EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's Auto Industry in Peril as Stellantis Closes Shop
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Rebel News is celebrating 10 years of fearless journalism with our 10th Birthday bash in Calgary, Canada on Oct. 16th. This week, we cover three things: 1. Gazza and how they're still butchering each other, but since it's not Gazas that's doing it, no one seems to care in the world. 2. The name of a really big car manufacturer that has decided to move jobs from Canada to the United States, and I want to show you our friends Tommy Robinson and Abhi Amini in Israel together. 3. Thoughts on canada s auto industry being moved to the USA, and thoughts on a gas war that still rages but nobody cares.
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hello my friends i'm going to try and cover three things because i was away and i just i'm glad to
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be back at our world headquarters i want to talk a bit about gaza and how they're still butchering
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each other but since it's hamas that's doing it no one seems to care in the world i want to talk
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about stellantis that's the name of a really big car manufacturer that has decided to move jobs
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from canada to the united states and i want to show you our friends tommy robinson and abhi amini
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in israel together lots to show you today which is why i'd like it if you got what we call rebel
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bills that's rebelnewsplus.com all right here's today's show hey toronto rebel news fans listen
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up rebel news is celebrating 10 years of fearless journalism with our 10th birthday bash and you're
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invited to join us last week hundreds of rebel fans packed our calgary party for an unforgettable night
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of music food and fun now it's toronto's turn join us on thursday october 16th at 6 p.m near black creek
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and lawrence for a night you will not forget expect a lively evening with rebel news journalists and
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crew past and present cocktails hors d'oeuvres and of course a birthday cake
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tonight thoughts on canada's auto industry being moved to the united states and thoughts on a gas of
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war that still rages but nobody cares it's october 15th and this is ziaz for the vance show
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hey everybody it's great to be back in toronto i was just on a whistle stop visit to the uk
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where i covered tommy robinson's trial under the terrorism act i hope you enjoyed some of that
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coverage i really feel like we play an important role there and not just our journalism and supporting
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tommy robinson but actually if you saw uh what happened yesterday the fact that i'm a citizen
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journalist that was not credentialed by the left-wing national union of journalists turned into a bit
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of a kerfuffle and the judge addressed me personally and first he banned me from live tweeting and then he
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said i could but others couldn't it's it's really the rebel in our sweet spot doing the news but
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always also fighting to make the world a better place a freer place and by the way i've got an idea
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for how to help make the uk freer i know most of our viewers are in canada but i think if we could
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help the mother country get a bit freer i think it would be a wonderful thing anyhow i'll leave that
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story for another day i'll talk in a moment about gaza and i'll show you some footage of tommy robinson
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in israel with avi amini one of the things that was on tommy's mind in his trial is if he was convicted
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and sent to jail right away he couldn't take up the israeli government on their invitation for him to
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visit israel where he is today and our avi amini is there and they're already making very interesting
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videos together but first i want to talk about something that's of great importance to obviously
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auto workers and i think the ontario economy in general and it is one of our larger exports it's
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nowhere near the size and value of the oil and gas industry but still ontario's auto industry has been
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an important part of that province coming up on a hundred years the news is a company called
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stellantis now it's not as well known a word as fiat or chrysler or jeep those are some of the
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various brands that have been conglomerated under the company called stellantis it's quite a large
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automaker um it it had you know made more than five million cars last year its revenues were a quarter
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of a trillion dollars it really is one of the biggest automakers out there even if you might not
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know the name stellantis um canadians unfortunately have gotten to know stellantis a little bit because
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of the huge corporate welfare checks being sent to them by doug ford and justin trudeau i don't know
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if you were paying attention to it but for the last two years ford and trudeau and it's continued by
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mark carney they think that if they give tens of billions of dollars to these super rich super you know
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they've got they've got more money than canada does but they give tens of billions of i think it
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totals something like 52 billion dollars the governments of ontario and canada paid or promised
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to pay to these super rich automakers to develop electric vehicle batteries in ontario i don't think
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there's any natural reason for that to be the thing that's done in ontario i could be wrong but if you
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have to put in 50 billion dollars of a subsidy that's sort of telling me that you're doing
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something the market itself doesn't believe it i mean um silicon valley doesn't need billions or 50
