Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Media silence on church attacks as global power shifts unfold

00:00:00.060 Hello, my friends. A very interesting meeting in Washington, D.C. today between Lebanon and Israel.

00:00:06.220 And you'll never guess who was not invited. I think that's actually the biggest part of the story.

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00:00:55.940 From the Middle East 1.00

00:01:08.520 It affects Canada 1.00

00:01:09.680 It's April 15th

00:01:10.920 And this is the Ezra LeVant Show

00:01:12.320 Shame on you

00:01:16.580 You censorious bug 0.97

00:01:25.940 Oh, hi, everybody. I'm so glad to be back in our world headquarters after my visit to Saint-Romain, or Saint-Romain, Quebec, yesterday.

00:01:36.380 A very interesting trip. I'm really glad I did it.

00:01:39.620 I was there to document the burning of a church, and that just sounds terrible, but I feel like someone's got to do it because I think it's such a massive scale.

00:01:49.620 So many, more than 100 churches have been hit, and I grant you that not all of them have been burned to the ground.

00:01:55.940 And some of them are no longer active as churches, but I don't think it matters.

00:02:00.840 I mean, you might remember about a month ago, I went to New Brunswick and there was an old

00:02:06.320 derelict church that hadn't been used in years and it was sort of deconsecrated and it looked

00:02:11.200 abandoned.

00:02:11.640 And so, yeah, maybe it was just an old building that sometimes kids or arsonists, you know,

00:02:17.880 fire bugs might target.

00:02:19.540 But don't tell me that 100 churches being targeted isn't a pattern.

00:02:24.140 And I just, I won't believe you.

00:02:26.400 So I think it's important to document it because I really believe other people are trying to minimize it, to ignore it.

00:02:34.600 Very, very little coverage of this.

00:02:36.660 I think the authorities don't want to acknowledge that there's something going on and they don't even want to look into it.

00:02:41.640 Like maybe it's a lot of coincidences, but we don't know because we haven't properly investigated.

00:02:48.360 We'll keep at it, by the way.

00:02:49.600 Now, I should say that tomorrow I'm going to be in Ottawa because our friend and colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed has been invited to testify before Parliament.

00:02:59.000 Can you imagine? As you may know, Sheila is the president of something called the Independent Press Gallery, which is a few years old and has almost 100 members.

00:03:07.840 This is an antidote or a counterweight to the Parliamentary Press Gallery, which is the government-run press gallery based in Ottawa's Parliament, under the control of the Speaker of the House.

00:03:21.920 And so it's a very partisan affair.

00:03:24.460 Everyone in there is on the take.

00:03:26.480 They all get the government subsidy.

00:03:28.280 So this is a kind of voluntary industry association for independent journalists, as the name suggests.

00:03:34.300 So Sheila will be testifying on Parliament Hill.

00:03:36.700 I actually haven't seen her remarks yet. So I'll be there in person to hear them along with

00:03:40.640 parliament in real time. And then we'll talk to Sheila about the day. I'm really excited about

00:03:44.380 and we'll show you how it goes. So we're on a roll. I mean, we've had a lot of great interviews

00:03:48.480 lately. And I think this goes, the reason we were invited to parliament, I think shows

00:03:52.520 that we've received sort of a, I mean, we're 11 years old now. We've been doing this for a while.

00:03:59.080 And I think people know that we are real journalists. And the reason I say that is

00:04:02.980 because in Quebec, there was this insane reaction to Alexa Lavoie interviewing the leader of the 0.69

00:04:08.760 Parti Québécois for an hour. The reaction wasn't to anything she said or did. It was the fact that

00:04:13.960 the Parti Québécois would dare to sit down for an interview with Rebel News. So I thought that

00:04:19.220 was sort of cool. Anyways, that's sort of some housekeeping stuff. But I want to talk to you

00:04:22.780 about an interesting meeting in Washington, D.C. Interesting because of who was there,

00:04:28.480 and maybe even more interesting for who was not there.

00:04:32.740 Here's the people standing together.

00:04:35.140 Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State is there

00:04:37.340 and it's representatives from Israel and Lebanon

00:04:41.800 having face-to-face direct meetings about peace

00:04:46.540 and the future of the region,

00:04:48.560 which is a very interesting thing to be happening

00:04:50.980 because Israel right now is attacking Hezbollah terrorists

00:04:55.420 in the southern part of Lebanon.

00:04:57.700 really intensively, you may know that Hezbollah is a terrorist group that is

00:05:03.000 run, funded, directed, armed by Iran. So Iran sort of had direct ways of fighting. They would

00:05:08.980 shoot missiles or drones, but they had these surrogates, including the Hamas terrorist group

00:05:13.280 in Gaza, the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen. So they had

00:05:18.700 all these proxies. I mean, really, Lebanon has been occupied by Iran. Syria was another

00:05:25.740 finger on the hand of Iran. Iran used to really control the region. They spent 47 years really 0.94

00:05:32.320 doing nothing but plotting, you're going to laugh when I say it, world domination. They really

00:05:37.740 believe in bringing about Allah's reign on earth. They want to topple. They're not governed by the 0.99

00:05:45.920 same earthly rationales as most countries. They have an apocalyptic religious destiny and that's

00:05:54.380 govern what they did. And really, they wanted to attack everything Western and secular. So they had

00:05:58.960 these proxies around the world. Anyways, what's so interesting that Israel and Lebanon were having

00:06:05.520 their first meetings. I think this was the first head to head meeting since the 1990s. I think I

00:06:10.960 read 1993. And what's interesting to me in particular, is that France is not involved.

