Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Let me tell you a story about my favourite U.S. governor, and what we can learn from him

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I want to tell you more about my favorite U.S. governor and what he's done now. And if that's a role model for Canadian conservatives, of course it is. I wonder if anyone will follow it. That's next. But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast. Just go to rebelnewsplus.com. Click subscribe. Eight bucks a month. You get my show every night, every weeknight. And that eight bucks, I know it's not a ton of dough to you, but it really adds up for us. Please chip in.

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00:00:43.520 Tonight, let me tell you a story about my favorite U.S. governor and what we can learn from him. It's October 27th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:52.260 We're fighting for freedom. Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:07.420 All the polls show that Donald Trump is going to win the Republican presidential primary.

00:01:12.760 And that Harvard-Harris poll I showed you the other day suggests that if an election were held today, Trump would win and handily, beating Joe Biden by 6%, if I recall.

00:01:26.060 By the way, that's a bigger margin of victory than any president has received since Obama clobbered John McCain 15 years ago.

00:01:34.700 Now, it's just a poll, but it shows that no matter what the deep state has thrown at Trump so far,

00:01:39.840 a lot of people still want him back. It really is incredible when you stop to think of how desperate things have become in America and around the world in just three years since the last election.

00:01:50.360 The economy, American prestige in the world, wars and rumors of wars.

00:01:56.400 I think Trump could win the next election, even if he were in prison, he could win.

00:02:02.020 I'm actually worried that he might be assassinated.

00:02:04.220 So they tried to do to Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro just weeks before his historic election a few years back.

00:02:13.460 I mean, why wouldn't they try and kill Trump?

00:02:17.300 So maybe Trump will be the next president. 0.54

00:02:19.860 But as long as Trump is running, I think Ron DeSantis will not be able to break through.

00:02:25.900 I think that's just a fact.

00:02:27.700 I like DeSantis a lot for reasons I've shared with you before.

00:02:30.820 I think he'd make an outstanding president, but I don't think he can win the primary if Trump is there.

00:02:36.680 And I don't know if he could beat Biden if Trump wasn't.

00:02:39.240 I think he might. I think he probably could, actually.

00:02:41.820 Perhaps he'll run again in four years.

00:02:43.940 He's young enough and he'd have even more of a track record in Florida to run on.

00:02:49.480 You've heard me say before, though it's been a while since we've talked about DeSantis,

00:02:53.420 I like him because he's a principled conservative.

00:02:56.560 I like how he fights with the media.

00:02:58.180 He doesn't bend the knee to them.

00:02:59.560 But what I like most about him, what I like more about him than any other conservative

00:03:04.500 politician in the world that I can name, is that Ron DeSantis uses all the tools at his disposal.

00:03:10.840 He works every single angle.

00:03:13.100 He uses every single power that a governor has.

00:03:15.600 In that way, he's like a Democrat.

00:03:18.160 You know what I mean.

00:03:18.940 The Democrats are relentless.

00:03:20.680 They're all-encompassing.

00:03:22.020 They don't leave anything unused or untouched.

00:03:24.580 I mean, just to stay with the theme, look at how they're going after Trump, how they

00:03:29.520 have before and still are, throwing everything at him.

00:03:33.120 Where's that killer instinct on the right?

00:03:35.880 Why didn't our side go after Hillary Clinton in that way? 0.99

00:03:39.460 Or Bill Clinton, let alone the Biden crime family?

00:03:42.360 Look at the brutal prosecution of the January 6th meanderers.

00:03:47.580 That's what I'm calling the insurrectionists, some insurrection, as if meandering around the

00:03:52.780 Capitol building was tantamount to a coup, as if if you just sat in a magical chair like

00:03:57.520 a throne, you'd be king or something.

00:04:00.200 But they've jailed those meanderers for three years already, and they're even prosecuting

00:04:05.400 Trump's lawyers and assistants now.

00:04:09.560 I'm not saying conservatives should break the law, as is clearly happening under the

00:04:13.580 Democrats, but DeSantis comes as close as to being a full-meal deal activist right-wing

00:04:18.420 governor as possible.

00:04:19.940 For example, he wasn't afraid to take on Disney, which was considered untouchable in Florida

00:04:25.080 before.

00:04:25.540 Disney was shooting at him politically, going full woke, and he pushed back.

00:04:31.220 He actually took away their special legal status in Florida and generally humbled Disney,

00:04:38.120 and he won.

00:04:39.260 Disney surrendered, saying they'd get out of the woke business.

00:04:41.900 We'll see if that's true in the long run, but it's the first time a conservative ever

00:04:45.660 stared them down, and they blinked.

00:04:48.740 DeSantis became my hero, of course, during the lockdowns for the same reason.