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billion dollars worth of subsidies to locate in america or in silicon valley they can raise whatever
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money they need and they'll go where it's best for them um the fact that these huge companies were
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willing to take free money from canada i think just shows how stupid our side is um trudeau and
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doug ford not particularly known for their negotiating skills anyways canada and ontario gave stallanus and
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and uh 52 billion and i don't know if they've produced a single electric vehicle battery from him
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um but when you don't you know when you don't really have a master plan when you don't really know how
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wealth is created and your entire strategy is just give money away maybe you don't negotiate that
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hard but here's the crazy thing despite being given a huge amount of money and i mean 11 figure checks
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by taxpayers talantis has decided to leave or at least to take uh hundreds of jobs away from their
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brampton and possibly windsor plants and move them to the united states in part to get around donald trump's
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threats of threats of tariffs anyways here's doug ford just raging about it and i can understand
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frankly this is one of the most important industries in ontario and doug ford is just watching it slip
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away it's really happening it's not just threats anymore stalantis is leaving that guy president trump
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he's a real piece of work you know something what my message to the prime minister when i meet him on
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thursday is if you can't get a deal let's start hitting him back let's start hitting the u.s back hard
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because all trump does is continue we're nice nice nice play nice in the sandbox and today is another
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tour yesterday's 10 on softwood lumber after it was 35 he increased at 10 and then he all of a sudden
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one day out of the blue someone must have told him cabinet makers and we should ship a lot of cabinets
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down there and all of a sudden now there's a tariff there i am sick and tired of sitting and rolling over
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we need to fight back folks we are an economic powerhouse we buy 356 billion dollars of goods
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canada does off the u.s we're the number one customer to the u.s no one in the world buys more goods
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than what we do we need to start hitting back and hitting back hard that's the only thing this this
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person understands sir i just get pumped up talking about this guy he drives me absolutely crazy he does
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and we aren't going to roll over he's not good i'm not going to let him roll over ontario i'll tell you that
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thank you matt kennedy here for ctv news hi matt hi premier um i'm wondering are you still committed
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to the billions committed to the stalantis ev deal in windsor given what the commune what the company
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has done in brampton i'm not going to give them a penny because it was tied in to making sure windsor
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and keep brampton going and we haven't given them a penny for brampton yet we gave them about 55 million
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out of the couple billion uh that the feds and i and the companies agreed you know it's disappointing
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they said they're going to keep brampton open i had a conversation with the president of stalantis
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yesterday he said well we're going to postpone it for a year we're going to find a new model
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you know i don't understand they're investing 13 billion in the u.s we're you know an auto
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manufacturing powerhouse here they're going to transfer 1500 the only good news there's no good
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news but the only good news is they're adding a third shift in windsor and they're going to try to
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transfer 1500 people from brampton down to windsor but we're competitive we we can produce the best
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vehicles anywhere in the entire world right here in ontario so i'm going to keep pushing like they've
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never seen before i really don't know what doug ford is trying to do other than to put on a performance
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of grief and rage here he is calling donald trump a tyrant um i know what that word means and i know
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it's ancient meaning in in the roman sense i you know it might be accurate i don't think it is but
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i know this it's probably not going to help the trade negotiations here he is calling him tyrant
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my number one job is make sure we protect the people of ontario i need to protect the communities
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against that tyrant south of the border which drives me absolutely nuts and we'll always be there
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to protect the families and businesses who call our province home i see that melanie jolie has chimed
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in i don't even know what position melanie jolie has anymore in the government i i don't really think
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it matters i don't think she's an actual decider i think she's there for demographic reasons a
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francophone woman um who is you know compared to other politicians attractive and young i guess i i don't
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think she was of any use in her foreign affairs portfolio i think she's just there as a hanger on
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it's sort of shocking to me that mark carney continued to have her in cabinet but you know
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most of the cabinet is reheated um but here she is with her deep thoughts well let me be clear on
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stelantis i'm extremely disappointed uh about this decision and uh not only am i uh disappointed it's
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completely unacceptable so we will fight for these jobs we will fight for the jobs at brampton we'll fight
