in New Hampshire, just 15 points behind Trump, which is kind of a big deal because she was never that high initially at the beginning of the race.
00:19:46.000So, I kind of get it on, and again, on one level I kind of get it from a strategic point of view.
00:20:03.000I don't think there's any chance she'll become the nominee, but there is a scenario where she finishes second in New Hampshire.
00:20:10.000Maybe she finishes first in South Carolina, second or first.
00:20:15.000And then there's a real competition between her and Trump.
00:20:18.000And so, from a strategic point of view, you can kind of understand what he's thinking, if that's true.
00:20:25.000That he wants to take her out of the race, and that maybe she will help him consolidate support on the Republican side on the ticket, and get a little support from women, or, you know, more moderate types.
00:20:39.000You can sort of understand the idea there.
00:20:43.000On the other hand, it is the worst idea ever because she represents the opposite of Trump in basically every way.
00:20:51.000She is hands down the worst candidate that's running right now.
00:20:56.000She's a neocon, she's a social liberal, she's establishment.
00:21:02.000I don't even think she's tough on immigration.
00:21:05.000So she's like against every single thing that Trump ran on the first, the second time, and now.
00:21:11.000And not only that, her temperament is against the president as well.
00:21:15.000Trump is rough around the edges and lately he's been talking about how immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country and you know all this.
00:22:01.000And I feel like that's the sentiment in the entire MAGA base.
00:22:04.000Of course, she went out, she was in the Trump administration for a couple years as the UN ambassador, and I believe she basically started trashing the president from the moment she left that position.
00:22:18.000And effectively began running for office.
00:22:20.000She left, joined the board of Boeing, bought a $2.5 million house, and then immediately began preparing to challenge the President for the nomination and trashing him.
00:22:37.000But this is, you know, and I hate to tell you this, but I've heard from people that are in the know as well, and I don't even want to say this because I know it's going to dampen enthusiasm a little bit, but you got to stay with me here.
00:22:51.000Unfortunately, Donald Trump has not changed.
00:23:27.000That's why he's good at winning primary campaigns.
00:23:30.000That's why he's good at getting votes.
00:23:33.000He is not good at governing, and he doesn't even seem to be interested in it.
00:23:37.000And so when we talk about the failures of the first term and the shortcomings of the first term, it's because of the fact that he picked all the wrong people to do the hiring in the White House and in the administration.
00:23:51.000That's why for years there was no progress on the border, there was no progress on
00:23:56.000And you'd like to think that he is aware of that, and he learned from these mistakes, and that it won't be like that again.
00:24:19.000For example, people like Kushner and Ivanka having the reins.
00:24:23.000I hate to tell you, but it is going to be like that again.
00:24:25.000In fact, it already is like that again.
00:24:45.000I happen to know that this is the case.
00:24:49.000There are a lot of efforts where there are various factions that are selling to their donors and to other people on these different projects where they're going to find the personnel that's going to be in the Trump White House.
00:25:02.000And some of them are good and some of them are bad.
00:25:05.000And despite there being an overwhelming awareness of this, I mean, it seems that the movement is very cognizant and conscientious of this fact.
00:25:18.000And it seems that headed into 2024, once again, it's going to be another all-out battle between the people that are actually loyal to him, and that are actually America First, and the neocons, and the Jews, and the Jared Kushner types, and the Israel Firsters, and the establishment people.
00:27:32.000You know, I know that's not the ringing endorsement that people want.
00:27:35.000People want to hear that everything's going to be okay, and he's going to get elected, he's going to get it right this time, and I hope so.
00:27:43.000But that's only going to happen if we fight for it.
00:27:53.000And if we want it bad enough, which is to get in the administration and get near the levers of power, then that's who we have to work with.
00:28:21.000And we had some good people and I got many people jobs in the first administration and I'd like to get more groipers into the second administration if he wins, you know.
00:28:31.000And that is what we have to work with is what it is sadly and Unnecessarily, I mean it should in theory be avoidable But it isn't so
00:28:47.000I hope that he will put out a statement in the coming weeks and say, yeah, you know, that's not true, that's fake news, but I don't think that it is.
