EZRA LEVANT ｜ Hands down the best reporting I’ve seen about the war in Israel so far
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The New York Times has the worst reporting on the Gaza conflict so far, and it's in a foreign language, with subtitles, so if you don't have the subtitles, you're going to lose some of the oomph.
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Hello, my friends. I want to share with you what I think is the best interview, the best journalism
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that I've seen regarding this whole terrorist war to begin with. And you'll be astonished
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who's doing the interviewing and who's doing the answering. I don't want to give it away. I want
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you to watch it. And I think you'll agree with me. This is the best interview you've seen. Now,
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the trouble is it's in a foreign language and it has subtitles on it. So if you don't have
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the video version of this, I'm afraid you're going to lose some of the oomph. So please consider going
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to rebelnewsplus.com, clicking subscribe, getting the video version of this podcast. I want you to
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see it anyways. I want you to see this bright young woman asking these amazing questions
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of this evil man. And I want you to behold it and see it and hear it. So go to rebelnewsplus.com.
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consider subscribing at rebelnewsplus.com. All right, here's today's show.
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Tonight, hands down, the best reporting I've seen about the war so far. It's October 23rd,
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I think the worst reporting in the war between the Hamas terrorist group and Israel has been in the
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New York Times. They immediately parroted a Hamas terrorist accusation that Israel had launched a
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missile into a hospital, killing 500. But then over the course of the evening, they slowly walked
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that back. But without an editor's note or anything indicating that they pumped out a
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blood libel, a brutal lie against Israel. The BBC was just as bad, of course, and the Associated Press.
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Tens of millions of people saw their tweets. The Hamas lie about Israel attacking that hospital
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was surely seen and heard by a billion people, likely more, before the truth came out.
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And many of those legacy media outlets still haven't taken down their original publications
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with the lies. The damage done was incredible. Whipping up anti-Semitism around the world,
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including here in Canada, was not just against the country of Israel. It was a libel against Jews
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everywhere. At least that's how it was taken by Israel's enemies. The gall of these news outlets,
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including the CBC, by the way, to claim that they are the trustworthy ones, that they should fact
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check other media, that citizen journalists have disinformation. They're the biggest disinformation
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sources in the world, with consequences too. And of course, the stupidest leaders in the world
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jumped on board. Here's Justin Trudeau, who just couldn't resist stabbing Israel with a lie,
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weighing in as fast as he could. He was so excited about this.
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The news coming out of Gaza is horrific and absolutely unacceptable.
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International humanitarian and international law needs to be respected in this and in all cases.
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There are rules around wars and it's not acceptable.
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That was a lie. And even as Israel and Joe Biden and independent researchers and even Al Jazeera,
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the pro-terrorist TV station showed that it was actually a Palestinian rocket that went astray that
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hit, Trudeau didn't correct himself. He waited days until his oafish defense minister, Bill Blair,
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tweeted the obvious truth that we already knew on Saturday night at 10 p.m. I've heard of burying
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things for the media by releasing bad news on a Friday afternoon. But Saturday at 10 p.m. at night is
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something completely new to me. As if Canada's spy agencies finally cracked the code at 9.45 p.m.