00:06:17.460 And you might say, well, why would France be involved? Well, remember that France actually

00:06:21.380 used to be an empire. In fact, there's Caribbean islands like Martinique and there's Saint-Pierre

00:06:26.080 and Miquelon just after, just off the coast of Canada. France used to be an empire, not a huge

00:06:30.260 one, but they had French Africa. They had French, you know, Guyana and Lebanon and Syria were French

00:06:39.440 at one time. In fact, other than Arabic, I think French is the second language of Lebanon. They

00:06:45.960 used to say Beirut was the Paris of the Middle East. It truly looked beautiful and it was on

00:06:50.920 the Mediterranean. So France is not involved at all. Even though France loves to talk about foreign

00:06:57.320 policy in Lebanon, they were not invited. And it's sort of incredible that they're meeting. Look at

00:07:04.000 these. These are Israeli and Lebanese front pages of the newspaper yesterday with headlines like

00:07:11.520 history in Washington, giving negotiations a chance, Israel and Lebanon on the same side.

00:07:16.960 And then you can see the one that was translated there, taboo broken.

00:07:21.360 That's from an Arabic newspaper in Lebanon, that the taboo of meeting face to face with

00:07:26.060 Israel is now over.

00:07:27.660 And the joint statement, we want lasting peace. 0.97

00:07:29.800 So it really sounds promising.

00:07:33.120 And, you know, the US was putting a lot of their reputation behind it.

00:07:38.040 It was being really, you could really tell that the Americans are knocking heads together

00:07:42.680 to get this peace done.

00:07:43.920 and let me just play for you a quote from the israeli ambassador to the u.s who was really one

00:07:50.660 of the point people here's name is yechiel lighter is his name here he is talking about the absence of

00:07:56.500 the french and whether or not that was a good or a bad thing just take a take a listen this guy i

00:08:01.400 think this guy was uh channeling trump or something take a listen mike wagon i'm i24 news english is

00:08:06.900 there something specific your lebanese counterpart said today to give you optimism that uh the laf

00:08:12.640 will really begin to take hold in southern Lebanon and disarm Hezbollah and also conspicuous

00:08:17.600 by their absence today for the French.

00:08:20.260 Did Israel make a concerted, active effort to keep the French away from these negotiations? 1.00

00:08:26.140 Well, I hope we won't have to make a concerted effort, but we certainly don't want the French 0.89

00:08:30.440 anywhere near these negotiations. 1.00

00:08:32.640 We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible from pretty much everything, but 1.00

00:08:36.520 particularly when it comes to peace negotiations. 1.00

00:08:38.860 They're not needed.

00:08:40.240 They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon. 0.79

00:08:43.040 Well, that must have really stung France.

00:08:46.120 And here's their foreign minister.

00:08:48.020 Now, I'll play it in low volume because it's en français.

00:08:51.100 But let me translate.

00:08:52.400 I put this through a machine translator.

00:08:54.480 And he said, I am pleased to know that the Israeli government has entrusted a man who

00:08:58.380 apparently is very diplomatic, very refined, and very subtle, obviously he's being ironic,

00:09:03.940 with the task of conducting this negotiation.

00:09:06.660 He's apparently determined to reduce to a minimum the number of partner countries

00:09:09.920 that Lebanon will need to rebuild itself.

00:09:12.200 I suggest that he stays as far away as possible from the microphones and television cameras.

00:09:16.000 So he's basically saying, shut your mouth if you want France to help rebuild Lebanon

00:09:21.660 after a peace deal, which is sort of a weird thing to threaten to punish Lebanon 0.59

00:09:27.560 because you didn't like an Israeli diplomat being undiplomatic.

00:09:32.320 but uh obviously france was stung by the fact they weren't there now they should bring that

00:09:37.460 up with the united states who was hosting him but um you know it may be true that if there is a peace

00:09:45.160 deal that france would help rebuild lebanon it wouldn't surprise me france loves spending money

00:09:50.560 on foreign aid as much as the uk and canada do it might be true that they would help lebanon

00:09:55.820 But Lebanon has not had a moment's peace in 50 years that they could rebuild on.

00:10:02.280 I mean, the war is wax and wane, but Lebanon has been occupied. 0.96

00:10:07.620 It has been colonized by Muslim terrorists for about 50 years. 0.95

00:10:12.480 First, it was the PLO and Yasser Arafat. 0.95

00:10:15.740 They were kicked out of Jordan when they fomented the civil war there.

00:10:19.240 And most, many of them went to Lebanon.