00:28:56.000Because he listens to the people, I'd like to think, and, you know, if you go to a rally and boo Nikki Haley, or you get in the true social or whatever, but he needs to know, we do not want, we're not gonna vote for him if he picks Haley.
00:29:12.000I want to get into the latest in the war in Gaza.
00:29:17.000And we'll go through the latest news here.
00:29:20.000The first story is about the potential second hostage deal.
00:29:26.000And like I said at the top of the show, the war in Gaza has kind of taken on four distinct phases at this point.
00:29:32.000There was the initial attack by Hamas on October 7th.
00:29:37.000There was the Israeli retaliation, the bombing and the blockade that began almost immediately.
00:29:42.000And that lasted from the 7th until the 27th of October.
00:29:48.000On October 27th, Israel began their ground invasion of North Gaza.
00:29:53.000On November 24th there was a ceasefire, a humanitarian pause, and then on December 4th there was the resumption of hostilities.
00:30:05.000So, October it was the bombing and the blockade, most of November it was the initial invasion of North Gaza for about two weeks.
00:30:15.000At the end of November, beginning of December, there was a ceasefire.
00:30:20.000And here we are in December, and the war rages on, and actually the fighting has expanded now into South Gaza.
00:30:27.000So now, the Israeli military is not only in North Gaza, of which they, I believe, now control most of it, but they have also began their incursion into the south as well, which is a recent development.
00:30:40.000So we're in stage 4, or phase 4 of this war.
00:32:22.000And now they're negotiating another ceasefire.
00:32:24.000That's the latest update, is that the Palestinian side and the Israeli side are speaking to each other through mediators in Egypt and Qatar about potentially another ceasefire in exchange for more hostages.
00:32:39.000But there seems to be an impasse about the number of hostages and what Israel will give in return for that.
00:32:47.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
00:33:00.000The Wall Street Journal reports the talks will be held in Egypt and include representatives from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or P.I.J.
00:33:12.000is another militia group based in Gaza.
00:33:14.000The Wall Street Journal reports that Egyptian officials say Israel is demanding Hamas release 40 captives, including all women, children, and elderly men with compromised health, in exchange for a one-week pause in fighting.
00:33:29.000According to the Journal, Hamas is seeking a two-week pause in fighting.
00:33:34.000However, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met with Iranian officials on Tuesday and said the group was seeking a permanent ceasefire.
00:33:42.000The problem this time, he explained, is different interpretations from Israel and Hamas.
00:33:48.000Hamas insists this time the deal cannot be a prisoner exchange solely.
00:33:53.000It has to be based on a permanent ceasefire.
00:33:56.000Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said our vision is very clear.
00:34:02.000What is going on on the ground is a catastrophe.
00:34:05.000Hamas says the remaining female captives are soldiers in the Israeli military.
00:34:10.000Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says a permanent end to the war with Hamas is not possible as Tel Aviv is determined to eradicate the group.
00:34:19.000He said whoever thinks we will stop is detached from reality.
00:34:22.000All Hamas terrorists from the first to the last are dead men walking.
00:34:26.000A previous hostage agreement saw Hamas release dozens of women and children captive in exchange for Israel releasing Palestinian women and children imprisoned by Tel Aviv.
00:34:36.000That agreement broke down on December 1st and Israel resumed military operations in Gaza.
00:34:43.000At the end of the ceasefire over 100 Israelis remained captive in Gaza.
00:34:56.000On the Israel side, they want to continue the war.
00:35:01.000And it seems the apparent goal of Israel is to annex the Gaza Strip.
00:35:06.000And I've talked about why I believe that and what evidence there is to support this.
00:35:13.000In terms of hard evidence, there was a memo that was leaked in October, at the very beginning of the war, and the authenticity of the memo was verified by the Israeli government, and the memo said that their goal is to take control of Gaza.
00:35:29.000They said that there will be no international coalition that will govern Gaza, there will be no Arab coalition governing Gaza, they are not going to let Egypt or Jordan govern Gaza.
00:35:41.000They said the creation of any kind of Muslim or international government or an independent Palestinian government, they said would not solve the fundamental problem, which is that Gaza is incubating Muslim extremism, anti-Israel, militarism,
00:36:02.000And the only solution is for Israel to control the Gaza Strip.
00:36:07.000And if you listen to any of the Israeli officials, they would verify that.
