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00:00:31.000The boomer generation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
00:13:28.000Respectfully ask for more foreign aid.
00:13:31.000Again, this is happening amid the backdrop of Joe Biden withholding 2,000 precision guided bombs, which is part of the $26 billion aid package allocated by Congress in May.
00:13:47.000And he says he's withholding that particular weapon shipment because there is concern that Israel will use it in their offensive in Rafa.
00:13:57.000Where there's over 1 million Palestinians taking refuge.
00:14:02.000They've been driven from their homes in the north.
00:14:05.000I think though there's another reason.
00:14:07.000I think probably Biden won't give those bombs because Israel wants them to start a war in Lebanon.
00:14:13.000And this is Biden's way of signaling that he's not going to allow Israel to invade Lebanon, or at least we won't promote or support that.
00:14:22.000So I think it actually has more to do with the forthcoming invasion of Lebanon.
00:14:30.000All right, looks like the chamber has gone quiet.
00:16:40.000Netanyahu's relationship with the Democrat presidents doesn't like him.
00:16:46.000And the last speech, it's no coincidence, the last speech that Netanyahu gave before Congress was in 2015 during the Obama administration, very tense.
00:16:57.000Very contentious between Obama and Netanyahu.
00:17:01.000You see, the Democrats are just as supportive of Israel as the Republicans.
00:17:06.000It's just that the Democrats do not like, necessarily, the Likud party, which is a far-right party.
00:17:15.000And so the Democrats, although they're supportive of Israel and the Zionist entity, they are not supportive of the Likud party and Netanyahu, which they see as mirroring the far right in the United States.
00:17:28.000They see Netanyahu, and I think aptly, as an extension of the Republican Party, as an extension of the Euroskeptic parties in Europe, because they are all in league together.
00:17:41.000The Adelsons give massive amount of money to the Republicans.
00:20:24.000So anyway, the last time Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress was in 2015.
00:20:30.000And it was a defiant speech against Obama and at that time it was against the Iran nuclear deal or the JCPOA, which the Obama administration did not tell the Israelis about.
00:20:45.000Just like how Biden restarted those negotiations when he took office a few years ago.
00:20:52.000Horace Obama and John Kerry negotiated the JCPOA in 2015, which put limits on the enrichment of uranium for Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
00:21:04.000And it was signed onto by the P5 countries, by Russia, China.
00:21:10.000Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the JCPOA and applied secondary sanctions to countries that continue to support Iran economically.
00:21:22.000In response to this, Iran began enriching uranium past the limits imposed by the deal, which only makes sense because they weren't getting the sanctions relief.
00:21:32.000When Biden took office, he jump-started the negotiations to try to get another deal.
00:21:38.000And they did this without telling the Israelis.
00:21:40.000The Israelis leaked it to the press that this was going on, which was a major insult.
00:21:50.000And so now that Israel is taking on Iran and all of its proxies in this apocalyptic final showdown, this is the backdrop of Netanyahu visiting Washington before this all important election to address the joint session invited by the Republican speaker.
00:25:27.000Members of Congress, I now have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you His Excellency, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.
00:26:12.000Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, Senator Ben Cardin, Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Senators, Members of Congress, Distinguished Guests, Mr. Speaker,
00:26:43.000I want to thank you for giving me the profound honor of addressing this great citadel of democracy for the fourth time.
00:27:02.000We meet today at a crossroads of history.
00:28:59.000Like December 7th, 1941, and September 11th, 2001, October 7th is a day that will forever live in infamy.
00:29:12.000It was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah.
00:29:15.000It began as a perfect day, not a cloud in the sky.
00:29:19.000Thousands of young Israelis were celebrating at an outdoor music festival, and suddenly,
00:29:28.000At 6.29 a.m., as children were still sleeping soundly in their beds in the towns in Kibbutzim next to Gaza, suddenly heaven turned into hell.
00:29:39.0003,000 Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel.
00:29:47.000They butchered 1,200 people from 41 countries, including 39 Americans.
