Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Hands down the best reporting I’ve seen about the war in Israel so far

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to share with you what I think is the best interview, the best journalism

00:00:05.140 that I've seen regarding this whole terrorist war to begin with. And you'll be astonished

00:00:11.520 who's doing the interviewing and who's doing the answering. I don't want to give it away. I want

00:00:16.600 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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00:01:22.060 Tonight, hands down, the best reporting I've seen about the war so far. It's October 23rd,

00:01:27.680 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:33.220 I think the worst reporting in the war between the Hamas terrorist group and Israel has been in the

00:01:49.880 New York Times. They immediately parroted a Hamas terrorist accusation that Israel had launched a

00:01:56.220 missile into a hospital, killing 500. But then over the course of the evening, they slowly walked

00:02:01.620 that back. But without an editor's note or anything indicating that they pumped out a

00:02:06.120 blood libel, a brutal lie against Israel. The BBC was just as bad, of course, and the Associated Press.

00:02:14.900 Tens of millions of people saw their tweets. The Hamas lie about Israel attacking that hospital

00:02:19.200 was surely seen and heard by a billion people, likely more, before the truth came out.

00:02:26.820 And many of those legacy media outlets still haven't taken down their original publications

00:02:31.400 with the lies. The damage done was incredible. Whipping up anti-Semitism around the world,

00:02:39.160 including here in Canada, was not just against the country of Israel. It was a libel against Jews

00:02:44.000 everywhere. At least that's how it was taken by Israel's enemies. The gall of these news outlets,

00:02:50.300 including the CBC, by the way, to claim that they are the trustworthy ones, that they should fact

00:02:55.960 check other media, that citizen journalists have disinformation. They're the biggest disinformation

00:03:00.840 sources in the world, with consequences too. And of course, the stupidest leaders in the world 1.00

00:03:06.860 jumped on board. Here's Justin Trudeau, who just couldn't resist stabbing Israel with a lie, 1.00

00:03:12.280 weighing in as fast as he could. He was so excited about this.

00:03:16.240 The news coming out of Gaza is horrific and absolutely unacceptable.

00:03:23.640 International humanitarian and international law needs to be respected in this and in all cases.

00:03:31.240 There are rules around wars and it's not acceptable.

00:03:34.080 That was a lie. And even as Israel and Joe Biden and independent researchers and even Al Jazeera,

00:03:39.020 the pro-terrorist TV station showed that it was actually a Palestinian rocket that went astray that

00:03:45.040 hit, Trudeau didn't correct himself. He waited days until his oafish defense minister, Bill Blair,

00:03:52.880 tweeted the obvious truth that we already knew on Saturday night at 10 p.m. I've heard of burying

00:03:57.660 things for the media by releasing bad news on a Friday afternoon. But Saturday at 10 p.m. at night is

00:04:03.840 something completely new to me. As if Canada's spy agencies finally cracked the code at 9.45 p.m.

00:04:10.840 and rushed the news out right then. What a laugh. As if we have spies on the ground in Gaza at all,

00:04:16.280 or satellites in the air above it at all. As if Trudeau's staff didn't just Google what Biden and

00:04:22.900 the U.K. and the French and the Israelis and independent journalists had already figured out

00:04:26.900 days earlier. I don't know who's more gross, the media party or the liberal party, but they're pretty

00:04:32.420 much the same. Here's a terrorist Twitter site run by a terrorist group in the West Bank. There they 0.79

00:04:41.360 say that this Christian church was bombed by Israel and those are the wreckages, and that story was run

00:04:48.100 with again by all the high trust media, except it was another lie. The building next to it was hit,

00:04:55.660 but not the church. Here's a picture of it the next day. But so what, right? I mean, the media will run

00:05:00.760 with the terrorist lie every time and again and again, and maybe they'll make a correction on this

00:05:06.040 church bombing thing in a few days, but the lies out there, it's not taken down. By the way, when

00:05:12.700 Trudeau was smearing Israel by repeating the Hamas lie, he said he wanted to get to the bottom of

00:05:17.200 things, like OJ looking for the real killers. He wanted to hold the culprits accountable. That's the

00:05:22.140 word he said in his tweet, accountable. Okay, so now that even his own staff are no longer pretending

00:05:28.180 that they don't know who did it. Now what? Where's the accountability? Or was he only angry

00:05:33.440 when it was the Jews who he thought were to blame? And now that he knows it was Palestinian 0.97

00:05:38.780 terrorists, he doesn't really care. He doesn't really care about accountability. Well, we know

00:05:43.820 he doesn't because Hamas and other terrorist groups launch rockets at Israel every day, actually,