00:04:52.220 He just said, no, I'm not going to go along with this.

00:04:54.840 He appointed an outstanding, freedom-oriented surgeon general.

00:04:58.900 He didn't parrot what Anthony Fauci said.

00:05:01.660 He banned schools from closing.

00:05:04.480 He said they weren't allowed to close.

00:05:05.700 He banned local politicians from implementing vaccine mandates or the like.

00:05:10.060 He even fought with the cruise ship companies on the same stuff.

00:05:14.340 He used every single lever and button that a governor can use.

00:05:18.680 There are 26 Republican governors around America.

00:05:21.060 Name me one other who does as much as DeSantis.

00:05:24.420 I'll wait.

00:05:25.960 Which brings us to the current problem with Israel and Hamas.

00:05:28.820 What can a governor do?

00:05:30.020 Foreign policy and military policy and diplomatic policy are federal matters, not for governors,

00:05:35.140 right?

00:05:36.220 Right.

00:05:36.760 But did I show you this letter the other day?

00:05:38.860 I went through it on the live stream that I've been doing.

00:05:40.920 But let me show this letter to you now.

00:05:43.460 It's a letter from Ron DeSantis' appointees running the state university system.

00:05:49.040 So these are universities funded by the state of Florida.

00:05:52.160 I'm going to read a bit to you.

00:05:53.120 But right there, the fact that Ron DeSantis has appointed ideologically sound people to a

00:06:00.060 traditionally left-wing woke domain right there before I even read this letter to you. 0.99

00:06:04.680 I'm telling you, this is different than the other governors who probably let the woke 0.90

00:06:08.420 teachers union types run the show.

00:06:11.460 So here's a memo.

00:06:12.640 It's from state university presidents.

00:06:15.480 Sorry, it's two state university presidents from Chancellor Ray Rodriguez, a DeSantis man.

00:06:21.540 Read.

00:06:22.460 Deactivation of National Students for Justice in Palestine.

00:06:25.080 So let me just read it.

00:06:26.300 I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I'll read most of it.

00:06:29.580 During a holy Jewish holiday, the recognized terrorist organization Hamas launched an unprovoked

00:06:33.820 attack on Israel.

00:06:35.060 Among those killed were babies, women, and elderly.

00:06:37.040 To date, approximately 1,400 Israelis have been killed, including 31 American citizens.

00:06:42.460 Okay, so he's just laying out the facts, but watch where he goes with this.

00:06:46.600 Governor DeSantis, our state university system, and the Florida college system have condemned

00:06:52.320 these attacks.

00:06:53.260 Okay.

00:06:53.980 Hamas is responsible for this attack and claims it as Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

00:06:59.000 In the wake of the terror, military leaders of Hamas have called for the mobilization of

00:07:03.360 Palestinians in support of the operation.

00:07:06.200 Okay, now he's thinking like a prosecutor here.

00:07:08.540 He's putting forward key facts, and watch how he brings them together.

00:07:12.320 So, so far you're thinking, okay, so you're telling me what I know.

00:07:15.480 Terrorists committed the crime, the terrorist attack.

00:07:18.260 But he's saying, okay, they admit they did it.

00:07:20.780 They're calling it Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

00:07:23.360 And they called for Palestinians around the world to join.

00:07:26.080 Okay, so where is he going with this?

00:07:27.540 Listen, in response and leading up to a day of resistance, the National Students for Justice

00:07:34.060 in Palestine, National SJP, released a toolkit which refers to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as

00:07:41.100 the resistance.

00:07:42.200 And unequivocally states, quote, Palestinian students in exile are part of this movement,

00:07:46.800 not in solidarity with this movement.

00:07:48.840 You see where he's going?

00:07:50.280 So he's saying the terrorists say, here's what we're doing.

00:07:52.800 It's a project, it's a movement.

00:07:54.880 And this student group is saying, yeah, we're part of it.

00:07:57.840 Well, watch this.

00:07:58.740 Here, he drops the hammer.

00:08:01.560 It is a felony under Florida law to, quote, knowingly provide material support to a designated

00:08:05.760 foreign terrorist organization.

00:08:07.400 And he cites the law.

00:08:09.500 Here, National SJP has affirmatively identified it is part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a terrorist

00:08:16.600 led attack.

00:08:17.340 They admitted it.

00:08:18.300 And indeed, they did say we're going to help.

00:08:21.520 We're part of it.

00:08:22.800 I'll keep reading.

00:08:24.440 The State University System of Florida has at least two institutions with active National

00:08:29.260 SJP chapters.

00:08:30.700 These chapters exist under the headship of the National Students for Justice in Palestine,

00:08:34.760 who distributed a toolkit identifying themselves as part of the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

00:08:41.540 Well, you know where it's going.