00:29:57.000Compared to our population size, that's like 29 elevens in one day.
00:30:04.000And these monsters, they rape women, they beheaded men, they burnt babies alive, they killed parents in front of their children, and children in front of their parents.
00:30:23.000They dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into the dark dungeons of Gaza.
00:30:31.000Israel has already brought home 135 of these hostages, including seven who were freed and daring rescue operations.
00:30:56.000One of those freed hostages, Noor Gamani, is here in the gallery, sitting near my wife, Sarah.
00:31:31.000On the morning of October 7th, the entire world saw Noah's look of desperation as she was violently abducted to Gaza on the back of a motorcycle.
00:31:43.000I met Noah's mother, Leora, a few months ago.
00:33:52.000And with us also is Iris Chaim, whose son Yotam bravely escaped Hamas captivity with two other Israelis, and tragically they were killed making their way back to our lines.
00:34:07.000We have with us also the families of American hostages.
00:38:08.000He ran eight miles, came to the front lines, killed many terrorists, and saved many, many lives.
00:38:19.000Avichal, we all honor your remarkable heroism.
00:38:26.000Another Israeli is with us here today, and he's standing, stand up, right next to, right next to Avichal.
00:38:34.000This is Master Sergeant Ashraf al-Bakhiri.
00:38:50.000Ashraf is a veteran soldier from the Israeli Muslim community of Raat.
00:38:56.000On October 7th, Ashraf II killed many terrorists.
00:39:00.000First he defended his comrades in the military base, and he then rushed to defend the neighboring communities, including the devastated community of Kibbutz Berri.
00:39:19.000Like Ashraf, the Muslim soldiers of the IDF fought alongside their Jewish, Druze, Christian, and other comrades in arms with tremendous bravery.
00:41:50.000Have you ever seen anything like this?
00:42:02.000As the Bible says, they shall rise like lions, they have risen like lions, the lions of Judah, the lions of Israel.
00:42:26.000Ladies and gentlemen, the men and women of the IDF,
00:42:31.000come from every corner of Israeli society.
00:42:35.000Every ethnicity, every color, every creed, left and right, religious and secular.
00:42:43.000All are imbued with the indomitable spirit of the Maccabees, the legendary Jewish warriors of antiquity.
00:42:52.000With us today is Yechiel Leiter, the father of one of those Maccabees.
00:42:58.000Yechiel's father escaped the Holocaust and found refuge in America.
00:43:02.000As a young man, Yechiel moved to Israel and raised a family of eight children.
00:43:08.000He named his eldest son, Moshe, after his late father.
00:43:12.000Moshe became an exemplary officer in one of our elite commando units.
00:43:17.000He served with distinction for two decades, while raising six beautiful children of his own.
00:43:24.000On October 7th, Moshe volunteered to return to combat.
00:43:29.000Four weeks later, he was killed when a booby-trapped mine exploded in a tunnel shaft right next to a mosque.
00:43:39.000At his son's funeral, Yechiel said this, If the State of Israel had not been established after the Holocaust,
00:43:48.000The image engraved in our collective memory would have been the photograph of that helpless Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto holding his hands up in the air with Nazi rifles pointed at him.
00:44:00.000But because of the birth of Israel, Yechiel continued, because of the courage of soldiers like my son Moshe, the Jewish people are no longer helpless in the face of our enemies.
00:44:30.000Yechiel, please rise so we can honor your son's sacrifice.
00:44:35.000And I pledge to you and to all the bereaved families of Israel, some of whom are in this hall today, the sacrifice of your loved ones will not be in vain.
00:49:51.000Don't they know that the land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached, and where David and Solomon ruled?
00:50:15.000For nearly 4,000 years, the Land of Israel has been the homeland of the Jewish people.
00:50:46.000It's not only the campus protesters who get it wrong.
00:50:49.000It's also the people who run those campuses.
00:50:53.00080 years after the Holocaust, 80 years after the Holocaust, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and I'm ashamed to say my alma mater, MIT, couldn't bring themselves to condemn the cause for the genocide of Jews.
