Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who wins and who loses in Israel’s decisive strike against Iran

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Huge show today. I really take you through step by step what happened in Iran,

00:00:05.560 showing lots of footage and answering the question, who wins and who loses? And does

00:00:10.700 this change the Middle East forever? I think it does. And an interview with our friend Alan

00:00:15.320 Bokhari about the spat between Donald Trump and Elon Musk and a looming censorship bill in Europe.

00:00:21.200 But first, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus today. You

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00:00:54.640 Tonight, Israel attacks Iran, destroying their nuclear program.

00:00:59.980 Who benefits and who loses? It's June 13th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:07.580 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:19.260 Last night, I was riveted by the news of Israel mounting a massive surprise attack on Iran. 0.89

00:01:25.620 It was a sneak attack that decapitated the Iranian military and terrorist forces and also targeted not

00:01:33.340 only their missile systems, but their underground nuclear operations. Iran reportedly just days away

00:01:40.400 from producing nuclear bombs. I spent the live stream on today's show. I don't know if you know,

00:01:46.740 but every day we have a one-hour live stream at Rebel News. I sat in a chair. Normally,

00:01:51.120 it's Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies and others, but I wanted to chew over what was going on. I think

00:01:55.920 it's the most momentous event in the Middle East in a generation. I think it has really cut Iran down to 1.00

00:02:03.720 size militarily. It has removed the grave threat of a nuclear regional superpower there, relieving pressure

00:02:11.260 not just on Israel, but on the Sunni Muslim Arab neighbors, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates,

00:02:17.680 the moderate countries there that are really starting to modernize the Arab world. I'll make

00:02:23.220 the case for that, and I'll show you examples of what Israel did by having a very strategic

00:02:28.960 pinpoint operation that minimized civilian casualties. Since I recorded that live stream earlier today,

00:02:36.400 there were indeed some long-range missiles that hit Tel Aviv, and surely there were some casualties,

00:02:41.920 but it is certainly not as devastating as a nuclear war would be, and I feel that Israel will likely be 1.00

00:02:48.220 able to suppress those missiles in the days ahead. I'll give you my thoughts, but first I want to show

00:02:54.820 you an interview I just did with Alam Bokhari. He's with the Foundation for Freedom Online, and we're

00:03:01.720 talking a little bit about the state of freedom of speech, including a looming European law that could

00:03:08.520 censor Twitter users everywhere. That's next. You know, sometimes there's a fight that happens,

00:03:21.500 and you want both sides to continue fighting because you don't like either of them. I can think of a few

00:03:27.520 wars that are like that, but sometimes it's the opposite. It's almost like a kid watching mom and

00:03:33.460 dad quarrel, and all you want is for them to get along. Well, that second way is how I felt, and I

00:03:40.280 bet millions of others on the right side of the spectrum felt, when they saw Donald Trump and Elon Musk

00:03:46.260 having a very public falling out on Twitter, of all places. I think that it may have been inevitable

00:03:54.920 when two of the most powerful personalities, always the alpha dog in any room they're in, come

00:04:02.880 together. Well, they had some wonderful moments, but they were sure to clash. One's the most powerful

00:04:08.480 man in the world. One's the richest and maybe the smartest man in the world. Are they really going to

00:04:13.620 get along? Well, joining us now to talk about this is someone who follows both of them very closely. I'm

00:04:18.560 talking about our friend Alan Bokhari. He's the managing director of the Foundation for Freedom

00:04:23.140 Online, and she joins us now from Austin, Texas. I don't know. I hated seeing the quarrel, Alan,

00:04:29.620 because I like both men so much, and when they were together, it was like Batman and Superman

00:04:35.500 teaming up. I thought there's nothing they can't do, and then I see them really going hard at each

00:04:41.420 other. My heart sunk a bit. Yeah, and there's been simmering tensions between, you know, the so-called

00:04:48.260 tech right of which, you know, Elon is kind of the prime representative and the core MAGA right for a

00:04:54.600 while. We saw those tensions flare up back in December over H-1B visas. It does look like Elon

00:05:00.840 Musk and Donald Trump have buried the hatchet now. There's been some conciliatory statements, which I

00:05:05.820 think is very good. And I'm going to get into why they had the falling out to begin with in a second.

00:05:10.900 But first, let's talk about why the tech right and the MAGA right actually need to stick together.

00:05:17.480 And the big reason, one of the biggest reasons, I think, is just coming up next month, the European

00:05:23.900 Union's previously voluntary code of practice on disinformation becomes mandatory for all tech

00:05:32.300 companies under the Digital Services Act, which is the European Union's behemoth of online regulation.

00:05:39.020 And that is going to fine U.S. tech companies up to 6% of their global revenues, their annual global

00:05:47.920 revenues, if they don't comply with the demands of faceless European bureaucrats to censor so-called

00:05:55.360 hate speech, to censor so-called disinformation. And you can say this is just a European law, but we've

00:06:01.860 seen in the past the European Union and top European Union officials like Thierry Breton going after

00:06:09.440 platforms like X for purely American speech. So, you know, the European Union started complaining that

00:06:15.440 they allowed Trump back on back in, I think it was 2023 or 2022. So they see American speech as a

00:06:23.360 problem, and they're going to use the weight of their regulation, their regulatory apparatus, 0.96

00:06:27.440 to crush these tech companies that defy them. In fact, we also saw Nina Jankowicz, who was the-

00:06:36.340 The singing. She was the singer, the digital commissioner.

00:06:40.840 Yes, the digital commissioner, briefly head of the DHS Disinformation Governance Board. She was going to

00:06:46.820 run the whole U.S. anti-disinformation apparatus. And she recently went before the European Parliament,

00:06:55.840 talked to European policymakers, and encouraged them to stand up to what she called the fascist regime

00:07:02.360 developing in America. She encouraged the Europeans to use their power against her own government that 1.00

00:07:08.160 she used to work for, simply because it's under new management now. So this is a threat that's looming.

00:07:14.460 This massive piece of anti-disinformation legislation goes, regulation goes into effect next month.

00:07:21.540 And the only way it can really be fought, I think, is if the MAGA right and the tech right stand together.

00:07:27.560 It can be fought. We can get into how it can be fought. But it's something where, you know, if the European Union

00:07:33.820 wins, then MAGA voices won't be able to speak, and tech companies will face these enormous fines, and, you know,

00:07:39.880 they'll have the European boot on their neck telling them what to do. So it's really in the interest of both

00:07:44.020 parties, both factions, to come together and fight this thing.

00:07:47.120 Yeah, you know, it's funny you mentioned that fine. I think you said 6%. Canada introduced the Online

00:07:54.420 Harms Act under Justin Trudeau. It was dropped when Parliament was prorogued, but I think they're going

00:08:00.920 to bring it back. That had fines, I think, of up to 8%. And if I recall the legislation, it was per

00:08:07.700 incident. Like, it's just such a massive amount. And the idea that a Canadian censor could demand that an

00:08:15.740 American company silence someone or pay, I think, 8% of global revenues. It's just, I mean, it's an

00:08:24.820 expropriation. And, I mean, I thought that that was actually the way we would be saved, Alan, would be

00:08:32.380 that the United States would say, you're not going to destroy our most vigorous tech sector. Hey, let me

00:08:38.280 throw something at you. I remember when Mark Zuckerberg announced his change, and you and I talked about

00:08:44.380 this. And he said he was going to be more free speechy, and he specifically said, with the help

00:08:49.920 of the State Department. Because you can't stand, if you're a company, no matter how big you are,

00:08:55.580 you can't stand up to a foreign country. If you want to operate there, you've got to follow their 1.00

00:08:59.840 rules. So, you know, even a powerful gazillionaire like Zuckerberg cannot beat Brazil or France if they

00:09:08.200 don't have a government behind them. Is that promise of support still there? What gave Zuckerberg the

00:09:15.220 courage to be strong? What's giving Elon Musk the courage to be strong? Is that still there? Even if

00:09:21.100 Trump isn't talking to Elon Musk, is that policy platform still there?

00:09:26.180 I believe so. Marco Rubio has discussed this, you know, with the founder of my foundation,

00:09:31.660 Mike Benz. He had a long discussion addressing this very topic. J.D. Bantz, the vice president,

00:09:36.460 has also addressed this many, many times before, the danger of censorship regulation, both the EU

00:09:41.980 and other foreign nations like the UK. There's a very easy, well, I won't say easy, nothing is easy

00:09:48.780 in Washington, but there's a very simple solution for this. The DSA and regulations like this,

00:09:55.840 they're, you know, they're not just a sledgehammer of regulation, they're a nuclear bomb of regulation.

