Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Canada's Auto Industry in Peril as Stellantis Closes Shop

00:00:00.000 hello my friends i'm going to try and cover three things because i was away and i just i'm glad to

00:00:04.760 be back at our world headquarters i want to talk a bit about gaza and how they're still butchering 1.00

00:00:10.680 each other but since it's hamas that's doing it no one seems to care in the world i want to talk 1.00

00:00:15.100 about stellantis that's the name of a really big car manufacturer that has decided to move jobs

00:00:19.800 from canada to the united states and i want to show you our friends tommy robinson and abhi amini

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00:01:32.800 tonight thoughts on canada's auto industry being moved to the united states and thoughts on a gas of

00:01:51.360 war that still rages but nobody cares it's october 15th and this is ziaz for the vance show

00:01:57.500 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:02:03.760 hey everybody it's great to be back in toronto i was just on a whistle stop visit to the uk

00:02:17.480 where i covered tommy robinson's trial under the terrorism act i hope you enjoyed some of that

00:02:22.680 coverage i really feel like we play an important role there and not just our journalism and supporting

00:02:28.420 tommy robinson but actually if you saw uh what happened yesterday the fact that i'm a citizen

00:02:34.080 journalist that was not credentialed by the left-wing national union of journalists turned into a bit

00:02:40.520 of a kerfuffle and the judge addressed me personally and first he banned me from live tweeting and then he

00:02:46.100 said i could but others couldn't it's it's really the rebel in our sweet spot doing the news but

00:02:53.680 always also fighting to make the world a better place a freer place and by the way i've got an idea

00:02:59.420 for how to help make the uk freer i know most of our viewers are in canada but i think if we could

00:03:05.540 help the mother country get a bit freer i think it would be a wonderful thing anyhow i'll leave that

00:03:10.480 story for another day i'll talk in a moment about gaza and i'll show you some footage of tommy robinson

00:03:17.220 in israel with avi amini one of the things that was on tommy's mind in his trial is if he was convicted

00:03:22.940 and sent to jail right away he couldn't take up the israeli government on their invitation for him to

00:03:29.160 visit israel where he is today and our avi amini is there and they're already making very interesting

00:03:35.380 videos together but first i want to talk about something that's of great importance to obviously

00:03:40.220 auto workers and i think the ontario economy in general and it is one of our larger exports it's

00:03:46.000 nowhere near the size and value of the oil and gas industry but still ontario's auto industry has been

00:03:51.640 an important part of that province coming up on a hundred years the news is a company called

00:03:57.400 stellantis now it's not as well known a word as fiat or chrysler or jeep those are some of the

00:04:05.240 various brands that have been conglomerated under the company called stellantis it's quite a large

00:04:10.320 automaker um it it had you know made more than five million cars last year its revenues were a quarter

00:04:18.040 of a trillion dollars it really is one of the biggest automakers out there even if you might not

00:04:22.560 know the name stellantis um canadians unfortunately have gotten to know stellantis a little bit because

00:04:28.580 of the huge corporate welfare checks being sent to them by doug ford and justin trudeau i don't know

00:04:36.180 if you were paying attention to it but for the last two years ford and trudeau and it's continued by

00:04:41.680 mark carney they think that if they give tens of billions of dollars to these super rich super you know

00:04:49.760 they've got they've got more money than canada does but they give tens of billions of i think it

00:04:55.100 totals something like 52 billion dollars the governments of ontario and canada paid or promised

00:05:03.140 to pay to these super rich automakers to develop electric vehicle batteries in ontario i don't think

00:05:11.940 there's any natural reason for that to be the thing that's done in ontario i could be wrong but if you

00:05:17.840 have to put in 50 billion dollars of a subsidy that's sort of telling me that you're doing

00:05:22.240 something the market itself doesn't believe it i mean um silicon valley doesn't need billions or 50

00:05:29.660 billion dollars worth of subsidies to locate in america or in silicon valley they can raise whatever