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and rushed the news out right then. What a laugh. As if we have spies on the ground in Gaza at all,
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or satellites in the air above it at all. As if Trudeau's staff didn't just Google what Biden and
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the U.K. and the French and the Israelis and independent journalists had already figured out
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days earlier. I don't know who's more gross, the media party or the liberal party, but they're pretty
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much the same. Here's a terrorist Twitter site run by a terrorist group in the West Bank. There they
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say that this Christian church was bombed by Israel and those are the wreckages, and that story was run
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with again by all the high trust media, except it was another lie. The building next to it was hit,
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but not the church. Here's a picture of it the next day. But so what, right? I mean, the media will run
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with the terrorist lie every time and again and again, and maybe they'll make a correction on this
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church bombing thing in a few days, but the lies out there, it's not taken down. By the way, when
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Trudeau was smearing Israel by repeating the Hamas lie, he said he wanted to get to the bottom of
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things, like OJ looking for the real killers. He wanted to hold the culprits accountable. That's the
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word he said in his tweet, accountable. Okay, so now that even his own staff are no longer pretending
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that they don't know who did it. Now what? Where's the accountability? Or was he only angry
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when it was the Jews who he thought were to blame? And now that he knows it was Palestinian
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terrorists, he doesn't really care. He doesn't really care about accountability. Well, we know
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he doesn't because Hamas and other terrorist groups launch rockets at Israel every day, actually,
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hundreds a day sometimes. And Trudeau never demands accountability for them, does he? Isn't
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that odd? Trudeau doesn't actually care about Muslim lives. He only cares about Muslim lives
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if a Jew can be blamed for it. I mean, prove me wrong on that. When was the last time Trudeau
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objected to a killing by a Muslim dictatorship, whether it was Iran or Syria or anywhere? It's
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only because he thought he could blame the Jews here. I'm despairing of the media coverage. Here in
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Canada, the CBC refuses to call Hamas terrorists, saying the word is pejorative. I suppose it is
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pejorative. It refers to groups that terrorize others, deliberately using violence and the threat
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of violence to intimidate people into making political decisions. That's a working definition
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of terrorism. That's what Hamas has been doing. So by forcing CBC reporters to not call Hamas terrorists,
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not only is the CBC taking sides, taking Hamas's side, they are engaging in disinformation or propaganda,
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as it used to be known. So I've told you about some of the worst media coverage, but now let me show you
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some of the best. And it's from the most surprising source you could imagine, Al Arabiya,
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a state broadcaster created by the Saudi government. In fact, it's their counterweight to Al Jazeera.
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So right there, you have an interesting situation. You have an Arabic language state-run media company,
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and here's what's interesting. They interviewed Khaled Mashal, the head of Hamas, the terrorist group,
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the boss. And you can imagine he was thinking he was going, he'd be getting a lot of high fives and
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congratulations and softball questions. And I think he got maybe the first and maybe the only
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critical interview he's ever received in his life. I'm guessing he normally kills anyone who
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questions him. He doesn't have to worry about tough questions from the Western media. But let's watch
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this interview together from Al Arabiya. And you tell me if you have seen a Western reporter from the
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New York Times or the BBC or CBC or CNN or anyone ever grill a terrorist like this. This was translated
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by the indispensable NGO called Memory, which basically just translates the Arabic newscast into
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English all the time. Let's watch it through. Take a look.
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عملية من هذا النوع تقوم بها حماس. هذه ليست عملية عادية. هذه بمثابة
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إعلان حرب. وبالتالي البعض يقول كيف كانت حساباتكم لردود الفعل
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الإسرائيلية. نحن نشاهد ما يحدث في قطاع غزة من مأساة إنسانية كبيرة. صحة
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عليها سكان غزة. لا تمت استشارة الفصائل ولا استشارة السلطة ولا استشارة
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سكان غزة. أنتم اتخذتم القرار وحدكم. هذه اللحظة العبقرية التي
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استطاعت كتاب القسام أن تفاجئ بها العدو وكل استخبارات العالم. هذا
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كان ينبغي أن يكون في إطار ضيق. لكن نحن هنا لم نبتدع مقاومة
