The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. What does this mean for geopolitics? What does it mean for the world? And who is responsible for making it so quiet in the Middle East?
00:03:24.740So these are the two main areas that are controlled by the Palestinians within the state of Israel.
00:03:30.960They are quasi-autonomous zones within the Israeli state.
00:03:35.360The attacks took place just outside of the Gaza Strip.
00:03:38.200We're told now, and you heard the video just a moment ago, that as of the latest, Hamas has announced that they are about to start executing hostages one by one on television, live.
00:03:53.420And they claim for every airstrike that Israel conducts on the city of Gaza.
00:04:01.780We now know that multiple Americans were taken.
00:04:08.960But American hostages, according to Israel's Minister for Strategic Affairs, hostages taken by Hamas during the assault on Israel from Gaza include U.S. citizens.
00:04:23.500We're told also, and we've got images coming out of Gaza that look like the shades of Dresden.
00:04:30.300This is strategic bombing that Israel is conducting.
00:04:33.620We're also seeing numbers roll out of this terrorist attack, hundreds of them taking place at a rave, a music festival that was being held at the desert.
00:04:46.100And, in fact, this very spot of the desert, not too far from one of the southern highways in Israel, is actually just about 20 minutes away from where I was with my entire family when we visited Israel last year when we were making our way to visit the Dead Sea.
00:05:03.000This is an area that's largely desert, as you can see from many of the footage that's come out.
00:05:12.900And what Hamas did was first attack all the cars so that people couldn't flee.
00:05:19.100So that even when they got out of the festival, when they ran to their cars, they found their cars had already been damaged and were inoperable.
00:05:27.480And so they had to flee and hide in the desert.
00:05:30.040Then Hamas went one by one, killing civilians, taking many women, young women, girls in their 20s hostage, throwing them sometimes on the back of trucks, on the back of motorcycles.
00:06:07.580Senator Kroll and Tony Schaefer joins us next.
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00:08:05.180I want to bring in our next guest here, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer.
00:08:09.560But, Tony, I just have to say that for the Americans watching this, this is inextricably linked to something that you and I have been talking about here for almost a year now on the program.
00:08:22.340The Ukraine war, the fact that America has gone all in on this, has become bogged down in Ukraine, at one point was taking artillery shells that had been earmarked for Israel just earlier this year because we couldn't manufacture them fast enough.
00:08:38.660So we took our artillery shells that were earmarked for Israel, that was a deal that they were expecting from us.
00:09:19.340And secondly, just at the point where Israel and Saudi Arabia were sitting down and talking diplomatic recognition, exchange of diplomats and ambassadors for the first time ever.
00:09:30.960Then Hamas comes up to blow up the entire peace process.
00:09:35.960Tony, how has the Biden administration gotten us to this point?
00:09:38.920Well, first off, Jake Sullivan and the entire team are like a high school model United Nations team in the way they look at the world and implement policy.
00:09:49.580They're completely out of their league.
00:09:50.840They believe somehow being nice and getting people to talk together and interlock is going to be the solution.
00:09:55.980Jack, you and I both know that's not the case.
00:09:57.860Some of these grievances go back to the end of the Ottoman Empire, even further than that.
00:10:04.360Just the way the borders have been drawn up, the issues between the Sunni and Shia, which you were just alluding to regarding this agreement with Saudi, which I'll talk about in a second.
00:10:14.280But because of their completely feckless policy, combined with the idea that hostage-taking works, going back to the Obama administration, where multiple hostages were taken and Obama gave in to include when they were trying to negotiate the joint agreed-upon framework for the nuclear deal, the Iranians grabbed some Navy sailors in international water, and they gave in.
00:10:40.380So this failure, and by the way, just one quick thing, the intelligence failure.
00:10:46.340Apparently, the intelligence going to Ukraine and others by CIA and DOD completely took their eye off the Middle East, because not only were the Israelis completely blindsided by this, so it was U.S. intelligence.
00:10:58.020U.S. intelligence had no idea this was going on, arguably because the resources that would have been available to monitor Hamas and the Iranians have been focused elsewhere.
00:11:08.940So it's a multi-tiered failure with that sense.
00:11:12.040Well, and I would also say, just on that note, by the way, Tony, that it's clear to me that, and we know that Mossad had been working to flip informants within Hamas.