00:36:11.000They've also said repeatedly, in public statements, not just the memo, but they've said that there will be no coalition of Gulf countries running Gaza, there will be no American or European thing.
00:36:22.000They said they are going to resume military control of Gaza for the first time since 2006.
00:36:32.000We are led to believe that this is not merely going to be a military occupation because of what they are doing to the people and the infrastructure of the region.
00:36:45.000According to the Associated Press, they have destroyed 30% of every building in Gaza.
00:37:13.000The war is, as a matter of fact, expanding.
00:37:18.000As they are now moving into south Gaza.
00:37:22.000So when you take all of that together and you consider that publicly and privately they're saying that they will control Gaza, there will be no Palestinian or international coalition government there, they've said they will take military control, when you consider that they have forced nearly all the Palestinians out of their homes, and then they destroyed those homes so they have nowhere to return to,
00:37:47.000It would seem obvious that what they seek is not merely to control Gaza militarily, but to annex the Gaza Strip and to send civilian settlers there to rebuild the Strip as part of Israel, as part of a greater Israel, as they are doing in the West Bank, as they have been doing in the West Bank since 67, which is to not merely control it,
00:38:12.000With the military but also to have a civilian presence as well, a sort of civilian expansion agenda through the settlements.
00:38:37.000On the other hand, they are under pressure from the international community.
00:38:40.000The UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, Russia, China, all of their Arab or Muslim neighbors, and even the United States are calling for restraint.
00:38:53.000All of the West is almost uniform in saying that Israel should be more restrained and should avoid civilian casualties and should allow the necessary humanitarian aid into Gaza.
00:39:10.000They're saying not only should Israel allow humanitarian aid and restrain themselves, they're calling for a cessation of hostilities and for the creation of a Palestinian state, an independent, sovereign Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank.
00:39:45.000But they're doing it in a very brutal fashion and and this is sort of necessary because this is a war of conquest This is a brutal war to drive all the Palestinians out of their territory so that they never return and So as a consequence a whole world is pushing them to stop but there are elements even within the Israeli government that are pushing them to continue including a religious extremist named Ben Gavir and
00:40:10.000Who says that he will cause the Netanyahu coalition government to collapse, the Israeli government within their Knesset to fall apart, if Netanyahu tries to stop or restrain the fighting.
00:40:23.000So, there's international pressure to stop, there is domestic pressure to continue, and of course the will of Netanyahu and his party is that they want to annex Gaza virtually at any cost.
00:40:51.000Or the Popular Mobilization Front in Iraq and Syria, or Iran, to send in support.
00:40:57.000I imagine they're hoping that if Israel takes enough land, if they are close enough to totally taking over the Gaza Strip, that this would elicit a strong response from the Axis of Resistance across the region.
00:41:11.000And so that's apparently why they're stalling.
00:41:14.000I mean, ideally they want a ceasefire.
00:41:16.000They're using their hostages as leverage, as bargaining power.
00:41:20.000But what they're really counting on is for the various elements supported by Iran in the region to apply pressure to Israel so that they cannot sustain the war effort.
00:41:32.000And they've done that in a variety of ways.
00:41:34.000For example, Hezbollah has mobilized along Israel's northern border, and that has forced Israel to deploy some of their most elite forces to their northern border.
00:41:46.000As opposed to fighting in Gaza in the south.
00:41:49.000And so that's one piece that has been moved on the chessboard by putting Hezbollah on Israel's northern border.
00:41:56.000Israel's forced to divert forces that would have been in Gaza in the south.
00:42:03.000They have to instead have them deployed in the north.
00:42:06.000They've also had the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria bombing the United States, which does create pressure in the U.S.
00:42:15.000The United States does not want this war to escalate or widen.
00:42:18.000They don't want to be fighting in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon.
00:42:22.000And so by consistently applying pressure to the United States, it forces the United States either to escalate, which it doesn't want to do, or to restrain Israel.
00:42:41.000When they're bombed, they're forced to respond, but every time they're forced to respond, they risk escalation, which they'd rather not do.
00:42:48.000So, they call Israel and ask them if they'll stop killing civilians.
00:42:53.000That's another way in which Iran is applying pressure.