00:10:21.460 And then Hezbollah, which formally swore allegiance to Iran in the 1980s.

00:10:27.460 So in the 70s, in came the PLO. 0.73

00:10:29.460 In the 80s came Hezbollah, and they were not interested in being a normal place. 0.99

00:10:35.640 France hasn't been a normal, sorry, pardon me, Lebanon hasn't been a normal country since. 0.71

00:10:40.560 There has been no meaningful enduring peace because there are all these terrorist groups there.

00:10:44.960 And every once in a while, the terrorist groups would attack Israel and they would push back.

00:10:49.000 In fact, Israel actually invaded Lebanon to try and stomp them out.

00:10:54.000 Lebanon is occupied.

00:10:55.720 Whenever you hear occupation in the Middle East, people say, oh, Israel occupying the West Bank.

00:11:00.480 Islamists have occupied parts of Lebanon for 50 years.

00:11:05.100 And, you know, I hope France will help rebuild Lebanon when it's all over. 0.99

00:11:09.500 But that promise is conditional on there being peace.

00:11:13.040 there hasn't been peace in 50 years because France and others haven't been willing to make

00:11:18.120 the peace by extirpating the terrorists. You would have to end the Hezbollah occupation of 0.95

00:11:25.180 Lebanon before you could rebuild. Now, I think for a lot of people like the leadership of France and

00:11:32.120 many pro-Palestinian or anti-Israeli Westerners, they don't quite understand that Lebanon is a

00:11:38.180 country that is colonized by Hezbollah. And Lebanon doesn't want that. Here is Lebanon's

00:11:43.280 prime minister calling for a normalization of relations with Israel. And I should say this is

00:11:49.520 last year after Israel was pummeling Hezbollah for a couple of years straight. Here's Lebanon's 1.00

00:11:55.260 PM saying he wants a normalization with Israel. So I guess my question is, you wouldn't be

00:12:01.280 normalizing relations without at least a credible pathway to, if not, a Palestinian state and a two-state solution, correct?

00:12:12.040 I don't like the idea of pathways. I mean, I would like to see a two-state solution,

00:12:17.900 Israeli withdrawing from occupied territories in exchange for peace, and peace, I mean, will lead to normalization. 0.55

00:12:27.280 Or normalization is part and parcel of the peace we would like to see tomorrow and another day after.

00:12:40.400 Here's Lebanon's justice minister saying he wants normalized relations too.

00:12:45.740 They want to be normal again.

00:12:48.760 Lebanon wants to be a free democracy again.

00:12:51.620 Take a look.

00:12:57.280 But my opinion is that we will be stronger if we make a vote than if we don't make a vote.

00:13:04.520 And if we make a vote, then we don't make a vote.

00:13:07.160 There are the United States, the United States, the United States and the United States.

00:13:14.760 There are other countries that don't have any problems.

00:13:16.840 But if you don't want to make a vote, you won't make a vote with your friends, Mr. Marcelli.

00:13:23.160 You'll make a vote with your interests and your interests. 0.90

00:13:26.640 Remember, all of the Middle East was once Christian. 0.89

00:13:37.760 It wasn't Muslim. 0.53

00:13:38.780 I mean, Christianity predates Islam by centuries.

00:13:43.600 Lebanon was Christian.

00:13:44.740 Egypt was Christian.

00:13:45.780 Syria was Christian. 0.53

00:13:46.740 Turkey was Christian.

00:13:48.420 Istanbul used to be called Constantinople.

00:13:50.520 It was the largest, richest, most Christian city in the world. 0.98

00:13:53.420 it was the occupation and colonization by islam that turned them into muslim countries 0.65

00:13:59.920 um i checked the statistics by the way lebanon 50 years ago was about 55 christian now it's just 30

00:14:07.980 christian it is being conquered and colonized as part of the larger mission of radical islam

00:14:14.640 israel is not actually at war with lebanon it's a war with the occupiers of southern lebanon

00:14:19.920 Lebanon, that France hasn't done anything to stop. Why would you invite France in there? It's like

00:14:25.680 Norman Schwarzkopf's old joke, going hunting, you know, going to war without France is like going

00:14:31.760 hunting without your accordion. France has deployed its aircraft carrier, which is more than the UK

00:14:37.720 could do, and managed to set sail. But I can't tell you what they've actually achieved other than

00:14:44.280 make some pretty cool political ads for Emmanuel Macron. Like you've got this aircraft carrier,

00:14:49.920 France actually has a respectable navy, respectable military. They're a nuclear power.