00:53:11.000And don't be fooled when the blood libels against the Jewish state come from people who wear fancy silk robes and speak in lofty tones about law and justice.
00:53:52.000And that's more than 3,000 calories for every man, woman, and child in Gaza.
00:53:58.000If there are Palestinians in Gaza who aren't getting enough food, it's not because Israel is blocking it, it's because Hamas is stealing it!
00:55:04.000A senior Hamas official, Fatri Hamad, boasted, listen to this, he boasted that Palestinian women and children excel at being human shields.
00:55:14.000His words, excel at being human shields.
00:55:28.000They actually want Palestinian civilians to die, so that Israel will be smeared in the international media and be pressured to end the war before it's won.
00:55:39.000This would enable Hamas to survive another day, and as they vowed, to carry out October 7th again and again and again.
00:55:48.000Well, I want to assure you, no matter what pressure is brought to bear, I will never allow that to happen.
00:56:13.000The vast majority of Americans have not fallen for this Hamas propaganda.
00:56:20.000And I want to say thank you, America, and thank you, Senators and House members, who continue to support us, continue to support Israel, continue to support the truth and see through the lies.
00:56:32.000But as for the minority that may have fallen for Hamas' cons job, I suggest you listen to Colonel John Spencer.
00:56:41.000John Spencer is head of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point.
00:56:45.000He studied every major urban conflict, I was going to say in modern history, he corrected me, no, in history.
00:56:55.000Israel, he said, has implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history and beyond what international law requires.
00:57:23.000That's why, despite all the lies you've heard, the war in Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatants casualties in the history of urban warfare.
00:57:38.000And you want to know where it's lowest in Gaza?
01:08:33.000As Britain fought on the front lines of civilization, Winston Churchill appealed to Americans with these famous words, give us the tools and we'll finish the job.
01:08:44.000Today, as Israel fights on the front line of civilization, I too appeal to America, give us the tools faster and we'll finish the job faster.
01:09:11.000My dear friends, the war in Gaza could end tomorrow if Hamas surrenders, disarms, and returns all the hostages.
01:10:06.000The day after we defeat Hamas, a new Gaza can emerge.
01:10:11.000My vision for that day is of a demilitarized and deradicalized Gaza.
01:10:18.000Israel does not seek to resettle Gaza, but for the foreseeable future, we must retain overriding security control there to prevent the resurgence of terror, to ensure that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel.
01:11:05.000A new generation of Palestinians must no longer be taught to hate Jews, but rather to live in peace with us.
01:11:14.000Never gonna happen, and they know that.
01:11:16.000You kill everybody's family and destroy their houses.
01:11:18.000Those twin words, demilitarization and deradicalization, those two concepts were applied to Germany and Japan after World War II, and that led to decades of peace, prosperity, and security.
01:11:33.000Following our victory, following our victory, with the help of regional partners,
01:11:41.000The demilitarization and deradicalization of Gaza can also lead to a future of security, prosperity, and peace.
01:12:20.000Likewise, America and Israel today can forge a security alliance in the Middle East to counter the growing Iranian threat.
01:12:28.000All countries that are at peace with Israel, and all those countries who will make peace with Israel, should be invited to join this alliance.
01:12:38.000We saw a glimpse of that potential alliance on April 14th.
01:12:44.000Led by the United States, more than half a dozen nations worked alongside Israel to help neutralize hundreds of missiles and drones launched by Iran against us.
01:12:56.000Thank you, President Biden, for bringing that coalition together.
01:13:14.000The new alliance I envisioned would be a natural extension of the groundbreaking Abraham Accords.
01:13:21.000Those Accords saw peace forged between Israel and four Arab countries, and they were supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
01:13:29.000We could call... I have a name for this new alliance.
01:13:37.000I think we should call it the Abraham Alliance.
01:13:44.000I want to thank President Trump for his leadership in brokering the historical Abraham Accords.