00:42:58.000The third way that Iran is applying pressure, and the most recent example, is with the Houthi movement in Yemen.
00:43:06.000Where the Houthis have recently begun attacking ships in the Al-Mandeb Strait out of the Red Sea by attacking all these ships destined for Israel or even other ships, ships that may be owned by an Israeli company or something like that, or really by attacking any ships at all.
00:43:25.000Major companies are forced to divert trade and instead of going through the Suez Canal and through the Red Sea, they're forced to go and circumvent all of Africa.
00:43:36.000And passed by the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa which increases shipping costs and shipping time and disrupts the global economy, disrupts the global price of oil.
00:43:49.000Major European companies have said that they're not going to send their ships through the Red Sea as long as the Houthi movement is attacking these ships.
00:43:57.000And that's another way that they apply pressure on the United States.
00:44:00.000The United States doesn't want to fight Iran.
00:44:04.000They don't want to go to war with Yemen.
00:44:06.000They certainly don't want to do all of that at the same time.
00:44:09.000Their support for Israel against Hamas alone is already forcing them to divert resources from Ukraine and from Taiwan.
00:44:17.000They were already losing in Ukraine with all their support for Ukraine, then they had to support Taiwan with China's increased presence and military drills around that island, and they're ready to transition from Ukraine to Taiwan.
00:44:32.000Now they're consumed with the Israel-Hamas war.
00:44:36.000They certainly don't want to be taking on all of the Middle East at the same time, which is what Iran is sort of counting on, is by applying pressure in a sort of surgical way,
00:44:47.000In a very calculated way, they're getting the United States to intervene effectively on their behalf to get Israel to agree to these pauses and to sort of delay the inevitable.
00:45:00.000So that's what's going on on both sides.
00:45:12.000Palestine says they want an indefinite ceasefire and that is also what the Houthis are saying and that is what the IRGC is saying and that's what Hezbollah is saying and Israel will never agree to that.
00:45:22.000They will not agree until they either kill all the leaders, which would be a very provocative action, or until they have completely taken over Gaza, which would potentially also provoke a response from Iran and its proxies.
00:45:40.000We'll be watching this peace process in particular.
00:45:44.000The other big development that's happening is that Israel is threatening a war with Hezbollah.
00:45:49.000And that's our featured story, is whether or not Israel, potentially, will go to war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:45:58.000And this is something I've covered really from the beginning, which is, which side really wants a war?
00:46:03.000And it would seem that Hezbollah does not want a war with Israel at all.
00:46:08.000And we know that because they have been remarkably restrained in their approach.
00:46:13.000They are mobilized on Israel's northern border, and they have struck Israel consistently ever since the war broke out, but in extremely limited capacity, and not inflicting many casualties at all.
00:46:27.000So not only has the fighting been muted,
00:46:31.000But also their leader declined to declare an all-out war.
00:46:34.000You remember that very public statement that he made, I think that was towards the end of October, beginning of November.
00:46:40.000The leader of Hezbollah, Nasrallah, came out and said that, well, you know, we already are at war.
00:46:45.000When we do these little tit-for-tat strikes across the border that don't even kill anybody, that does constitute an all-out war and if Hamas is on the brink of losing, maybe then we'll step things up.
00:47:52.000They have deployed their forces to the north.
00:47:56.000And as I said on a show, I want to say this was one, maybe two weeks ago,
00:48:01.000Israel has been striking deeper and deeper into Lebanon.
00:48:05.000They're not just striking Hezbollah's forces on the immediate border, they're striking many miles deep into Lebanese territory.
00:48:14.000They've also been killing Lebanese civilians, and they have consistently had provocative rhetoric talking about how Lebanon will not be able to field Hezbollah as close to Israel as they have in the past.
00:48:26.000They've said that we're going to change the situation on the ground,
00:49:15.000And the directive to the IDF is, of course, to enhance readiness to prepare and to be capable of defending Israeli civilians.
00:49:23.000The Defense Minister, Yoav Galant, explained that if restoring security in the area cannot be implemented diplomatically, then we will not hesitate to act.
00:49:33.000Last week, an IDF official told Newsweek that Tel Aviv plans to remove Hezbollah from the Lebanese border.