00:14:54.940 They have some modern jets, but why haven't they used those to get rid of the terrorists? Why do

00:15:00.180 they just flex their muscles but not actually lift anything? I don't quite know. Why have they

00:15:05.460 never tried to end Iran in Lebanon? Why wouldn't they help their fellow French Christians? I don't

00:15:13.800 know. But France, I mean, I got to tell you that Israeli ambassador was correct. Let me read for 0.98

00:15:18.880 you the Wall Street Journal, a major story, which I just thought was incredible. If this was April

00:15:24.080 Fool's Day, I would say, oh, it's got to be a joke. Look at this tweet from the Wall Street Journal,

00:15:28.900 which is a very reputable newspaper. Exclusive. European countries are planning a post-war mission

00:15:34.300 to free up shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, excluding the U.S. What? Let me read a little

00:15:42.100 bit of the story for you. It's sort of incredible. The headline is Europe drafts post-war plan to

00:15:48.560 free up Hormuz without US. UK and French plan aims to give shipping companies confidence

00:15:55.340 to use the strait after the fighting ends. Without America? So you just got all these

00:16:01.820 big plans. You're not invited to America's negotiations with Lebanon. You were invited

00:16:07.420 to help fight Iran. You declined. But you've got plans to take over when the war is over. 0.52

00:16:13.640 Here, let me read the story. European countries are putting together a plan for a broad coalition

00:16:17.920 of countries to help free up shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, including sending mine

00:16:22.440 clearing and other military vessels, but the plan would only come after the war and may exclude one

00:16:30.740 country in particular, the U.S. French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, the plan is for an

00:16:37.580 international defensive mission that doesn't include the belligerent parties, meaning the U.S.,

00:16:42.200 Israel, and Iran. European diplomats familiar with the plan say European ships wouldn't be

00:16:47.900 under American command. This is too much. This is too much, but this is real. I'll read some more.

00:16:54.980 The mission we are referring to could only be deployed once calm has been restored and

00:16:59.260 hostilities have ceased, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault said on Tuesday, adding that

00:17:05.640 the international coalition would coordinate with countries bordering the strait, including Iran

00:17:09.840 and Oman. That suggests no mission would go ahead without Iranian approval. That is just so amazing.

00:17:15.700 It's so delicious.

00:17:19.060 They think they're going to be in control of the Strait of Hormuz after America has done the fighting part.

00:17:27.080 And they're having a little conference to talk about it.

00:17:30.020 And they've all agreed amongst themselves.

00:17:32.300 What do you think Donald Trump would say about that?

00:17:35.720 Hey, we're going to totally get tough as soon as the war is over, everybody.

00:17:40.560 Do you see who that Israeli ambassador meant?

00:17:42.840 Hey, but let me just tell you this. 1.00

00:17:44.520 Canada is even dumber. 1.00

00:17:46.000 We are very concerned about the killing of a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon. 0.99

00:17:53.480 And indeed, I express my sincere condolences to his family and his friends and his community.

00:18:02.080 I am continuously in touch with the government of Lebanon.

00:18:07.540 I spoke with the foreign minister of Lebanon yesterday, in fact, to express Canada's solidarity with Lebanon, including their territorial integrity.

00:18:20.500 I understand that the peace talks between Lebanon and Israel began yesterday in Washington, D.C., where their representatives were directly discussing the potential for a ceasefire.

00:18:36.560 We very much hope that there will be a ceasefire.

00:18:39.920 And in the meantime, we'll continue to examine Canada's approach to this situation.

00:18:46.980 Yeah, just first of all, who are you even? 0.91

00:18:49.780 I mean, we know we're not actually helping stop Hezbollah or Iran. 0.99

00:18:55.280 I don't know.

00:18:55.840 They're probably amongst those 40 impotent countries that are having a meeting with America.

00:19:00.180 I don't even know.

00:19:01.140 It's not even worth looking to find out because really, who cares?

00:19:03.720 you'll notice that there's no recognition that hezbollah is the occupying force that israel's

00:19:08.600 trying to stomp out because lebanon can't do it you know there's no acknowledgement that hezbollah

00:19:13.440 is firing rockets from lebanon into israel just none of that by the way egypt and israel have had

00:19:19.520 a peace treaty for decades they don't shoot at each other jordan and israel have had a peace

00:19:24.660 treaty for decades they don't shoot at each other israel is not about shooting at its neighbors in

00:19:29.940 a random way it's about shooting back when terrorist base camps shoot at israel this is

00:19:35.580 about stopping them here's what i think is going to happen i think there's going to be a peace deal

00:19:41.880 i think that they wouldn't i don't think secretary of state marco rubio would have had a public

00:19:47.700 display like that if he wasn't pretty sure that a deal was going to be made i don't think he would

00:19:52.200 have raised expectations if he didn't realize things were going the right direction i think

00:19:57.480 Lebanon and Israel are going to make a deal. I think that Lebanon will be rebuilt and frankly

00:20:03.120 wouldn't surprise me if the money didn't come from France but came from the United Arab Emirates and

00:20:08.420 maybe the Saudis who have a lot of dough. America calls the shots, not the United Nations,

00:20:14.940 not the NATO countries that demand American help in Ukraine but won't help Trump when he asked for

00:20:21.260 Israel, I think, will have peace again with Lebanon, like it does with Egypt and Jordan.

00:20:27.220 I think the Abraham Accords peace treaty will grow.

00:20:31.380 I think you might see the Strait of Hormuz renamed the Strait of Trump.

00:20:36.100 And I know that sounds funny, but why wouldn't he rename it?