00:08:42.820 Based on the National SJP's support of terrorism, in consultation with Governor DeSantis, the student

00:08:48.140 chapters must be deactivated.

00:08:49.460 These two student chapters may form another organization that complies with Florida state

00:08:54.460 statutes and universal policies.

00:08:55.920 The two institutions should grant these two chapters a waiver for the fall deadlines should

00:09:01.260 reapplication take place.

00:09:02.740 So DeSantis is saying, I'm not banning you because you're Palestinian. 0.57

00:09:06.800 I'm banning you because you said you're part of this terrorist movement.

00:09:09.480 You can reapply if you take out the, we're with the terrorist part.

00:09:13.660 So he's not banning them for their opinion.

00:09:16.540 He's banning them for being part of a terrorist group.

00:09:18.800 So what we're talking about here is a meaningful, legal, tangible act of power using the law,

00:09:29.380 a law that predates him.

00:09:30.780 It's not censorship.

00:09:32.220 It's not even cracking down on anti-Semitism per se. 1.00

00:09:35.540 It's cracking down on those idiots who say, I'll help Hamas. 1.00

00:09:39.180 Well, the hell with them. 1.00

00:09:41.460 DeSantis has done other things too, less legalistic, more symbolic.

00:09:44.860 There are a lot of Jews in Florida and Joe Biden took his sweet time getting planes to

00:09:49.280 get citizens out of there when the commercial airlines shut down their flights.

00:09:52.480 DeSantis saw an opportunity to look national and presidential.

00:09:55.720 Here's a tweet he did the other day.

00:09:57.740 Florida's Israel rescue operation has completed four rescue flights, bringing nearly 700 Americans

00:10:02.060 home from Israel.

00:10:03.180 Two cargo planes with 85 pallets of donated supplies have also arrived in Israel.

00:10:07.820 Thanks to all who helped make this happen.

00:10:10.280 And then he put out an infographic, sending out Florida troopers to guard synagogues is 0.96

00:10:17.120 the main thing on the list, arresting any threateners.

00:10:20.060 And it looks like the state itself is going to try to put on state level sanctions against

00:10:24.220 Iran.

00:10:25.520 I've seen that state level foreign policy before.

00:10:28.720 You got to, you know, it's, you have to be creative about it here.

00:10:31.340 Watch Sarah Huckabee, who is the great governor of Arkansas.

00:10:35.380 I really like her.

00:10:36.760 Remember Sarah Huckabee, just take a look at what she's up to.

00:10:40.280 Today, we are becoming the first state in the country to take an action like the one that

00:10:45.260 we are announcing right now.

00:10:47.120 At the beginning of my term, my administration worked with our partners in the legislature

00:10:52.320 to get hostile foreign entities out of Arkansas.

00:10:55.720 I was proud to sign Act 636, sponsored by Senator Johnson and Representative Vought, banning foreign 1.00

00:11:03.260 parties from nine enemy countries from owning agricultural land in Arkansas.

00:11:08.460 And today we are acting on that law.

00:11:11.660 I'm announcing that Syngenta, a Chinese state owned agrochemical company, must give up its

00:11:18.000 land holdings in Arkansas.

00:11:20.500 Syngenta owns 160 acres in northeast Arkansas, which it uses primarily for seed research.

00:11:27.440 The company that owns Syngenta, Kim China, is also on the Department of Defense's list of

00:11:33.600 Chinese military companies posing a clear threat to our state. 0.95

00:11:38.580 Seeds are technology.

00:11:40.640 Chinese state owned corporations filter that technology back to their homeland, stealing 1.00

00:11:46.340 American research and telling our enemies how to target American farms.

00:11:51.380 That is a clear threat to our national security and to our great farmers, especially since the

00:11:57.860 Chinese government enacted a law in 2017 requiring Chinese citizens abroad to collaborate with their

00:12:05.220 country's security officials on intelligence work with no questions asked.

00:12:10.360 Now, isn't that interesting?

00:12:12.700 She's a pretty good governor, too, because she's you take my point by using the levers, pushing the buttons, not just 1.00

00:12:19.340 saying, well, I'm just going to do the minimum.

00:12:21.680 No, she's thinking outside the box.

00:12:23.340 She's she's acting like a Democrat in terms of she's using everything in her power. 1.00

00:12:28.120 And that is my point.

00:12:30.080 A governor can do a lot, maybe not as much as a president, but a lot.

00:12:33.880 A mayor can do a lot.

00:12:35.240 Even an individual member of parliament can now compare DeSantis and Huckabee to our own

00:12:41.920 governments up here in Canada, not just our official opposition, but the provinces where

00:12:45.920 so-called conservatives are actually in power.

00:12:49.520 Are they using all the levers in their control?

00:12:51.680 Are they doing what the left would do if the left took over those offices?