00:05:49.920 hundreds a day sometimes. And Trudeau never demands accountability for them, does he? Isn't

00:05:54.640 that odd? Trudeau doesn't actually care about Muslim lives. He only cares about Muslim lives

00:06:02.960 if a Jew can be blamed for it. I mean, prove me wrong on that. When was the last time Trudeau 0.90

00:06:08.880 objected to a killing by a Muslim dictatorship, whether it was Iran or Syria or anywhere? It's 0.87

00:06:15.800 only because he thought he could blame the Jews here. I'm despairing of the media coverage. Here in

00:06:20.440 Canada, the CBC refuses to call Hamas terrorists, saying the word is pejorative. I suppose it is 1.00

00:06:25.040 pejorative. It refers to groups that terrorize others, deliberately using violence and the threat

00:06:30.640 of violence to intimidate people into making political decisions. That's a working definition

00:06:34.740 of terrorism. That's what Hamas has been doing. So by forcing CBC reporters to not call Hamas terrorists, 0.90

00:06:43.240 not only is the CBC taking sides, taking Hamas's side, they are engaging in disinformation or propaganda,

00:06:48.920 as it used to be known. So I've told you about some of the worst media coverage, but now let me show you

00:06:54.960 some of the best. And it's from the most surprising source you could imagine, Al Arabiya,

00:07:02.880 a state broadcaster created by the Saudi government. In fact, it's their counterweight to Al Jazeera.

00:07:10.300 So right there, you have an interesting situation. You have an Arabic language state-run media company,

00:07:15.560 and here's what's interesting. They interviewed Khaled Mashal, the head of Hamas, the terrorist group,

00:07:22.600 the boss. And you can imagine he was thinking he was going, he'd be getting a lot of high fives and

00:07:28.540 congratulations and softball questions. And I think he got maybe the first and maybe the only

00:07:33.420 critical interview he's ever received in his life. I'm guessing he normally kills anyone who 0.96

00:07:40.420 questions him. He doesn't have to worry about tough questions from the Western media. But let's watch

00:07:45.280 this interview together from Al Arabiya. And you tell me if you have seen a Western reporter from the

00:07:51.040 New York Times or the BBC or CBC or CNN or anyone ever grill a terrorist like this. This was translated

00:07:58.800 by the indispensable NGO called Memory, which basically just translates the Arabic newscast into

00:08:04.200 English all the time. Let's watch it through. Take a look.

00:08:06.580 عملية من هذا النوع تقوم بها حماس. هذه ليست عملية عادية. هذه بمثابة

00:08:11.860 إعلان حرب. وبالتالي البعض يقول كيف كانت حساباتكم لردود الفعل

00:08:16.520 الإسرائيلية. نحن نشاهد ما يحدث في قطاع غزة من مأساة إنسانية كبيرة. صحة

00:08:22.580 عليها سكان غزة. لا تمت استشارة الفصائل ولا استشارة السلطة ولا استشارة

00:08:27.920 سكان غزة. أنتم اتخذتم القرار وحدكم. هذه اللحظة العبقرية التي

00:08:33.380 استطاعت كتاب القسام أن تفاجئ بها العدو وكل استخبارات العالم. هذا

00:08:38.420 كان ينبغي أن يكون في إطار ضيق. لكن نحن هنا لم نبتدع مقاومة

00:08:43.940 جديدة. نحن في جو المقاومة. فحين تقوم بخطوة هو في سياق مقاومة

00:08:49.220 مشروعة شعبنا. طيب. أنت تتحدث في نقاط مهمة. تقول أن هذه مقاومة

00:08:55.080 مشروعة من وجهة نظركم. ولكن ما جاهده العالم على شاشات التلفاز

00:08:59.240 في العالم الغربي. كان انتهاكات من حركة حماس ضد المدنيين

00:09:03.760 الإسرائيليين. حتى أن الحركة وأنت مسؤول عن صورة الحركة في

00:09:07.960 الخارج أصبحت تقراً بداعش. هذه تهمة طبعاً افتراها

00:09:13.860 نتنياهو. هذا والغرب للأسف متواطئ. الشعوب يا أخت العزيزة لا

00:09:19.800 تتحرر بسهولة. الروس قدموا 30 مليون ضحية في الحرب العالمية

00:09:26.860 الثانية حتى يتحرروا من هجوم هتلر عليهم. الشعب الفيتنامي قدم

00:09:31.560 3 مليون ونصف بني آدم حتى هزموا الأمريكان. الأفغارستان هزمت

00:09:38.900 الاتحاد السيوفتي أولاً. ثم أمريكا بملايين من الشهداء. الشعب الجزائري