01:14:05.000Like Americans, Israelis were relieved that President Trump emerged safe and sound from that dastardly attack on him, dastardly attack on American democracy.
01:14:16.000There is no room for political violence in democracies.
01:14:33.000I also want to thank President Trump for all the things he did for Israel, from recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, to confronting Iran's aggression, to recognizing Jerusalem as our capital and moving the American embassy there.
01:15:02.000That's Jerusalem, our eternal capital, never to be divided again!
01:15:21.000My dear friends, Democrats and Republicans, Despite these times of upheaval, I am hopeful about the future.
01:15:32.000I'm hopeful about Israel because my people, the Jewish people, emerged from the depths of hell from dispossession and genocide.
01:15:42.000And against all odds, we restored our sovereignty in our ancient homeland.
01:15:48.000We built a powerful and vibrant democracy, a democracy that pushes the boundaries of innovation for the betterment of all humanity.
01:17:31.000And we will continue to work with the United States and our Arab partners to transform a troubled region from a backwater of repression, poverty and war into a thriving oasis of dignity, prosperity and peace.
01:17:45.000In this noble mission, as in many others, Israel will always remain America's indispensable ally.
01:21:17.000There was a lot of filibuster in the beginning, waving the bloody shirt around October 7th and the troops and all that and talking about the protesters, anti-Semitism, International Court of Justice.
01:21:33.000So setting all of the preamble aside, there were two big asks.
01:21:42.000And the reason he said expedite is because Biden is withholding and delaying certain shipments of weapons to Israel.
01:21:52.000And I believe the Biden administration, they say they're doing it because they're concerned about civilian casualties.
01:21:58.000I think they're doing it because they're concerned about Netanyahu expanding the war.
01:22:04.000And this is what the Washington Post and other sources have reported is that the Biden administration is concerned that Netanyahu wants to prolong the war, that it is his intention to prolong and expand the war ultimately into Lebanon so that he can remain in power.
01:22:22.000So the Biden administration is, they say they're slowing down the aid, not withholding it, because this is a tricky thing.
01:22:31.000The Biden administration can't say we're not giving them the aid, because then the Israel lobby is going to say, why aren't you giving us our aid?
01:23:58.000We had to give stuff to all these countries.
01:24:01.000Basically had to bribe them to become a part of this treaty.
01:24:05.000And again, Abraham Accords is normalization.
01:24:09.000Because there's only a handful of Muslim countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa which have recognized Israel formally as a state.
01:24:21.000Most Muslim countries do not recognize Israel as a sovereign state and they don't have formal diplomatic relations.
01:24:29.000So Israel declared independence in 1948, massacred and
01:24:36.000Ethically cleansed many Palestinians from the land.
01:24:40.000As a result, most Muslim countries do not recognize them as a sovereign state.
01:24:45.000That changed when Egypt recognized Israel and normalized relations in 1979, after the Camp David negotiations.
01:24:57.000And then in 1994, Jordan, the Kingdom of Jordan normalized ties with Israel also.
01:25:04.000So then, under President Trump in 2019 and 2020, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco became the next four countries to recognize Israel.
01:25:14.000Under the Biden administration, there has been an effort to get Saudi Arabia to normalize ties with Israel, which would be a huge deal, because Saudi Arabia is seen as the unofficial leader of the Sunni Islam religion.
01:25:33.000Because Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina.
01:25:38.000So for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, symbolically it's a big deal.
01:25:43.000It's also a big deal because of Saudi Arabia's oil wealth.
01:25:47.000Because Saudi Aramco is the largest private company in the world.
01:25:56.000Because Saudi Arabia has such a deep relationship with the United States.
01:26:00.000So the Biden administration was close to securing a deal with Saudi Arabia where they would normalize ties with Israel.
01:26:07.000And this would be a huge deal because that opens up the trillions of dollars in the Saudi sovereign wealth fund for foreign investment into Israel.
01:26:16.000All this previously untapped money that Saudi Arabia has would now be available to invest into Israeli companies.