00:09:59.640 As you said, 8% of global revenues per incident. The purpose of a regulation like that is simply to

00:10:07.100 get tech companies to have a hair-trigger response to anything that might violate what these bureaucrats

00:10:14.220 don't want to see on social media, hate speech, disinformation, you name it. The way to neutralize

00:10:19.560 them, the U.S. can do this unilaterally through trade policy. You simply have a tariff that is

00:10:25.820 equal to the amount of the fine that is then rebated to the company that faces the fine. So say

00:10:32.300 Facebook or X, they get a 6% fine of their global revenues because they allowed some sort of

00:10:39.340 disinformation posts that the EU didn't like. That fine turns into a tariff on European companies

00:10:44.600 so that the European companies are effectively paying the fine, which is then rebated back to

00:10:49.640 the tech company that triggered it. So that effectively neutralizes the effect of any of these

00:10:55.740 regulations completely. And it makes the European companies pay for it. So if that goes on long

00:11:04.080 enough, then eventually the regulations will simply have to go. But it's still a big policy

00:11:09.820 ask and it will need real momentum in D.C. despite the support of people like J.D. Vance and Marco

00:11:15.920 Rubio. To get a policy like that, you need a campaign for it in D.C. And that's why the tech

00:11:21.680 right and the MAGA right need to stand together because defeating online censorship is in both

00:11:26.020 their interests. If online censorship comes back, neither the tech right nor the MAGA right

00:11:30.700 will ever get anything that they want, whether it's policy cuts, closing the borders, or anything

00:11:36.140 else you can name. You are so right. You know, I've never met Donald Trump, but my observations

00:11:42.940 of him, you probably follow him just as closely, more closely. I think he can be quick to anger,

00:11:48.860 but I think he can also be quick to forgive. And one example I'll give to you is he was really

00:11:55.380 shooting hard verbally at Carlos Slim, the oligarch who owns the New York Times. He's a Mexican 1.00

00:12:02.580 billionaire. And he was really going after him like almost every day. And then you see the two of

00:12:09.060 them having a nice dinner and a smile for the camera. And I think Trump is always thinking about

00:12:15.260 a transaction or what can I get? And sometimes I think he actually likes it when he has a rapprochement

00:12:21.940 with someone who was mean to him, because I think in his mind, he thinks, oh, this guy owes me

00:12:26.260 something. He said something so mean to me. I can either hold it in my heart and be upset or I can

00:12:31.860 say, ah, he owes me one. I want to meet with him now because to expiate his sin, he'll give me something.

00:12:38.900 I think Trump actually loves kissing and making up because he sees it as an opportunity to get

00:12:45.780 something. Now, that's just my thousand miles away hunch. I think we've seen Elon Musk already

00:12:52.660 say some friendly things on Twitter. He deleted a really mean tweet where he accused Trump of being

00:12:57.860 in the Jeffrey Epstein files, which, by the way, I don't really believe because if that were true,

00:13:02.980 you know it would have come out under the Biden or Harris administrations, or I guess Harris didn't

00:13:08.820 have her own administration. But I don't believe that any dirt on Trump is already out there. And if they

00:13:13.700 would have had something like that. Anyways, my point is, I think they're going to kiss and make up.

00:13:18.420 I think Trump probably just wants Elon Musk to eat a little bit more humble pie first.

00:13:23.860 Yeah. And, you know, we have to be grateful for Elon Musk because he really changed the game when

00:13:28.580 he bought Twitter. He put his own companies on the line. He put his companies in the firing line,

00:13:34.420 really, if all these foreign regulators, including American regulators, if Kamala had won the election,

00:13:39.620 that was a huge risk he took to bring back free speech online. And really, many of the gains of

00:13:44.900 the right over the last few years couldn't have happened without that. Questionable whether any

00:13:50.900 election could have been won without that. That said, you know, Musk can't just throw his biggest

00:13:56.660 political ally under the bus like that without some sort of blowback as well. But I think the signs of

00:14:02.340 conciliation and it's not like the frustrations are understandable, right? So the frustrations of

00:14:09.540 Musk with the big, beautiful bill, they're not that far removed from the frustrations of the Republican

00:14:15.380 base. The entire Tea Party movement back in, what was it, 2012 after 2008 started because of out of

00:14:21.860 control government spending and a perception that Republican incumbents in the Senate and the House were

00:14:27.060 not doing enough on this issue. They were making promises and then delivering. Nothing. Musk's

00:14:32.500 complaints, I think, are very much the same. The issue is you can't get anything done in Washington

00:14:36.980 without compromise and deal-making. And all of Trump's border policies, they require that kind of

00:14:42.740 compromise, compromising deal-making attitude in Capitol Hill. And there is a lot of funding for border

00:14:48.100 security in the bill. That was a top priority of the MAGA base. That's probably why it's happening.

00:14:55.220 But, you know, I think that the tech right more broadly, they're not used to this kind of

00:15:00.260 environment where, you know, you need a bit of patience, you need coalition building, you need

00:15:04.260 to wait for your moment to strike, to get what you want in a policy sense in DC. They're used to

00:15:11.140 instant results. And that has had a very, on the one hand, that's had a very positive impact in the

00:15:16.580 form of Doge, which has made some genuine cuts to some horrible programs, including many of the

00:15:21.380 the disinformation programs that we've identified at the Foundation for Freedom Online. They've been

00:15:26.740 cut as a result of Doge's activities. So on the one hand, the tech right mentality is having an

00:15:31.540 enormously positive impact in government. On the other hand, when it comes to Congress and Capitol

00:15:35.860 Hill, getting those kind of instant results and instant budget cuts, you know, you need a bit more

00:15:40.900 patience than that. Yeah. I can imagine Elon Musk, who threw himself into the Doge project

00:15:45.700 department of government efficiency, brought some of his own brain trust in, was delighted with the

00:15:51.620 results, saw that the public loved it. And then he saw it bargained away in the log rolling deal

00:15:58.580 making. I can imagine he felt crestfallen. But you're right. Elon Musk is either the CEO with

00:16:05.780 of a privately held company like in Twitter, or a company like Tesla, where he is so dominant,

00:16:12.420 he pretty much he says something, and it becomes law, just by saying it. Whereas in Washington,

00:16:19.620 every senator, every congressman, they say, what's in it for me, if you want my vote, it is a very

00:16:24.660 different system. And I think you're right. Elon Musk has improved politics by whatever he's done to

00:16:34.020 shape it. But you know what? He's so essential to national security. I mean, Starlink is the public

00:16:40.980 version of his sky based internet. He's got star shield, which is his massive Pentagon project,

00:16:49.220 SpaceX. I see that the space station only has a few years of useful life yet. These are all

00:16:55.700 critically important strategic industries that, yeah, I guess you could get those experts at Boeing

00:17:02.900 to do it. But come on, everyone knows that the Thomas Edison of our era is Elon Musk. And you got

00:17:09.700 to put up with his quirks, and you got to put up with his style, because that guy is the most productive

00:17:17.140 human who has ever lived measured by adding value to the world. He is the most productive person that

00:17:24.100 has ever walked the earth. If you're measuring just by strictly adding value to the world. He's,

00:17:31.380 he's amazing. And you got to put up with some things from amazing guys, because they're going

00:17:36.820 to be built different. That's very true. And, you know, you mentioned Boeing, remember those

00:17:43.460 stranded astronauts, they were the reason they became stranded was because of the failure of a

00:17:47.780 Boeing spacecraft and who had to come and rescue them. Of course, it was Elon Musk and SpaceX.

00:17:52.340 Yeah. Um, and I think this is going to be a trend we, uh, we, that'll, that'll continue the, uh,

00:17:57.540 the tech, right, especially in the defense sector, the aerospace sector. I think we're going to see

00:18:01.380 these, uh, tech, these new tech companies, which, with SpaceX leading the way, display some of these

00:18:06.420 old defense companies, especially we see in conflicts like Ukraine drone warfare, making so much of the

00:18:12.660 old defense paradigms completely obsolete. And you have now companies like Anduril, uh, you know,

00:18:19.860 run by another, another, you know, prominent, uh, right wing figure in Silicon Valley, uh, that are

00:18:26.020 waiting in the wings to, uh, to really modernize the U S military. I don't think, I don't see companies

00:18:31.140 like Lockheed and, uh, and Boeing getting their act together in time to, you know, stop to, you know,

00:18:35.780 to disrupt the industry in a similar way. Yeah, you're right. I mean, two generations ago,

00:18:40.420 I won't even say one generation ago, two generations ago, boring Boeing, Lockheed, et cetera. They

00:18:46.100 really were on the leading edge, the Lockheed skunk works. I don't know if you've ever heard

00:18:50.900 that phrase. That was sort of places where their Elon Musk's of their era were allowed to tinker.

00:18:57.060 That's where they came up with the SR 71 spy plane, that blackbird, that shocking looking plane that

00:19:04.180 still holds all the speed records. That was when they were quick, nimble and had that Silicon Valley

00:19:09.300 style of like working out of a garage. Now, if you ask me what I know about Boeing and Lockheed,

00:19:15.460 I see just today that they're all about DEI. They hire people based on race and it's all HR departments.

00:19:23.460 I saw an interview with the head of Anduril, who's this funky, cool guy, a little bit different,

00:19:30.740 a little bit unusual in his personal style. And he wants to get cracking with drones. I saw a clip

00:19:36.020 of him doing an interview on TV, explaining what he thought was the future of warfare.

00:19:41.300 Well, concerns like that are exactly why we need to take control of our own destiny with regard to

00:19:46.260 not just drones, but all of the critical high technology that our military depends on,

00:19:51.140 that our law enforcement depends on, that our critical infrastructure operations depend on.

00:19:55.940 You know, yeah, we buy a lot of Chinese drones, but it gets a lot worse than that. We're buying a lot of

00:20:01.300 Chinese computers as well. Most of the computers the United States buys, even for our most critical

00:20:06.260 military applications are made in China. Let me ask you a question of you and your viewers.

00:20:11.060 Could you imagine if during the height of the Cold War, America had been buying all of our computers

00:20:16.660 and command and control terminals from a Russian company headquartered in Moscow under Kremlin

00:20:22.020 supervision? It would have been completely unthinkable. But because we've been hollowed out

00:20:26.660 by globalism, we've outsourced all ability to make the things that allow us to control our destiny,

00:20:32.900 we're forced into buying Chinese drones, Chinese computers, Chinese chips, Chinese sensors.

00:20:38.180 Well, that's Palmer Lucchia. He worked for Facebook with their visor. What was their 3D visor? What

00:20:44.820 was that called again? The Oculus Rift that he invented and then he sold it to Facebook.