00:09:43.720 6 ملايين شهيد عبر 130 عاماً. شعب الفلسطين مثل ومثل كل

00:09:48.860 شعوب. ما في شعب يتحرر بدون تضحيات. كيف تطارب الغرب والعالم

00:09:53.720 والعالم بأن يناصر القضية الفلسطينية. وما يتصدر المشهد

00:09:58.360 الآن هي الممارسات التي ارتكبتها حماس باتجاه المدنيين

00:10:01.980 الإسرائيليين. سيد خالد أنت تعلم أن هناك تعاطف كبير اكتسبته

00:10:07.660 إسرائيل من هذه المشاهد. هل في فكر وعخيدة حماس التعامل

00:10:13.140 هكذا مع المدنيين؟ أنا قلت لك يا أختي العزيزة. حماس

00:10:17.780 وكتائب القسام والأجه العسكرية تركز مقاومتها على قوات

00:10:23.980 الاحتلال. على الجنود. لكن في كل الحروب يسقط بعض الضحايا

00:10:28.560 من المدنيين. لسنا مسؤولين عنهم. وهل يمكن أن تعتذروا

00:10:32.760 عما حدث باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين خلال عملية

00:10:36.360 السابع من أكتوبر؟ والله اسمحي لي سؤالك. باسمحي لي مع

00:10:39.980 الاحترام لك. الاعتذار ينبغي أن يطلب من إسرائيل. أنت سألتني

00:10:44.320 سؤال. أنا أجيبك بوضوح. حماس لا تتعمد قتل المدنيين. تركز

00:10:49.940 على الجنود. نقطة أولا السطر. أنت قلت أن ما يقوم به حزب الله

00:10:53.500 جيد. ولكنه ليس على المستوى المطلوب. هل يفهم من تصريحاتك

00:10:57.620 هذه أن حزب الله ومحور المقاومة غزى لكم حتى اللحظة فيما كنتم

00:11:02.960 تتوقعون منهم الردود؟ نحن في فلسطين نقاتل. هذا موقفنا وهذا

00:11:09.080 قرارنا. بقية خارج فلسطين كل من يقف معنا أن نقول له شكرا. حزب

00:11:15.560 الله في لبنان. الآن الجبهة اللبنانية مشتعلة. وهذا يشكر عليه سواء

00:11:20.000 الأداء اللبناني أو الفلسطيني من كل الأطياف. وحزب الله طبعا

00:11:23.660 دوره فاعل هناك. ما قامت به هذه الاشتباكات في جنوب

00:11:27.940 لبنان جيدة. وأسندت القضية. لكن حجم المعركة. لما يكون

00:11:32.440 العلوان طوفان الأقصى. وهذه الجريمة النكرى على غزة. لا

00:11:36.120 شكل مطلوب أكبر. لكن لا ينبغي نركز على لبنان وعلى حزب الله

00:11:39.700 فقط. تعالوا نركز على بلادنا. في دول طوق. هنا مصر العظيمة

00:11:43.760 التي خاضت حروب كبيرة. اليوم الشارع البصري يغلي. تحية للشعب

00:11:47.920 المصري. نريد منه المزيد. طالب القيادة المصرية

00:11:51.740 أن يكون موقفه أقوى. ما هو المزيد؟

00:11:56.200 فيما يتعلق بلبنان. وأنت

00:12:00.180 تتابع هذا وتشاهده على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي. الناس في