00:12:55.000 I don't mean to be abusive.

00:12:56.360 I don't want to that.

00:12:57.760 I don't want to break the law.

00:12:58.940 I mean, to use the law, to use the power that the electors gave to them.

00:13:02.680 I mean, look at how DeSantis put ideologically conservative people in charge of the universities.

00:13:07.240 When was the last time you ever saw that?

00:13:09.240 I'm talking about making ideologically sound appointments to offices.

00:13:13.240 I've never quite understood, for example, why Stephen Harper left the Canadian Senate empty.

00:13:18.760 I know his thinking.

00:13:20.000 He thought, well, I'm just going to wait till there's Senate reform.

00:13:22.740 But but he gave an empty Senate to Trudeau, who instantly stacked it with liberals.

00:13:27.980 Why didn't Harper just put his conservatives in there in the last moments of his reign?

00:13:33.100 I'll just never understand that.

00:13:34.820 He gave the Senate to the liberals.

00:13:36.620 I see a few things that give me some hope.

00:13:40.100 Like Danielle Smith announcing that she'll cut Alberta's ties to the World Economic Forum.

00:13:44.700 Pierre Paulyev said he'll do the same thing.

00:13:46.340 But why not go through the entire massive bloated government and budgets and just shut down entire

00:13:52.400 departments, repeal entire laws, root out entire ideas like net zero.

00:13:57.500 I mean, pull the weed out by its roots.

00:14:00.900 I'm just talking about general things, but let's talk about the war, for example.

00:14:05.800 If you're a provincial premier like Danielle Smith or Doug Ford in Ontario, why would you

00:14:09.540 permit schools to let outside pro-Hamas NGOs organize a massive high school rally for Hamas

00:14:17.700 during school hours and and for teachers and principals to let kids out?

00:14:22.040 Why would you let that happen if you were a conservative education minister?

00:14:25.380 That just happened in Ontario this week.

00:14:29.060 Why would you let universities turn into hate rallies?

00:14:33.420 Why wouldn't you take control of those things within your constitutional purview?

00:14:36.480 If you need help thinking about it, imagine if some tiki torch carrying white nationalists, 0.58

00:14:41.800 I don't even think there are any in Canada.

00:14:43.260 But if there were and if they marched on campus with their tiki torches and said the same anti-Semitic 0.98

00:14:48.660 things from the river to the sea, you know, which basically means get rid of the Jews. 1.00

00:14:53.440 What do you think left wing universities would do if some far right racist again? 0.68

00:14:59.020 I don't know of any far right racist groups in Canada that actually would do such a thing.

00:15:04.380 But God forbid if there was one.

00:15:06.160 You can imagine what a left wing university would do. 0.66

00:15:08.460 They would deploy massive security.

00:15:11.940 They would call for the police to make arrests.

00:15:14.540 They would give trespass notices to those white nationalists. 0.89

00:15:18.900 They would name and shame them. 0.95

00:15:21.460 They would, if any of them were students, they would be kicked out.

00:15:24.760 And I'm not talking about being bullies and vindictive. 1.00

00:15:27.900 I'm saying if someone is a wicked anti-Semite calling for the death of Jews, 0.99

00:15:31.600 he would do a lot of things, including perhaps taking away their status at the university, 0.99

00:15:36.380 which is controlled by the provinces.

00:15:37.640 Why wouldn't you proceed with prosecutions under the criminal code for those anti-terrorism

00:15:44.240 provisions?

00:15:45.160 Are you facilitating, participating, instructing or harboring terrorists?

00:15:49.380 That's a decision that provincial attorneys general can make.

00:15:52.340 I'm not much for hate speech laws.

00:15:54.160 I don't believe in them, but the laws are on the books.

00:15:57.020 And you bet the left would use them to prosecute their political enemies if they were saying

00:16:00.980 anti-Semitic things.

00:16:02.100 Well, how about not political enemies, but people who literally promote banned terrorist

00:16:07.560 groups?

00:16:07.920 Can we please prosecute people who literally support terrorist groups?

00:16:13.380 Or how about doing what we've just launched a campaign today to do?

00:16:17.760 I don't know if you saw it.

00:16:18.720 We launched a campaign to deport foreign students who are engaged in Hamas hate rallies.

00:16:23.480 Here's how David Menzies launched the campaign today in New York City.

00:16:26.580 David Menzies for Rebel News here in New York City with my ace cameraman, Lincoln Jay.

00:16:32.020 And folks, we are fighting back.

00:16:34.580 We are fighting back against foreign nationals in cities like New York, cities all around 1.00

00:16:40.340 the world in which thousands of demonstrators have come out in support of Hamas, in support

00:16:48.680 of terrorism, and this is all in light of the barbaric atrocities that occurred in Israel

00:16:56.060 on October 7th.