00:20:39.540 Look, I don't quite understand the China stuff that's going on.

00:20:42.840 Of course, the number one buyer of Iranian conflict oil is China.

00:20:48.360 And what they love about it is because it's subject to Western sanctions, it is so much

00:20:53.880 cheaper than the world price of oil.

00:20:56.060 I haven't checked the price of oil lately, but I'm guessing it's around 80 or 90 bucks.

00:20:59.820 It was around 100 recently.

00:21:01.960 I'm guessing China's buying its conflict oil from Iran for 25 bucks a barrel just because

00:21:07.140 it's illegal to sell on the world market.

00:21:08.980 So I think anything that denies China access to oil, like Venezuela being toppled or raises

00:21:15.600 the price of it, that's a benefit for America and a detriment to China. I don't exactly know

00:21:20.180 what's going on there, but I like what I see. And the benefit to Canada out of all this?

00:21:26.080 Well, I don't know. There's around 300,000 Lebanese Canadians, many of whom like to go 1.00

00:21:30.100 back and forth, love the old Beirut. Maybe they can even help rebuild a democracy again over there.

00:21:36.960 Maybe Lebanon can be a Christian country again, and some of the terrorists can go home.

00:21:41.120 one thing's for sure the Canadian government is on the wrong side just like France and for the

00:21:50.320 exact same reason you know there were three by-elections this week in Canada one of them 0.94

00:21:55.940 was in a very uh high migrant riding here's Melanie Jolie who won't stop talking about

00:22:01.900 demographics remember when she told Thomas Mulcair that her foreign policy against Israel was based

00:22:06.600 on the demographics of her riding, where here she is talking about the by-election win in Quebec.

00:22:12.460 The Supreme Court took its decision.

00:22:15.500 Of course, we respected the justice's decision, and so that's why there was a new election called.

00:22:23.340 And so we got involved very much.

00:22:26.240 And I think also Terrebonne is a writing, for those who don't necessarily know,

00:22:32.020 the geography of Montreal is a bit on the outskirts of Montreal.

00:22:37.260 It is very much more changing as Montreal and Quebec is changing.

00:22:43.900 And so the second generation of first immigrants coming to Quebec,

00:22:51.260 a very important community from Haiti, also from Northern Africa.

00:22:56.980 And so things are changing across the country, particularly also here.

00:23:01.660 And so I think also, I think that could be actually very favorable in general for a candidate that is from the Asian community.

00:23:11.240 So there it is. Lots of North Africans, lots of foreigners, and they have to follow what they say, not Canadian interests or principles. 0.98

00:23:18.200 That is why Canada endorsed Palestine. That is why Canada is condemning Israel. 0.99

00:23:22.680 That's why. And that's why we have no room in a world that is being created by Donald Trump, Israel, and the actual peacemaking Arab countries. 0.97

00:23:32.540 Stay with us. More ahead. 0.91

00:23:42.880 Oh, hi, everybody. As you know, I went to Ireland for a day and a half last week because, boy, did they ever have a rebellion.

00:23:48.840 It seems to be simmering down now, but we sent our friends Efron Monsanto and Alexa Lavoie to keep covering it.

00:23:54.760 I had to come back to Canada and do stuff here, of course, but I'm glad we were over there.

00:23:58.980 This is Alexa's first trip to Ireland, and I wanted to hear how things were going.

00:24:03.160 Now, we had a bit of a rough phone-internet connection, so we're sort of doing this interview in parts.

00:24:08.020 I sent her these questions, and she sent the reply, but I'll read them to you as if it were live.

00:24:12.640 My first question to Alexa was, this is your first trip to Ireland.

00:24:16.240 How would you compare its political culture to Canada's?

00:24:19.720 And how would you compare their street protest to the Canadian trucker convoy?

00:24:24.940 Hi, Zora. Thanks for having me on your show.

00:24:27.500 Yes, it was my first time here in Ireland, and it is just so beautiful.

00:24:33.220 This country is amazing, but everything is so expensive.

00:24:39.480 You know, what I was able to see is like Irish people are so unified.

00:24:44.780 they stand with each other, and what beautiful people who live here, so open, so nice, and

00:24:53.680 something actually comes to me is to see how unified Irish are. They stand with each other,

00:25:03.780 they are unapologetic, they are, you know, they stand with what they say, they don't say story

00:25:12.120 of what they say, and they are open about their thoughts,

00:25:17.160 their opinions, they don't censor themselves.

00:25:20.360 And you saw, they took the street

00:25:23.000 because they say enough is enough.

00:25:25.200 They are working-class citizens, okay?

00:25:29.080 They are not rich people.

00:25:30.700 They don't feel represented by the government in place.

00:25:34.880 Actually, they don't feel represented at all.

00:25:37.320 There should be absolutely no confidence

00:25:39.080 in this government at all. 0.99

00:25:40.280 They're a disgrace. 0.99

00:25:42.120 We are going to stand up. 0.99

00:25:44.460 We spent 800 years fighting the English.