00:20:49.540 And it's a really interesting story because he wouldn't have founded this disruptive tech company

00:20:56.740 that is now waiting in the wings to surpass Lockheed and Boeing. If he hadn't been forced

00:21:04.020 out of Facebook, why was he forced out of Facebook? Because at the peak of anti-Trump radicalism in 2017,

00:21:10.980 2018, Facebook discovered that he supported Donald Trump in the election. And there was such

00:21:16.340 an internal backlash against him that he was forced out of the company. It was truly incredible,

00:21:19.780 simply because he supported a presidential candidate. And so what does he do? He goes and

00:21:24.020 founds Anderil, which is this company we're now talking about.

00:21:27.140 Yeah. Watching Palmer Lucchia talk about warfare with the tech mindset and the action orientation

00:21:38.100 and get it done and quicker, faster, better, smarter. You feel like it must have felt in California in the

00:21:44.420 50s and 60s with the aerospace industry there and the early days of NASA before it got all calcified.

00:21:52.420 And there is an excitement to it. And I, you know, we all love peace and we all want it,

00:21:58.100 but I think Trump is right about peace through strength. And watching how drones have revolutionized

00:22:04.180 the war on both sides, Ukraine and Russia, especially the attack on their strategic bombers.

00:22:10.660 I think that we have to pay a lot more attention to the Palmer Luckys and we can pay a little less 0.99

00:22:16.020 attention to the Boeings. Last word to you. Are you confident, getting back to our earlier discussion, 0.96

00:22:23.620 that the United States can stop this tidal wave of censorship from Europe? That really is their revenge

00:22:32.180 on J.D. Vance for his speech at Munich. That's their revenge on them for criticizing Keir Starmer's

00:22:38.980 censorship. The European Union loves censorship more than anything in the world. Who's going to win that

00:22:44.980 one? Well, as I said, there's a very, that's very simple policy fixes, a tariff and rebate policy to

00:22:52.580 neutralize these disinformation fines and these hate speech fines. There has to be a political will

00:22:58.740 in Washington to do it. And there are lots of people in the administration who are in favor of that

00:23:03.540 policy. I think the public pressure has to be a combination of the MAGA right and the tech right,

00:23:08.980 because they have to stand together on this because if you lose online free speech, you lose it all.

00:23:13.700 Yeah, I think you're right. Alan Bakari, great to catch up with you. I really like your organization.

00:23:19.300 It's called the Foundation for Freedom Online. I follow you. I follow the foundation. I follow your

00:23:25.140 boss, Mike Benz. And I think you really are the pointy edge of the spear on a lot of these issues.

00:23:31.860 And boy, it's so important. I think these are more important than all other issues,

00:23:36.180 because if you can't even talk or think freely, everything else, you know, is a cascading effect.

00:23:43.060 So good luck to you. Thanks for taking the time with us and keep up the fight.

00:23:47.380 Thanks, Ezra. Good to be on. All right. There you have it. Alan Bakari

00:23:50.580 with the Foundation for Freedom Online.

00:24:01.220 Here we are in 2025. What's happened in the last 16 years? Well, Iran has built up its military 0.88

00:24:11.860 enormously, getting very close to having a working nuclear bomb. In the meantime, to protect itself,

00:24:21.140 it set up proxies that would do its fighting for it. Lebanon was colonized by Hezbollah. Syria was

00:24:31.140 colonized by the Republican guards. Hamas was colonized. Iran had a encircled Israel. 0.69

00:24:40.660 And of course, Hamas and Hezbollah, Hezbollah in particular, commit terrorism around the world.

00:24:48.900 So it was always a challenge to deal with Iran because you would get an asymmetrical terrorist 1.00

00:24:55.060 response. Can you do me this favor, Olivia? See if you can find this. Go to Jared Kushner's Twitter feed

00:25:04.980 and search for the word Lebanon. And I want to read what he said about Hezbollah because it was quite

00:25:11.460 something. So every year, the threat of... Let me know if you can find it. If you can, it's not the

00:25:16.980 end of the world. But every year, Iran was getting stronger and stronger because Obama had lifted a 0.74

00:25:23.220 lot of the sanctions off it. And so Iran was getting rich off oil again. Frankly, even when the sanctions

00:25:28.820 were there, Iran was selling its oil to China because China's not going to obey some sanctions.

00:25:37.140 They bought the oil at a discount. Iran was getting stronger and stronger. It wasn't just 0.79

00:25:42.340 threatening Israel. It was threatening the whole Sunni Arabs in the region. But what could you do about 0.98

00:25:48.020 it? Here, let me read a little bit from Jared Kushner. And this was his thoughts on how to spread

00:25:55.380 peace and how to de-escalate the region. Let me read just a little bit. Remember, Jared Kushner is

00:26:00.660 Trump's son-in-law, and he was actually the point person on what's called the Abraham Accords.

00:26:07.060 Let me read. September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords 0.74

00:26:13.460 breakthrough. Now, September 27th is when Israel decapitated Hezbollah. But let me read you this next 0.75

00:26:19.380 paragraph. I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah, and there's not an expert on earth who

00:26:26.660 thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible. This is significant 0.99

00:26:31.700 because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, 0.94

00:26:37.780 despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. 0.70

00:26:43.460 Iran spent the last 40 years building this capability as its deterrent. President Trump

00:26:49.940 would often say Iran has never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. The Islamic Republic's

00:26:55.620 regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian, and Houthi lives than when risking their own. 0.98

00:27:02.340 Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign reek of desperation and are 0.94

00:27:07.860 hardening a large coalition against them. Anyhow, it was a fascinating revelation. 0.99

00:27:14.580 And you know, scroll out a little bit more, just a little bit more.

00:27:22.180 Yeah, yeah, go from there. Anyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, skip ahead. After the

00:27:28.980 brilliant rapid-fire tactical success of the Pagers, radios, and targeting leadership,

00:27:33.780 Hezbollah's massive weapon cache is unguarded and unmanned. Most of Hezbollah's fighters are hiding in

00:27:40.020 their tunnels. I'll stop there. It's a fascinating read. If you find it on Twitter, go and read it.

00:27:46.500 Because the number one thing that came through there for me was, Iran had found the way to deter 1.00

00:27:54.500 Israel in the West. Because even if Iran itself wasn't particularly tough, it had all these terrorist 0.99

00:28:01.540 proxies that would go kamikaze for it. Imagine if Iran had created a nuke and given one to Hamas or 0.91

00:28:08.980 Hezbollah. So when Israel attacked Hezbollah in a startling move, remember the Pagers? Israel's Mossad

00:28:19.460 had managed to somehow convince Hezbollah to buy low-tech Pagers, saying, oh, they're less hackable by

00:28:28.100 Israel. So Israel created a fake company that said, we're low-tech communications, 0.65

00:28:34.820 perfect for people trying to avoid Israeli spies. So all the Hezbollah fighters had these low-tech 0.93

00:28:41.380 Pagers that actually had a little bit of explosive in it. And on command, Israel detonated and I think

00:28:48.420 killed about two or three thousand people. Yep. And it's just these terrorists, wherever they were,

00:28:54.500 they would just get this beep and they would play that clip again. Some of them were just out and

00:28:59.940 about. Remember, the terrorists and Hezbollah were not necessarily uniformed. In fact, they don't wear

00:29:05.940 uniforms other than for their parades. So all across Lebanon, they were either killed or deeply injured at

00:29:14.980 once. And then Israel sent a bunch of bunker buster missiles into an underground HQ and literally

00:29:23.220 decapitated the entire top of the chain of command of Hezbollah. And then they went in and just took 0.79

00:29:29.460 out the rockets. There were a hundred thousand rockets aimed at Israel. Maybe 10 of them were fired

00:29:37.060 because Israel just decapitated Hezbollah in one fell swoop. And that's what caused Jared Kushner

00:29:43.220 to write that memo I just read to you. And so Iran was getting closer and closer to a bomb.

00:29:50.900 And Donald Trump, who always criticized Barack Obama's leniency towards Iran, Trump restarted

00:29:58.820 negotiations with Iran. And frankly, I didn't like the sounds of it. I thought, how can you

00:30:05.300 permit them to have nukes? Well, Trump always said they can't have nukes. They can't have nukes.

00:30:10.260 He said he would negotiate with them, but he was actually quite clear, wasn't he?

00:30:15.940 It looked a little bit like Trump and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu were getting out of sorts,

00:30:22.420 were getting out of sync with each other. But Trump did say to the Iranians, we've got 60 days to do a

00:30:30.100 deal and you're not going to get a better deal than this one. He said that. Now, Trump says a lot of

00:30:36.420 things. He's got a blustery style sometimes. I've often said, don't take him literally, take him

00:30:43.060 seriously. But in this case, it was both. Yesterday marked the 61st day after Trump told Iran, do a deal

00:30:56.740 or it gets worse. And then after that, Trump said to Israel, do whatever you want. Well, Israel obviously 0.73

00:31:09.460 kept in close touch with the United States. Israel uses American weapon systems, including the new

00:31:15.220 F-35. Israel uses American bunker buster bombs that can actually bury, 0.51

00:31:24.900 you know, go through rock and concrete and steel into underground bunkers. I don't even know how that

00:31:31.380 technology works, but they can literally get into mountainside. I mean, I understand 50

00:31:38.500 such rockets were used, uh, bunker busters to get the head of Hezbollah. Well, that's what happened

00:31:45.060 last night. It was similar to the Israeli operation against Hezbollah. And Olivia, if you could just put

00:31:53.860 in the background exactly as many, um, is this a sound up clip here? No. Okay. Put up as many B-roll

00:32:02.740 shots in the background because most of them, um, there's no one talking. It's just interesting images.

00:32:09.780 And I'll try and talk a little, I've, I've probably seen 500 images overnight. I, I was riveted.