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for the jobs that were committed by stelantis and we'll fight for our auto sector i've been in
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contact with lana payne the head of unifor yesterday and today i've been in contact with flavia volpe
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who's an important voice in the sector we've been working hand in glove also with the ford government
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and we're one strong team canada together and the company has commitments under different types of
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agreements with the government including the fact that we provided support for the retooling of the
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very brampton facility that right now is sitting idle so we will make sure that we push the company and
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we hold them to account i have a real question for you if you had 13 billion dollars like stelantis has
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would you invest it in ontario or would you invest it in the united states put everything else aside
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like where do you think the economic future is stronger i mean we all know that the market is in
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the u.s that's what trump is doing he's saying if you sell your cars in america you should build them
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in america and there's sort of a basic logic to it i know there was logic behind the auto pact and i
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know there were other reasons to have the production on both sides of the border but i'm just saying even
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you know whatever industry you're in it doesn't have to be cars it could be any industrial or tech
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or health company if you had a choice to put it in ontario or to put in the united states
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which do you think is the more promising economy um i i just don't know how many people would say yeah
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carney and ford's canada with out-of-control spending and taxes and out-of-control social problems
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and crime that's the future for business i just don't think it is um i think that canada's sort
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of impotent these days and and what could you do i mean doug ford i think looks like an oaf and i i
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don't think he's making any friends in the white house not that he's part of the negotiating team
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he's a provincial premier i mean it's a he has about as much relevance as a mayor but um what can
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he do really trump is saying if you want to sell cars in america build them in america and the car
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companies are saying all right even if we don't like this we can't fight it i want to show you the
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press release that the white house put out um they they sent it around and they posted a website
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uh let me read to you the part about stelantis stelantis announced a 13 billion dollar investment
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in the united states the largest single investment in the company's history the automaker plans to expand
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its u.s based production by 50 percent over the next four years reopening its plant in belvedere
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illinois and adding production at its toledo ohio warren michigan detroit michigan and kokomo indiana
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plants the investment will bring 5 000 new jobs and the production of five new vehicles to the u.s
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um i mean in canada the debate is do we get our you know 12 or 15 billion back from the electric
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wheels so in canada the only debate is who gets the government grant in america the debate is oh
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wow stelantis is bringing in their largest investment in history and that's sort of been trump's
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theme trump isn't announcing what canadian politicians call investments i.e government grants
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he's announcing investments foreign companies saying yeah we want to put money in america open
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factories hire people i honestly don't know how to stop that you know ontario has no electoral college
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votes it makes economic sense for these countries to go in the united states but it also makes political
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sense to them and if you're donald trump you care about ohio michigan indiana those are battleground
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states i just don't know what canada can do maybe it's something asymmetrical maybe canada
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can be valuable can be powerful vis-a-vis the united states in a strategic way doing something
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else there are probably creative ways to get around this because sheer gdp to gdp economy to
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economy battles we're not going to win that i think that in the past we've gotten along with strong
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american leaders through personal charm by the way i mean brian malroney and ronald reagan had a
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shared irish roots and i remember when they had that famous summit where they were both singing
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when irish eyes are smiling i mean that was a valuable connection um even when the the two leaders
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disagreed like barack obama and uh stephen harper both men really tried to make the relationship work
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i think it's fair to say that mark carney has been abusive in his language towards donald trump i'm not
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saying it's not a two-way street but mark carney's entire political promise was i'm gonna be tough
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on donald trump and i'm gonna be elbows up and i'm gonna sock it to him that worked enough to convince
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enough canadians to vote liberal but if you know whether you like him or you hate him i i just think
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we can all agree that doesn't work with donald trump um i think that you can reach out to him on a
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personal level i think you can reach out to him on a strategic level remember when the president of
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el salvador which is a tiny country did something really useful and valuable to donald trump you know