00:25:46.820 We are not finished fighting yet. 0.99

00:25:48.960 So hopefully we get what we want today.

00:25:53.800 They all say that there is no party that represents them.

00:25:58.660 So who is picking for them?

00:26:01.460 And it's a little bit what we saw in Canada during the COVID-19

00:26:05.720 when people took to the street to protest for their basic freedom.

00:26:12.120 Who were speaking for them? Nobody. Nobody. And at one point, enough is enough. They decided to stand together and to voice their disagreement and to put pressure on the government so the government has no choice to listen to them.

00:26:33.800 And you saw what happened to Canada.

00:26:38.120 First, they refused to meet with them.

00:26:41.800 Second, they started painting them as dangerous far-right thug.

00:26:47.820 And then they cracked down with the police and the military.

00:26:54.040 This is exactly what we saw with the trucker convoy.

00:26:57.720 The rhetoric, how they tried to paint them.

00:27:00.820 And then, they say that the mainstream media

00:27:05.500 received tons of money of the taxpayer.

00:27:10.700 The government dared to say that they were lopsided

00:27:14.340 on the side of the protestor.

00:27:16.700 But I talked with those protestors,

00:27:20.340 and they say that this is, I don't want to say it live, 1.00

00:27:24.380 but be shit. 1.00

00:27:27.040 Thank you for what's your rebel news from Canada. 1.00

00:27:30.420 thank you very much because it's it's them tyrants inside there that are destroying the irish people 0.82

00:27:35.940 of this country and running irish people into the ground as you can see here we have our flags here 0.93

00:27:40.820 but because of our poles the guardi will not let us in because of our poles hanging our flag up high 1.00

00:27:46.020 that's only fiber glass you know i mean but thank you for reporting on it because these people need 0.85

00:27:51.780 to see what they're doing inside there is nothing but tyranny and destruction to the irish people

00:27:56.260 and that's the only way that it is and it's only way that's going to be seen by you might take this 0.73

00:27:59.860 small crowd there now today but don't you wait you know they say that the mainstream media

00:28:09.140 at the beginning they were smearing them and then they started to be a little bit more neutral

00:28:18.580 and then the minister said that they are going to investigate them and then they say they

00:28:25.620 They retracted what they said.

00:28:27.780 But it was pretty interesting to see their side of view.

00:28:31.960 And they are all aware about the Freedom Convoy,

00:28:35.160 the one I talked to.

00:28:37.300 And it was really interesting to have that true thought.

00:28:41.400 Because sometimes in Canada, this is something,

00:28:43.500 it's hard to get the real opinion on camera.

00:28:48.600 But them, they are not scared of.

00:28:53.320 Every time anybody opens, I'm out of this context.

00:28:55.620 If you're not with the narrative of the government, they call you a far right.

00:29:00.700 That's what they label us. Far right.

00:29:02.900 We're not far right.

00:29:03.620 No matter what, we might be right, but we're not far right. 0.99

00:29:06.220 Irish people as emigrated to every corner of the earth.

00:29:09.340 We have no problem with that.

00:29:10.940 Any person wants to come over here legally and wants to work and live amongst us Irish people,

00:29:15.940 we share our hands out and we would love them to join in on our protests as well.

00:29:20.820 So that they can also join in because it's not just us.

00:29:23.180 People that are living here legally, they're also getting the cost of fuel

00:29:26.620 and also getting the cost of housing and living, rent, everything.

00:29:30.120 It's affecting everyone, Irish people and Irish citizens.

00:29:34.120 So any person that wants to come and join should well join.

00:29:37.520 And any people that want to believe in what they do, just get out and leave.

00:29:42.140 Yeah, yeah.

00:29:42.880 It looks like things have calmed down with the government having made some concessions

00:29:46.760 on carbon taxes and fuel prices.

00:29:48.960 Is it over?

00:29:50.160 Was it a success?

00:29:51.080 so the government have laid down a package deal it's a package deal worth of about half of a

00:30:00.480 billions of dollars first of all none of the protesters are happy this is not a good deal

00:30:08.600 and they all say that this is ridiculous so it's far from over they all say that more protests

00:30:17.460 is ahead. They're all going to continue because they say that this is not enough. They say that 0.92

00:30:24.300 500 millions of euro to compare what the government literally gave to RTE, that is the

00:30:33.700 government broadcast media, we talk about more than 700 million of euro over three years.

00:30:41.700 Government is now extending the temporary measures to reduce excise duty and petrol, diesel

00:30:46.640 and marked gas oil from the end of May to the end of July.

00:30:51.840 For the reducing mineral oil taxes, the government is by 10 cents per litre on petrol,

00:30:56.900 10 cents per litre on diesel and 2.4 cents per litre on marked gas oil,

00:31:03.680 postponing the increase in carbon tax from May until the budget in October.