00:12:03.860 لبنان تعيش وضعا سيئا. ليست في حاجة إلى حرب

00:12:07.580 جديدة تكلفها المزيد من الفواتير. يقولون لك خالد

00:12:11.520 مشعل يجلس في المكيف ويتحدث عن الحروب وعن الجهاد

00:12:15.860 وعن الخروج وعن القصب؟ نحن في قلب المعركة يا أختي

00:12:20.480 الكريمة. ما حد جالس في الميدان ونحن بر الميدان. قيادة

00:12:23.840 حماس في الداخل وخرج تخوض المعركة. أنتم أقدمتم على هذه

00:12:27.420 الخطوة وهي العملية السابع من أكتوبر. والآن تطالبون

00:12:32.140 العرب بالتدخل. العرب لم يكن شركاء معكم في اتخاذ

00:12:35.660 هذا القرار. لا أحد في العالم العربي قال لمصر لماذا

00:12:39.660 فاجأتين بحرب أكتوبر؟ لأن أرض مصر سيناء كانت

00:12:43.060 محتلة. الناس ممكن تعتب على دولة عربية إذا انفردت

00:12:46.960 بقرار إذا خاضت حرب هجوبية ضد جار ولا ضد طرف

00:12:50.760 آخر. أما عندما يكون شعب تحت الاحتلال. هذا حق

00:12:54.000 الطبيعي. لا أحد يسألون لماذا فعلتم ونسقتم أو لم

00:12:57.560 ترسقوا. هل قامت إيران حتى اللحظة بما كنتم تتوقعون

00:13:00.960 منها؟ هي كانت تتحدث في مراحل سابقة عن إزالة

00:13:04.340 إسرائيل. وظيفتنا أن نطلب وأن نذكر أما كل

00:13:09.080 واحد يتحمل قرار. كيف تفكرون في التعامل مع ملف

00:13:11.740 الهائن؟ ماذا مقابل ماذا؟ أولا كما قلت هؤلاء

00:13:15.880 أسرة. وقبل أن نتحدث عن الأسرة عندنا في أسرة

00:13:19.780 عند العدو. كما قلت في حوالي خمس تلاف خمسمية

00:13:22.660 كانوا قبل. الآن عشرة آلاف. إسرائيل تجمع كل يوم

00:13:26.560 مئة أو مئتين آلاف من الضفة الغربية. فبالتالي

00:13:30.360 باختصار القانون عندنا. يعني خلص أسرة مقابل أسرة.

00:13:34.780 إحنا كان شليط أخذ به ألف زيادة. اليوم عندنا

00:13:38.540 عشرات من الضباط والجنود. وإن شاء الله سنبيض بهم

00:13:43.820 السجون. وكل أبنائنا وبناتنا في السجون من جميع

00:13:47.020 الفصائل إن شاء الله.

00:13:48.220 I wish I could figure out that reporter's name. I went online and

00:13:51.560 there were a few different female journalists on Al Arabiya. But I 0.65

00:13:54.980 want to be careful. I don't guess incorrectly. But that took courage

00:13:58.820 what she did. And you know that on a state broadcaster owned by the

00:14:02.360 royal family of Saudi Arabia. Interviewing the head of Hamas in this

00:14:05.840 critical time. This interview would have been absolutely scripted and

00:14:09.860 approved by the top. The top of the network and whoever in the Saudi

00:14:13.940 royal family oversees the network. But this was journalism and it was an

00:14:19.740 expression of where the Saudis are coming from. Those were good questions.

00:14:24.140 And I'm saying that this is the most hopeful thing I can hang on to these

00:14:27.860 days was this Saudi TV reaction. There were a few questions that were

00:14:31.040 interesting there. Why would Hamas expect other Arabs to back them up in a 0.97

00:14:35.160 brutal war that Hamas started that would easily affect the whole region? 0.63

00:14:39.660 Isn't that an interesting question? You didn't even consult other

00:14:42.800 Palestinians, she said. Well that's the thing. Hamas is a dictatorship and a

00:14:46.760 criminal terrorist organization and they sort of do whatever they want. 0.98

00:14:49.840 They're not really into the consulting business. I think he was surprised the

00:14:54.560 terrorist boss, maybe even shocked, when she asked him if he'd condemn

00:14:58.420 murdering civilians. Isn't that a good question? To put that question to the head

00:15:03.700 of a terrorist group? It's more than the BBC or New York Times do. It's more than

00:15:09.260 Justin Trudeau or Melanie Jolie do. Several times the Al Arabiya reporter asked

00:15:15.140 Khaled Mishal of Hamas why he expects others, including other countries, to 0.59

00:15:19.820 happily join in a war against Israel that Hamas started for its own purposes. 0.68

00:15:24.120 And she also asked him why Iran hasn't weighed in to help with the war yet.

00:15:29.400 My own view is that they haven't ruled it out and of course Iran helps with 0.98

00:15:33.740 training and weapons and cash and direction. I'm actually quite worried that

00:15:38.200 Iran has helped and will help more. I think they're too smart to do so

00:15:41.960 directly, launching missiles from Iran. That would risk a direct counter-attack from

00:15:46.060 Israel or even from America. I think Iran is happy to attack Israel through 0.99

00:15:49.480 proxies like Hamas. One more note, the interviewer seems appalled by the

00:15:54.320 brutality of Hamas's attack. Comparing Hamas to ISIS, you might recall they were

00:16:00.200 notorious for their barbaric brutality. The interviewer phrases it as giving

00:16:04.760 Israel a PR advantage, but even challenging the brutality for any reason is 0.81

00:16:09.360 more than Western media do, isn't it? Here, let's watch it one more time. This is

00:16:13.980 quite an interview.

00:16:14.980 Mهم. تقول أن هذه مقاومة مشروعة من وجهة نظركم. ولكن ما

00:16:18.860 جاهده العالم على شاشات التليفات في العالم الغربي كان

00:16:22.360 انتهاكات من حركة حماس ضد المدنيين الإسرائيليين. حتى أن الحركة

00:16:27.880 وأنت مسؤول عن صورة الحركة في الخارج أصبحت تقراً بداعش.