00:49:39.000The official said, quote, we will not return to the situation that was on the 6th.
00:49:45.000It means we will not allow our civilians neither in Gaza, in Velop, nor on the Lebanese border to be under this threat.
00:49:53.000The official continued, we are prepared for war with Hezbollah.
00:49:58.000We have the people, the personnel that is exactly ready for that, but we don't want to do it yet.
00:50:05.000Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah explained the paramilitary group is attacking Israel to force Tel Aviv to split its forces between Gaza in the south and along the Lebanese border in the north.
00:50:16.000He said Hezbollah is not seeking a wider conflict with Israel.
00:50:20.000The IDF has hit several civilian targets in Lebanon.
00:50:23.000A group of easily identified journalists in southern Lebanon were attacked by an Israeli tank, leaving one dead.
00:50:30.000Tel Aviv has also deployed white phosphorus in Lebanon.
00:50:34.000The White House is backing the Israeli proposal to have Hezbollah withdraw from the Israeli border.
00:50:40.000According to the Financial Times, the U.S., the U.K., and France are exploring ways to convince Hezbollah to pull back from the Lebanon-Israel border and a diplomatic push to prevent a full-blown conflict erupting between them and Israel.
00:50:54.000Replacing Hezbollah with the Lebanese military along the border could open a window for Israel to attack southern Lebanon, as Hezbollah is a far superior fighting force.
00:51:06.000So this is, and we talked about on I think Monday or Tuesday about the potential for a war with Yemen.
00:51:12.000This is the potential for a war with Lebanon.
00:51:15.000Consider what's going on in the entire region.
00:51:19.000I'll remind you sort of where we are here.
00:52:33.000In Yemen, the Iranian-backed Houthi movement in the west, northwest of Yemen, is now attacking Israeli ships in the Red Sea, which is not only an affront to Israel, but also an affront to the United States and the world, because it is causing a disruption in a global shipping route, through which 10% of the world's oil and petroleum products travels.
00:53:00.000And I would also add, in minor ways in the West Bank, the entire population now supports Hamas and there has been isolated fighting and rioting over there as well.
00:53:11.000So this is where we are in the Middle East.
00:53:13.000Now, on Monday, and what we just talked about a moment ago, the United States said that we are going to go to war with Yemen.
00:53:19.000We will begin potentially bombing Yemen directly because they're interfering in the global shipping routes.
00:53:31.000They're also engaged in fighting in Iraq and Syria.
00:53:34.000They keep threatening that the more Iran attacks them in Iraq and Syria, the more that they will escalate.
00:53:39.000And so now you have the United States bombing the Iranian paramilitary group, the IRGC, in Syria and Iraq.
00:53:46.000We're engaging almost directly with Iran in two countries.
00:53:53.000And now, Israel is saying that if Hezbollah does not leave their northern border, then we will destroy Hezbollah.
00:54:01.000If we cannot convince them to leave the border, then we will destroy them.
00:54:05.000And Israel is engaging with the United States, France, and the UK to negotiate or demand Hezbollah to do the same, to leave southern Lebanon, to leave Israel's northern border.
00:54:20.000And if Hezbollah doesn't, then Israel will attack.
00:54:25.000Now the thing is, Hezbollah is the strongest force in Lebanon.
00:54:30.000They're stronger than the Lebanese military.
00:54:34.000And so if Hezbollah withdraws from Lebanon's southern border, Israel could invade.
00:54:42.000Hezbollah deployed to Israel's northern border, rather, not to attack Israel, but in anticipation that Israel would attack Lebanon.
00:54:50.000Because Israel is threatening everybody.
00:54:52.000Israel is saying, as I've said from the beginning, they have said that they are going to fundamentally alter the geopolitical situation on the ground for 50 years.
00:55:06.000They're talking about a greater Israel.
00:55:09.000There is a, like I said, the evidence suggests that they are preparing to annex Gaza.
00:55:18.000And so, Hezbollah deploys to the northern border, or rather, Lebanon's southern border, and they have said repeatedly, we do not seek a war with Israel.
00:55:35.000And now Israel is saying, well they have to leave, as we basically clean up in Gaza, as we expand the war and we finish them off, well now we don't want Hezbollah on our northern border.