00:32:16.420 So you can see these were bunker busters. I think this may be in, um, I, I forget the name of this

00:32:23.300 town. There were underground missile factories and underground nuclear facilities. And this was

00:32:33.620 one of them that was hit with bunker busters. And this would be this morning after the sun rose. Keep,

00:32:39.300 keep cycling through as many videos as possible. So they went after nuclear facilities. They went

00:32:47.380 after missile launch facilities, but I think perhaps the most important thing they did. And Olivia,

00:32:54.500 maybe you can go to one of these is show the fancy apartments that they surgically sent missiles into

00:33:03.780 particular suites into the apartment buildings. So these are the, I'm talking about the towers in

00:33:10.900 Tehran. I believe that the entire leadership of the Iranian military has been killed. Yeah,

00:33:20.260 that's a perfect one right there. So look at this. This is a fashionable, modern condo apartment.

00:33:27.220 The kind of thing you would see in Toronto or New York. And this is filmed by someone on the street of

00:33:33.460 Tehran. The building wasn't detonated, but a particular suites in the building work put through

00:33:40.740 a few others because there's one that's quite remarkable. You can see a hole in the wall and

00:33:46.580 some scorch marks and, um, like literally just one unit in an apartment was taken out. They did a

00:33:56.660 decapitation strike on the Iranian military, the same way they did on Hezbollah. They got the head of 0.61

00:34:04.420 the Republican guard. They got the chief of staff of the defense command. Um, yeah, just throw up the,

00:34:12.260 you know, the one I mean that had, uh, there's a little scorched hole in the side of a condo.

00:34:19.380 Anyhow, put it up when you find it. This was all done so simultaneously. And the Israeli government 0.81

00:34:29.380 released imagery, uh, of pre-positioned agents in Iran. Like they weren't even in Israel. They were in

00:34:39.860 Iran launching attack drones from within Iran. So they were much closer, much, you know, shorter time to

00:34:48.580 get to their targets, much more likely to, um, hit their targets. You, I bet if you just, yeah,

00:34:56.100 that's the one right there. That's the image right there. So let me show you this. This is

00:35:01.140 a surgical strike. I don't know who lives in this particular place. This is what you do when you're

00:35:07.060 trying to get one guy. You're not trying to detonate the whole building. You're getting one guy.

00:35:14.180 That's how precise Israel's attack was. They didn't have the pager munitions, but they had 0.96

00:35:24.020 deep intelligence on where every single person was. They took out the head of the nuclear program.

00:35:30.100 They took out the head of their expeditionary force, the Republican guards, and they attacked as many,

00:35:38.820 um, missile launch at missile and drone launch sites as possible. Now, I'm sure they didn't get it all.

00:35:47.700 But in one evening, a sneak attack to take out the chain of command, how do you go for a reply

00:35:55.780 volley when all the deciders are gone? It would be like in an org chart, getting rid of the CEO,

00:36:03.060 all the vice presidents, all the managing directors, all the department heads. You're left with soldiers, 0.59

00:36:09.780 but who makes the decision? And what is the decision? It's just an incredible thing. Now, there's,

00:36:17.700 there's some videos that the Israelis have released, and there's one that shows different aircraft.

00:36:24.660 Um, they did use jet aircraft. They used drones. They used forward-placed drones.

00:36:32.820 They're interesting to look at. Um, that might be it there.

00:36:42.340 Oh, that's a, that's a jet being refueled. I understand that might be over Syria, but

00:36:47.460 there is quite something to, like the, the refueling jets, that's how Israeli jets get from

00:36:52.340 their air base in Israel all the way, 1500 kilometers away to Iran. But the fact that they

00:36:57.460 felt confident enough to have a slow-moving refueling jet flying like that shows that they

00:37:05.620 would have wiped out Iran's air defenses. Now, that's not to say that there's no 0.98

00:37:11.700 counterattack coming, but it's going to be so utterly degraded. It'll be like Hezbollah in Lebanon. 1.00

00:37:21.620 Speaking of which, I mean, yeah, show that there's another apartment there. Just show that apartment

00:37:27.780 right there. Yeah. I think that's a good one to show. And let me read the tweet behind it too. This

00:37:32.580 is, yeah, this is how precise Israel's intelligence and execution is pinpointed attack, eliminating the head

00:37:41.220 of the IRGC, that's the Republican Guard Corps, directly in his apartment, nearly 2,000 kilometers

00:37:49.780 away from Israel. So that's where the boss of the Republican Guard, now the Republican Guard is

00:37:56.900 considered a terrorist group in Canada and many other countries. He was living up there. They didn't

00:38:02.580 detonate the whole place. In fact, the lights are still on, you know, on the same floor on the other

00:38:08.020 side of the elevator shaft. That's how they did it. So the timing must have been absolutely perfect,

00:38:15.860 because if one attack happened an hour before another, they would know. It's just a remarkable

00:38:24.580 act of intelligence and planning and coordination and logistics. And I would say mainly intelligence

00:38:31.700 to know where these people are, to know how they would operate. Show more images as we go,

00:38:36.580 even of the burning facilities, because to target these underground bunkers and factories,

00:38:46.420 to know where they are, to know the best way in, to have people on the ground. Anyhow, what I'm trying

00:38:52.660 to say, and I don't know if I'm effective at saying it, is that I believe Iran went from a regional power

00:39:00.980 that sought to be a regional superpower that had terrified its neighbors for a generation, that had

00:39:10.820 significant success in building in a missile system and a nuclear system. It went from that

00:39:20.900 to being utterly degraded militarily, to have the chain of command decapitated in one night.

00:39:30.500 Now, I haven't checked to see what the reaction has been. Have they been able to muster

00:39:35.700 some drones and fire back? I know that in Israel, the whole country was put under a lockdown.

00:39:41.460 They shut down the airport in Tel Aviv. They sent everyone an alert on their cell phone,

00:39:48.420 telling them to stay in their, yeah, put that one on the screen, to stay in their bomb shelter. Every

00:39:54.900 Israeli apartment has a, these are scenes from Iran, of course, has either a bomb shelter or a safe room 0.63

00:40:04.580 that's sealed in case there's an attack with gas. So Israel is under a self-declared lockdown.

00:40:11.700 Um, yeah, show that one too. Just what the, the pinpoint nature of it shows, I think, the difference

00:40:21.940 between how Israel fights and how Iran fights. I remember a few months ago when Iran 0.53

00:40:27.620 fired a volley of rockets and missiles at Israel. They mainly missed one of the Hezbollah rockets,

00:40:34.900 I think it was, killed a group of Druze Arab children. Like they're, when Iran fires things, 1.00

00:40:41.380 they're not hyper precise missiles like Israel does. But Israel managed to take out individual people or

00:40:50.980 individual sites. Just incredible. And what's my point? Yeah, show that picture there. Just it's a

00:40:57.540 collage of this is, how do you take out the senior management of a country's military?

00:41:05.300 Well, it, you know, I saw some pundit who compared this to the scene in The Godfather where Michael

00:41:12.900 Corleone ordered the simultaneous assassination of the heads of the five families. And it was actually

00:41:20.100 a very dramatic scene in The Godfather for those of you who know that movie. He's basically ordered a

00:41:26.260 hit against the copy of all his rival families. That's what Israel did last night. And in fact, 0.74

00:41:35.140 the chief negotiator who was dealing with the American negotiators, he was one of the ones

00:41:41.700 eliminated. So I don't think they took out Khomeini, the actual religious boss of Iran, but they pretty 0.94

00:41:50.820 much took out the entire military personnel underneath them. Why do I say this is the most important

00:41:58.820 strategic development in a generation? Well, I think you can figure it out by now. Iran's nuclear 0.95

00:42:07.300 program is devastated, most likely forever. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu says it will

00:42:14.420 be destroyed forever and they'll never let Iran get it. I think Iran's conventional weapons have been 0.99

00:42:24.020 flattened as well. The surface-to-air missiles, as far as we know, none of them shot down any Israeli

00:42:31.540 jets. I understand that hundreds of Israeli jets were used, F-16s and F-15s and the new F-35 Lightnings.

00:42:40.260 To do that operation and not suffer any flights being down, at least not that I've heard of,

00:42:47.220 is remarkable. So Iran now is vulnerable. It has no air defense. It has no proxies in Syria or Lebanon

00:42:58.580 that can shoot back for it. The Houthis are still around in Yemen, I guess, and they might lob some

00:43:05.300 missiles. But it's not the absolutely terrifying ring around Israel that there was a few months ago.

00:43:16.020 Interestingly, put Donald Trump's latest comment. Trump actually said,

00:43:22.980 I hope we can continue our negotiation. In a way, it's an absolutely startling thing to say.

00:43:29.380 Yeah, pump that up big and I'll do my best to read it.

00:43:38.900 So I'll read it verbatim when I get it. But he basically said, hey guys,

00:43:45.540 I told you to negotiate. You didn't listen to me. Let's give it a shot. I'll read it verbatim when you

00:43:52.100 find it. But I think he means it. But with Trump, there's always an enormously entertaining

00:44:00.740 wit behind it. Like they were just flattened. Literally the guy who was leading the negotiations

00:44:08.020 opposite your guy is gone. I think that's Trump's way of saying, well, you know, that was Israel who

00:44:16.100 hit you. I'm still interested in the deal. Let me see if I can find it here.

00:44:26.820 You keep looking for it. You know, there's a Twitter account that reposts all his truth social stuff.

00:44:34.660 All right, find it, put up when you find it. So Trump is still saying, oh yeah, you know,

00:44:45.860 I told you so, told you, you know, it wouldn't do well. I think Trump is claiming a little bit more.