01:26:24.000Which would probably be brokered by Jared Kushner.
01:26:26.000That's what he did after Trump left office.
01:26:29.000But that was put on ice after the October 7th attacks.
01:26:36.000But the terms for Saudi Arabia to enter into the Abraham Accords was that they wanted a security guarantee formalized from the United States.
01:26:45.000So Saudi Arabia said, hey, we'll join the Abraham Accords.
01:26:48.000We'll become the seventh Muslim-majority country.
01:26:53.000Well, I don't know if it's the seventh because Turkey recognized Israel, but whatever.
01:26:57.000We'll become the seventh out of these Muslim countries in the Middle East to recognize Israel, but what they wanted in return was a formal security guarantee.
01:27:07.000They wanted the United States to commit to defend Saudi Arabia if attacked in a defensive pact, just like the NATO countries.
01:27:32.000His second big ask is he said there should be an Abraham Alliance.
01:27:36.000He said we should formalize the Abraham Accords countries, and I would imagine that includes also Egypt and Jordan, because he said the coalition that shot down the Iranian drones and missiles in May, which included Jordan also, he said, we want to bring all those countries into an Abraham Alliance, a defensive alliance like they have with NATO.
01:27:58.000And that is meant to counter and confront Iran.
01:28:05.000He wants expedite foreign aid and he says the day after in Gaza he wants a defensive alliance
01:28:12.000He wants the Abraham Accords to expand and for it to be upgraded to a defensive alliance that I imagine Israel would be the leader of because they're the nuclear power and they're the most sophisticated, capable military in that alliance, in this would-be alliance.
01:28:39.000Because Israel has invaded Gaza, they've conducted this brutal air and ground campaign, they've killed a lot of people, and they've removed, that's their goal, is to remove Hamas from power.
01:28:52.000So the question is, who then administers the Gaza Strip after the fighting ceases?
01:28:59.000Will it be a Palestinian Muslim government?
01:29:02.000Will it be the Palestinian Authority from the West Bank?
01:29:05.000Will it be some sort of Arab government administered by Saudi Arabia and Egypt or some consortium of Muslim countries?
01:29:28.000And Netanyahu proposed that they will maintain total security control of the Strip indefinitely, but that they will have a Palestinian civilian government.
01:29:40.000It will not be the Palestinian Authority, which is led by Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank.
01:29:50.000The proposal is they're going to destroy Hamas completely.
01:29:54.000There will be no ceasefire until Hamas is utterly destroyed.
01:29:58.000They're going to maintain security control of the Strip, and they're going to appoint a native Palestinian Muslim civilian government that has no affiliation with the West Bank, and it will be subordinate to the Israeli government, which controls the Strip.
01:30:13.000And by the way, Israel did control the Gaza Strip until 2006.
01:30:18.000When they were convinced to withdraw from the Strip and disband their settlements and allow the Palestinians to hold elections.
01:30:25.000And then the Palestinians elected Hamas and then Israel immediately blockaded the Gaza Strip.
01:30:31.000So we're sort of going back to the pre-2006 status quo and they're depriving the Palestinians of self-governance once again.
01:30:46.000I don't know if anybody actually believes this, but it's not tenable.
01:30:51.000Netanyahu says we need to de-radicalize and de-militarize the Gaza Strip.
01:30:57.000And by that he means root out and destroy these networks, these underground tunnels, and these supply lines where Iran is able to get missiles and other munitions into the Gaza Strip.
01:31:10.000He says we're going to de-radicalize them and appoint a government that doesn't want to destroy Israel.
01:32:42.000I mean, does it even really need to be said that obviously Iran is not on the precipice of taking over the world?
01:32:51.000And this comparison between the Soviet Union and Iran is utterly ridiculous.
01:32:56.000Now, there is, in principle, a similarity.
01:33:00.000Because they are both revolutionary regimes.
01:33:04.000They are both, by definition, they're both revisionist.