00:11:23.480A lot of Hamas leadership is sitting there in Qatar.
00:11:26.180They've been directly focused on this.
00:11:27.860And we've been hearing reports that there were these informers, these double agents that were coming out of Hamas that were providing information to Mossad.
00:11:35.760And it's very clear at this point that that was a part of a disinformation campaign that Hamas and their backers were running on Mossad and the IDF.
00:11:45.780Obviously, the dysfunction in Israeli politics right now, the dust-up between Netanyahu and the other parties there in Israel is leading to a huge level of dysfunction within Israeli politics.
00:12:00.480And it seems as though the – and keep in mind that the candidate he ran against was an IDF-backed candidate, his main rival.
00:12:07.100So you're seeing this rivalry play out, this split in their politics, which I think has unfortunately led to the degradation of Israeli security.
00:15:35.980Well, America should focus on America's values and interests.
00:15:39.180Clearly, we have, as I mentioned, skin in the game.
00:15:41.620It's very clear that Americans were targeted and murdered, that now some of them are now hostages.
00:15:46.620The Biden administration, especially Tony Blinken, needs to step away from putting together rock and roll bands for peace and actually doing something necessary to rally our allies to this point.
00:15:56.960The other thing I would argue the timing indicates to me is, as you point out, the Israelis were about to sign an historic peace agreement with the Sunni, with the Saudi Arabians.
00:16:09.840That was something Iran could not permit because, obviously, a strengthened Arab community with the Israelis going against Iran and the Shia was not something they would accept.
00:16:19.760That's one of the reasons they did this.
00:16:21.260And the Biden administration enabled that.
00:16:23.520They enabled that because they want to resurrect a strong relationship with the Iranians, with the Mullahs, because they've wanted to do that since Zygmunt Brzezinski in 1976.
00:16:32.480Just saying, this is not new for the Democrats.
00:16:34.880And more importantly, they've alienated our allies and weakened the Israeli ability to act independently.
00:16:41.680And that's the thing that the Americans need to do, is step out of the way, let the Israelis go back to doing what they do very well, is defending themselves and their equities.
00:16:49.180We should not be involved, boots on the ground, happy to help, happy to advise, happy to provide them weapons as they need it.
00:16:56.040But it's their job, the Israelis' job, to go take care of business in their backyard.
00:17:04.340Step one, you come up and say, you refreeze the Iranian assets.
00:17:09.380If we've got a cintilla, a crumb of evidence, if we've got a crumb of evidence that says Iran had anything to play with this, or we're even worried about it, just go refreeze them.
00:20:26.400Obviously, and just to be clear to everybody out there, the bombing campaign that Israel is conducting on Gaza right now is incredibly significant.
00:20:35.660We are seeing, and this is a highly densely populated area.
00:20:40.700Two million people live inside this tiny street.
00:20:43.600Keep in mind, Israel, the state of Israel itself is only about the size of New Jersey, and yet the density is so much higher in these cities.
00:20:51.100You've got millions and millions of people.
00:20:52.900It's only about 50 miles across from Tel Aviv to Jordan at that, where it's a little bit thinner.
00:20:58.220And so these areas, even though they're small, they're still very dense.
00:21:02.420And so Hamas calling for this, obviously.
00:21:05.020And to be clear, there's women, there's children, there's civilians that are caught in the middle of this.
00:21:10.540Israel says they want to target Hamas, says they want to get rid of their leadership.
00:21:32.580Well, I think the Israelis—I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect the Israelis are working very diligently to try to find out where those hostages are,
00:21:39.080to try to rescue them, incidental to their upcoming combat operations, but they're not going to stop combat operations.
00:21:47.120And to your point, this is a very densely populated area, 2 million people and a very small side.
00:21:53.900And let me just point out something here.
00:21:55.520The Oslo II Accords from 1995, signed by the Israelis and the Palestinians, said that if you live in peace, everybody's going to get along just fine.
00:22:32.520And so this was all things that were planned by the bad guys.
00:22:36.100And let me say one other point that pertains to us.
00:22:39.480This should remove any argument against the Second Amendment.
00:22:42.820It is this very attack that happened because gun control is implemented to the level of progressive interest in Israel.