00:16:32.540 هذه تهمة طبعاً افتراها نيثنياهو. هذا والغرب للأسف متواطع.

00:16:39.380 الشعوب يا أختي العزيزة لا تتحرر بسهولة. الروس قدموا

00:16:45.060 30 مليون ضحية في الحرب العالمية الثانية حتى يتحرروا من هجوم

00:16:50.860 هتلر عليهم. الشعب الفيتنامي قدم ثلاثة مليون ونصف بني آدم حتى

00:16:55.620 هزموا الأمريكان. الأفغانستان هزمت الاتحاد السيوفتي أولاً. ثم

00:17:02.220 أمريكا بملايين من الشهداء. الشعب الجزائري 6 ملايين شهيد

00:17:07.160 عبر 130 عاماً. الشعب الفلسطين مثل ومثل كل شعوب. ما في شعب

00:17:11.800 يتحرر بدون تضحيات. كيف تطارب الغرب والعالم بأن يناصر

00:17:17.140 القضية الفلسطينية؟ وما يتصدر المشهد الآن هي الممارسات التي

00:17:21.560 ارتكبتها حماس باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين. سيد خالد أنت تعلم

00:17:26.640 أن هناك تعاطف كبير اكتسبته إسرائيل من هذه المشاهد. هل

00:17:32.200 في فكر وعخيدة حماس التعامل هكذا مع المدنيين؟ أنا

00:17:37.000 قلت لك يا أختي العزيزة. حماس وكتائب القسام والأجهة العسكرية

00:17:42.300 تركز مقاومتها على قوات الاحتلال على الجنود. لكن في كل

00:17:48.240 الحروب يسقط بعض الضحايا من المدنيين. لسنا مسؤولين عنهم.

00:17:52.580 وهل يمكن أن تعتذروا عما حدث باتجاه المدنيين الإسرائيليين

00:17:57.380 خلال عمليات السابع من أكتوبر؟

00:17:59.380 والله سبحيلي سؤالك بسمحيلي مع الاحترام لك. الاعتذار ينبغي

00:18:03.840 أن يطلب من إسرائيل. انت سألتني سؤال أنا أجيبك بوضوح.

00:18:07.380 ذلك أنه ليس لكل د Wor اناس فيه إلى مقدارين.

00:18:11.420 لقد فصلت من أجاهزنا عن أزراء البحر

00:18:37.380 Of course, the largest story in the world these days are the winds of war gathering in Israel

00:18:46.260 after the dramatic surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on southern Israel two and a half

00:18:52.600 weeks ago. It killed 1,400 Jews and Arabs and Muslims, I should add, and took over 200 more

00:18:59.480 hostage. Our chief Australian correspondent, Avi Amini, is in Israel, along with our courageous

00:19:06.160 videographer, Benji. They both have bulletproof vests and helmets, and we're hoping that keeps

00:19:12.840 them safe. The war has not been joined fully by Israel yet. They've been waiting, and apparently 0.84

00:19:22.360 Avi has the latest on that. Let's go to him now live, where it is already nighttime in Israel.

00:19:29.280 Avi, nice to see you again.

00:19:30.280 Thanks, Ezra. Yeah, so there is breaking news as we come to air tonight. Just moments

00:19:37.860 ago, it's been reported that Hamas is going to, there's an agreement made where Hamas is

00:19:44.100 about to release 50 dual citizens, I imagine. I'm guessing that that's all the dual citizens, 0.99

00:19:50.460 so that's about a quarter of the known hostages. There's 210 that's known. There's also, keep

00:19:57.480 in mind, there's 1 to 200 Israelis still missing, unconfirmed, whether they're dead somewhere

00:20:06.220 in the southern Israel on the border or within Gaza, or they're also hostages. But there's

00:20:12.400 at least 210 confirmed hostages, minus 50 that will be released, which explains why they haven't

00:20:20.160 entered yet. And it makes a lot more sense to people here on the ground.

00:20:25.940 Yeah, I mean, it's a bizarre situation to be talking about civilian hostages in wars. Prisoners of war

00:20:33.720 are captured all the time, and they're treated in certain ways. They have certain rights that are

00:20:40.140 protected. They're not treated as criminals, by the way. They're just detained until the hostilities

00:20:46.460 are over. But it is unprecedented. In fact, it is not considered war to take civilian casualties.