00:05:36.440 money they need and they'll go where it's best for them um the fact that these huge companies were 1.00

00:05:42.120 willing to take free money from canada i think just shows how stupid our side is um trudeau and 0.98

00:05:48.280 doug ford not particularly known for their negotiating skills anyways canada and ontario gave stallanus and 0.99

00:05:54.000 and uh 52 billion and i don't know if they've produced a single electric vehicle battery from him

00:06:00.860 um but when you don't you know when you don't really have a master plan when you don't really know how

00:06:07.320 wealth is created and your entire strategy is just give money away maybe you don't negotiate that

00:06:14.740 hard but here's the crazy thing despite being given a huge amount of money and i mean 11 figure checks

00:06:22.120 by taxpayers talantis has decided to leave or at least to take uh hundreds of jobs away from their

00:06:30.560 brampton and possibly windsor plants and move them to the united states in part to get around donald trump's

00:06:37.240 threats of threats of tariffs anyways here's doug ford just raging about it and i can understand

00:06:43.280 frankly this is one of the most important industries in ontario and doug ford is just watching it slip

00:06:49.320 away it's really happening it's not just threats anymore stalantis is leaving that guy president trump

00:06:54.840 he's a real piece of work you know something what my message to the prime minister when i meet him on

00:06:59.900 thursday is if you can't get a deal let's start hitting him back let's start hitting the u.s back hard 0.55

00:07:06.480 because all trump does is continue we're nice nice nice play nice in the sandbox and today is another

00:07:13.440 tour yesterday's 10 on softwood lumber after it was 35 he increased at 10 and then he all of a sudden

00:07:19.800 one day out of the blue someone must have told him cabinet makers and we should ship a lot of cabinets

00:07:25.180 down there and all of a sudden now there's a tariff there i am sick and tired of sitting and rolling over

00:07:31.340 we need to fight back folks we are an economic powerhouse we buy 356 billion dollars of goods

00:07:40.080 canada does off the u.s we're the number one customer to the u.s no one in the world buys more goods

00:07:47.540 than what we do we need to start hitting back and hitting back hard that's the only thing this this

00:07:54.520 person understands sir i just get pumped up talking about this guy he drives me absolutely crazy he does

00:08:01.740 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

00:08:05.580 this will be the last reporter

00:08:07.480 thank you matt kennedy here for ctv news hi matt hi premier um i'm wondering are you still committed

00:08:17.560 to the billions committed to the stalantis ev deal in windsor given what the commune what the company

00:08:23.100 has done in brampton i'm not going to give them a penny because it was tied in to making sure windsor

00:08:29.080 and keep brampton going and we haven't given them a penny for brampton yet we gave them about 55 million

00:08:35.120 out of the couple billion uh that the feds and i and the companies agreed you know it's disappointing

00:08:41.240 they said they're going to keep brampton open i had a conversation with the president of stalantis

00:08:45.840 yesterday he said well we're going to postpone it for a year we're going to find a new model

00:08:51.000 you know i don't understand they're investing 13 billion in the u.s we're you know an auto

00:08:59.080 manufacturing powerhouse here they're going to transfer 1500 the only good news there's no good

00:09:06.580 news but the only good news is they're adding a third shift in windsor and they're going to try to

00:09:11.260 transfer 1500 people from brampton down to windsor but we're competitive we we can produce the best

00:09:18.780 vehicles anywhere in the entire world right here in ontario so i'm going to keep pushing like they've

00:09:24.660 never seen before i really don't know what doug ford is trying to do other than to put on a performance

00:09:29.500 of grief and rage here he is calling donald trump a tyrant um i know what that word means and i know

00:09:36.400 it's ancient meaning in in the roman sense i you know it might be accurate i don't think it is but

00:09:43.040 i know this it's probably not going to help the trade negotiations here he is calling him tyrant

00:09:47.540 my number one job is make sure we protect the people of ontario i need to protect the communities