00:44:53.220 Yeah, that's the one. So this is,

00:44:56.100 this was posted this morning at 7 30 AM. He said, two months ago, I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to

00:45:10.500 make a deal. They should have done it. Today's day 61. I told them what to do, but they just couldn't

00:45:17.940 get there. Now they have perhaps a second chance. That is cheeky. I mean, uh, there's other statements

00:45:29.380 made by different officials that are suggesting that Israel is nowhere near done, that they're

00:45:36.900 going to go in and root out a lot of the long feared, uh, military and terrorist infrastructure,

00:45:45.540 just like they did in Lebanon with Hezbollah. So when Israel took out the thousands of Hezbollah 0.82

00:45:51.460 operatives with those pagers, they didn't just leave it there. When Hezbollah was stunned and reeling

00:45:58.580 and decapitated, Israel then sent in a lot of special forces to destroy actual missiles, actual tunnels,

00:46:06.260 actual bunkers. They did the same thing in Syria when Bashar Assad fled and there was this void.

00:46:13.700 Israel knew where the missile factories were and they went in with special forces on the ground to

00:46:19.860 destroy them. I suspect that's happening right now in Iran as well. So yes, there's the shock and awe 0.94

00:46:26.820 missiles and bunker busters that, that are on TV. But I am quite sure that if Israel is as serious as I 0.95

00:46:37.700 think they are, as they obviously are, that they are taking this opportunity when Iran is confused

00:46:44.660 and leaderless militarily to go in and clean up things, boots on the ground. In fact, last night,

00:46:51.940 as I mentioned, Israel sort of boasted, see if you can find that. I'll read this truth post from 0.78

00:46:58.820 Trump. But as soon as that's done, see if you can find

00:47:02.660 the footage that Israel released of their people on the ground in Iran, which is an interesting thing to do.

00:47:09.700 First of all, it makes Iranian leaders paranoid who who's on the ground and where. Let me read one more true social. 0.73

00:47:16.820 He said,

00:47:19.780 I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them in the strongest of words to just do it. 0.99

00:47:26.020 But no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn't get it done.

00:47:29.380 I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated or were told that the United

00:47:35.700 States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world by far, and that

00:47:41.140 Israel has a lot of it with much more to come, and they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliners

00:47:47.780 spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all dead now, and it will only

00:47:53.460 get worse. There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this

00:47:59.060 slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal come to an end. Iran must make 1.00

00:48:06.020 a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian empire. No more death, 0.62

00:48:12.100 no more destruction. Just do it before it is too late. God bless you all. I think he put that out last

00:48:18.340 night, if I recall. Again, astonishing, and it is true. Those American weapons are absolutely critical.

00:48:26.820 I don't think Israel has the ability to make bunker busters on their own. The F-35 jet is an American jet.

00:48:34.660 I'm sure other technology is American too. And by the way,

00:48:39.620 Trump used similar language with Vladimir Putin about a month ago about, you know, Trump, Putin

00:48:46.100 should come to the table or shocking and surprising things will happen. And that was before Ukraine sent

00:48:53.140 those drones to detonate Russian strategic bombers from within Russia. That's sort of the same

00:49:00.900 tactic that Israel used here. Here's an image. This is a little video clip that Israel released.

00:49:07.860 It's night footage of what Israel says were their special operators on the ground. You can see that

00:49:17.300 one guy has what looks like night vision goggles on. That other person looks, I don't know, like a 0.82

00:49:24.020 Bedouin or something. I don't know what, what they would be called in Iran. This was purportedly

00:49:31.460 people pre-positioned in advance in Iran near the sites, launching the attacks from within their own 0.69

00:49:39.620 country. And again, I say, I would imagine the purpose of Israel releasing that footage 0.52

00:49:44.900 would be to cause paranoia and distrust within Iran. Who are these people on the ground? Where are they?

00:49:56.500 By the way, can you come call up the trailer to the TV show Tehran? I just got to say this. I saw a tweet.

00:50:04.500 There was an incredible show. I think it was on HBO or maybe it was on Apple. It was called Tehran.

00:50:14.660 And it was all about this. It was a TV series a couple of years ago. And it was about this

00:50:23.460 great and terrible gang. Play a minute of this. I highly recommend this show. Sound up.

00:50:30.340 Do what you have to do. I will be home by tomorrow afternoon.

00:50:47.780 The cost is clear. Take care of the package.

00:50:50.980 I'm in. Copy that.

00:50:52.340 The cops are here. We have to get out.

00:51:11.780 The mission is burned. They're on to you now.

00:51:15.300 The police are looking for me. They're questioning everyone here.

00:51:37.620 You keep lying to me.

00:51:49.540 You're not going to make it all my life.

00:51:55.220 If I were you, I'd give my revenge on all the terrain.

00:52:00.660 You have till midnight. Do not test me.

00:52:02.820 We're not going to get another chance.

00:52:27.780 There's no going back now.

00:52:32.820 I got to tell you, I don't watch a ton of TV shows.

00:52:35.540 That was the most exciting TV show I watched that year.

00:52:39.060 Maybe it's because I have an interest in the subject, but it was so perfectly done.

00:52:42.820 So riveting. So heart pounding.

00:52:44.740 It's a little bit in English, a little bit in Persian, a little bit in Hebrew.

00:52:47.780 Of course, there's subtitles throughout the whole way.

00:52:50.500 That was about what happened last night.

00:52:53.060 That whole fictional series was what would it look like for Israel to insert Mossad actors into Iran

00:53:04.740 and coordinate with the Israeli military to have an attack on Iran, including using state-of-the-art fighter jets,

00:53:12.340 and including having assets on the ground.

00:53:15.300 And I won't give away the absolutely dramatic ending to the show, but it was quite something.

00:53:24.580 I loved that show because of how well done it was.

00:53:29.540 But now I frankly want to watch it again, given that we just had that happen in real life.

00:53:36.100 I want to talk a little bit more about the reaction to it, though.

00:53:44.420 So anyhow, to conclude the first 42 minutes of my rant.

00:53:52.740 Israel did to Iran what it did to Hezbollah.

00:53:56.980 Decapitated the regime.

00:54:00.340 Knocked out its experts, its commanders, the whole chain of command.

00:54:03.700 It would be like wiping out an organization's top three or four tiers of an org chart.

00:54:09.780 And then went in and destroyed the assets, the military assets, during the chaos.

00:54:19.140 And I think that Israel is going to mop up for a few days, too, by the way.

00:54:24.980 Just incredible.

00:54:25.860 I think the number one beneficiary of what happened is Israel, obviously, because Iran has hated Israel

00:54:38.740 under Khomeini.

00:54:40.180 I should tell you that before the Ayatollahs, Iran was actually very pro-Western and pro-Israel.

00:54:49.220 Under the Shah, Iran was a Western ally.

00:54:53.780 They sold oil in a pipeline to Israel.

00:54:56.660 They bought American fighter jets.

00:54:59.620 Iran was one of the good guys.

00:55:02.340 And then this religious fanatic, the Ayatollah, Ruachullah Khomeini, as his name was,

00:55:08.900 who had been in exile in France, came back to Iran, had a revolution.

00:55:14.920 And you've probably seen some of the pictures of Iran before the Ayatollah.

00:55:22.280 Can you Google women protesting hijab in Iran?

00:55:28.760 Because Iran was one of the most progressive, advanced societies in the region.

00:55:33.960 They're their own ethnicity, Persian.

00:55:35.620 It's different from Arab. 1.00

00:55:37.640 They're, as Trump alluded to, they're from the 70s.

00:55:42.520 Yeah, that one on the second row on the left.

00:55:45.480 That's the one.

00:55:47.640 So it was a modern country, very well educated, friendly to its Jews, for example.

00:55:57.000 Did not have restrictions.

00:55:59.480 And look at this.

00:56:00.920 After Khomeini came in, he said, we're bringing in a law, you have to wear a burqa.

00:56:06.600 And here are the women of Tehran.

00:56:11.020 Look at that.

00:56:12.700 Tens of thousands of women saying, we don't want to wear the burqa.

00:56:17.040 Well, guess what?

00:56:18.840 The sword is mightier than the pen.

00:56:21.740 And all of these women were forced to wear burqas. 0.91

00:56:25.600 And the Ayatollahs were so extreme. 0.94

00:56:27.600 I should tell you that Margaret Atwood, the author of, what's that?

00:56:41.440 Just The Handmaid's Tale. 0.58

00:56:43.480 Thank you.

00:56:45.320 She wrote, Google it.

00:56:48.900 Google Margaret Atwood Handmaid's Tale Iran. 0.85

00:56:52.680 Let me show you some source here that I'm not just talking on spec.

00:56:58.480 It was after that revolution that she wrote The Handmaid's Tale.

00:57:04.340 Yeah, click and then just search for Iran.

00:57:09.780 Yeah, pump it up.

00:57:11.560 Yeah, and show that on the screen.

00:57:17.180 Yeah, right there.

00:57:18.080 So this is just from Wikipedia, but if you want to go deeper, you'll find it elsewhere.

00:57:26.380 Atwood was also inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, 1978-79, that saw a theocracy established

00:57:33.300 that drastically reduced the rights of women and imposed a strict dress code on Iranian women,

00:57:38.620 very much like that of Gilead.

00:57:41.240 In The Handmaid's Tale, a reference is made to the Islamic Republic of Iran

00:57:44.760 in the form of the history book, Iran and Gilead, two late 20th century monotheocracies

00:57:51.240 mentioned in the end notes describing the Historian's Convention in 2195.

00:57:57.120 Atwood's picture of a society ruled by men who professed high moral principles,

00:58:00.700 but are in fact self-interested and selfish was inspired, blah, blah, blah.

00:58:04.240 Canadian politicians, Toronto, blah, blah, blah.

00:58:06.420 Thanks very much.

00:58:07.900 Could you, here's what gets me about The Handmaid's Tale.

00:58:10.820 It was an Iranian story.

00:58:16.720 It was an Islamic extremism story. 0.61

00:58:20.120 That was what inspired Margaret Atwood.

00:58:22.780 That's, she couldn't have imagined it herself, but it happened.

00:58:26.700 And as a young woman, she wrote about it, but she lacked the courage, I think.