01:33:09.000Powers in the sense, their revolutionary revisionist powers in the sense that the Soviet Union was a true pariah state.
01:33:18.000And they did seek to export the communist revolution all around the world.
01:33:22.000And they undertook a lot of pariah-like actions.
01:33:25.000For example, they seized foreign assets in the Soviet Union.
01:33:29.000They refused to pay down the debt of the former Russian Empire.
01:33:33.000So a lot of these things did not help their international reputation.
01:33:37.000It deferred recognition of their formal diplomatic status as the sovereign of the territory in Russia.
01:33:46.000And so the Soviet Union was sponsoring revolution all around the world in Mongolia, in China, in Eastern and Western Europe, in the United States, Africa, in every continent of the world.
01:33:58.000And that was the basis of the Cold War.
01:34:00.000That's why it was necessary to have a Cold War.
01:34:04.000We had to counter them on every continent and in every country because they really were seeking to undermine the world order by exporting a revolutionary ideology.
01:34:15.000The difference though, and Iran is in principle similar.
01:34:18.000I will say, because I'm honest, that Iran is similar.
01:34:23.000In 1979 they had an Islamic revolution and they actually do seek to export Islamism, which is
01:34:32.000A state that is based on Muslim theology.
01:34:36.000They have a religious state which is led by a religious leader, their supreme leader, their head of state.
01:34:42.000Although they have a democratically elected president who is the head of government, their head of state, Ayatollah, is the top cleric.
01:39:02.000And, of course, it was the Israel lobby, which is not just the formal political lobby, but also their influence in media, business, and other elite sectors of society, which pushed us to war in Iraq, and Syria, and Yemen, and Sudan, and Somalia, and Libya, and Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and everywhere across the globe.
01:39:29.000So the idea that Iran is a threat, it's no different than when Israel told us that Iraq was a threat.
01:39:36.000Saddam Hussein has WMDs and is going to challenge the world.
01:39:41.000Or that Bashar al-Assad has... Remember when they said Bashar al-Assad has chemical weapons?
01:39:46.000And how many times did we bomb Assad over chemical weapons?
01:39:50.000And we found out that, in fact, it was the rebels
01:39:53.000It was the so-called moderate opposition that was in possession of the chemical weapons in Idlib province and elsewhere.
01:40:03.000And anyway, so this is nothing new, okay?
01:40:06.000This is the same old hysteria, alarmism.
01:40:54.000Expedite the aid, Abraham Alliance, which means once the fighting's over,
01:40:59.000They want Saudi Arabia to get the defensive pact, and they also want to be a part of a formal defensive pact, and they also want Jordan and Egypt and Morocco and Sudan and Bahrain and the Emirates to be brought into it, and it'll be a whole bloc formalized against Iranian influence.
01:41:16.000That's an attractive offer to the United States because China is trying to buy a lot of these countries away from the United States.
01:41:28.000A multipolar balance of power in the world.
01:41:32.000Increasingly, the United States is going to rely on allies to compete with China and Russia put together.
01:41:39.000China plus Russia, which are now in an indissoluble military and economic alliance in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
01:41:49.000They now constitute roughly 50% of global firepower.
01:41:53.000That's why the United States increasingly must rely on Western Europe.
01:41:58.000And it's allies in the Pacific like Japan and South Korea to make up that deficit so that they can achieve parity with the Russia-China-Iran-Venezuela-Cuba alliance.
01:42:13.000And so as the world becomes more multipolar, you can see that China and Russia are giving attractive offers to these other revisionist powers and even to these countries
01:42:46.000Exceeded to the BRICS alliance, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa.
01:42:51.000They want the benefits of the Chinese side, but they also want the benefits of the American side.
01:42:57.000They want the investment and the credit from China, but they also want the military pact from the United States and some investment from the United States as well.
01:43:08.000So, for example, Saudi Arabia is part of Belt and Road.
01:43:12.000They're part of BRICS, but they also want a defensive pact from the United States, and they also want to be a part of the IMEC Corridor, India-Middle East-Europe Corridor, which is going to connect India through the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel to ports in Central Europe.