00:20:55.900 That is terrorism, barbarism. The Latin term in law is humani hostis, which means it's basically

00:21:04.060 being a pirate. It's being an odious terrorist. And the fact that the West is negotiating with these

00:21:13.600 terrorists is so unusual, but it's being treated as sort of normal, isn't it? I mean,

00:21:19.140 this, quote, war between a nation and a terrorist group, and you have Secretary of State Blinken

00:21:25.820 negotiating and splitting the difference. It's just so weird that we consider this normal, I guess.

00:21:33.700 Yeah, it is, isn't it, Ezra? And the fact that there's still news networks out there that

00:21:37.940 will refuse to call them terrorists when they're literally still holding 210, at least 210 hostages,

00:21:46.540 you know, only a couple of kilometres from here. We're 600 metres from the border. It's really quiet

00:21:53.540 at the moment. So that could have something to do with this latest announcement and the process of it

00:22:00.020 happening. I do imagine if that is all the dual citizens, which it makes sense it is, it's about a 0.99

00:22:06.900 quarter of the hostages. So if that is all the dual citizens, I imagine we're going to see that 1.00

00:22:14.260 entrance into Gaza soon after that. The night, Saturday night, Friday night, sorry, the night that

00:22:22.020 was rumoured that the IDF forces would enter, and in the 11th hour, two American citizens were,

00:22:31.340 the first two American citizens were relieved. It was intensive bombardment from Israel, which is what

00:22:40.660 you would expect prior, hours prior to any sort of entrance. So we'll be here, we'll watch this space

00:22:47.600 closely, and I'll tell the viewers, anyone that does want to watch it, while I'm sitting here and

00:22:51.700 waiting to see it unfold, I'm bringing people along on the journey so they can actually tune in live at

00:22:58.980 the truthaboutthewar.com, and watch it unfold with us. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you're there, and I'm glad

00:23:08.280 you're safe so far, thank God, and of course, take steps to stay safe. I know that's a difficult thing

00:23:13.460 to say in a war zone. Something else happened today that I have not looked at too carefully, because I

00:23:21.960 don't think I have the heart for it. There have been skeptics, it would be a positive way of phrasing

00:23:29.120 it, but there have been deniers, sort of like Holocaust deniers, who said, no, no, the Jews didn't

00:23:34.960 really get massacred by Hamas terrorists. They weren't really raped and tortured, and I understand 0.62

00:23:40.200 that today, 200 foreign journalists were shown the most graphic and barbaric evidence. They were asked

00:23:48.100 not to film it, because these are children and women and some men who are, you know,

00:23:54.200 who are part of families, and who, it's a spectacular and horrific news story that ought to be told, but

00:24:03.140 how do you tell that when there's a mother and father crying? So I understand that 200 journalists

00:24:07.660 were shown the most shocking proof firsthand, and I've seen some reports from journalists who were in there

00:24:16.540 that it was just, you know, I'm sure they'll get post-traumatic stress from what they saw.

00:24:23.040 Did you have any news on that, or did you follow that online?

00:24:26.040 Yeah, well, we were invited to that, and I chose specifically not to go, because I could see how many

00:24:32.280 journalists were going to it, and because I knew that after the fact, some of these videos will be

00:24:38.600 released anyways. I just, you've got to choose, on the ground, you've got to choose where you're going to be,

00:24:44.240 especially when you're one team. We're choosing to be here, which, interestingly to note for you, is

00:24:50.240 this, unlike the space that we were, the point, the vantage point that we were a few nights ago,

00:24:57.160 where we were under a lot of fire, 50 rockets directed at us, and to keep in mind that in this

00:25:04.020 area, the Iron Dome has actually been switched off. That is to save money, because it has been

00:25:09.880 evacuated, 30,000 people have been evacuated from this town alone, and similar, there's hundreds of

00:25:16.520 thousands displaced Israelis at the moment living in camp tents, as well as in hotels across Israel,

00:25:24.080 especially Alat, but also Ramat Khan. So they turned off the Iron Dome here, so that, because each rocket

00:25:33.120 cost them $60,000 US to basically, within that system. So when we were in that spot, there was a

00:25:43.940 lot of rocket fire in our direction, and when we were running backwards and forwards to the

00:25:47.200 protection, to the bunker. But in this spot here is where the media, it's a good vantage point over

00:25:52.960 Gaza. So all that there is Gaza, right? But the media kind of comes here in the day. They get their

00:25:59.300 a piece to cameras, or they pre-record. And pretty much, well, definitely last night, we were the only

00:26:05.880 ones left. At the moment, there's a couple of, there's two other international crews still here. It's

00:26:11.780 only early. It's about 8pm. It usually gets quite lively from about now. So it is, it is, it is

00:26:19.060 interesting to note that it is particularly quiet, which I'd speculate has to do with the transfer of