00:58:31.620 Or maybe she was, maybe it was an artistic conceit that had its own value.

00:58:38.320 She said, no, I'm going to pretend that Christians are like this.

00:58:42.340 No, The Handmaid's Tale is, that's not how Christians are. 1.00

00:58:47.600 That's a caricature of conservative Christians. 0.76

00:58:50.900 That's what people who hate Christians think Christians might be like, 0.81

00:58:55.380 but that's not what Christians are like. 0.82

00:58:57.160 There is a country that's like that.

00:58:59.640 We know that because she acknowledges, that's what inspired her.

00:59:05.780 The Handmaid's Tale is about Iran, 0.62

00:59:08.060 but Margaret Atwood has never had the courage to really say so.

00:59:15.560 So anyways, I think today is an amazing day.

00:59:21.540 Here's why.

00:59:22.340 Number one, the regional cult that was seeking to dominate every Sunni Muslim, 1.00

00:59:31.300 Sunni Arab country in the region, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates,

00:59:36.540 Kuwait, et cetera, has now been chopped back to size 0.96

00:59:40.940 and is no longer a real threat to Israel, the Saudis, or others.

00:59:44.680 I think its development of an atomic bomb has really been set back to zero,

00:59:51.680 and if it hasn't fully been yet, it will be in the days ahead.

00:59:56.980 I think the funding and direction for Hezbollah and Hamas has been cut almost to nothing.

01:00:05.660 Those two groups have been decimated by Israel anyways. 0.62

01:00:11.180 But now, I mean, the head of the Republican Guard Corps,

01:00:13.740 all the key people who were going back and forth to Lebanon and Syria and Gaza,

01:00:20.240 they're dead anyways.

01:00:21.860 The funding is gone.

01:00:22.940 The direction is gone.

01:00:23.760 The training is gone.

01:00:24.480 The equipping is gone.

01:00:25.980 Who's going to step up and fill that space?

01:00:30.080 Qatar? 0.56

01:00:30.900 Maybe.

01:00:31.400 I doubt it.

01:00:32.040 They've got a lot of money, but they don't have the equipment

01:00:37.920 and the experience of doing actual industrial-scale terrorism.

01:00:43.680 That was Iran's job. 1.00

01:00:46.520 I think that you will immediately see round two of the Abraham Accords start. 0.97

01:00:52.760 Pistol shot.

01:00:53.440 It started.

01:00:54.980 This was the most successful.

01:00:56.180 I think one of the reasons Trump is speaking so highly about Israel's success

01:01:00.520 in that second post is because he sort of wants to take some credit for it.

01:01:04.340 And indeed, he should.

01:01:05.960 It's American weapons, and America did permit this attack. 0.76

01:01:10.000 So let Trump take some credit.

01:01:12.000 I think he was being strategically—can you pull up Marco Rubio's statement from last night?

01:01:16.460 The first thing out of the U.S. administration was from Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

01:01:21.680 who basically said, this wasn't us, and no one should attack us in reply.

01:01:27.680 And that was a wise thing to say, I think.

01:01:30.820 But the degree of success that Israel had, I think Trump knows a winner when he sees it.

01:01:40.640 Yeah, just go to Marco Rubio's own account, and it would be Secretary Rubio.

01:01:47.600 He's got a few accounts.

01:01:49.100 One of them is—yeah, that's the one, that black and white one.

01:01:53.600 Let me turn off my ringer.

01:01:57.820 Normally I do.

01:01:58.660 Let me read this statement from Rubio.

01:02:02.180 So he said this last night.

01:02:03.240 He said, tonight Israel took unilateral action against Iran.

01:02:06.820 We are not involved in the strikes against Iran,

01:02:08.920 and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.

01:02:12.240 Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.

01:02:16.160 President Trump and the administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces

01:02:21.420 and remain in close contact with our regional partners.

01:02:24.160 Let me be clear.

01:02:24.840 Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel.

01:02:27.940 So that was their stance last night.

01:02:29.900 They were basically saying—they were talking to two different markets.

01:02:33.520 They were saying to Iran, don't you touch our people.

01:02:37.500 This isn't us.

01:02:38.440 And they were saying to America First supporters in the homeland, don't you worry.

01:02:44.220 There's no American troops here.

01:02:46.020 We're not fighting a war.

01:02:48.820 Someone else is.

01:02:49.920 Our ally is.

01:02:51.340 But it's not us.

01:02:52.780 We approve of their aims, perhaps, but it's not our war.

01:02:57.200 I think that was a very wise tweet.

01:02:58.740 But you can see the one tomorrow.

01:03:00.380 Trump is saying, yeah, that's American equipment.

01:03:03.960 The Israelis knew how to use it. 0.99

01:03:05.480 There's more where that comes from.

01:03:06.820 So I think, as they say, failure is an orphan.

01:03:14.340 Defeat is an orphan, but victory has a thousand fathers.

01:03:19.800 So I want to talk about the world's reaction to what happened.

01:03:28.240 In a way, it doesn't even matter.

01:03:29.920 I saw Emmanuel Macron this morning says, I might delay the conference I was going to hold on a new Palestinian state.

01:03:39.600 Yeah, I think a lot of the air has gone out of that balloon.

01:03:43.420 The reason why Palestinians were top—yeah, they're right there. 1.00

01:03:49.660 Emmanuel Macron has delayed the planned conference on recognizing a Palestinian state.

01:03:55.040 My reaction there was, does anyone on either side of the conflict ever ask, what would Macron do?

01:04:00.420 I mean, no one gives a hoot.

01:04:02.920 But—and there's a guy who's got his own radical Islam problem now, doesn't he?

01:04:07.620 But with Iran cut down to size, with Hezbollah neutralized, with Syria neutralized, with Gaza on the ropes, who would say, yeah, I have a really strong motivation to give a reward to Hamas in the form of a country? 0.98

01:04:23.780 That's not the diplomatic energy now.

01:04:26.400 The diplomatic energy now is Abraham Accords Part Deux, and to get Saudi Arabia in, to get other Gulf states in.

01:04:34.880 And, you know, I know a lot of Persians.

01:04:39.760 The Persians were historically friends of the Jews.

01:04:43.600 It was King Cyrus that liberated Jerusalem and the Jews. 0.91

01:04:48.140 To this day, many Jews named their kids Cyrus in admiration and thanks to the Persian king.

01:04:56.820 And, like I say, until the Shah was deposed, Iran and Israel and Iran and America were friends.

01:05:04.380 And there's an enormous expat population of Persians in Vancouver, in Toronto, in L.A., who are very pro-freedom, pro-Western.

01:05:14.120 And it's a very different culture than the death cult culture of the Ayatollahs. 0.99

01:05:19.780 All those women we showed you there who were protesting against the burqa being brought in, those who could leave went to L.A. and Vancouver and places like that. 0.95

01:05:28.780 And I think that there is a real chance.

01:05:33.840 Can you look up Noah?

01:05:36.300 Let me just try and remember her name.

01:05:38.080 I think it might be Noah Berg.

01:05:41.920 She's a Persian tweeter. 0.95

01:05:44.120 And she and others have been saying, this may be the moment when ordinary Iranians rise up.

01:05:51.900 Ordinary people in Iran hate the crazy death cult extremists who have ruled over them.

01:05:57.400 And I don't know if you remember, there was a bit of an uprising in Obama's term.

01:06:02.060 And Obama didn't even say a word, didn't even give them rhetorical encouragement, let alone help them in any way.

01:06:08.880 I think Israel's goal was to eliminate the threat against it.

01:06:15.400 Yeah, that's her right there. 1.00

01:06:16.240 But, so here's someone named Nayo Berg.

01:06:20.560 Let me read her biography.

01:06:22.620 She says, possibly the most famous Iranian Jew on X, advocate for Iranian monarchy, restoration, and Israel, anti-woke. 0.92

01:06:30.340 Number 17, most wanted by the regime in Iran.

01:06:33.320 Okay.

01:06:33.600 What I like about her is she tweets a lot of interesting things.

01:06:37.420 Just, yeah, let's just go through some of them.

01:06:40.440 The one right there and put that on the screen.

01:06:42.720 We'll go down from there.

01:06:44.580 We'll just scroll through her.

01:06:46.100 So here she says, it's, I'm so full.

01:06:51.240 Can you boost it one size?

01:06:53.660 But the cutlets keep coming. 0.97

01:06:55.340 It's a buffet at this point.

01:06:56.380 Okay.

01:06:56.920 She's using a metaphor.

01:06:57.900 But these are leaders of Iran who were killed.

01:07:01.660 Saudi Arabia is allowing Israel to shoot down drones over its airspace.

01:07:05.600 Normalization is coming soon.

01:07:06.680 We know that's a fact.

01:07:08.060 Saudi Arabia did that once before.

01:07:11.140 Iranians all across Iran are thanking Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu for destroying the regime.

01:07:15.200 Thank you, baby.

01:07:15.940 Thank you, Israel.

01:07:16.780 Please continue.

01:07:17.920 And she's giving evidence of that.

01:07:19.360 She's quite good at giving evidence of things on the ground in Iran.

01:07:23.240 I think she's got sort of a trap line of sorts. 0.90

01:07:25.560 Go to the next one.

01:07:27.600 Ballistic missiles aimed at Israel are malfunctioning, falling, and exploding all across Iran.

01:07:31.720 I don't know if that's true.

01:07:32.980 She calls it unconfirmed.

01:07:34.720 Let's scroll a little bit.

01:07:38.380 That looks like a fake photo there.

01:07:41.060 Anyhow, listen, as always, take things with a grain of salt you find on Twitter.

01:07:45.580 But my point by referring to her is there's a lot of Persians, a lot of Iranians who want to re-normalize their country.

01:07:55.220 And it's not a failed state in the same way that Libya is or Syria is.