00:16:57.900 More than 1,400 dead in many in savage and brutal ways.

00:17:04.140 Why is it that foreign nationals are here supporting that? 1.00

00:17:07.880 Why is it that so many people on student visas are advocating this kind of hatred?

00:17:14.600 We are also going to be taking this truck to other cities, Washington, D.C., Ottawa, Toronto,

00:17:21.520 and we want you to go to our new petition.

00:17:25.540 That's DeportHamas.com, DeportHamas.com.

00:17:30.560 You can put your name there and also if you can make a donation.

00:17:33.940 These trucks cost about $2,000 a day.

00:17:36.820 We think it is indeed money well spent to deport these foreign nationals who, by the way, 1.00

00:17:43.260 should consider themselves lucky that they are not being charged under various laws that

00:17:50.220 prohibit the support of terror groups in the first place.

00:17:53.720 Once again, folks, please go to DeportHamas.com. 0.99

00:17:58.240 But this is partly about the war, but it's partly about everything, really.

00:18:01.900 The revelation I had was when I saw Dr. James Lindsay speak in Alberta a few weeks ago, and

00:18:08.240 he said to the left, the issue is never the issue.

00:18:12.220 The revolution is always the issue.

00:18:14.840 The ends justify the means.

00:18:16.080 They say things like, any means necessary.

00:18:17.680 It's always about the revolution.

00:18:20.480 Now, we don't believe that.

00:18:21.460 We don't believe in murder or crime or the ends justify the means.

00:18:24.380 But why wouldn't we believe in conservative politicians using the legitimate powers that

00:18:29.660 the electorate gives to them, that the legislature has codified for them?

00:18:33.340 Why would we only let the radicals on the left use the tools of government?

00:18:38.640 That's one of the things I like about Danielle Smith, by the way, her Alberta pension plan idea, 0.92

00:18:42.840 her Sovereignty Act idea, her pushback on Stephen Gilboa.

00:18:46.360 It's being active, not just reactive, and it's trying to move the football down the field

00:18:50.440 rather than just playing defense all the time to the bad guys.

00:18:54.480 Ron DeSantis has done more than anyone else in America to push back against the terrorists.

00:18:59.760 Show me someone else who is decertified at terrorist club.

00:19:02.500 It's a pitifully small thing, by the way, but at least he's done something.

00:19:07.640 Can we have a bit more of that in Canada too, please?

00:19:11.980 Stay with us.

00:19:13.160 More from Avi, who's in the war zone.

00:19:16.200 Next.

00:19:16.560 Yeah, Ezra, so, look, it's been, I can't believe it's already the end of the week,

00:19:31.800 Friday evening here in Israel.

00:19:34.080 The Shabbat's about to come in. 0.92

00:19:35.300 And, you know, I can't believe we've been here on the ground in the front line for almost, well, two and a half weeks.

00:19:44.660 And we've seen a lot.

00:19:45.940 The last 24 hours has not been any karma.

00:19:49.760 In fact, we've packed it in.

00:19:52.200 And we've gone to, you know, some of the sites we were taken from, we were taken to with, by Danny Danon, a Knesset member,

00:20:01.520 and used to be the, I think, the UN representative for Israel,

00:20:07.080 who took us to the site of the Beri Nova massacre, to Kfar Aza,

00:20:15.720 which was the kibbutz where, again, they went house to house butchering people.

00:20:21.960 And we heard from, in fact, the interesting part there is that's where I served.

00:20:27.840 18 years ago, that's where I was deployed.

00:20:30.240 Most of my service was in Kfar Aza.

00:20:31.760 I didn't recognize the place.

00:20:33.880 And he showed us.

00:20:36.780 The colonel showed us, you know, took us into a house, showed us how they, once the family locked themselves into the safe rooms,

00:20:46.820 which you could see clearly, the only room that wasn't burnt was the safe rooms.

00:20:52.820 And they couldn't get them out.

00:20:54.620 They couldn't open the doors. 0.71

00:20:56.240 They just burnt down the houses, trying to kill everybody in their path. 0.92

00:21:00.960 By feet, they murdered, tortured, raped, and even took off the heads of babies and of our soldiers. 0.74

00:21:13.400 What stopped this attack?

00:21:15.160 All the civilians armed in the settlement, the head of the settlement, like a really leader, go first.

00:21:29.940 After this, the army and the police arrived here and together with the civilians stopped this horrible attack.

00:21:42.580 After they came and killed all the family or shoot on everyone, woman, little children, old men, the family gets inside the safety room and lock himself inside.

00:21:59.760 The terrorists from Hamas burned the house.

00:22:04.460 If you can see, you see that the safe house, the safe room is normal.