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that supermax terrorist prison that el salvador made and they basically arrested every gang member
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and every drug dealer in the country and put him in this supermax prison one of the largest prisons in
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the world it's very interesting and he did and naibukele the president of el salvador did it for
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salvadorans but then he knew that america had a need where are you going to put your ms 13 deportees
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he said i'll take them and he did trump a political favor frankly an economic favor a legal favor and so
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trump i think smiles on el salvador not because el salvador is a mighty economy but because they
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actually helped them out maybe there's something canada could have done should have done in that vein
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even if it was just not trying to step on the negotiations for the hamas israel peace deal
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you know in the middle of tense negotiations mark carney says you know what i'm just going to reward
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hamas by saying that i support the independence of palestine is it is that ingratiating you with i mean
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every american leader said that made it that made it tougher there are ways canada can be useful i think
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oil and gas is the most important way to make america independent of opec oil but of course that's
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against the liberal agenda hey did you see how trump showed his support for argentina's javier
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mile yesterday now this is just rhetorical support but you can see the two men had some sort of a
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connection and i don't know what javier mile has actually managed to get from the united states but he
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certainly got the personal affection of donald trump trump has trouble remembering mark carney's name here's
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trump on mile i'm with this man because his philosophy is correct we're going to work very much with
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the president we think he's going to win he should win and if he does win we're going to be very helpful
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and if he doesn't win we're not going to waste our time the president's party will and the coalition
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will do well in the election and this aid is predicated on robust policies and going back to the
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fail peronis policies uh win calls a u.s rethink now i don't know maybe that's going to backfire in
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argentina but i think that you know obviously javier mile has been able to get trump to work with him
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to work to support him i don't think that mark carney has done so and it doesn't matter if their
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personalities clash your job as prime minister especially in this age is to find a way to make
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it work and mark carney has been prime minister for more than 200 days and he has not done so
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and the thing is that's his core promise he was elected on stopping this whole thing from happening
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he's had more than half a year and he hasn't moved things forward an inch he had a meeting with trump
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and nothing came from it now i'm not happy that good jobs are moving from canada to the united states
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of course i'm not but it's also hard to understand why canada especially mark carney and other
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premiers don't allow other good jobs to be created in canada especially in oil and gas that is a huge
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global industry 10 trillion dollars a year market and the thing about oil and gas production you can't
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move it across the border you can't move it to the u.s like you can with the production of cars the
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production of oil and gas has to happen where the oil and gas is and it is in canada especially in
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alberta you can sell it to the u.s you can pump it to the u.s you can even sell raw material and
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they'll refine it down there sure but the primary jobs of exploration and production remain in canada
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but mark carney and the rest of the establishment especially premiers in quebec and bc will not let
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that happen so yes it's worth crying over several thousand jobs in ontario absolutely but what about a
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hundred thousand jobs in alberta just a disaster now i wanted to talk about that because it's a
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crisis for ontario but again the feds have killed 10 times as many jobs and 10 times as much investment
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in alberta's oil patch i mean any one pipeline northern gateway energy east keystone excel the
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new one proposed by alberta any single pipeline project out there and i just named four are larger
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than the amount that stalantus just pledged to the united states you can do all four of those pipelines
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just that and by the way you don't need government investment like you do for a fake electric
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vehicle battery plant there are private companies ready to build them with their own money oh and to
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pay tax on them but we don't allow that in canada but you're supposed to grieve over the auto sector
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just not for the oil and gas sector statistically speaking can you save 90 percent of your grief for
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what trudeau and carney have done to canada themselves by the way in case you're wondering uh the value
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of canada's oil and gas exports the united states is about triple the value of our car trade with
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them all right i want to talk about a second thing if i may a completely different subject just because
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i've been away a bit and this has been driving me crazy i don't know if you know this but despite
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or actually because of the peace deal that israel signed there are hundreds of palestinians being