00:22:51.480That is to say most civilians don't have guns.
00:22:53.920And therefore, that was a known factor by the Hamas terrorists.
00:22:57.500And that's why, Jack, they went house to house with impunity, murdering families.
00:23:02.480Even a handful of houses having a couple of ARs, every other house, would have prevented 90% of the loss of life because Hamas would have had to suffer a consequence to their attack.
00:23:16.180And they didn't because Hamas knew that the Israeli civilians are unarmed, and they took full advantage of that.
00:23:23.240Right. And by the way, just to be clear, we're in the fog of war.
00:23:28.200So I'm also seeing some reports saying that, you know, there is this open to truce report.
00:23:32.700But if you go and look at Gaza media, they're talking about the rocket fire towards Ashkelon, airstrikes currently targeting Rafa.
00:23:40.880And so the point being is that they don't seem like they're talking about truce very much on if you watch Palestinian TV right now.
00:23:47.800They're essentially trying to buy time.
00:23:52.060We see these wars blow up, but let's go into the geopolitical situation here because isn't this deconstruction of the world order, the fourth turning, as I've referred to it in others, the churn, the position that we're in, doesn't it also kind of become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
00:24:16.480Because at some point, if we just continue escalating, continue escalating, that isn't it just going to create more of the same thing?
00:24:24.840This essentially what I'm talking about is how we got into Afghanistan for 20 years, what led us down the wrong path in Iraq.
00:24:31.800And what President Trump always said was we can find ways to get to peace deals where things like this don't happen.
00:24:39.980And so I really don't want to get away from linking the outbreak of this to the war in Ukraine and really to the far left, to the Never Trump movement that fought against him so hard that had the war in Ukraine not happened,
00:24:56.780you would not be seeing this outbreak, at least maybe not to this scale in Israel today.
00:25:03.020Well, so Trump was a master of understanding what I call enlightened self-interest.
00:25:09.660Jack, every nation has their own self-interest.
00:25:12.640That interest does not change because the World Economic Forum has an opinion or Joe Biden wants to have Jake Sullivan talk in glowing flowery terms about trying to seek Middle East peace.
00:25:25.620You have to manage expectations and their perception of reality.
00:25:53.680No matter what this administration does, to your point, tries to take all these actions, sends military equipment here, goes and visits here, it's going to be completely ineffective because the bad guys have got Joe Biden's number.
00:26:05.200Joe Biden's number is coming up snake eyes.
00:26:09.980He's going to continue to lose every bet.
00:26:11.600And by him doing that, the potential for expanded and continuous global conflict is inevitable at this point.
00:26:19.260The big thing now is to try to minimize our losses until 2024 and 2025, really the inauguration, where we hope to have a new president who understands the very things you and I are talking about here.
00:26:31.940Because it's clear that Joe Biden, Barack Obama's proxy for the current administration, is not willing to do anything to protect America's interests, American people, or the interests of our allies.
00:26:42.960It's all going to be going to the Chinese, advantage China, advantage Russia, because at this point there's nothing in the West preventing them from continuing to dominate the global sphere of foreign policy.
00:26:55.400I want people to take what Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer says to heart there.
00:27:00.460The possibility for the outbreak of global war is now increasingly likely.
00:27:11.800We are living through the reality of Mearsheimer's warning.
00:27:16.460He told us that if we continue to escalate in areas around the world, that it will cause pockets of resistance to blow up in other parts of the world.
00:27:48.560We have no clue who's sending sleeper cells on a regular basis across that border.
00:27:53.060And, oh, by the way, today is Columbus Day, by the way, and I celebrate Columbus for founding and discovering the United States and kicking off the founding of the United States of America.
00:28:03.780That the reason they refer to – listen to the words, though.
00:28:27.620Why do you think they're using that term?
00:28:29.120They're using that term because they want to prime their people, their radicals, whether it's BLM, whether it's Antifa, whether it's sleeper cells, whoever, because they know 2024 is coming.
00:28:39.580And so the catchphrase is going to be rise up against the colonizers.
00:28:44.500And, oh, look, they're doing the exact same thing right now in Israel.
00:33:01.700So I locked in my vote for our Republican candidates today.