00:22:12.580 You don't see the fire inside.

00:22:14.160 The civilians, the civilians and the army and the police came after this, can arrive to the window and get outside.

00:22:24.920 And each family very, very slowly because in this street that you see here, guns fights, missile, grenades.

00:22:36.720 And it's not one hour, it's a really war, 48 hours in this street, you have a big mess.

00:22:51.380 But with the bravery, it was very brave, the civilian, the police, the army to stop this.

00:22:59.700 Eerie walking around those streets and hearing the stories and hearing it from the people that were on the front line from the beginning.

00:23:04.420 The colonel that spoke to me, he was, he gave me so much of his time and he told me off camera the reason why I'm doing this.

00:23:12.000 I never told you, he actually said to me, I've, my whole military career, which has been in the army for about 30 years, he's always avoided the cameras.

00:23:22.340 But he said that it's come to a point now, something that he's never witnessed in his life, that he realized that part of his job,

00:23:29.500 so his first job initially, in the initial hours, he tells us that within two and a half, two and a half to three hours of the attack,

00:23:38.040 so at about 8, I think 8.30 or 9 a.m., he was already on the ground fighting the terrorists, the 3,000 terrorists that had entered Israel.

00:23:48.540 In one house, I found the father out from the room, and the family was inside, waiting to us.

00:23:59.760 The father was out with a gun, all the magazine is over, and his other hand has a knife.

00:24:09.500 And he said, he, after they, they reclaimed the land and killed or captured the terrorists and closed the border off,

00:24:28.860 then, of course, securing the border was important, but then he realized a part of his job was to ensure that the world knows what happened there,

00:24:37.420 because, he said, a bit like the Holocaust, people try to deny these things and minimize it or whatever,

00:24:44.180 and it's important for the world to know what he saw.

00:24:47.380 He says, no video, no images, no nothing can actually illustrate the horrors that he personally witnessed.

00:24:59.400 So, you know, he's, he's obviously on the front line fighting the battle, but also part of his fight, he says,

00:25:06.480 is to take media and media with reach around, you know, it doesn't matter which network,

00:25:14.560 anyone that's willing to come out there that, that, that seems like they're actually in good faith,

00:25:20.580 want to know what really happened.

00:25:21.880 I mean, he's taken the time out of his day to do it, and, um, he was just so humble about it,

00:25:27.800 and, and, and you could see on his face what responding to the attacks did on those days to him personally.

00:25:35.960 I need to explain this photo.

00:25:40.240 I know what my eyes saw.

00:25:41.780 How soon after the attack were you here?

00:25:48.040 I arrived to 8.30 in the morning.

00:25:54.680 So two, two hours, two and a half hours after it started.

00:25:57.540 And what did you see for yourself?

00:26:00.480 I see what I need to do.

00:26:02.140 I see my job.

00:26:03.620 We also spoke to Danny Danon, who reacted to, uh, the announcement from the Australian government

00:26:09.080 that they're giving another $15 million to the Palestinian, to the West Bank and Palestinian territory.

00:26:15.340 What they say is, uh, to people affected by this conflict, they say they're doing it through trusted partners.

00:26:21.260 I put that to Danny Danon.

00:26:22.540 He basically responds by saying, you know, as long as you can verify that it's not going to Hamas,

00:26:29.640 because we know for years Hamas has been using the international aid not to build hospitals,

00:26:34.960 not to build schools, not to help the people of Gaza,

00:26:37.840 but rather to build tunnels and rockets and weaponry to fight and terrorize their neighbors.

00:26:44.980 Um, so he had that message for them.

00:26:47.320 We also, and we also, you have to think we have to travel there in a, in bulletproof, uh, vehicles.

00:26:53.280 It was quite intense and into a really closed military zone.

00:26:56.980 We've been, most of our trip here has been inside military, closed military zones,

00:27:02.340 which you have to be, uh, pressed to be in there or, or, or, or one of the few locals that refused to leave.

00:27:09.380 But, um, in Barrie and Kwaaza and those places where those massacres really annihilated entire towns,

00:27:17.680 they're closed and, and, and, and, and they're active kind of war zones still now.

00:27:22.300 So, uh, you know, we were really grateful to be able to go there and see it firsthand and,

00:27:27.360 and, and, and share those stories with the audience at the truth, uh, about the war.com.

00:27:34.340 Where else did we go, Benji?

00:27:35.300 I'm trying to remember so much happened in the last 24 hours.

00:27:37.640 So we also got to speak to special forces, um, police officer that re that responded to the attacks initially.

00:27:44.520 And actually we react to different terroristic, uh, um, events that happens and that's our job.

00:27:52.480 So did you react to the, to the attacks on, uh, October 7?

00:27:57.020 Correctly.