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جديدة. نحن في جو المقاومة. فحين تقوم بخطوة هو في سياق مقاومة
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مشروعة شعبنا. طيب. أنت تتحدث في نقاط مهمة. تقول أن هذه مقاومة
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مشروعة من وجهة نظركم. ولكن ما جاهده العالم على شاشات التلفاز
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في العالم الغربي. كان انتهاكات من حركة حماس ضد المدنيين
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الإسرائيليين. حتى أن الحركة وأنت مسؤول عن صورة الحركة في
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الخارج أصبحت تقراً بداعش. هذه تهمة طبعاً افتراها
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نتنياهو. هذا والغرب للأسف متواطئ. الشعوب يا أخت العزيزة لا
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تتحرر بسهولة. الروس قدموا 30 مليون ضحية في الحرب العالمية
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الثانية حتى يتحرروا من هجوم هتلر عليهم. الشعب الفيتنامي قدم
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3 مليون ونصف بني آدم حتى هزموا الأمريكان. الأفغارستان هزمت
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الاتحاد السيوفتي أولاً. ثم أمريكا بملايين من الشهداء. الشعب الجزائري
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6 ملايين شهيد عبر 130 عاماً. شعب الفلسطين مثل ومثل كل
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شعوب. ما في شعب يتحرر بدون تضحيات. كيف تطارب الغرب والعالم
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والعالم بأن يناصر القضية الفلسطينية. وما يتصدر المشهد
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الآن هي الممارسات التي ارتكبتها حماس باتجاه المدنيين
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الإسرائيليين. سيد خالد أنت تعلم أن هناك تعاطف كبير اكتسبته
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إسرائيل من هذه المشاهد. هل في فكر وعخيدة حماس التعامل
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هكذا مع المدنيين؟ أنا قلت لك يا أختي العزيزة. حماس
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وكتائب القسام والأجه العسكرية تركز مقاومتها على قوات
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الاحتلال. على الجنود. لكن في كل الحروب يسقط بعض الضحايا
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من المدنيين. لسنا مسؤولين عنهم. وهل يمكن أن تعتذروا
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عما حدث باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين خلال عملية
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السابع من أكتوبر؟ والله اسمحي لي سؤالك. باسمحي لي مع
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الاحترام لك. الاعتذار ينبغي أن يطلب من إسرائيل. أنت سألتني
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سؤال. أنا أجيبك بوضوح. حماس لا تتعمد قتل المدنيين. تركز
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على الجنود. نقطة أولا السطر. أنت قلت أن ما يقوم به حزب الله
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جيد. ولكنه ليس على المستوى المطلوب. هل يفهم من تصريحاتك
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هذه أن حزب الله ومحور المقاومة غزى لكم حتى اللحظة فيما كنتم
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تتوقعون منهم الردود؟ نحن في فلسطين نقاتل. هذا موقفنا وهذا
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قرارنا. بقية خارج فلسطين كل من يقف معنا أن نقول له شكرا. حزب
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الله في لبنان. الآن الجبهة اللبنانية مشتعلة. وهذا يشكر عليه سواء
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الأداء اللبناني أو الفلسطيني من كل الأطياف. وحزب الله طبعا
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دوره فاعل هناك. ما قامت به هذه الاشتباكات في جنوب
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لبنان جيدة. وأسندت القضية. لكن حجم المعركة. لما يكون
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العلوان طوفان الأقصى. وهذه الجريمة النكرى على غزة. لا
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شكل مطلوب أكبر. لكن لا ينبغي نركز على لبنان وعلى حزب الله
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فقط. تعالوا نركز على بلادنا. في دول طوق. هنا مصر العظيمة
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التي خاضت حروب كبيرة. اليوم الشارع البصري يغلي. تحية للشعب
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تتابع هذا وتشاهده على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي. الناس في
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جديدة تكلفها المزيد من الفواتير. يقولون لك خالد
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مشعل يجلس في المكيف ويتحدث عن الحروب وعن الجهاد
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وعن الخروج وعن القصب؟ نحن في قلب المعركة يا أختي
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الكريمة. ما حد جالس في الميدان ونحن بر الميدان. قيادة
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حماس في الداخل وخرج تخوض المعركة. أنتم أقدمتم على هذه
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الخطوة وهي العملية السابع من أكتوبر. والآن تطالبون
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العرب بالتدخل. العرب لم يكن شركاء معكم في اتخاذ
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هذا القرار. لا أحد في العالم العربي قال لمصر لماذا
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محتلة. الناس ممكن تعتب على دولة عربية إذا انفردت
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الطبيعي. لا أحد يسألون لماذا فعلتم ونسقتم أو لم
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ترسقوا. هل قامت إيران حتى اللحظة بما كنتم تتوقعون
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باختصار القانون عندنا. يعني خلص أسرة مقابل أسرة.
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عشرات من الضباط والجنود. وإن شاء الله سنبيض بهم
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I wish I could figure out that reporter's name. I went online and
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there were a few different female journalists on Al Arabiya. But I
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want to be careful. I don't guess incorrectly. But that took courage
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what she did. And you know that on a state broadcaster owned by the
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royal family of Saudi Arabia. Interviewing the head of Hamas in this
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critical time. This interview would have been absolutely scripted and
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approved by the top. The top of the network and whoever in the Saudi
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royal family oversees the network. But this was journalism and it was an
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expression of where the Saudis are coming from. Those were good questions.