00:55:46.000We're going to be on our northern border, we will have our most elite forces, we will have a massive number, because most of the people in Gaza are reservists.
00:55:55.000Israel's real ground force is on their northern border with Hezbollah.
00:56:01.000And now they're saying Hezbollah must retreat.
00:56:03.000Hezbollah must withdraw and effectively leave Lebanon's border open.
00:56:08.000And now we, the United States, and the other NATO countries are attempting to convince Hezbollah to leave under the threat from Israel.
00:56:19.000And really, when you think about it, Israel is threatening not just Hezbollah, but they're also threatening us.
00:56:25.000When Israel says, if Hezbollah doesn't leave, we will destroy them, that is just as much a threat against Hezbollah as it is to the United States.
00:56:35.000Because, of course, Israel is threatening Hezbollah and saying, you know, we'll kill you, you better leave or we'll go to war with you, and we know the Lebanese people don't want war.
00:56:45.000But it's also a threat against the United States because the United States does not want this war to escalate and widen.
00:56:52.000The United States knows that if Israel gets into a fight in Lebanon, it is going to draw Iran into the conflict.
00:57:00.000It will draw all of Iran's proxies in, and that will draw the United States in.
00:57:05.000Because if Israel goes to war with Hezbollah, Iran is bombing the United States in Iraq and Syria more than they are now.
00:57:14.000And we will be forced to defend Israel.
00:57:17.000So we will not only have to defend our own interest in the region and our own assets in the region, we will also be politically and strategically drawn into the war to defend Israel and to make sure that Israel wins in Lebanon.
00:57:31.000So when Israel says, if Hezbollah doesn't withdraw, we're going to war with them, they're saying that to the White House.
00:57:38.000They're really even saying it more so to Washington
00:57:45.000More so, they're saying to Washington, if you don't force these guys to go back, we're going to shit on everything and make you clean it up.
00:57:53.000We're going to take a dump everywhere, because they know full well that if they go into Lebanon, the whole region is going to turn into chaos.
00:58:01.000And the United States will be deployed everywhere and have to clean it up, which we absolutely cannot do.
00:58:06.000I mean, we just do not have the means to do that.
01:00:52.000I think that Israel is waiting, and they're killing as many people as possible.
01:00:56.000The brutality is part of it, because they want to provoke the region into attacking them first.
01:01:04.000Because I think their ambitions are they want to annex the Golan Heights, I think they want to defeat Hezbollah forever, I think they want to topple Assad, I think they want the Houthi movement destroyed, and fundamentally, they want the United States to confront Iran.
01:01:22.000They want the United States to denuclearize Iran.
01:01:26.000They want us to bomb their centrifuges.
01:01:28.000They want us to topple the Iranian government.
01:01:32.000I think that's their long-term vision.
01:01:35.000And this is what they've spoken about repeatedly over the decades.
01:01:41.000They've said that they want to destroy all of the strong Arab dictatorships.
01:01:44.000And when you look at it, they've been mostly successful.
01:01:48.000You know, 20-30 years ago, the Middle East was a dangerous place for Israel.
01:01:53.000And if you go back even further, very dangerous.
01:01:56.000You had a very strong Iran, a very strong Iraq, a very strong Syria, a strong Libya.
01:02:11.000In the wake of 20 years of conflict, of the United States defeating all of Israel's enemies, there's only one country, there's only one that has survived and remained strong and stood to benefit from the chaos, and that is Iran.
01:02:27.000Iran's biggest rival in the region was Iraq.
01:02:32.000And now that Iraq is gone, Iran has moved in.
01:02:37.000And as people have pointed out for a long time now, for the past 10 years, Iran has expanded its influence all over the region.
01:02:43.000And now Iran has become the only rival to Israel in the entire Middle East.
01:02:49.000Israel has no rival, it has no competitor in the region other than Iran.
01:02:56.000As we've talked about throughout the year, Israel was on pace to normalize ties with all of the Arab Gulf states, meaning that Israel would be allied with Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Bahrain, and as a consequence, you know, Saudi Arabia controls that entire region.
01:03:14.000So, that would mean Yemen and Oman and the rest of it.
01:03:18.000They had already achieved peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan.
01:03:22.000Iraq is under the sovereignty of the United States.