01:08:02.220 Iran really is the inheritor of a great civilization.

01:08:06.100 It is.

01:08:06.820 Like China. 0.94

01:08:07.460 It's got a history, a language, a culture.

01:08:12.360 It is just different from those around it.

01:08:15.320 And its support for Hezbollah and Hamas had no connection to Persian traits or qualities or history or language.

01:08:25.520 There was no connection.

01:08:27.080 It was just a cultish scheme by the Ayatollahs. 0.98

01:08:31.120 So the idea of Iran becoming normalized again is very real if they knock off the Ayatollahs. 0.99

01:08:39.180 And I think that's a real possibility.

01:08:41.120 But even if they don't, they have detonated Iran as a regional superpower. 0.77

01:08:47.380 Israel operates there at pleasure, flying over it, people on the ground.

01:08:54.100 That's why I call this the most momentous strategic shift in a generation.

01:08:57.880 So what does Emmanuel Macron think about it?

01:08:59.980 Who cares?

01:09:01.820 Like, literally, who cares? 1.00

01:09:03.940 But you can see even he is not so stupid as to proceed with this. 0.97

01:09:07.760 Hey, guys, the diplomatic energy is to reward the Palestinians for what they've done. 0.98

01:09:13.420 No, the diplomatic energy now is Abraham Accords Part 2.

01:09:17.600 And it wouldn't surprise me if you see some Iranians rise up and knock off the Ayatollahs. 0.91

01:09:23.020 But let's read some statements from Canadians.

01:09:30.160 Why not?

01:09:30.740 We're Canadian.

01:09:31.180 Let's start with Pierre Paul.

01:09:32.180 He has the leader of the opposition.

01:09:33.980 A few months ago, he said, it was back in October, where he basically, he was asked,

01:09:40.200 what do you think of Israel hitting Iran?

01:09:42.160 Let's play the clip if you've got that.

01:09:44.080 This is from October, but it's relevant, even more relevant today.

01:09:48.020 Let's take a look.

01:09:49.860 Yesterday, you said that you endorse Israel proactively defending itself by hitting Iran's

01:09:55.320 nuclear sites, which is something that President Joe Biden does not endorse.

01:09:59.320 Do you not feel like this could lead to a likelihood of an all-out conventional war between Iran and

01:10:04.320 Israel, and do you not agree with Joe Biden and his assessment?

01:10:08.540 I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to

01:10:22.140 avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous

01:10:28.880 and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow.

01:10:32.340 And if Israel were to stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring 0.87

01:10:41.600 nuclear weapons, it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity. 0.84

01:10:48.040 I think he's right.

01:10:50.760 And it was a very bold statement.

01:10:52.920 And that's what you're going to see, is now that the bully has been defeated, all sorts of

01:10:58.020 good things can happen in that region.

01:10:59.580 And my point of showing you Jared Kushner's memo was that they could never figure out how

01:11:05.220 do we proceed when Iran has that gun to everyone's head through Hezbollah. 0.91

01:11:09.880 Hezbollah's gone now, and Iran's gone now. 0.82

01:11:12.120 Here's Anita Anand.

01:11:13.300 I just checked, and Mark Carney, the prime minister, hasn't said a word.

01:11:16.580 He doesn't know what to say without offending the Hamas wing of his party.

01:11:21.320 Here's Anita Anand, who is part of the Hamas wing. 0.70

01:11:25.700 Last night, she said, Canada is closely following the escalation of tensions between Israel and Iran.

01:11:31.420 Further action risks triggering a broader regional conflict with devastating consequences.

01:11:36.340 De-escalation must be the priority.

01:11:38.280 We urge all parties to refrain from actions and further destabilize the region.

01:11:43.020 The protection of civilians must be paramount.

01:11:44.760 Well, let me stop right here.

01:11:46.320 Do you think that destroying Iran's chaotic terrorist Republican Guard and their nuclear plant makes things riskier or de-risks them? 0.89

01:11:55.860 I think this is the greatest de-escalation in the region in 50 years.

01:12:00.540 When she says, the protection of civilians must be paramount, I showed you the laser-like accuracy of Israel's attacks. 0.92

01:12:12.180 Canada remains deeply concerned by the threat posed by Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program.

01:12:16.840 No, Canada doesn't.

01:12:18.220 Canada ignores those.

01:12:21.760 And you just, in the previous sentence, said, stop shooting.

01:12:25.380 Hey, Israel, stop shooting. 0.95

01:12:26.800 Anyways, I don't think there's a single person, either on the Iranian side or the Israeli side, that really cares what Anita Anand has to say.

01:12:35.960 I just don't think so.

01:12:37.320 Here's the British prime minister, who is the most loathsome prime minister imaginable. 0.88

01:12:44.820 Let me read it to you. 0.84

01:12:45.780 It's pure Keir Starmer.

01:12:46.860 The reports of these strikes are concerning.

01:12:49.800 We urge all parties to step back and reduce tensions urgently.

01:12:54.460 Secondly, escalation serves no one in the region.

01:12:58.620 No, it serves the interests of anyone who wants the nukes destroyed.

01:13:04.620 Stability in the Middle East must be the priority. 1.00

01:13:07.100 And we are engaging partners to de-escalate.

01:13:09.680 What does that mean, you're engaging partners to de-escalate?

01:13:12.100 Can you use English, please?

01:13:14.340 Now is the time for restraint, calm, and a return to diplomacy.

01:13:18.740 No.

01:13:19.920 First of all, I don't think Keir Starmer is involved in any diplomacy.

01:13:22.980 Again, who cares what he says?

01:13:24.900 Donald Trump had 60 days of diplomacy, and he said, okay, time's up.

01:13:29.560 Do you think the world is safer today than it was yesterday?

01:13:34.480 I think that's a pretty basic IQ test, don't you?

01:13:37.980 Let me help you if you need some background, if you haven't been listening for the past hour.

01:13:42.580 Iran's air defenses are gone.

01:13:44.740 Iran's missile systems are gone.

01:13:46.720 Iran's nuclear plants have been blown up. 0.66

01:13:48.660 Iran's terrorist leadership has been decapitated.

01:13:52.460 Do you think that makes the world safer or less safe?

01:13:57.180 Well, to Keir Starmer and Anita Anand, we have to de-escalate.

01:14:01.160 No, I don't think so.

01:14:06.100 There is, you know, I've seen it over the last couple years, especially since October 7th, but before that a little bit,

01:14:15.540 that influencers, journalists, pundits, think tanks, even universities have taken a lot of money from Qatar.

01:14:22.980 Can you Google Trump influencer Qatar?

01:14:27.560 Because there's a story about how about 40 right-wing pro-Trump influencers have been hired by Qatar to,

01:14:38.660 I don't, I can't find it there, but how Qatar has, yeah, that's it there, the new lobby in Qatar, there you go, Wall Street Journal story, perfect.

01:14:54.080 Even just give me, you know how to find that one on archive.com, perfect.

01:14:57.940 So Qatar is smart.

01:15:00.940 They know that the Democrats are pro-terrorism anyways, but how about Trump?

01:15:05.240 Let me read this headline, this is from the Wall Street Journal.

01:15:08.660 The New Lobbying 0.96

01:15:10.380 Qatar targeted 250 Trump influencers to change U.S. policy.

01:15:16.940 Blockaded by many neighbors, the Emirate deployed an unconventional lobbying campaign to win over an unconventional U.S. president.

01:15:24.140 Let's just read the first sentence if we can.

01:15:27.600 Longtime New York restaurateur Joey Allahan visited Manhattan's Park East Synagogue late last year with Alan Dershowitz.

01:15:35.240 Come visit Doha, the capital of Qatar, by invitation of the Emir.

01:15:40.760 It goes on and on.

01:15:41.960 But my point is there's all these people on Twitter who so obviously are being paid to say insane things.

01:15:50.720 Can you call up Jackson Hinkle's account?

01:15:52.600 Jackson Hinkle is someone I had never really heard of until October 7th.

01:15:58.440 And he isn't just anti-Semitic, which he is.

01:16:02.500 He's pro-Iran.

01:16:04.360 He's pro-Houthi. 0.81

01:16:05.960 He actually went to Lebanon for the funeral of the leader of Hezbollah.

01:16:11.080 Here he is praising, breaking Iranian air defenses, finally seem to be working.

01:16:16.000 Scroll down a little more.

01:16:16.820 Iran promises retaliation. 0.90

01:16:21.040 Keep going.

01:16:23.700 Prepare the hypersonics.

01:16:25.780 There's him.

01:16:26.720 I don't know if that really, I think that really is him with Khomeini.

01:16:29.500 Keep going.

01:16:32.280 The Iranian revolution demands a strong retaliation. 0.97

01:16:37.300 Iran will reportedly launch 100 ballistic missiles.

01:16:40.320 Not enough, in my opinion.

01:16:41.480 Like this guy, all you need to know is he actually went to Beirut for the funeral of a terrorist.

01:16:49.800 That's not normal.

01:16:52.660 There's no real American right-winger who says that.

01:16:56.240 It's just, it's not a thing.

01:16:58.520 And yet you see these people on Twitter and you know it's because they're getting paid.

01:17:04.020 No American would say that.

01:17:05.920 Certainly not on the right.

01:17:07.520 Some Americans on the left would say that.

01:17:09.220 I'll grant you that.

01:17:09.980 But no conservative, no Trump supporter would ever be pro-terrorist or would chant death to America.

01:17:19.740 Speaking of which, pull up Candace Owens' tweet. 0.62

01:17:23.680 She's someone who's gone absolutely crazy over the last year.

01:17:29.680 I'm not even going to call it anti-Israel. 0.94

01:17:31.500 It's anti-Semitic.

01:17:32.600 She's got this crazy theory about Jews not actually being really Jews.

01:17:36.820 Anyway, so let me read, this is what she tweeted today.