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And I'm saying that this is the most hopeful thing I can hang on to these
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days was this Saudi TV reaction. There were a few questions that were
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interesting there. Why would Hamas expect other Arabs to back them up in a
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brutal war that Hamas started that would easily affect the whole region?
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Isn't that an interesting question? You didn't even consult other
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Palestinians, she said. Well that's the thing. Hamas is a dictatorship and a
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criminal terrorist organization and they sort of do whatever they want.
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They're not really into the consulting business. I think he was surprised the
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terrorist boss, maybe even shocked, when she asked him if he'd condemn
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murdering civilians. Isn't that a good question? To put that question to the head
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of a terrorist group? It's more than the BBC or New York Times do. It's more than
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Justin Trudeau or Melanie Jolie do. Several times the Al Arabiya reporter asked
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Khaled Mishal of Hamas why he expects others, including other countries, to
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happily join in a war against Israel that Hamas started for its own purposes.
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And she also asked him why Iran hasn't weighed in to help with the war yet.
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My own view is that they haven't ruled it out and of course Iran helps with
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training and weapons and cash and direction. I'm actually quite worried that
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Iran has helped and will help more. I think they're too smart to do so
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directly, launching missiles from Iran. That would risk a direct counter-attack from
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Israel or even from America. I think Iran is happy to attack Israel through
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proxies like Hamas. One more note, the interviewer seems appalled by the
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brutality of Hamas's attack. Comparing Hamas to ISIS, you might recall they were
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notorious for their barbaric brutality. The interviewer phrases it as giving
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Israel a PR advantage, but even challenging the brutality for any reason is
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more than Western media do, isn't it? Here, let's watch it one more time. This is
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Mهم. تقول أن هذه مقاومة مشروعة من وجهة نظركم. ولكن ما
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جاهده العالم على شاشات التليفات في العالم الغربي كان
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انتهاكات من حركة حماس ضد المدنيين الإسرائيليين. حتى أن الحركة
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وأنت مسؤول عن صورة الحركة في الخارج أصبحت تقراً بداعش.
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هذه تهمة طبعاً افتراها نيثنياهو. هذا والغرب للأسف متواطع.
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الشعوب يا أختي العزيزة لا تتحرر بسهولة. الروس قدموا
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30 مليون ضحية في الحرب العالمية الثانية حتى يتحرروا من هجوم
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هتلر عليهم. الشعب الفيتنامي قدم ثلاثة مليون ونصف بني آدم حتى
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هزموا الأمريكان. الأفغانستان هزمت الاتحاد السيوفتي أولاً. ثم
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أمريكا بملايين من الشهداء. الشعب الجزائري 6 ملايين شهيد
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عبر 130 عاماً. الشعب الفلسطين مثل ومثل كل شعوب. ما في شعب
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يتحرر بدون تضحيات. كيف تطارب الغرب والعالم بأن يناصر
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القضية الفلسطينية؟ وما يتصدر المشهد الآن هي الممارسات التي
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ارتكبتها حماس باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين. سيد خالد أنت تعلم
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أن هناك تعاطف كبير اكتسبته إسرائيل من هذه المشاهد. هل
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في فكر وعخيدة حماس التعامل هكذا مع المدنيين؟ أنا
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قلت لك يا أختي العزيزة. حماس وكتائب القسام والأجهة العسكرية
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تركز مقاومتها على قوات الاحتلال على الجنود. لكن في كل
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الحروب يسقط بعض الضحايا من المدنيين. لسنا مسؤولين عنهم.
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وهل يمكن أن تعتذروا عما حدث باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين
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والله سبحيلي سؤالك بسمحيلي مع الاحترام لك. الاعتذار ينبغي
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أن يطلب من إسرائيل. انت سألتني سؤال أنا أجيبك بوضوح.
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Of course, the largest story in the world these days are the winds of war gathering in Israel
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after the dramatic surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel two and a half
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weeks ago. It killed 1,400 Jews and Arabs and Muslims, I should add, and took over 200 more
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hostage. Our chief Australian correspondent, Avi Amini, is in Israel, along with our courageous
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videographer, Benji. They both have bulletproof vests and helmets, and we're hoping that keeps
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them safe. The war has not been joined fully by Israel yet. They've been waiting, and apparently
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Avi has the latest on that. Let's go to him now live, where it is already nighttime in Israel.