00:09:54.320 against that tyrant south of the border which drives me absolutely nuts and we'll always be there

00:10:00.300 to protect the families and businesses who call our province home i see that melanie jolie has chimed

00:10:07.460 in i don't even know what position melanie jolie has anymore in the government i i don't really think

00:10:12.820 it matters i don't think she's an actual decider i think she's there for demographic reasons a

00:10:18.320 francophone woman um who is you know compared to other politicians attractive and young i guess i i don't

00:10:26.060 think she was of any use in her foreign affairs portfolio i think she's just there as a hanger on

00:10:30.760 it's sort of shocking to me that mark carney continued to have her in cabinet but you know

00:10:34.800 most of the cabinet is reheated um but here she is with her deep thoughts well let me be clear on

00:10:40.900 stelantis i'm extremely disappointed uh about this decision and uh not only am i uh disappointed it's

00:10:49.560 completely unacceptable so we will fight for these jobs we will fight for the jobs at brampton we'll fight

00:10:55.260 for the jobs that were committed by stelantis and we'll fight for our auto sector i've been in

00:11:01.200 contact with lana payne the head of unifor yesterday and today i've been in contact with flavia volpe

00:11:07.060 who's an important voice in the sector we've been working hand in glove also with the ford government

00:11:12.820 and we're one strong team canada together and the company has commitments under different types of

00:11:20.380 agreements with the government including the fact that we provided support for the retooling of the

00:11:27.080 very brampton facility that right now is sitting idle so we will make sure that we push the company and

00:11:36.820 we hold them to account i have a real question for you if you had 13 billion dollars like stelantis has

00:11:43.340 would you invest it in ontario or would you invest it in the united states put everything else aside

00:11:51.160 like where do you think the economic future is stronger i mean we all know that the market is in

00:11:56.460 the u.s that's what trump is doing he's saying if you sell your cars in america you should build them

00:12:01.600 in america and there's sort of a basic logic to it i know there was logic behind the auto pact and i

00:12:06.620 know there were other reasons to have the production on both sides of the border but i'm just saying even

00:12:11.900 you know whatever industry you're in it doesn't have to be cars it could be any industrial or tech

00:12:17.920 or health company if you had a choice to put it in ontario or to put in the united states

00:12:22.780 which do you think is the more promising economy um i i just don't know how many people would say yeah

00:12:30.820 carney and ford's canada with out-of-control spending and taxes and out-of-control social problems

00:12:37.960 and crime that's the future for business i just don't think it is um i think that canada's sort

00:12:46.280 of impotent these days and and what could you do i mean doug ford i think looks like an oaf and i i

00:12:52.820 don't think he's making any friends in the white house not that he's part of the negotiating team

00:12:56.780 he's a provincial premier i mean it's a he has about as much relevance as a mayor but um what can

00:13:02.780 he do really trump is saying if you want to sell cars in america build them in america and the car

00:13:07.760 companies are saying all right even if we don't like this we can't fight it i want to show you the

00:13:14.540 press release that the white house put out um they they sent it around and they posted a website

00:13:20.720 uh let me read to you the part about stelantis stelantis announced a 13 billion dollar investment

00:13:26.000 in the united states the largest single investment in the company's history the automaker plans to expand

00:13:31.460 its u.s based production by 50 percent over the next four years reopening its plant in belvedere

00:13:36.680 illinois and adding production at its toledo ohio warren michigan detroit michigan and kokomo indiana

00:13:44.160 plants the investment will bring 5 000 new jobs and the production of five new vehicles to the u.s

00:13:51.240 um i mean in canada the debate is do we get our you know 12 or 15 billion back from the electric

00:13:59.960 wheels so in canada the only debate is who gets the government grant in america the debate is oh

00:14:06.100 wow stelantis is bringing in their largest investment in history and that's sort of been trump's

00:14:11.420 theme trump isn't announcing what canadian politicians call investments i.e government grants