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killed in gaza i don't know if you've seen this but the murders are being done by hamas against
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other palestinians so nobody cares certainly not the media certainly not palestine activists
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donald trump calls himself the president of peace and frankly who can deny it i mean seven wars he has
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helped negotiate the end of the most complex one i think is israel gaza i mean how do you put together
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pakistan and turkey and saudi arabia and egypt and hamas qatar and israel now i say hamas qatar
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because they're with qatar on board hamas sort of has to be on board because qatar is sort of like
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their surety their guarantor um you know if they don't do it trump's going to lean on qatar it looks
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like trump was victorious both in israel when the hostages came in when they were released finally and
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in egypt where the muslim and arab countries came together oh and a few white non-muslim non-arab
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leaders too keir starmer from the united kingdom emmanuel macron from france mark carney from canada
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they had nothing to do with the peace deal like i say all of them gave an enormous diplomatic win
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to hamas with nothing in return no consequences no compromise no conditions they say we recognize you
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as a country what before they had done anything before they had given the hostages back they
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actually rewarded their terrorist behavior but trump had them there oh and and they lied about
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their important role they all endorsed palestine as sovereign under hamas without any movement from
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there and now they're trying to take credit for trump's move that they undermine here's a british
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cabinet minister just full-on lying about it we have played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this
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it's right that we do so because it's in all of our interest including our own national interest
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uh that we move to a lasting peace in the region well when you say behind the scenes like what i mean
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what what it seems to everybody else in the world that this has been done by trump and the israelis
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and hamas what what part did we play these are complex matters of diplomacy that we are involved in
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but we do welcome and recognize the critical role that the american government played in moving us to
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this point what matters now of course is how we move beyond this immediate end to the war moving
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towards that lasting peace that we all want to see and that is why we have recognized a palestinian
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state but why alongside that we're committed to making sure that a safe and secure israel
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endures the reason i ask this is because um as you say we recognize a palestinian state
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uh marco rubio the secretary of state said that actually made it more difficult to land the deal
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um what what what's really going on here i mean uh was that some sort of clever strategic double bluff i
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mean the americans say we made it more difficult you're saying that we played this key part
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what's true well we believed as a government that it was the right thing to do to recognize the
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palestinian state because of the way in which the conflict had developed over the last two years
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that if that hadn't happened we would be in a position where there would no longer be that
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viable option of a palestinian but the israelis were furious with us the americans said that we
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actually hampered the deal what was the positive role that we played it was the right thing to do
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and we will always act as a government in that manner i do obviously understand that not everyone
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agrees with that decision but given the scale of the conflict and what needed to happen we felt it
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was the right thing to do to recognize that palestinian state but yeah the u.s ambassador
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to israel couldn't help himself here he is tweeting that she's just quote delusional
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i think my favorite moment i know i follow the uk a little bit much but here's trump
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introducing and then unintroducing keir starmer the british prime minister on the stage starmer thought
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he was going to be asked to talk and trump looked at them and sort of said yeah no take a look at this
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little interaction united kingdom where's united kingdom where's our friend
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these people all came in like 20 20 minute notice and i think it's fantastic and we have so many
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others and just so many others and yeah he flew all the way there for that i don't even think he
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mentioned mark carney but why are macron carney and starmer there like why would trump have them
00:25:59.880
there they were of no use or ornament to get the deal done i think put put on your trump hat put on
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your art of the deal hat and maybe it becomes clearer trump wants to rebuild gaza he wants to
00:26:13.500
demilitarize gaza he wants to if possible turn it into a sort of dubai i'm very skeptical that it can be
00:26:19.960
done but it's going to need hundreds of billions of dollars and it's going to need some sort of boots
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on the ground to demilitarize and and police the place well that's why macron and starmer and carney
00:26:32.380
were invited because to get back with the cool kids to make it up to trump for trying to scupper his deal
00:26:38.720
don't you think trump is going to demand from macron from starmer and from carney tens of billions of
00:26:46.100
dollars maybe a hundred billion dollars and maybe soldiers on the ground and do you doubt that these
00:26:52.240