01:03:58.000We must topple the Islamic Republic regime in Iran.
01:04:04.000And they can't get the United States to do it like they could with Iraq, because there's no 9-11.
01:04:11.000So they're instigating this regional war where we will be forced to intervene in virtually every country with Israel to defeat Iran.
01:04:21.000And I think that's what they're deliberately trying to do.
01:04:25.000And specifically, this is what Netanyahu wants.
01:04:28.000And Netanyahu knows that basically, unless that happens, he will be thrown out of power.
01:04:35.000So, there's a very scary, sinister agenda going on here, and I don't think it's by accident.
01:04:41.000I don't think it is, uh... I don't think it's simply good luck that Israel appears to be setting up to achieve its ambitions, which is to dominate the Middle East.
01:04:52.00070 years ago, the Middle East was dominated by strong Arab socialist republics, powerful Arab dictators, rich with oil money.
01:05:02.000Awash with cash, getting armaments from the Soviet Union.
01:05:07.000Seventy years later, if Iran is taken out, Israel dominates the region.
01:05:45.000We're talking about Protocols of Elders of Zion.
01:05:47.000We're talking about Israel at the center of the Afro-Eurasian continent, at the center of global trade, geopolitically dominant in the region and with its support from the United States and even enjoying good relations with Russia, and maybe mediating between the two.
01:06:07.000We're talking about Israeli domination of the planet.
01:06:11.000Like, you thought it was bad when you had Wolfowitz in the government?
01:06:17.000You thought it was bad when they did the war in Iraq?
01:06:19.000I mean, we are talking about Antichrist, like, end times scenario.
01:06:25.000Protocols of Elders of Zion, a plan that was laid thousands of years ago.
01:06:30.000I mean, this is what we're talking about.
01:10:29.000Do you think there's a another timeline where you and Destiny actually garner a friendship that eventually influences him to change course in his marriage and life or do you buy more into the idea that something like this has to happen to catalyze a real change?
01:10:46.000Jordan B sent $8, do you think it's possible to live in the moment?
01:10:50.000When asked their regrets in life, many old PPL say they regret not appreciating what they had at the time, but that would require a zooming out most PPL aren't capable of.
01:11:20.000If you didn't have a memory, you'd have no conception of past.
01:11:23.000And the future's not real because it hasn't happened yet.
01:11:27.000So all that is really real is the present.
01:11:30.000All you have is your understanding, your will, and your memory, which is your cognition of moments past.
01:11:40.000And so the question is, you know, living in the moment, I mean, that's all we can really do is live moment by moment.
01:11:47.000And we can make plans about the future and we can ponder the past.
01:11:52.000To inform us, but all all there really is is the now that's all that's all man can do is act in time We're always even if we're thinking about the past.
01:12:04.000We're still we're still actualizing the moment Even though we're you know considering the past or considering the future and a person may be more future oriented because You know their their outlook is
01:12:20.000Is based on future events and you say about a person living in the past or outlook is based on past events, but you know all we can really do is Is act in time act at any given passing moment now what you're saying is really You know should we be anxious should should we be sort of?
01:12:44.000Fixated or hung up on the past should we be anxious and
01:13:57.000And understanding that that can come at any time, and understanding that you have no control over it, and understanding that you have no control over events, it alleviates, I think, a lot of anxiety about the future.
01:14:12.000Understanding that this is a momentary world.
01:14:15.000Understanding that the world and all of its accumulated wealth and history and things, they're all as passing and transient as the present moment.
01:14:28.000And once you realize that, then you can begin to enjoy.
01:14:32.000Then it alleviates, I think, a lot of anxiety about past and present.
01:14:38.000And you kind of take things as they come.
01:14:40.000And that doesn't mean that you don't plan for the future.
01:15:25.000On an infinite timetable, you know, whether it goes one way or the other, as time goes on, these two outcomes tend to converge.
01:15:34.000You know, when we think about things and about our lives as going in completely distinct and different directions, maybe even opposite directions, it's really an illusion.
01:15:45.000On a long enough timeline, they all tend to converge.
01:15:48.000And you realize that outcomes don't matter too much.
01:15:54.000What matters are your thoughts and deeds and words in the moment, in your life.
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