00:33:07.280Oh, that's excellent. No, I just spent the last weekend in Pennsylvania.
00:33:11.400I spoke at an event all the way up in Greeley, PA, Pike County.
00:33:16.380That's the one county of Pennsylvania that borders both New Jersey and New York State.
00:33:22.160And this is the Poconos, absolutely gorgeous part of the year, this time of year, of course.
00:33:28.160And, you know, great place for skiing later in the winter.
00:33:30.860Scott, are you headed up to Pennsylvania?
00:33:32.100I am. I'll be traveling everywhere from Allegheny to Erie to Washington to Penn State University
00:33:41.460because the last day to register to vote in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is the 23rd of October.
00:33:48.560And then I'll even be going to the Poconos, Lackawanna, and down to the belly of the beast, going to Philadelphia, Chester, Montgomery.
00:33:58.300So we are going to be crisscrossing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to elect Judge Carolyn Carluccio to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on November 7th.
00:34:08.300People need to understand, too, that these elections in the off, people call them the off-year elections,
00:34:16.540but what it really is, it's a year in these odd-year elections where we have the ability to start testing new programs.
00:34:24.720You know, I keep saying it's the three boxes.
00:34:26.840You need to focus on the three boxes, the mailbox, the drop box, the ballot box.
00:34:32.680Scott, how are you encouraging people to focus on the boxes, focus on early voting?
00:34:39.560Well, for example, the next election upcoming is this next Saturday, the 14th, in the state of Louisiana.
00:34:49.040Jeff Landry has been endorsed by President Trump and the Louisiana GOP.
00:34:54.660And so, in part, I've been asking people to change up the way that they vote and vote early in person for reasons because it's an election in October.
00:35:28.480I just told you that I voted early in person.
00:35:31.440Well, Governor Glenn Youngkin, who was elected in an off year in 2021, he himself is encouraging early in person voting, vote by mail.
00:35:42.100And from the returns that we're seeing by vote by mail, Appalachia and Western Virginia, we've seen that their mail returns are in the upwards of 30 to 40 percent.
00:35:56.040And those are diehard Republican counties.
00:35:59.140So I think that the voter is really understanding the importance of an all of the above approach to voting.
00:36:40.880Right. The community coming together to to choose a leader.
00:36:44.560It's something that harkens back to the greatest days of America.
00:36:48.740But unfortunately, the left, like they do in so many other areas of American society, have destroyed our civic bonds, have turned us into this low trust society, have flooded us with people from from foreigners.
00:37:00.380That have no conception of what America used to be like.
00:37:03.180And so we currently have to operate with the system as it is before we can ever get back to the system that we want.
00:37:10.580Anyway, well, it's a long winded way of saying when I brought that out, Scott, the entire place erupted when I said that, because I know it's always a little sensitive when I get into that question.
00:37:23.940And I think, quite frankly, that especially in a state like Pennsylvania, when they saw what happened to Mastriano, what they saw, what happened to having this this Eddie Munster of, you know, kind of creature like John Fetterman or Herman Munster.
00:37:39.820I say Herman Munster kind of creature like John Fetterman representing them in the United States Senate that, OK, suddenly people are saying, look, we want to win and then we can set priorities.
00:37:49.780Are you getting that same kind of response now or is it do you see a shift at all changing?
00:37:53.860Definitely. Well, it's interesting in Pennsylvania, correct me if I'm wrong, fact check me.
00:38:00.560They have a potential 50 days of early voting, 5-0, that they could send out mail-in ballots.
00:38:06.420But the fascinating thing is in Allegheny County, which is Pittsburgh, which is the second largest county in the entire Commonwealth,
00:38:14.420they only are now on this upcoming today sending out mail-in ballots.
00:38:19.400And is that because the Democratic Party is incompetent? Is it because they've let the ball go?
00:38:27.060I'm not quite sure. But the fact of the matter is Democrats will have less time in this election doing mail-in ballots than they have in previous elections.
00:38:36.460And so we have a real opportunity, guys, in Pennsylvania.
00:38:39.280I would not be spending a month of my time. I would not be traveling in a car filled with snacks across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania if I didn't believe that we could elect Joe Rocky as Allegheny County Executive.
00:38:51.640If I didn't believe that we could elect Judge Carolyn Carluccio to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
00:38:57.280And again, today is the last day in Mississippi to register to vote.