leaders are going to provide it i think in the end there will be no u.s troops in gaza and no u.s money
00:26:58.480
i think trump for to allow these people to hang out with them is going to say you have to pay for it hey
00:27:05.900
saudi arabia hey qatar hey united arab emirates hey france canada and uk we need you guys to put
00:27:12.800
together half a trillion dollars to rebuild the rebel here that's trump the deal maker don't you
00:27:17.120
think anyways i want to let you know that my friend tommy robinson is in israel because of course his
00:27:23.960
verdict in the terrorism act trial won't be till november 4th here's a clip of avi the other day
00:27:29.900
before tommy arrived um when the hostages were coming home i'll be a mini for rebel news at hostage
00:27:36.220
square in tel aviv for the truthaboutthewar.com we're here i guess to circle back and round off
00:27:43.560
our reporting that started in october 2023 for the truthaboutthewar.com where myself and benji
00:27:49.840
flew here just to cover what was happening to tell the other side of the story and we're back here now
00:27:55.120
in israel to end the story and it ends here at hostage square trump has just declared the war is over
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today the skies are calm the guns are silent the sirens are still and the sun rises on a holy land
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that is finally at peace a land and a region that will live god willing in peace for all eternity
00:28:18.020
and the hostages are being released as we speak we're here to find out how israelis are feeling
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how are you feeling uh i can't even describe in words uh we are so excited uh we have the first
00:28:43.080
seven we're waiting for the next they're 13 or 15 hopefully 15 and it's it's amazing it's finally
00:28:52.300
here amazing feeling great bring back the hostages thank you trump there you go i think that kind of
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sums up how israelis are feeling i'm happy did you believe this was going to happen yes you knew the
00:29:07.760
whole time they were coming home yes wow great wonderful did you believe did you believe this day
00:29:14.700
is going to come yes of course you believed it was a percent yes i can't explain it it's the most
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incredible joy we've been waiting for this day for so long and i was sitting in my home in a suburb of
00:29:27.600
tel aviv about um an hour from here and i just i just couldn't be there i just came here yeah you came
00:29:32.680
as soon as you saw that that it's happening now watching at home for my television screen i'm like
00:29:36.360
how can i be there i need to be here so here i am your t-shirt how are you doing we're loving your t-shirt
00:29:43.500
why are you wearing that today here why am i wearing this for the best president ever
00:29:48.280
do you think that today the fact we've already got seven hostages out now um that trump has not
00:30:04.240
only made america great again it sounds like he's making israel great again he's making the world great
00:30:08.880
again he's a king of peace king of peace when when when did it become real for you is it today or has
00:30:17.020
it been since the deal was signed and today we are so lots of smiles lots of tears of course and
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that's all yeah what do you want to say to the world watching this now
00:30:29.400
um i'm so happy that they are coming back home and sadly not everybody are alive and the one that
00:30:38.260
they are alive that they're going to bring back them to recover and they're dead to be buried in
00:30:45.580
homeland and some of them go back home because there are some foreigners that they are being kidnapped
00:30:50.460
and i'm so happy that it's happened we are in historical moment that this moment is happening
00:30:58.480
after two years and six days that we are waiting them to come back home and we are i'm so thrilled i'm
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so in the last few days i'm tears all over you know these are now the vans of the hostages coming
00:31:13.060
into israeli territory and the crowd here is going absolutely wild on one side of the screen trump on
00:31:25.340
the other side the hostages returning home what a historic moment another group of hostages have just
00:31:32.920
been announced that they are on their way to the israeli forces and back to their families
00:31:39.460
can i ask you how you feel today amazing amazing amazing hey talani come on girl
00:31:47.140
that's why i brought the dogs you know it's the whole people of israel are happy and that includes
00:31:53.340
the dogs and uh we don't leave anybody behind so this feels really really really good
00:31:59.060
thank you you're doing an amazing job really and it's it's missed in the entire world and it's
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really really it's kadosh for us forget about me what's today how are you feeling today very
00:32:12.780
special very special uh i have no words it's like uh it includes a lot of emotions so it's
00:32:20.240
not like it's very it's very complicated celebratory moment we're very very happy we've been waiting
00:32:27.460
for this moment since october 7th obviously the job isn't done until all the hostages living
00:32:32.360
and that are here but this is a great step forward i feel uh the fact trump has put all of his weight
00:32:40.020
into making sure the war is over it's not just a ceasefire it's not just a hostage deal but it's
00:32:45.940
actually a full end to this war uh he's fully committed to that and he made sure that now understand
00:32:51.860
that uh really opens up the opportunity for this to be an actual moment on a way forward for a better
00:32:58.560
future for our kids for a better future for this region for a better future for the palestinians
00:33:03.480
as well um and that just makes this day all the more sweet because it's not just about this moment
00:33:08.720
it's about what's to come relieved have you been watching you've been here the whole time everything
00:33:13.980
almost uh many weekends i've been here i've been here on saturday and now i'm here today and
00:33:19.260
you can see the energy look at the sunlight like the energy is really positive there's a sense of
00:33:24.300
relief cannot get a sense of breath really like uh there's something that's off of your chest and
00:33:29.600
this euphoria i feel very emotional i i don't live here but uh i to be here with them and i mean it's
00:33:40.440
like uh really a big uh revelation for me because i think they i can sense the joy but also the
00:33:50.980
you know the sadness in them and it's it's heartbreaking and it's not finished maybe
00:34:13.920
how are you feeling today i i am so excited we've been here for the last two years every saturday
00:34:21.580
night we came out to try and get them back and it's just so amazing that it's finally happened i
00:34:28.600
feel like i'm going to start crying and i'm never going to stop until we see them all it's extremely
00:34:33.580
emotional after uh two years of living this reality it's it's it's honestly it's hard to believe that
00:34:38.820
we're here i think now that we've got seven over the line and 13 more i mean that's what it's all
00:34:44.040
about is getting these people home to their families now i don't know if you've been following
00:34:49.040
what's been happening in australia during this period as well have you have you seen what because
00:34:52.820
you've been living here yeah yeah i've been here nearly a decade uh but but yeah of course i mean