01:43:35.000Brazil is critical of Israel, but Brazil also is
01:43:39.000An ally of the United States and relies on the United States for defense.
01:43:45.000And so there's a lot of countries that are trying to take with both hands or trying to take rather from both sides.
01:43:51.000And so the reason why a formalized alliance with Saudi Arabia is attractive to the United States is because that seals the deal.
01:44:01.000It sort of forces Saudi Arabia and these other Gulf countries onto our side.
01:44:09.000If Saudi Arabia is playing both sides and trying to see who can outbid the other, and they're really just taking from both, if they're formalized into a security alliance, that concretizes them on the side of the United States.
01:44:23.000So that's why it's an attractive offer for America.
01:44:26.000That's maybe why we're considering it.
01:44:30.000The other thing, like I said, is the day after proposal.
01:44:32.000We finally got some clarity on what that looks like.
01:44:35.000It's total Israeli security control over the Strip, going back to the pre-2006 status quo.
01:44:42.000And then the rhetoric is all the other stuff we've heard before.
01:44:45.000Netanyahu attacking the usual suspects, Iran, International Court of Justice, so-called anti-Semitic protesters in America.
01:44:55.000Talking about the Holocaust and all this stuff.
01:44:59.000And by the way, the beginning of the speech was waving the bloody shirt.
01:45:03.000That's an expression that comes from, I believe, the Spanish-American War, when they would literally take the bloody shirt and wave it around.
01:45:09.000People rally around the, you know, the martyrs sacrificed during the war.
01:45:15.000So this is what they do to create sympathy.
01:45:18.000You know, you can't talk about, you know, wounded veterans in a negative way.
01:45:22.000But let's not forget that on October 7th, we now know that Netanyahu deliberately allowed this attack to happen, most likely.
01:45:31.000But we know that because we now have many reports that Israeli intelligence knew that Hamas was planning an attack.
01:45:38.000They knew how Hamas would carry it out.
01:45:41.000They knew when Hamas would carry it out.
01:45:43.000They saw Hamas training and preparing to carry out an attack exactly like this.
01:45:49.000And then, so not only did they know it was coming, and all the intelligence suggesting an attack would occur was ignored by the higher-ups,
01:45:58.000But then, on the day of the attack, we also now have intelligence that Israel was killing their own people.
01:46:09.000That Israel, for example, was blowing up Hamas-controlled vehicles that were escaping back into the Gaza Strip with captured hostages inside the vehicles.
01:46:23.000And we know that Israeli tanks were blowing up Israeli households.
01:46:28.000And killing, in one case, at least 13 civilians inside, which included twins that were 12 years old.
01:46:56.000And it's part of their military doctrine, they kill captured soldiers, and in this case, even civilians, because according to Israeli military doctrine, it's preferable that Israeli soldiers die as collateral damage rather than be taken hostage, because if they're taken hostage, they could be used as a bargaining chip to extract concessions, which they view as an existential threat to the Israeli state.
01:47:23.000So it's literally part of Israeli doctrine, and we now know it's confirmed.
01:47:28.000I reported on this a couple weeks ago on the show that Israel did, in fact, kill potentially hundreds of their own people on October 7th.
01:47:38.000So out of that 1,200 death count, it could be up to and maybe even more than at least 100 that were killed by the IDF intentionally.
01:47:47.000And none of those people would have been killed had Israel listened to Israeli intelligence, which up to a year and even beyond, before October 7th, had warned about exactly the type of attack that was carried out on that day.
01:48:02.000So, just about everything that was said in this speech is a load of crap.
01:48:09.000These crocodile tears about October 7th, which has cynically been used as a pretext
01:48:15.000for a very politically advantageous war for Netanyahu for a number of reasons.
01:48:20.000It's allowed him to stay in power even though he's wildly unpopular.
01:48:24.000It's also allowed him and his radical coalition in government to expand Israel's territory effectively into the Gaza and ultimately maybe South Lebanon.