00:26:27.100 those 50 hostages, which would be a logistical operation, because I'm sure they're not keeping

00:26:33.140 the 50 in one space. And we know about the tunnels that are underneath there. So I imagine the next

00:26:40.900 24 hours is going to be particularly interesting once they are released, and then whether the Israeli

00:26:47.600 defence forces are going to move straight in. I find it hard to believe that they're going to wait

00:26:54.360 any more time to negotiate about the rest of them, because I dare say, even if they do manage to get

00:27:00.260 the rest of them, Israel promises their civilians, promises the world has to show their enemies that 0.88

00:27:08.100 this is, this can't happen again. So they need to win this war for so many reasons. They need to dismantle

00:27:13.720 Hamas for several reasons. So I don't imagine Hamas releasing any Israeli soldiers. I can't imagine the

00:27:20.540 horrors they're going through right now, men, women, children, babies in there. I know that

00:27:25.760 the socialists left and the jihadis that are marching in there, hundreds of thousands around

00:27:32.020 the world are not talking about that. They're only showing the devastation that is in response to the

00:27:39.480 fact that there are still hostages to the fact that they were on the streets here. Terrorists two weeks

00:27:45.540 ago went house to house looking for Jews to butcher, maim, rape and kidnap. But so I would encourage all 1.00

00:27:54.540 the viewers, you know, if this story does matter to you, and it should matter to you, thetruthaboutthewar.com,

00:28:01.020 you can follow the latest. And we're also, we started last night, these live feed, where it's very

00:28:06.900 casual. We're just, you're watching it with me, and I'm talking to people in the comments, including some

00:28:11.640 trolls. But we've got tonight, we're a little bit more prepared. Because, you know, as you know,

00:28:18.920 I noticed through this, there is a lot of hate in this conversation. And we are outnumbered. We are

00:28:24.640 outnumbered. We've got the mainstream media, you know, publishing stories, based on the word of

00:28:32.080 terrorists, and publishing as fact, feeding the army of, you know, just look at the Muslim world, 0.99

00:28:40.600 most of the Muslim world, not all today, but most of the Muslim world, take these opportunities to 0.96

00:28:46.320 show their true colors and hate on the Jews. And then on top of that, their, their unholy alliance 1.00

00:28:52.360 with the socialist left to also hate the Jewish state for their own reasons and Jews for their own

00:28:57.440 reasons. So you can feel it, I, you know, I'm feeling it, my family's feeling it, everybody's

00:29:03.940 feeling the kind of hate, even the fact that we're doing this, but it's important for people to keep

00:29:08.140 talking about. And it's important that even in the face of all that hate, to stand up and, and, and

00:29:15.100 stand for what is right. It's uncomfortable, even as somebody who, who has family here, who has served

00:29:21.400 here. Um, do you know, I, I, I can understand, I've seen so many in the political space who have

00:29:27.180 backed, you know, walked back their support because they're, they're, they're feeling that, that barrage of

00:29:34.100 hate. Um, but then I want to, you know, I want to commend those also that are, that are brave enough

00:29:39.800 to withstand it. And I, I, I, I know that for me, maybe it's easier because, you know, I have, I have to

00:29:47.780 care. We're talking about my, my family's own existence, but, um, for those that don't have a dog

00:29:52.320 in the race, uh, uh, and, and I think everyone should care because the fact is, even if you think

00:29:57.060 you don't have a dog in the race, the fact is, as we've seen around the world, they're coming to a

00:30:01.980 city near you and they come for the Jews first, and then they'll come for each and every one of us 1.00

00:30:07.380 in Canada and Australia and the U S next. Yeah, I think you're right. Well, Avi, thank you for the

00:30:13.280 update there. And, uh, thanks for doing journalism around the clock. And, um, I appreciate you being

00:30:19.640 there on behalf of our viewers because we simply can't trust the mainstream media. I think the

00:30:24.740 hospital story from last week proves that where Hamas announced that a hospital was destroyed by

00:30:30.500 an Israeli missile. They said 500 were dead. None of those facts were true. The hospital was not

00:30:35.340 destroyed. It wasn't hit at all. There were not 500 dead. It was not an Israeli missile. Apparently

00:30:40.200 it was a missile from Palestinian Islamic jihad, and there was a fire in a parking lot. Um, so, uh,

00:30:48.780 from the BBC to the New York times on down, every journalist ran with that story. And then politicians

00:30:53.820 ran with that story, including Justin Trudeau, who then took half a week to, to quote, look into it.

