Juno News - November 05, 2023


Why the left is always wrong (ft. Dennis Prager)


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Dennis Prager joins me to talk about his views on Israel and why it is so important to him that the world support Israel, and why Taiwan should not be supported by the West. We also talk about why the left should not support Israel.

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00:00:00.000 And well, it doesn't fit into the broader discussion of wokeness that I was having on
00:00:13.540 the show. I did want to take a bit of a stop and just talk about Israel because I ran into
00:00:18.360 Dennis Prager, who's been one of the most consistent and clear voices on Israel. Now,
00:00:23.500 he's a Jewish man, a conservative lion in American media, but his stand for Israel is not
00:00:30.420 just because of his own Judaism. I spoke about that for a few minutes with him the other day.
00:00:35.660 Let me just first ask you, how would you rank the world's support of Israel right now,
00:00:40.860 left and right? I mean, in one sense, we see, you know, Democrats, Republicans,
00:00:44.700 liberals, conservatives saying the right things, but is it authentic in your view?
00:00:48.520 Uh, I, I'm not a pursuer of the question. Is it authentic? Uh, I, I care how people act and speak,
00:01:00.460 how authentic it is. Let God judge my, I only care about what people do and what people say publicly.
00:01:08.840 So if we live in a world where people feel that they have to come out and support Israel,
00:01:18.180 but they really don't believe it, that's fine with me. We, I, I, it's hard to imagine such a world.
00:01:25.140 Uh, do, does everybody who supports, uh, uh, Hamas, which is the same as saying,
00:01:30.120 I support the Palestinians right now, uh, uh, are, are they mean it or are they just
00:01:35.560 reflexively anti-West? It doesn't matter. It matters what you do.
00:01:42.460 So, uh, as I said, I don't know about the authenticity issue. I only care about
00:01:49.160 the moral clarity issue. If you can't say Hamas is evil and Israel is good relative to their, uh, 0.66
00:01:58.120 their enemy, your moral compass is broken.
00:02:01.460 Why is it that so many on the left have such difficulty with that? I mean, you look at,
00:02:06.640 you know, queers against Israeli apartheid being one of the most absurd examples of this people that, 1.00
00:02:11.600 uh, would not be able to be who they are in Gaza, but are still believing that Israel is the
00:02:16.360 oppressor. I mean, how, how on earth do they reconcile that in your view?
00:02:20.420 How do they reconcile saying men give birth? How do they reconcile saying America is systemically
00:02:26.220 racist? How do they reconcile saying defund the police? The left is always wrong. Uh,
00:02:33.100 that, that is a rule of life. It has been true since Vladimir Lenin till, till today, not liberals.
00:02:40.460 Liberals are wrong for voting for the left, but liberal values are the antithesis of left-wing
00:02:45.800 values. The left is always wrong and all the touch, everything it touches that destroys.
00:02:50.660 So when you ask, how does a gay, uh, become pro-Palestinian when they, they might not live 1.00
00:02:57.960 a week if they were openly gay in Gaza, whereas they'll have a parade for them in Tel Aviv, uh, 0.52
00:03:05.980 they, they, it is not a matter of reconciling. They hate what is good. All leftists hate what is
00:03:12.260 good. They hate what is beautiful. They hate Shakespeare. I mean, they hate, uh, these are lost
00:03:18.780 souls. Every, every civilization seems to produce some, and, uh, they have unfortunately become
00:03:26.960 dominant. Why is just in closing Israel so important and why should it be supported?
00:03:34.100 Well, there are many separate issues here. Why should Taiwan be supported? Okay. Taiwan is not 0.89
00:03:41.860 the, the cradle of Western civilization that Israel is. It all comes from the, the Hebrew Bible.
00:03:48.640 Everything in the West. Uh, uh, but, uh, I would be as adamant about supporting Taiwan,
00:03:55.200 uh, to be perfectly honest. The idea that you don't support, uh, any, any other country until
00:04:03.100 you're invaded, uh, is, is not a moral position in my opinion. You have the strongest country on
00:04:12.740 earth and you only protect yourself. You don't protect the little guy, but Israel is, is of 0.98
00:04:19.680 incredible strategic importance to America. It is America's ally in the Middle East, a pretty 0.98
00:04:24.400 important part of the world. Plus, if you believe in values, you know, that's the cradle of Judeo-Christian
00:04:31.340 values. There's your Judeo. I think that's pretty significant.
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