00:31:10.640 750 million was announced

00:31:13.500 The government last year

00:31:15.660 Spent 725 million

00:31:17.680 To save RTE

00:31:18.880 They think less of you

00:31:21.100 Me, our mothers, fathers

00:31:23.260 Brothers and sisters

00:31:24.740 Than they do of saving

00:31:26.760 A TV and radio station

00:31:29.440 There's 10 cents

00:31:31.840 Gone off diesel and petrol

00:31:33.440 There's 9 cents went on the pumps

00:31:35.420 Last night

00:31:36.100 We are running to stand still

00:31:38.520 We can't do it forever

00:31:40.000 So people feel insulted. People feel like the government is literally not listening.

00:31:49.560 And I'm telling you, we will see way more protests. We will see people trying to get

00:31:55.920 what they want. And I'm a bit scared to see more police enforcement as we saw in recent days.

00:32:05.660 Is there a lesson Canadians can learn from this?

00:32:08.580 I think since the trucker convoy, we saw that Canadians are more and more divided.

00:32:15.800 We saw that Canadians are less unified.

00:32:20.980 They are censoring themselves.

00:32:23.460 Why Canadians don't learn from the Irish people to stand with each other?

00:32:29.420 Same if you disagree on some opinion.

00:32:33.840 Why you don't stand with each other when you can see that some part of your population cannot afford to feed their family, to buy a home, to continue their business, to put fuel for their tractors?

00:32:54.160 Why you are not standing with each other?

00:32:57.440 Why you are continuing to censor yourself because you're too scared of what people would think about you? 1.00

00:33:03.840 Irish doesn't care. 1.00

00:33:05.840 Irish don't say sorry.

00:33:07.840 I think Canadians should learn from them. 1.00

00:33:09.840 Probably can't put this on your show, 0.99

00:33:11.840 but the government should all be shot for being traitors. 0.99

00:33:15.840 No, but like, actually, 0.98

00:33:18.840 do you think it was justified what they did,

00:33:20.840 like blocking refineries?

00:33:21.840 100%. 100%.

00:33:24.840 Michal Martin, as we all like to call him down here, 1.00

00:33:27.840 has been fucking this country for years. 1.00

00:33:29.840 Absolutely raping the Irish people. 1.00

00:33:31.840 people taking money out of their pockets that doesn't need to be taken over 50%. I think out 1.00

00:33:38.480 of the 220 we pay for a litre of diesel, 120 of that goes to the government. So as I actually

00:33:44.960 explained, RTE received millions of taxpayer money, but it's not the only media who receive

00:33:53.440 money from the government. They all rely heavily on taxpayer money. Same in Canada,

00:34:00.800 But you can see how they frame the article, what they use to frame protesters as what, far-right?

00:34:10.920 Or when it was the mass immigration protests, they were labeled as racist and bigot. 0.88

00:34:21.640 Those people here in Ireland, they just want to continue to live their life.

00:34:28.260 You know, they are proud to be Irish.

00:34:31.580 They want to preserve their country. 0.99

00:34:34.720 They don't want fake refugees who will have access to everything that they don't have access to drain resources, drain access to lodging, health care.

00:34:50.860 They want to preserve also their culture, who they are, their heritage. 0.98

00:34:58.160 Now we are seeing a population that is in decline, but we see a lot of newcomers coming here.

00:35:06.440 And some of them, they are not integrating. 1.00

00:35:10.080 Mass immigration is destroying not only Ireland, it's destroying all Western countries. 1.00

00:35:16.860 And unfortunately, here in Ireland, they don't have a political party that will stop it. 1.00

00:35:22.940 They are all for it.

00:35:24.340 They are all promoting it. 0.76

00:35:26.640 They want to open the door of mass immigration. 0.99

00:35:28.960 And Ireland should just accept that. 1.00

00:35:34.340 And Irish should just say goodbye to who they are. 0.92

00:35:38.520 What has been the Irish mainstream media's response? 1.00

00:35:41.800 Do they remind you of Canada's media?

00:35:43.760 So, yes, the mainstream media is literally the same than in Canada.

00:35:51.240 They are biased.

00:35:53.180 They are smearing people who are not in the narrative that the government wants.

00:36:00.220 And if the media try to be a little bit neutral, the government interfere and say,

00:36:07.060 we will actually audit you because you look cited on the side of the protester.

00:36:13.500 This is what government money do.

00:36:17.100 You're not free to report what you want.

00:36:20.180 You are actually a government puppet.

00:36:24.460 And this is what we are able to see here in Ireland.

00:36:29.620 Hey, boss, how are you today?

00:36:30.920 So, is this all brought by the neighbourhood shops and people?

00:36:37.060 Shops and people have been coming continuously with stuff.