00:34:57.400
how can you not it's probably one of the most publicized broadcasts globally about the anti-semitism
00:35:03.160
that's going on can i ask how you're feeling today yeah what why is it so emotional
00:35:10.140
president donald j trump has just officially landed in israel to a welcome a warm welcome by the entire
00:35:28.640
nation so happy filled with gratitude that he is here today only seven hostages have been released
00:35:36.820
that there's at least another 13 live hostages that are supposed to be released in the next hours
00:35:46.660
the screen basically is showing on one side trump the other side the hostages in a convoy and the
00:36:06.620
crowd is thanking the president everybody unanimously agreeing that president donald trump is the one who
00:36:14.620
deserves at least most of the credit for this deal today well that's come and gone uh and i'll have
00:36:22.160
some more video about the new things we're recording namely tommy robinson's visit navi was there to greet
00:36:28.540
him i think there's a prospect for peace i think that iran and its proxies are dashed two years ago you
00:36:37.120
had iran itself that was armed to the teeth they were colonizing syria with bashar assad
00:36:43.080
lebanon's hezbollah was really running the country not the lebanese government
00:36:48.500
and of course you had hamas in gaza israel really was surrounded by a military machine that iran had
00:36:56.240
spent 40 years building but things have turned around so quickly even that indonesia comment indonesia is
00:37:03.100
the largest muslim country in the world in case you didn't know you take a look at what their leaders
00:37:07.300
said the other day we must also recognize we must also respect and we must also guarantee
00:37:15.040
the safety and security of israel only then we can have real peace real peace thank you
00:37:30.680
things are turning around isn't it all those countries that surround it have basically been
00:37:36.340
destroyed or cut down to size i mean iran itself the bulk of their ballistic muslim nuclear program
00:37:43.080
was wiped out with american help hezbollah was totally decapitated their leadership destroyed
00:37:48.540
including with exploding pagers the colonization of syria is over bashar assad is now in exile
00:37:54.580
in moscow they say he's playing video games by the day and hamas is in full retreat now in gaza
00:38:00.640
israel has knocked its threat down to size and israel is interested in peace i believe within months
00:38:07.340
you will see the second phase of the abraham accords i expect saudi arabia itself will join
00:38:12.220
it wouldn't be something if indonesia was in there but here's my point the first phase of the peace deal
00:38:17.500
for trump was getting the hostages back and israel releasing hundreds of terrorists in return
00:38:22.260
but hamas is already breaking their deal by not returning all the dead hostages body but mainly
00:38:30.080
they're taking advantage of israel's withdrawal i don't know if you saw the plan step one
00:38:37.320
is for the hostages to be returned to israel dead or alive
00:38:41.340
step two israel pulls back to certain lines but that has taken the pressure off of hamas
00:38:49.260
which has flooded into the zone and they have begun to massacre their rivals you could imagine for the
00:38:56.920
past two years a lot of people have been grumbling who decided to invade and slaughter israel on october
00:39:03.340
7th 2023 and look what they have brought to gaza and who hides beneath schools and hospitals
00:39:08.900
don't think that there wasn't rage and anger against hamas and some people had the courage to speak out
00:39:16.500
over the last two years well now it's reckoning time and hamas is massacring entire clans entire
00:39:23.380
family names are being killed by hamas and these are muslim arabs by the way hamas is calling them
00:39:29.500
collaborators yeah no not everyone's a collaborator that's just what you call people in in gaza before
00:39:35.660
you kill them so there's been an enormous number of brutal murders and i mean murders not battles not war
00:39:43.380
but outright murder on the streets committed by hamas but complete silence from the west just brutal
00:39:49.700
executions in the streets no one seems to care now why don't they care don't they care about gazans
00:39:57.100
i don't actually think so i'm not sure if they ever did now was it really a genocide
00:40:04.940
i don't think so the population of gaz has actually gone up israel could have flattened the whole place
00:40:12.040
instead of being more careful about how they went building by building the first genocide that the
00:40:19.120
alleged victims of the genocide could have stopped any time simply by handing over the hostages was it
00:40:24.040
a famine i don't think so i think the images show a lot of very well-fed people so all these things
00:40:34.520
but why not because no one is stopped by this deal not hamas not hamas supporters they still hate
00:40:47.480
israel that's what it was always about it wasn't about stopping the war in gaza that was just a swamp
00:40:53.680
that israel got stuck in but they absolutely continue to hate israel full force in fact the
00:41:01.180
biggest rally ever in london uh other than the the rally against tony blair 30 years ago the biggest
00:41:08.480
rally in london uh for palestine or hamas was this weekend after the deal there's been not a moment's
00:41:16.000
break in pro hamas activity anywhere in the west i don't actually think it's about gaza i think it's
00:41:22.080
only about getting the jews and when they were trapped in gaza the israeli defense forces that
00:41:27.500
was a great way to get at israel and the jews but now that they're no longer in there and now that
00:41:33.020
there's peace in the region or hopefully there is that hasn't stopped the anti-jewish anti-semitic
00:41:38.640
anti-israel attacks here's a young man in oxford after the peace deal that is the key point here
00:41:45.380
listen to him upright a steadfast and a noble resistance in palestine and in gaza to look to
00:41:51.520
to be inspired by and i don't want to yap for too long but a chant that we've been workshopping in
00:41:58.780
oxford that maybe you guys want to join in uh it goes gaza gaza make us proud put the zayos in the
00:42:15.600
what an absolute nutter what a i can't believe that that kind of person is
00:42:37.240
is in oxford university what a disgrace i understand he's being suspended i mean he's
00:42:42.080
basically calling for murder i mean he's basically calling for the stabbing attack that happened in
00:42:48.120
manchester a week ago where two jews were killed i've always said the problem is far worse here in
00:42:54.280
canada than in israel because at least in israel they know what the problem is here in canada we
00:42:59.180
turn a blind eye to it i mean for starters why are we still taking gaza refugees in canada
00:43:03.680
why haven't we sent the syrian refugees home now that there's peace there
00:43:07.680
i think tommy robinson is actually morally clear on these things certainly clearer than
00:43:12.920
mark carney or keir starmer here's some footage from his trip with abi
00:43:18.360
tommy robinson has just landed in israel on an official invitation from israel's minister of
00:43:25.320
diaspora affairs amichai chicly a major moment for free speech and truth telling on the world stage
00:43:31.660
we'll be following him all along the way for tommy in israel.com
00:43:36.660
shalom shalom shalom shalom how are you feeling
00:43:41.020
i'm happy to be here mate i'm honored to be here
00:43:43.440
what are you hoping from this trip i'm hoping to show solidarity with real strong leadership