00:14:18.160 he's announcing investments foreign companies saying yeah we want to put money in america open

00:14:24.280 factories hire people i honestly don't know how to stop that you know ontario has no electoral college

00:14:31.460 votes it makes economic sense for these countries to go in the united states but it also makes political

00:14:38.260 sense to them and if you're donald trump you care about ohio michigan indiana those are battleground

00:14:45.100 states i just don't know what canada can do maybe it's something asymmetrical maybe canada

00:14:50.160 can be valuable can be powerful vis-a-vis the united states in a strategic way doing something

00:14:56.320 else there are probably creative ways to get around this because sheer gdp to gdp economy to

00:15:03.120 economy battles we're not going to win that i think that in the past we've gotten along with strong

00:15:09.040 american leaders through personal charm by the way i mean brian malroney and ronald reagan had a

00:15:14.760 shared irish roots and i remember when they had that famous summit where they were both singing

00:15:19.880 when irish eyes are smiling i mean that was a valuable connection um even when the the two leaders

00:15:28.140 disagreed like barack obama and uh stephen harper both men really tried to make the relationship work

00:15:36.500 i think it's fair to say that mark carney has been abusive in his language towards donald trump i'm not

00:15:42.520 saying it's not a two-way street but mark carney's entire political promise was i'm gonna be tough

00:15:47.560 on donald trump and i'm gonna be elbows up and i'm gonna sock it to him that worked enough to convince

00:15:53.360 enough canadians to vote liberal but if you know whether you like him or you hate him i i just think

00:15:58.760 we can all agree that doesn't work with donald trump um i think that you can reach out to him on a

00:16:04.340 personal level i think you can reach out to him on a strategic level remember when the president of

00:16:09.180 el salvador which is a tiny country did something really useful and valuable to donald trump you know

00:16:16.080 that supermax terrorist prison that el salvador made and they basically arrested every gang member

00:16:22.540 and every drug dealer in the country and put him in this supermax prison one of the largest prisons in

00:16:28.820 the world it's very interesting and he did and naibukele the president of el salvador did it for

00:16:34.540 salvadorans but then he knew that america had a need where are you going to put your ms 13 deportees

00:16:40.880 he said i'll take them and he did trump a political favor frankly an economic favor a legal favor and so

00:16:50.640 trump i think smiles on el salvador not because el salvador is a mighty economy but because they

00:16:56.180 actually helped them out maybe there's something canada could have done should have done in that vein

00:17:01.960 even if it was just not trying to step on the negotiations for the hamas israel peace deal

00:17:09.180 you know in the middle of tense negotiations mark carney says you know what i'm just going to reward

00:17:14.000 hamas by saying that i support the independence of palestine is it is that ingratiating you with i mean

00:17:20.640 every american leader said that made it that made it tougher there are ways canada can be useful i think

00:17:27.720 oil and gas is the most important way to make america independent of opec oil but of course that's

00:17:34.880 against the liberal agenda hey did you see how trump showed his support for argentina's javier

00:17:40.940 mile yesterday now this is just rhetorical support but you can see the two men had some sort of a

00:17:46.240 connection and i don't know what javier mile has actually managed to get from the united states but he

00:17:51.840 certainly got the personal affection of donald trump trump has trouble remembering mark carney's name here's

00:17:57.100 trump on mile i'm with this man because his philosophy is correct we're going to work very much with

00:18:03.920 the president we think he's going to win he should win and if he does win we're going to be very helpful

00:18:10.360 and if he doesn't win we're not going to waste our time the president's party will and the coalition

00:18:15.720 will do well in the election and this aid is predicated on robust policies and going back to the

00:18:24.540 fail peronis policies uh win calls a u.s rethink now i don't know maybe that's going to backfire in

00:18:30.960 argentina but i think that you know obviously javier mile has been able to get trump to work with him

00:18:37.560 to work to support him i don't think that mark carney has done so and it doesn't matter if their

00:18:42.820 personalities clash your job as prime minister especially in this age is to find a way to make