00:39:01.720Tomorrow in Kentucky is the deadline to register to vote for that gubernatorial election for Daniel Cameron for governor.
00:39:08.420I need everybody to be swimming in the same direction. Yes, it's awful we don't have a Speaker of the House right now, but we understand why.
00:39:16.160Yes, it's awful what's happening in Israel. Yes, it's awful what's happening in Ukraine.
00:39:20.500But the fact of the matter is we have learned that elections have consequences.
00:39:24.740And if you want to stop Joe Biden next year, if you want to stop the Democrats from being emboldened,
00:39:30.520then I need you to come out this November 7th and vote in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
00:39:39.160And exactly right. So I would say basically that what you said about Pennsylvania, it sometimes it can change very varied on the county.
00:39:46.580And as you say, when the county actually sends their gets the ballots out.
00:39:50.580But so that's why potentially about 50 days is right.
00:39:53.680So what the way it works in Pennsylvania is you request an absentee ballot, you have about four to six weeks of a window where you can request that, then that shuts off.
00:40:04.080But another window is open for the return of those ballots that extends down it and then it ends on Election Day or ends just before Election Day off the top of my head.
00:40:13.380And when you put all of that together in terms of both of those windows, it is essentially a 50 day period.
00:40:21.720That's huge. There's no excuse for anyone to not utilize that if you're in a state where that's in there.
00:40:27.700And I'll say this. Look, when I was in the military, voting by absentee for Pennsylvania was great because who knows where I was going to be anywhere in the world.
00:40:35.820If I was in East Asia, when I was at Guantanamo Bay, when I was at any part of the world that I was in, easy, done, didn't have to worry about it.
00:40:43.960And I made sure that my vote counted and I make sure that all of my family does as well.
00:40:49.060Scott, when we get back, we're going to take a quick break.
00:40:51.240But if you can hold over, I want to talk to you about this automatic voter registration in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
00:40:59.360A lot of people have been against it. President Trump's made some comments, but you've got a different take on it.
00:41:04.420And I want to get that to everybody. Stay tuned, folks.
00:41:07.220Scott Pressler talking to us about how we can win elections to take back our country.
00:41:13.960And as they say, it doesn't matter if you don't win.
00:41:21.120I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
00:41:25.560All right, Jack Posobiec here. We're talking with Scott Pressler, but we're also monitoring the situation between Israel and Gaza, now potentially a northern front.
00:41:36.080We've just seen videos over the break where I'm looking at this.
00:41:41.800Hezbollah has just released a video saying, Israel, we're coming.
00:41:47.020So Hezbollah, the paramilitary terrorist organization operating out of across the northern border between Israel and Lebanon, they're next to Syria.
00:42:21.960Well, in Pennsylvania alone, we have a Supreme Court race, and we have Commonwealth Court, and we have two other statewide judicial candidates.
00:42:31.580So this is going to be a consequential election, what happens on Tuesday, November 7th.
00:42:36.700So, Scott, there was this new bill that's been pushed by Governor Shapiro, this new act, where essentially he's created automatic registration for Pennsylvanians.
00:42:50.660Now, what I understand is that this is basically motor voter on steroids.
00:42:54.380Motor voter was the option to register for voting when you sign up for your driver's license.
00:42:59.180But now he's taking that a step further, and that was national.
00:43:02.140That was pushed by Clinton in the 90s.
00:43:03.460But now there's a new step that Josh Shapiro is taking, that absolute douchebag out of Montgomery County, who's now sitting in the governor's office,
00:43:12.660embroiled, by the way, in a sexual harassment scandal where he forced female staffers to work with someone who was sexually harassing them,
00:43:21.660Mike Vareb, who's a complete lush, also out of Montgomery County, by the way.
00:43:26.920Believe me, I can tell you stories about him.
00:43:28.360But he forced these female staffers to work with him even after he knew that he was sexually harassing them.
00:43:34.960So that just goes to show you who Josh Shapiro is because he didn't want the scandal to burst on him.
00:43:40.640But, Scott, I could go on and on about Governor Shapiro and my personal animosity towards him.
00:43:47.360However, you have a different take on this automatic voter registration situation in PA.