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Thanks, Ezra. Yeah, so there is breaking news as we come to air tonight. Just moments
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ago, it's been reported that Hamas is going to, there's an agreement made where Hamas is
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about to release 50 dual citizens, I imagine. I'm guessing that that's all the dual citizens,
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so that's about a quarter of the known hostages. There's 210 that's known. There's also, keep
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in mind, there's 1 to 200 Israelis still missing, unconfirmed, whether they're dead somewhere
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in the southern Israel on the border or within Gaza, or they're also hostages. But there's
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at least 210 confirmed hostages, minus 50 that will be released, which explains why they haven't
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entered yet. And it makes a lot more sense to people here on the ground.
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Yeah, I mean, it's a bizarre situation to be talking about civilian hostages in wars. Prisoners of war
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are captured all the time, and they're treated in certain ways. They have certain rights that are
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protected. They're not treated as criminals, by the way. They're just detained until the hostilities
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are over. But it is unprecedented. In fact, it is not considered war to take civilian casualties.
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That is terrorism, barbarism. The Latin term in law is humani hostis, which means it's basically
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being a pirate. It's being an odious terrorist. And the fact that the West is negotiating with these
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terrorists is so unusual, but it's being treated as sort of normal, isn't it? I mean,
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this, quote, war between a nation and a terrorist group, and you have Secretary of State Blinken
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negotiating and splitting the difference. It's just so weird that we consider this normal, I guess.
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Yeah, it is, isn't it, Ezra? And the fact that there's still news networks out there that
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will refuse to call them terrorists when they're literally still holding 210, at least 210 hostages,
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you know, only a couple of kilometres from here. We're 600 metres from the border. It's really quiet
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at the moment. So that could have something to do with this latest announcement and the process of it
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happening. I do imagine if that is all the dual citizens, which it makes sense it is, it's about a
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quarter of the hostages. So if that is all the dual citizens, I imagine we're going to see that
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entrance into Gaza soon after that. The night, Saturday night, Friday night, sorry, the night that
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was rumoured that the IDF forces would enter, and in the 11th hour, two American citizens were,
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the first two American citizens were relieved. It was intensive bombardment from Israel, which is what
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you would expect prior, hours prior to any sort of entrance. So we'll be here, we'll watch this space
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closely, and I'll tell the viewers, anyone that does want to watch it, while I'm sitting here and
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waiting to see it unfold, I'm bringing people along on the journey so they can actually tune in live at
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the truthaboutthewar.com, and watch it unfold with us. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're there, and I'm glad
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you're safe so far, thank God, and of course, take steps to stay safe. I know that's a difficult thing
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to say in a war zone. Something else happened today that I have not looked at too carefully, because I
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don't think I have the heart for it. There have been skeptics, it would be a positive way of phrasing
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it, but there have been deniers, sort of like Holocaust deniers, who said, no, no, the Jews didn't
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really get massacred by Hamas terrorists. They weren't really raped and tortured, and I understand
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that today, 200 foreign journalists were shown the most graphic and barbaric evidence. They were asked
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not to film it, because these are children and women and some men who are, you know,
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who are part of families, and who, it's a spectacular and horrific news story that ought to be told, but
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how do you tell that when there's a mother and father crying? So I understand that 200 journalists
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were shown the most shocking proof firsthand, and I've seen some reports from journalists who were in there
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that it was just, you know, I'm sure they'll get post-traumatic stress from what they saw.
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Did you have any news on that, or did you follow that online?