00:18:47.540 it work and mark carney has been prime minister for more than 200 days and he has not done so

00:18:51.880 and the thing is that's his core promise he was elected on stopping this whole thing from happening

00:18:59.280 he's had more than half a year and he hasn't moved things forward an inch he had a meeting with trump

00:19:05.040 and nothing came from it now i'm not happy that good jobs are moving from canada to the united states

00:19:10.280 of course i'm not but it's also hard to understand why canada especially mark carney and other

00:19:16.060 premiers don't allow other good jobs to be created in canada especially in oil and gas that is a huge

00:19:23.120 global industry 10 trillion dollars a year market and the thing about oil and gas production you can't

00:19:29.860 move it across the border you can't move it to the u.s like you can with the production of cars the

00:19:35.060 production of oil and gas has to happen where the oil and gas is and it is in canada especially in

00:19:41.180 alberta you can sell it to the u.s you can pump it to the u.s you can even sell raw material and

00:19:46.840 they'll refine it down there sure but the primary jobs of exploration and production remain in canada

00:19:53.080 but mark carney and the rest of the establishment especially premiers in quebec and bc will not let

00:19:58.840 that happen so yes it's worth crying over several thousand jobs in ontario absolutely but what about a

00:20:04.920 hundred thousand jobs in alberta just a disaster now i wanted to talk about that because it's a

00:20:11.040 crisis for ontario but again the feds have killed 10 times as many jobs and 10 times as much investment

00:20:16.940 in alberta's oil patch i mean any one pipeline northern gateway energy east keystone excel the

00:20:22.720 new one proposed by alberta any single pipeline project out there and i just named four are larger

00:20:28.920 than the amount that stalantus just pledged to the united states you can do all four of those pipelines

00:20:33.640 just that and by the way you don't need government investment like you do for a fake electric

00:20:38.300 vehicle battery plant there are private companies ready to build them with their own money oh and to

00:20:43.900 pay tax on them but we don't allow that in canada but you're supposed to grieve over the auto sector

00:20:49.040 just not for the oil and gas sector statistically speaking can you save 90 percent of your grief for

00:20:55.260 what trudeau and carney have done to canada themselves by the way in case you're wondering uh the value

00:21:01.680 of canada's oil and gas exports the united states is about triple the value of our car trade with

00:21:06.900 them all right i want to talk about a second thing if i may a completely different subject just because

00:21:11.800 i've been away a bit and this has been driving me crazy i don't know if you know this but despite

00:21:17.140 or actually because of the peace deal that israel signed there are hundreds of palestinians being

00:21:23.920 killed in gaza i don't know if you've seen this but the murders are being done by hamas against

00:21:30.480 other palestinians so nobody cares certainly not the media certainly not palestine activists

00:21:37.620 donald trump calls himself the president of peace and frankly who can deny it i mean seven wars he has

00:21:45.320 helped negotiate the end of the most complex one i think is israel gaza i mean how do you put together

00:21:51.760 pakistan and turkey and saudi arabia and egypt and hamas qatar and israel now i say hamas qatar

00:21:58.540 because they're with qatar on board hamas sort of has to be on board because qatar is sort of like

00:22:05.760 their surety their guarantor um you know if they don't do it trump's going to lean on qatar it looks

00:22:12.580 like trump was victorious both in israel when the hostages came in when they were released finally and

00:22:21.080 in egypt where the muslim and arab countries came together oh and a few white non-muslim non-arab

00:22:28.700 leaders too keir starmer from the united kingdom emmanuel macron from france mark carney from canada

00:22:34.200 they had nothing to do with the peace deal like i say all of them gave an enormous diplomatic win

00:22:41.140 to hamas with nothing in return no consequences no compromise no conditions they say we recognize you

00:22:46.760 as a country what before they had done anything before they had given the hostages back they

00:22:51.580 actually rewarded their terrorist behavior but trump had them there oh and and they lied about