00:43:49.240
i wish our country had a leader like netanyahu we have weak cowards our government have recognized
00:43:54.280
a terrorist state and that government are not elected on a mandate they are elected with 20
00:43:59.000
percent of the public vote so i don't want people in israel to think that the other 80 percent
00:44:03.080
of people not even the majority of labor support them um support recognizing a terrorist state so
00:44:08.040
i'm here to show solidarity with the jewish people and the israeli people for a strong and hopefully form
00:44:13.080
good a lot um good friendships and understand because israel is surrounded by jihad britain is
00:44:19.320
going to be surrounded by jihad yeah the problems that israel faces here are the same problems that
00:44:23.880
we're going to face so the security issues that israel has and jews have in in the state of israel
00:44:28.520
we're all going to face in europe it's coming to our whole of europe because we have allowed and
00:44:33.240
empowered islamic extremism we have leaders who have got on their knees to them and appeased them
00:44:38.040
and they still think they can appease them obviously israel understands now they can't
00:44:41.320
appease them i remember a time when jews were dragged out of gaza jews were dragged out of
00:44:46.120
gaza as part of a peace deal that would somehow give peace which everyone knows it doesn't bring
00:44:50.360
peace so yeah i'm here i'm here as a friend of israel look i'm happy to be here and i'm privileged
00:44:55.640
to be here so listen i'm taller than you have you um not sure about that part but the truth is the
00:45:00.520
mosad ran out of money so they've sent me to come here and we're not getting seven thousand dollars
00:45:05.480
opposed yeah i want to add them all up i said if anyone's paying seven thousand dollars i'm owed
00:45:10.120
millions the truth the truth the truth is i don't do this i've never been paid a penny from from
00:45:14.920
israel i do it because i see israel as an ally as a partner as the only place where we are now
00:45:21.080
surrounded this is a beacon of freedom and democracy of rights of all the things that we as british
00:45:26.520
people hold dear and all the places surrounding this are human rights violations uh terror states jihad
00:45:32.760
states so yeah look and we're not being paid by anyone to be here and cover it to be honest i think
00:45:38.360
it's important for rebel to be here because we know bbc sky and the rest of the fake news are
00:45:43.480
going to run a certain hammer me a certain narrative about this house so we've actually set up a website
00:45:48.520
like rebel does tommy in israel.com you'll be able to get a front row seat to tommy's actual tour here
00:45:54.520
in israel bookmark it and if you want to help us with the seven thousand dollars post you can do it
00:46:00.520
there tommy in israel.com mate welcome we're really excited i've been trying to get him here for so long
00:46:06.200
it took amichai chicley from the dice mate you're here on a state visit
00:46:12.520
enemy of the state to friend of the state of the state in britain friend of the state in israel
00:46:17.560
but not just friend of the state in israel because i believe now i'm a friend of the state in many
00:46:20.840
countries i don't know if you heard was what happened in panama no no so i went to colombia
00:46:25.240
and they refused me entry and they deported me i landed in panama and they were deporting me there
00:46:30.440
and then the mayor of panama saw it online and he sent a security truck a cyber truck to come and
00:46:36.280
pick me up and apologize and he sent me he sent me a beautiful message just saying i can't believe
00:46:40.520
that i'm getting to meet you like this so and that that's in panama so i've had some it's spreading
00:46:45.560
i feel the shift in america mate i can tell you now everybody that's seen our camera here in the
00:46:50.360
airport asked who were you waiting for tommy robinson they're like really the entire country knows
00:46:56.040
knows who you are and are excited and and and to be honest even people on the left at some of these
00:47:00.920
protests like i like him that's that's what you i feel you're going to get that welcome that trump
00:47:07.400
kind of gets here which is thank you for being a real friend trump was here 72 hours ago when he 48
00:47:12.920
hours ago which i was here at the same time but yeah i just think that so many people now and our
00:47:17.560
government and that are the cowardly leadership have hung the jews out especially in britain it must be a
00:47:23.240
great place tommy and israel.com you can follow along the whole tour we're going to give you
00:47:30.360
everything and make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell on youtube because i'll probably
00:47:35.560
be going live with him through this tour as well but most importantly if you can help us out it has
00:47:40.920
cost us a packet to get here mend benji's flights alone were five and a half thousand dollars each so almost
00:47:47.960
or just under so ten and a half thousand dollars i think between us ten six and then the rest of it
00:47:52.840
we're paying for our own hotels no government no ngos we're paying for everything ourselves
00:47:56.840
so we rely on you guys our viewers to help make it happen tommy in israel.com
00:48:06.600
hey welcome back uh don't mind me rambling over several subjects just so much going on and i was
00:48:11.160
away for a day um let me read to you from a premium subscriber comments on my trip to cover tommy
00:48:18.680
robinson's trial john bedbrook says britain is broken canada as well you know it's not totally
00:48:26.760
broken and i think it's worth trying to fix both of them and i in some ways it's never been worse but
00:48:32.200
in other ways i feel like it's never been stronger i mean i was just reminiscing that a few years ago
00:48:37.000
when i would cover tommy robinson in court i would be the only person there that was a journalist or an
00:48:41.800
activist i would be the only person outside the court reporting my thoughts afterwards now there's 20
00:48:46.600
citizen journalists all fired up so that's a sign of hope isn't it matt abraham says there's no such
00:48:53.080
thing as a bbc journalist they are all propagandists like the so-called cbc journalists yeah this is the
00:48:58.680
third time a bbc journalist to try to get me in trouble not through writing something but by tattling
00:49:04.840
i don't know if you remember a few years ago a bbc journalist asked me reported me to the british police
00:49:09.240
to the police james denver says great job ezra and rebel when you rattle the state media you know
00:49:15.720
you're doing a good job well that does make me feel good because the only reason the bbc would
00:49:19.800
try and stop me is if i was having some sort of impact and i had about eight and a half million
00:49:24.360
views on my tweets on monday and about five and a half million on tuesday you add that together
00:49:29.480
it's 14 million views even if those numbers are inflated in some way even if it's only 10 of that
00:49:35.240
that's more viewers than i tell you uh read the bbc journalist comments and i think that's why he
00:49:40.120
tattled on me because he was mad that i was getting so many views from my opinion which was
00:49:46.520
of the wrong opinion anyways i'm glad the judge in the end uh accepted my canadian journalism
00:49:53.320
credentials but it still upsets me that he kept so many others out that's our show for the day
00:50:00.120
until next time on behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night