00:36:42.780 especially from from tuesday it's just been an ongoing process of especially this man here has

00:36:49.740 spent the majority of his time standing here for the last three days so uh no it's been unbelievable

00:36:56.780 i think it has wakened a lot of people up like there's an old lady here last yesterday with a

00:37:02.620 trolley and she had uh you know she might have been in her 80s and she was so glad to see what

00:37:08.700 was going on happening but so many people in the city are are fed up with the direction society is

00:37:14.860 going are you from dublin itself no i'm actually i'm from i'm from monaghan which is 90 or 100

00:37:20.460 miles down down the road now we're on a street in a neighborhood that has a lot of history

00:37:27.100 and a history of rebellion as well is that uh is that spirit still alive in ireland in 2026

00:37:34.940 i suppose as i a couple of mornings ago i said to one of the other one of the lorry lads i says

00:37:40.620 if you stand back and look at it the soul these lads plow the ground they draw the food

00:37:47.260 and the soul of ireland has now landed on o'connell street because they've been watching

00:37:52.140 this evolve over the course of the last 10 20 years and now they're all fed up with the level

00:37:57.740 of corruption within the country and it's unsustainable it's quite clear we have leadership

00:38:03.020 that's not fit to lead and they're just playing to a globalist European agenda and the Irish

00:38:11.300 people are now just becoming, how do you put it, number. And in one sense, you could nearly call

00:38:17.500 the place an open jail to a degree because they're all just numbers. You know, it's as if

00:38:22.460 real communities no longer matter and they don't mind filling the communities with whatever they

00:38:29.600 would like so are you referring to immigration there i'm trying to understand what you mean

00:38:34.080 there was a lady and came up to the city here after christmas and she came up on the bus from

00:38:40.840 and she made the remark about the amount of young ones getting off at the airport to go to australia

00:38:47.520 go to go back to work i says i says it's ridiculous i says they're they're exporting

00:38:55.820 they're exporting pedigree cattle and they're taking in they're taking in stuff that they 0.90

00:39:00.620 haven't even got papers for there's no there's no air tags you know it's it's it's a ridiculous

00:39:07.020 situation at this stage plus because of my journey through the system i i stood up to the corruption

00:39:14.380 10 years ago in relation to our businesses being stolen off us and i've been in jail in the state

00:39:20.380 here eight times for just saying no you aren't getting away with this but if anybody wanted to

00:39:27.900 look at fergal theory and fergal theory on tick tock fergal joseph theory on tick tock you will

00:39:33.420 find a lot of the information and and paperwork that shows that the level of corruption within

00:39:41.100 the system is is unsustainable and these bodies are far too they've become so removed from the

00:39:47.340 realities of irish life you know well listen i wish you good luck and and thanks very much

00:39:52.540 for manning the food bank here good to talk with you cheers likewise well that's our friend alexa

00:39:57.580 lavoie in dublin ireland i find it a very interesting country it's smaller than canada

00:40:02.620 only five million people so it almost feels like it's all friends and family um and i suppose they

00:40:09.260 can find a consensus faster and i think there was a consensus that taxes were just too high

00:40:14.220 is very interesting to me.

00:40:16.340 Hey, stay with us.

00:40:17.400 Your letters to me next.

00:40:27.600 Hey, welcome back.

00:40:28.800 Here's the first letter about my trip to Quebec

00:40:30.960 and the burnt church.

00:40:32.680 Paul Eddy says,

00:40:33.460 it seems from this evidence

00:40:34.380 that Christian symbols are not safe anymore in Canada.

00:40:37.200 And there seems to be little prosecuted or people jailed

00:40:39.540 due to over 200 churches and Christian symbols

00:40:42.280 desecrated in the last 15 years or so it seems to be a regular thing in the anglosphere in europe

00:40:47.700 this wholesale destruction on christian symbols you know it's interesting i i sort of have my

00:40:53.600 eyes peeled for this story and churches are burnt regularly in the uk france and in scandinavia too

00:41:01.740 it's heartbreaking to see and i simply don't believe that it's all accidents or faulty wiring

00:41:07.920 i'm sorry i just don't believe that uh just like i don't believe that the notre dame cathedral

00:41:11.960 in Paris was an accident. They ruled out terrorism before they even did the investigation. I think

00:41:17.680 that tells you all you need to know. Next letter from Messier45 says, European countries are trying

00:41:24.300 to get out of the EU and the demon Carney wants Canada to join. Just insane. Yeah, I think Mark

00:41:31.200 Carney is in a very strange position because I think as a banker, he knows that 90 plus percent

00:41:36.180 of our exports go to the United States. So even if you doubled your trade to other countries over

00:41:41.580 the next 10 years. First of all, it takes 10 years. And second of all, okay, so you now have 20% of

00:41:46.380 our trade with others, not just 10%. Yeah, that's still just a fraction of a segment of a part of

00:41:55.120 your trade with America. What are you doing? So he knows that. But I think he loves the

00:41:59.780 anti-Americanism just too much. He knows it's winning for him, at least amongst boomers and 0.99

00:42:04.660 newcomers to Canada. He won three by-elections. So he's going to continue being as anti-American

00:42:09.880 as he can be. It's really strange.

00:42:12.800 Well, that's our show for the day.

00:42:13.960 I'll be in Ottawa tomorrow where Sheila Gunn-Reed

00:42:16.080 is presenting to Parliament. We'll do a story.

00:42:17.800 We'll do a show from there.

00:42:19.560 Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World

00:42:21.780 Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:42:23.900 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - April 15, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Media silence on church attacks as global power shifts unfold

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