00:27:57.820 Uh, on 6.30 in the morning, we got a message that we need to go quick as much as, as we can to Sderot

00:28:04.760 because we got, uh, information about the invasion of many terrorists over there.

00:28:10.180 And actually when we started to drive to Sderot, uh, next to Yad Mordechai, uh, we got, uh, shot two times by RPG and, uh, thanks God they missed us.

00:28:23.300 Uh, after, uh, some fire that we were, uh, conducting over there, we started to move to Sderot because we got, uh, information by the radio

00:28:34.220 that, uh, the, uh, the, uh, different policemen are asking for help because they tried to invade inside the police station.

00:28:42.580 And actually we arrived over here.

00:28:45.840 There were like around 20 terrorists running over this road and we started to conduct fire with them.

00:28:54.660 It was really hard. 0.98

00:28:55.400 I saw one of them, he tried to shoot RPG on me and I shot him, I killed him.

00:29:01.680 After that we saw that two terrorists are moving across the road to the train station.

00:29:09.260 And we actually, we started to run after them and they entered to bushes.

00:29:14.200 And who know how to fight?

00:29:15.580 It's very complicated, uh, place to fight.

00:29:18.580 We started to search for the terrorists and after we searched for 20, 40 seconds, they surprised us from five meters.

00:29:29.440 They started to shoot us.

00:29:30.680 We were four.

00:29:31.900 Two of my guys were shot and it was only me and my commander.

00:29:37.960 And after like 30, 40 seconds, we managed to kill them.

00:29:42.920 And one of them, he was playing dead and he threw a grenade over us.

00:29:49.040 It's, uh, after the explosion, one of our guys who was already shot, he got the grenade on him.

00:29:55.780 And the bushes started to burn.

00:29:59.380 And he started to scream that he is burning.

00:30:03.100 So I ran into the fire and I took him back to us.

00:30:06.480 And we took our injured guys to the ambulance.

00:30:11.040 We gave him the first aid and we continued to fight.

00:30:15.060 But there was, there was plenty more.

00:30:16.520 Look, the audience needs to go back to the truth, the truthaboutthewar.com because there's so many videos coming out of the work that we've been doing on the ground and everyone was speaking to.

00:30:27.200 And we're speaking to a wide variety.

00:30:29.320 We were talking about, you know, soldiers, colonels, so, you know, um, higher leadership plus actual younger soldiers.

00:30:38.180 That's right.

00:30:38.580 We spoke to a few soldiers on base yesterday, a couple of soldiers on base who were prepared to go in.

00:30:42.940 And they were so, um, well articulated in the way, in the way they, they're the kind of faces that the media refuses to show that it dispels a whole myth of what the IDF soldier is that the mainstream media paints them as.

00:30:58.400 They were the most, um, genuine people.

00:31:03.120 And you can hear, they don't really want to go to war, but they say, we have to go to war.

00:31:06.380 I don't want to kill anyone, but we have to defend our people.

00:31:09.480 I wish this wasn't happening, but this is our reality.

00:31:11.720 So as somebody who did three years, made Aliyah, from a different country, somebody who's married, I have a whole lot of stuff going on in my life, a lot of different priorities.

00:31:20.200 The guys who are in Miluim, guys who have families, guys who have been here, been there, want to go to war, don't want to go to war.

00:31:25.300 There are civilians who were called up. People have a lot of stuff to live for, a lot of things on their mind.

00:31:29.680 This is a war. This is an initiative that has just united everybody in a way that I've never seen.

00:31:34.060 Never seen, not in the Jewish people, not land of Israel, not in the military, nowhere.

00:31:37.680 So you want to ask about morale, there's nothing people want more than to just go in there and not kill, not avenge, not bloodthirsty.

00:31:46.380 To just get some justice done, to really just erase this threat, bring peace to southern Israel, which has been for so, so, so long.

00:31:53.320 It's about time. People can live in peace and they can play basketball on their front lawn and they can play with their kids on a Saturday afternoon

00:31:59.720 and not worry about people coming in and slaughtering, you know, 50% of their community.

00:32:03.360 That's something that really unites everybody and even though there's been three weeks and we've been pushed off,

00:32:07.860 we've had plans that have been, you know, cancelled and rescheduled again and again and again and I'm sure there still will be.

00:32:13.640 People are, with a smile, even if it's an internal smile sometimes, ready to go in and just completely charged and ready to go.

00:32:20.480 No, you know, me personally, I try to lift up the Avira, like the vibes, you know, because it is hard times, but it doesn't mean, you know, we have to always be strong and keep going.

00:32:31.760 We spoke to a couple of soldiers that, we kind of saw it from the side where they walked up to the minister that he'd done on and they were, you know,

00:32:40.940 we overheard them telling the minister, don't be afraid, make sure we go in, we're ready, we understand the cost, but this needs to be done.