01:49:36.000In defiance of the president to give this speech and they, you know, Mike Johnson getting up, up and down, up and down, literally doing tricks on it.
01:49:46.000Clapping more for Netanyahu than Biden during the State of the Union.
01:49:49.000And that's how they treat it, like the State of the Union.
01:51:58.000Israel is fighting an offensive war in Gaza.
01:52:02.000Ukraine is fighting a defensive war in Ukraine, and their people are dying, and their economy is being destroyed, and when the war is over, Zelensky's, like, toast.
01:52:14.000And Ukraine will be carved up into a rump state.
01:52:38.000They've created a buffer zone in Gaza, which is 15% of the territory in Gaza.
01:52:44.000And they're out there to literally murder everybody in the regime there and punish the civilians because they believe that everyone in Gaza should be held accountable.
01:52:53.000So this is an expansionist war, which we're paying for.
01:52:58.000And don't get me wrong, I oppose the foreign aid to Ukraine also.
01:53:01.000I think that Ukraine should be... I mean, look, there's really like two options.
01:53:06.000Ukraine was either going to have a pro-Russian government in perpetuity, like Yanukovych, and they would have been a part of the Russian trade agreement instead of NATO and the European Union.
01:53:18.000It was either going to be a puppet state, like Belarus,
01:53:51.000And they should have not deployed missiles to the Eastern European theater, and they should have not aggressively—and you know, Trump was a part of this too—aggressively armed Kiev in their war in Donbass, and anyway.
01:54:06.000But people are always like, oh, you know, Ukraine and Israel are so similar.
01:54:13.000Because there is some ostensible argument.
01:54:16.000In some ways, this is a war that does benefit the U.S.
01:54:19.000security apparatus at the expense of everybody else.
01:54:23.000The war in Ukraine, they will admit, it's an expensive war that is meant to diminish Russia's military, and it has the perhaps intended effect of weakening Europe and forcing them to rely on the United States.
01:54:40.000It's destroyed the European economy, and it's made Germany dependent on LNG, and it's brought Western Europe back into the fold where, you know, for some time they were wavering, you know, they were bringing in Chinese 5G and, and anyway.
01:54:56.000With Israel, there's, there's just like no comparable argument, but that's something that I'd like to debate with Tim Pool at some point if he'd ever have me on his show.
01:55:05.000But anyway, it's totally besides the point.
01:55:09.000The fact of the matter, here's what matters.
01:55:40.000If we have allies, our closest allies should be the ones that are actually our kin, like the United Kingdom, or Canada, or Australia, or France.
01:55:52.000But we should always heed the farewell address of George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, which is no entangling alliances.
01:56:00.000And beware the military-industrial complex.
01:57:11.000But that's going to conclude our coverage of the Netanyahu address.
01:57:15.000I'm going to get out of here because we have a big day of content ahead.
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01:57:23.000I'm going to be back here at 7 o'clock Central Time to cover Biden's address.
01:57:29.000The President Joe Biden will be giving a address from the White House tonight at 7 o'clock Central, 8 o'clock Eastern Time about his withdrawal from the presidential race.
01:57:40.000So I'll be back here just before 7 o'clock to cover that.
01:57:43.000And then immediately after that, I will do my show.
01:57:47.000I will transition and do America First right after.
01:57:50.000So I don't know how long the address will be.
01:57:59.000I'll cover the address, and then I'll segue right into the show, and then do Super Chats, and I'll read all the Super Chats from this stream and from later tonight.
02:00:12.000And we'll read this, then I'm going to get out of here.
02:00:14.000The rest I will read tonight because there's some smaller ones, but I'll save those for tonight because I want to rest a little bit before the next stream.
02:00:42.000His work has been dismissed and buried by Big Pharma and our, very Jewish, healthcare industry.
02:00:48.000Don't be so quick to dismiss vitamins.
02:00:50.000Wow, well hey, thank you for the huge super chat!