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Yeah, well, we were invited to that, and I chose specifically not to go, because I could see how many
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journalists were going to it, and because I knew that after the fact, some of these videos will be
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released anyways. I just, you've got to choose, on the ground, you've got to choose where you're going to be,
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especially when you're one team. We're choosing to be here, which, interestingly to note for you, is
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this, unlike the space that we were, the point, the vantage point that we were a few nights ago,
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where we were under a lot of fire, 50 rockets directed at us, and to keep in mind that in this
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area, the Iron Dome has actually been switched off. That is to save money, because it has been
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evacuated, 30,000 people have been evacuated from this town alone, and similar, there's hundreds of
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thousands displaced Israelis at the moment living in camp tents, as well as in hotels across Israel,
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especially Alat, but also Ramat Khan. So they turned off the Iron Dome here, so that, because each rocket
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cost them $60,000 US to basically, within that system. So when we were in that spot, there was a
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lot of rocket fire in our direction, and when we were running backwards and forwards to the
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protection, to the bunker. But in this spot here is where the media, it's a good vantage point over
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Gaza. So all that there is Gaza, right? But the media kind of comes here in the day. They get their
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a piece to cameras, or they pre-record. And pretty much, well, definitely last night, we were the only
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ones left. At the moment, there's a couple of, there's two other international crews still here. It's
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only early. It's about 8pm. It usually gets quite lively from about now. So it is, it is, it is
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interesting to note that it is particularly quiet, which I'd speculate has to do with the transfer of
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those 50 hostages, which would be a logistical operation, because I'm sure they're not keeping
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the 50 in one space. And we know about the tunnels that are underneath there. So I imagine the next
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24 hours is going to be particularly interesting once they are released, and then whether the Israeli
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defence forces are going to move straight in. I find it hard to believe that they're going to wait
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any more time to negotiate about the rest of them, because I dare say, even if they do manage to get
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the rest of them, Israel promises their civilians, promises the world has to show their enemies that
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this is, this can't happen again. So they need to win this war for so many reasons. They need to dismantle
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Hamas for several reasons. So I don't imagine Hamas releasing any Israeli soldiers. I can't imagine the
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horrors they're going through right now, men, women, children, babies in there. I know that
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the socialists left and the jihadis that are marching in there, hundreds of thousands around
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the world are not talking about that. They're only showing the devastation that is in response to the
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fact that there are still hostages to the fact that they were on the streets here. Terrorists two weeks
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ago went house to house looking for Jews to butcher, maim, rape and kidnap. But so I would encourage all
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the viewers, you know, if this story does matter to you, and it should matter to you, thetruthaboutthewar.com,
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you can follow the latest. And we're also, we started last night, these live feed, where it's very
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casual. We're just, you're watching it with me, and I'm talking to people in the comments, including some
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trolls. But we've got tonight, we're a little bit more prepared. Because, you know, as you know,
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I noticed through this, there is a lot of hate in this conversation. And we are outnumbered. We are
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outnumbered. We've got the mainstream media, you know, publishing stories, based on the word of
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terrorists, and publishing as fact, feeding the army of, you know, just look at the Muslim world,
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most of the Muslim world, not all today, but most of the Muslim world, take these opportunities to
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show their true colors and hate on the Jews. And then on top of that, their, their unholy alliance
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with the socialist left to also hate the Jewish state for their own reasons and Jews for their own
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reasons. So you can feel it, I, you know, I'm feeling it, my family's feeling it, everybody's
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feeling the kind of hate, even the fact that we're doing this, but it's important for people to keep
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talking about. And it's important that even in the face of all that hate, to stand up and, and, and
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stand for what is right. It's uncomfortable, even as somebody who, who has family here, who has served
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here. Um, do you know, I, I, I can understand, I've seen so many in the political space who have
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backed, you know, walked back their support because they're, they're, they're feeling that, that barrage of
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hate. Um, but then I want to, you know, I want to commend those also that are, that are brave enough
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to withstand it. And I, I, I, I know that for me, maybe it's easier because, you know, I have, I have to
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care. We're talking about my, my family's own existence, but, um, for those that don't have a dog
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in the race, uh, uh, and, and I think everyone should care because the fact is, even if you think
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you don't have a dog in the race, the fact is, as we've seen around the world, they're coming to a
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city near you and they come for the Jews first, and then they'll come for each and every one of us
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in Canada and Australia and the U S next. Yeah, I think you're right. Well, Avi, thank you for the
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update there. And, uh, thanks for doing journalism around the clock. And, um, I appreciate you being
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there on behalf of our viewers because we simply can't trust the mainstream media. I think the
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hospital story from last week proves that where Hamas announced that a hospital was destroyed by
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an Israeli missile. They said 500 were dead. None of those facts were true. The hospital was not
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destroyed. It wasn't hit at all. There were not 500 dead. It was not an Israeli missile. Apparently
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it was a missile from Palestinian Islamic jihad, and there was a fire in a parking lot. Um, so, uh,
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from the BBC to the New York times on down, every journalist ran with that story. And then politicians
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ran with that story, including Justin Trudeau, who then took half a week to, to quote, look into it.