00:30:59.920 And, uh, but, but that point in time, the lie had spread around the world and there's absolutely

00:31:04.900 it's spread this height. Yeah. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that a billion people in the

00:31:11.400 world believe that lie because the mainstream media propagated it. Well, Avi, thanks very much. And

00:31:17.580 folks, you can keep an eye on what Avi's doing at the truthaboutthewar.com. And if you feel moved to

00:31:23.140 do so, please chip in to help cover the cost of his journey, including, uh, his personal protection

00:31:28.980 that he's wearing there. Thanks, Avi. Welcome back. Your letters to me, 441 Rider says,

00:31:44.720 if Israel was serious, they would strike Doha like U.S. did to the Taliban hiding Osama bin Laden, 0.56

00:31:50.320 right? Qatar would maybe like Iran gone too. Um, listen, I, I think you're right that,

00:31:58.300 that the answer here is to take out the, the boss, uh, the bosses who are living in the Four 0.72

00:32:04.140 Seasons in Doha, Qatar. Um, I have this terrible theory that the aircraft carriers are there to

00:32:11.440 deter other powers, but they're also there to make sure Israel doesn't do anything like that itself.

00:32:17.580 Mike Maverick says, Ukraine gives significant kickbacks to politicians. Israel doesn't.

00:32:22.020 Why is Trudeau so adamant about giving more money to Ukraine? This is about a transfer of wealth from

00:32:26.280 Canadian and U.S. to political elites. Um, I think it was Joe Biden who called for $60 billion more for

00:32:34.000 Ukraine in his speech after visiting Israel, which I think is really weird. Trudeau says he's given

00:32:39.140 $9 billion to Ukrainian army. Um, whereas Canada's army is tens of thousands of recruits short of its

00:32:48.380 basic requirements. I, I think today, by the way, Elon Musk and other public intellectuals, I would call Elon

00:32:56.280 Musk, one of those, um, talked about the possibility of a ceasefire being a way to save lives and to be in, you

00:33:04.000 know, a plus for humanity. And I know that the White House has said no ceasefire ever. No, no, no. That will lock in

00:33:11.340 Putin's gains. I mean, remember this from the White House national security spokesman saying never a ceasefire.

00:33:18.120 If, coming out of this meeting, there's some sort of call for a ceasefire, well, that's just going to be

00:33:23.220 unacceptable because all that's going to do, Mike, is ratify Russia's conquest to date. All that's going 0.94

00:33:28.620 to do is give Mr. Putin more time to refit, retrain, remand, uh, and try to, uh, to, to plan for, for

00:33:35.340 renewed offensives at a time of his choosing. How opposite that is from the same White House

00:33:39.840 demanding that Israel ceasefire immediately, which would be like telling America the day after Pearl Harbor to 0.51

00:33:45.700 have a ceasefire or telling, telling America the day after 9-11 to have a ceasefire. Why is Ukraine barred

00:33:53.180 from a ceasefire, which it may well need having lost close to a half a million souls? Whereas Israel is not

00:33:59.220 allowed to seek vengeance on a terrorist group. Here's a letter about Tamara Leach. Richie's rant says it's insane to 0.99

00:34:06.500 think that the cost to defend yourself from government political persecution is in the hundreds of thousands of

00:34:11.440 dollars. Few people could afford to defend themselves. That is why our corrupt government gets away with so

00:34:15.620 much atrocity against the Canadian people. You're exactly right. As you know, Rebel News has helped 0.99

00:34:21.140 crowdfund through the Democracy Fund for Tamara Leach. And I'm not sure if I publicly disclosed, I don't

00:34:28.500 think I have, the cost of the lawyer. It's obviously, uh, well into the six figures. Um, and I don't think

00:34:35.480 that would surprise any viewer who's had dealings with lawyers. I mean, the lawyer, Lawrence Greenspan,

00:34:40.240 is excellent. He has two junior lawyers with him. Not only has the trial been going on for well over a month,

00:34:45.460 and will continue to go on, but of course there's months of preparation. Um, the process is the

00:34:51.820 punishment. And no person of ordinary means could possibly muster. That's a lifetime savings.

00:34:58.860 And no person of, no millionaire would do it either because a millionaire would say, oh, fine,

00:35:03.500 I'll just plead guilty to make it go away. Like a, like a millionaire would want to stay a millionaire.

00:35:07.880 They wouldn't want to give all their money off to a lawyer. So that's, that's one of the situations

00:35:12.280 where crowdfunding really makes a difference. But yes, it's absolutely unjust. And the contrast

00:35:18.020 between prosecuting and persecuting Tamara Leach for her peaceful protest in favor of civil liberties

00:35:24.460 versus these terrorist flags that we see at these hate rallies, it's just astonishing.

00:35:31.140 Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:35:35.960 Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - October 23, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Hands down the best reporting I’ve seen about the war in Israel so far

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