00:22:57.300 their important role they all endorsed palestine as sovereign under hamas without any movement from

00:23:03.600 there and now they're trying to take credit for trump's move that they undermine here's a british

00:23:08.960 cabinet minister just full-on lying about it we have played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this

00:23:14.480 it's right that we do so because it's in all of our interest including our own national interest

00:23:19.040 uh that we move to a lasting peace in the region well when you say behind the scenes like what i mean

00:23:24.500 what what it seems to everybody else in the world that this has been done by trump and the israelis

00:23:31.200 and hamas what what part did we play these are complex matters of diplomacy that we are involved in

00:23:36.440 but we do welcome and recognize the critical role that the american government played in moving us to

00:23:41.460 this point what matters now of course is how we move beyond this immediate end to the war moving

00:23:47.280 towards that lasting peace that we all want to see and that is why we have recognized a palestinian

00:23:52.080 state but why alongside that we're committed to making sure that a safe and secure israel

00:23:57.640 endures the reason i ask this is because um as you say we recognize a palestinian state

00:24:03.700 uh marco rubio the secretary of state said that actually made it more difficult to land the deal

00:24:10.980 um what what what's really going on here i mean uh was that some sort of clever strategic double bluff i

00:24:19.040 mean the americans say we made it more difficult you're saying that we played this key part

00:24:23.260 what's true well we believed as a government that it was the right thing to do to recognize the

00:24:29.000 palestinian state because of the way in which the conflict had developed over the last two years

00:24:33.380 that if that hadn't happened we would be in a position where there would no longer be that

00:24:38.060 viable option of a palestinian but the israelis were furious with us the americans said that we

00:24:42.560 actually hampered the deal what was the positive role that we played it was the right thing to do

00:24:47.860 and we will always act as a government in that manner i do obviously understand that not everyone

00:24:53.800 agrees with that decision but given the scale of the conflict and what needed to happen we felt it

00:24:58.960 was the right thing to do to recognize that palestinian state but yeah the u.s ambassador

00:25:03.200 to israel couldn't help himself here he is tweeting that she's just quote delusional

00:25:08.800 i think my favorite moment i know i follow the uk a little bit much but here's trump

00:25:13.120 introducing and then unintroducing keir starmer the british prime minister on the stage starmer thought

00:25:19.820 he was going to be asked to talk and trump looked at them and sort of said yeah no take a look at this

00:25:26.000 little interaction united kingdom where's united kingdom where's our friend

00:25:31.360 these people all came in like 20 20 minute notice and i think it's fantastic and we have so many

00:25:45.900 others and just so many others and yeah he flew all the way there for that i don't even think he

00:25:52.860 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

00:26:06.880 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

00:26:24.600 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

00:28:01.500 today the skies are calm the guns are silent the sirens are still and the sun rises on a holy land

00:28:09.000 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

00:28:26.560 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

00:29:01.620 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

00:29:21.940 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

00:30:25.060 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

00:31:05.860 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

00:32:07.640 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

00:33:58.800 i guess i always can speak

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

00:35:42.700 with donald trump here in israel

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

00:37:24.640 wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

00:37:27.140 shalom

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 0.99

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 0.83

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 0.99

00:39:16.500 over the last two years well now it's reckoning time and hamas is massacring entire clans entire 0.93

00:39:23.380 family names are being killed by hamas and these are muslim arabs by the way hamas is calling them 1.00

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 0.85

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

00:40:31.300 suddenly the world doesn't care anymore

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 0.83

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 1.00

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

00:42:07.260 ground 0.93

00:42:15.600 what an absolute nutter what a i can't believe that that kind of person is 0.96

00:42:37.240 is in oxford university what a disgrace i understand he's being suspended i mean he's 0.98

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 0.98

00:43:03.680 why haven't we sent the syrian refugees home now that there's peace there 1.00

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 0.77

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 0.61

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 0.95

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

00:50:04.120 and keep fighting for freedom

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