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And, uh, but, but that point in time, the lie had spread around the world and there's absolutely
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it's spread this height. Yeah. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that a billion people in the
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world believe that lie because the mainstream media propagated it. Well, Avi, thanks very much. And
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folks, you can keep an eye on what Avi's doing at the truthaboutthewar.com. And if you feel moved to
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do so, please chip in to help cover the cost of his journey, including, uh, his personal protection
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that he's wearing there. Thanks, Avi. Welcome back. Your letters to me, 441 Rider says,
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if Israel was serious, they would strike Doha like U.S. did to the Taliban hiding Osama bin Laden,
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right? Qatar would maybe like Iran gone too. Um, listen, I, I think you're right that,
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that the answer here is to take out the, the boss, uh, the bosses who are living in the Four
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Seasons in Doha, Qatar. Um, I have this terrible theory that the aircraft carriers are there to
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deter other powers, but they're also there to make sure Israel doesn't do anything like that itself.
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Mike Maverick says, Ukraine gives significant kickbacks to politicians. Israel doesn't.
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Why is Trudeau so adamant about giving more money to Ukraine? This is about a transfer of wealth from
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Canadian and U.S. to political elites. Um, I think it was Joe Biden who called for $60 billion more for
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Ukraine in his speech after visiting Israel, which I think is really weird. Trudeau says he's given
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$9 billion to Ukrainian army. Um, whereas Canada's army is tens of thousands of recruits short of its
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basic requirements. I, I think today, by the way, Elon Musk and other public intellectuals, I would call Elon
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Musk, one of those, um, talked about the possibility of a ceasefire being a way to save lives and to be in, you
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know, a plus for humanity. And I know that the White House has said no ceasefire ever. No, no, no. That will lock in
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Putin's gains. I mean, remember this from the White House national security spokesman saying never a ceasefire.
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If, coming out of this meeting, there's some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that's just going to be
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unacceptable because all that's going to do, Mike, is ratify Russia's conquest to date. All that's going
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to do is give Mr. Putin more time to refit, retrain, remand, uh, and try to, uh, to, to plan for, for
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renewed offensives at a time of his choosing. How opposite that is from the same White House
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demanding that Israel ceasefire immediately, which would be like telling America the day after Pearl Harbor to
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have a ceasefire or telling, telling America the day after 9-11 to have a ceasefire. Why is Ukraine barred
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from a ceasefire, which it may well need having lost close to a half a million souls? Whereas Israel is not
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allowed to seek vengeance on a terrorist group. Here's a letter about Tamara Leach. Richie's rant says it's insane to
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think that the cost to defend yourself from government political persecution is in the hundreds of thousands of
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dollars. Few people could afford to defend themselves. That is why our corrupt government gets away with so
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much atrocity against the Canadian people. You're exactly right. As you know, Rebel News has helped
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crowdfund through the Democracy Fund for Tamara Leach. And I'm not sure if I publicly disclosed, I don't
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think I have, the cost of the lawyer. It's obviously, uh, well into the six figures. Um, and I don't think
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that would surprise any viewer who's had dealings with lawyers. I mean, the lawyer, Lawrence Greenspan,
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is excellent. He has two junior lawyers with him. Not only has the trial been going on for well over a month,
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and will continue to go on, but of course there's months of preparation. Um, the process is the
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punishment. And no person of ordinary means could possibly muster. That's a lifetime savings.
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And no person of, no millionaire would do it either because a millionaire would say, oh, fine,
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I'll just plead guilty to make it go away. Like a, like a millionaire would want to stay a millionaire.
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They wouldn't want to give all their money off to a lawyer. So that's, that's one of the situations
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where crowdfunding really makes a difference. But yes, it's absolutely unjust. And the contrast
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between prosecuting and persecuting Tamara Leach for her peaceful protest in favor of civil liberties
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versus these terrorist flags that we see at these hate rallies, it's just astonishing.
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Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
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Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.