00:32:48.800 And so I kind of ran after them and said, you know, can you tell me what this is about?

00:32:54.320 And he basically told it to us, yes, we get it, there's changes or whatever, but we want to make sure that our government's not getting cold feet

00:33:03.620 because this has to be done because we don't want the next generations having this same fight.

00:33:07.860 That's it, that was a red line that was crossed and we have to make sure to fight it.

00:33:13.040 So, and Danny also responded to it by saying that he agreed with the soldiers.

00:33:20.460 Finally, today, today was a hard one because we spent some, a fair bit of time with the families of kidnapped hostages in Gaza right now.

00:33:33.740 And I think that, that one's being produced as we speak and it was, it was so difficult.

00:33:38.720 And one that stands out to me is the cousin of, what was her name?

00:33:44.840 Mia, Mia something, Mia, she's well known because Hamas, 0.99

00:33:50.120 she's the one that Hamas released the video of her and just hearing her cousin talk.

00:33:55.280 It's like, it's heartbreaking, but it's so important for the world to be reminded about what this all started with

00:34:02.100 and what's still happening today, even though the mainstream media by large is trying to, to stop people from remembering,

00:34:11.820 hoping people forget so that they can demonize Israel.

00:34:14.860 As usual, Ezra, we'll continue to follow the story and, and see if this ground invasion happens over the weekend.

00:34:22.420 Right now, our sources are confused and we're getting confused messaging.

00:34:26.980 The only thing that is clear is 100% sometime in the near future, the ground invasion will begin.

00:34:34.520 There has been small inversion, invasion, uh, um, incursions in the last 24 hours.

00:34:41.460 The military says that they'll continue to do those, which is clearing, uh, the entry into Gaza.

00:34:47.260 We'll keep watching it here from the frontline.

00:34:49.700 Well, it's been a couple of weeks of really busy news, hasn't it?

00:35:03.240 Terrible news.

00:35:04.000 Most of it's been very, very depressing news, but you got to keep hope alive.

00:35:07.300 What else can you do?

00:35:08.120 And where there's life, there's hope.

00:35:10.040 Um, I've enjoyed doing not just my, my shows at night, but I've been doing the live stream, uh, every day at 1 p.m. Eastern.

00:35:16.440 And really, uh, for the last two weeks, I've really enjoyed it.

00:35:18.940 Uh, but I should tell you that I have been invited by the ARC form, A-R-C, Alliance of Responsible Citizenship.

00:35:26.680 That's Jordan Peterson's answer to the World Economic Forum, his rebuttal, his response to it.

00:35:33.240 Not just him, other freedom-oriented, conservative-oriented thinkers.

00:35:38.380 So there's a huge conference, I think about 2,000 people, in London, England, that starts, um, October 30th.

00:35:45.900 And goes for three days.

00:35:48.240 And while I'm, and I've been invited, I'm, I've accepted.

00:35:50.840 So I'm going to go there, and Avi Amini's going to come.

00:35:52.940 He's in Israel now.

00:35:54.080 And so he's going to be there.

00:35:55.920 And I'm going to participate in the conference, but we'll also do news from the conference.

00:35:59.660 So I'm going to try and do some shows from the UK about what this ARC forum, this antidote to the W-E-F, is like.

00:36:09.500 Now, I won't be doing shows every single day because it's, because of the timing and, and, you know, it's just not as easy as when I'm here at the studio.

00:36:17.420 So Sheila and David Menzies may take the odd show for me next week.

00:36:21.780 But it is my hope to do several shows from London.

00:36:25.280 And there's going to be so many interesting people at this ARC forum conference.

00:36:29.180 I'm sure we're going to buttonhole, like I understand Bjorn Lomborg, the skeptical environmentalist, is speaking.

00:36:35.780 Of course, I mentioned that Jordan Peterson himself is speaking.

00:36:38.560 I haven't actually gone through the whole speakers list yet.

00:36:41.560 I've just been too busy.

00:36:43.000 But my hope is that we actually have a lot of content for you from this anti-world economic forum.

00:36:50.520 Doesn't that sound like a good idea, finally, for there to be a counterweight?

00:36:54.360 I'm looking forward to that.

00:36:55.620 And so that's something that I hope you will look forward to as well.

00:36:59.880 We always rail against the World Economic Forum, as we should.

00:37:03.520 But is there some antidote to it?

00:37:05.720 Well, Jordan Peterson and friends think so.

00:37:07.660 And I'll tell you what I see when I'm over there.

00:37:10.460 So until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:37:18.240 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:25.620 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - October 27, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Let me tell you a story about my favourite U.S. governor, and what we can learn from him

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