01:17:43.120 Our foreign policy is dictated by Israel. 0.91

01:17:45.940 Trump will continue to do as he's told by Netanyahu.

01:17:48.720 If you want to know what America will do, spare yourself the fake White House press briefings and start listening to BB.

01:17:53.240 We are a colony of Israel.

01:17:54.580 Your politicians are bought and paid for.

01:17:56.480 What did America do yesterday?

01:17:58.960 I mean, it sold weapons to Israel.

01:18:00.700 I grant you that.

01:18:02.300 But America did not go to war yesterday.

01:18:05.300 In fact, you saw Donald Trump.

01:18:06.560 He's still saying, let's talk.

01:18:09.580 I really want to show what Candace tweeted last night.

01:18:12.960 Yeah, this is the one here.

01:18:14.640 This one, I think, shows the emptiness of the anti-Israel right in America.

01:18:22.400 This is Candace Owens last night.

01:18:25.520 The most predictable war plausibly ever.

01:18:28.880 Okay, I think that's true.

01:18:30.240 Iran is threatening Israel with atomic extermination. 0.86

01:18:34.160 Israel has been saying they won't allow that to happen.

01:18:36.420 Yeah, I agree.

01:18:37.000 It's a predictable war. 0.97

01:18:38.920 I'm so sick of Israel. 1.00

01:18:40.860 We know that. 0.74

01:18:41.960 And those who pretend its actions are normal or even remotely justifiable.

01:18:46.620 So you're saying that if another country were to threaten America with a nuclear weapon program

01:18:54.780 and attack it hundreds of times, that America wouldn't fight back?

01:19:00.140 Do we have the clip of her talking about Pearl Harbor?

01:19:02.480 Were you able to find that?

01:19:03.760 No.

01:19:04.260 No, okay.

01:19:05.440 Candace Owens gave an interview at GB News.

01:19:09.600 And she said she didn't think America should join the Second World War.

01:19:15.380 And the interviewer, Steve Edgington, said, even after Pearl Harbor?

01:19:22.040 And she said something like, oh, I got to think about that.

01:19:25.640 What?

01:19:26.980 Her husband, who's on the board of GB News, contacted GB News and demanded that they take down the clip.

01:19:34.880 I think we have a copy of the original.

01:19:37.400 I'll try and find it.

01:19:39.360 So, yeah.

01:19:40.960 I mean, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, what did America do?

01:19:45.380 They fought a total war, ending in the nuking of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

01:19:51.360 There were about 3,000 people who died in Pearl Harbor.

01:19:56.440 Millions of Japanese soldiers and civilians died in the war that followed.

01:20:01.180 That's how war goes, I'm afraid, especially if an enemy threatens to kill you, sneak attacks you.

01:20:08.640 So, yeah.

01:20:09.140 Anyway, back to the tweet.

01:20:11.320 I'm so sick of Israel and those who pretend its actions are normal or even remotely justifiable. 0.67

01:20:15.040 No, I don't think you are.

01:20:17.820 I think you just don't like the Jews because there's wars around the world all the time you don't obsess over. 0.97

01:20:23.040 This country has a bloodlust like no other. 0.98

01:20:26.320 No, you're just an anti-Semite.

01:20:28.560 Israel was attacked on October 7th by Hamas and then other terrorist groups constantly attack it.

01:20:38.460 Israel is stopping that.

01:20:40.080 Israel makes peace with its neighbors whenever they would.

01:20:43.180 Israel has a peace treaty with Egypt.

01:20:45.440 Israel has a peace agreement with Jordan.

01:20:47.500 Israel now has a peace agreement with United Arab Emirates, with Bahrain, with Sudan.

01:20:52.520 Israel gave away the entire Sinai Desert, including air bases, including oil, to Egypt just for peace.

01:21:01.780 It was called land for peace.

01:21:03.400 A real peace deal is peace for peace.

01:21:06.140 Never before has the victor in a war given up land to have peace with the defeated.

01:21:11.880 Israel smashed Egypt in a war.

01:21:14.060 But Israel wanted peace so badly that they said, fine, you can have all the land back.

01:21:19.680 Just let's be friends.

01:21:21.760 Let me continue reading this anti-Semitic tweet by Candace. 0.90

01:21:24.540 That's what it is.

01:21:26.700 Have an issue with this tweet?

01:21:28.240 I literally do not care.

01:21:30.300 Think defending Israel's demonic actions is going to guarantee you a spot in heaven? 1.00

01:21:35.880 I'm not thinking of this in some theological sense.

01:21:38.900 I know you've rebranded yourself as a Christian.

01:21:41.680 I don't think it's demonic.

01:21:43.260 In fact, I showed earlier on the live stream how precise Israel's attacks were. 0.78

01:21:50.040 Like literally taking out one apartment unit in an apartment building so precisely that literally other apartments on the same floor were untouched.

01:22:01.320 I don't think that's ever been done in war before.

01:22:03.720 Can you Google Mosul, M-O-S-U-L, final battle?

01:22:09.240 I want to show you.

01:22:10.380 And I'm not criticizing.

01:22:11.540 I'm just comparing.

01:22:12.960 The United States mainly, with some help from the Brits, liberated the city of Mosul.

01:22:18.980 Yeah, any of those.

01:22:20.540 The top left one will do.

01:22:21.780 Mosul liberated Mosul from ISIS.

01:22:28.340 Mosul was a city of over a million in Iraq that had been conquered.

01:22:33.900 It was the leading city.

01:22:35.380 This is Mosul when it was finally liberated by America and the UK.

01:22:40.460 That's not Gaza. 0.57

01:22:43.580 Hey, Google one more thing.

01:22:45.140 Chechnya.

01:22:46.940 Chechnya, Russia, surrender.

01:22:51.660 I want to show you how Russia fights its wars.

01:22:55.080 They literally seal off cities and just, this is what they did in Chechnya, and they just artilleryed it until there was nothing left standing. 0.71

01:23:07.220 If you can find that, great.

01:23:08.440 If not, it might be hard.

01:23:10.020 That would have been a while ago.

01:23:11.780 Like just Chechnya rubble. 0.87

01:23:13.980 You know, how's that?

01:23:16.520 Israel didn't rubble Tehran.

01:23:20.100 Yeah, any of those will do.

01:23:21.240 So this is how, I showed you how America and the UK fight in Mosul, and it's brutal.

01:23:32.440 It's tough.

01:23:32.900 That's what happens when terrorists base themselves in an urban residential environment.

01:23:38.960 You can't stop fighting a terrorist just because he, yeah, this is Chechnya.

01:23:44.260 That's Russia fighting Chechen separatists in Chechnya, who happen to be Muslim, by the way.

01:23:54.080 And in Mosul, they happen to be Muslim, by the way.

01:23:57.560 So back to Candace's tweet.

01:24:00.280 Which is demonic?

01:24:02.620 Now, the answer is both of them are wars.

01:24:05.440 All of them are wars.

01:24:06.580 You know, it's just an unfortunate thing that terrorists hide amongst civilians.

01:24:15.580 In Chechnya, they did. 0.92

01:24:17.060 In Mosul, they did. 0.76

01:24:18.760 In Tehran, Israel pinpointed them.

01:24:22.420 Go back to the tweet from Candace.

01:24:24.200 It's not demonic.

01:24:25.440 It was the opposite of demonic.

01:24:27.420 They wiped out the entire leadership of the Iranian military.

01:24:31.480 They wiped out their nuclear plants and their ballistic missile plants.

01:24:35.700 I'd be surprised if there were 20 civilians in the whole country that died.

01:24:40.000 This may be the lowest civilian casualty war in history.

01:24:43.840 I'll keep reading.

01:24:45.920 Double your indulgences and sign your offspring up to die for Netanyahu. 0.98

01:24:50.160 Leave the rest of us the hell alone. 0.91

01:24:51.880 See, that's the thing.

01:24:54.020 Candace and others on the Qatar right keep talking about no, you know,

01:25:01.060 no participation, no American soldiers, no American blood for Israeli wars.

01:25:06.240 And I agree.

01:25:07.800 I think that America has been too adventurous overseas with its own troops.

01:25:12.880 I have been a skeptic of the gleefulness that some Western leaders have taken towards the war in Ukraine.

01:25:22.100 I support Trump's goal of ending that war, not continuing it.

01:25:28.700 I agree.

01:25:29.620 To which I would say, where has a single American soldier fought in the last 24 hours?

01:25:38.000 Now, maybe there was some CIA information sharing.

01:25:40.360 I'm sure that's the case.

01:25:41.720 Just the same way the Mossad shares some information with America.

01:25:45.060 But I think Candace was angry in that tweet for a few reasons. 0.88

01:25:51.440 First of all, Iran got clobbered. 1.00

01:25:56.020 Second of all, her, you know, the world is going to fall.

01:26:01.100 It's going to be carnage.

01:26:02.500 Her predictions are all wrong.

01:26:04.460 The world has not been this safe in years.

01:26:10.420 And finally, she doesn't get to say, I told you so.

01:26:15.140 Donald Trump is sending young men to war.

01:26:18.240 He didn't.

01:26:19.360 In fact, I just read to you Trump's comments from a few hours ago where he said, hey, let's get back to the bargaining table.

01:26:26.320 Candace Owens is furious that the Jews defended themselves against terrorists. 0.91

01:26:32.820 She's furious that Israel defended itself so precisely that it kept the civilian death toll as close to zero as possible.

01:26:43.980 She's furious that all her predictions are wrong.

01:26:49.100 She should be jubilant that a cult-like terrorist country with a nuclear program has been knocked back to zero. 0.71

01:26:59.120 No, she should be jubilant that the same Iran that funded Hezbollah and Hamas, which murdered hundreds of U.S. Marines in Lebanon in the 80s, she should be jubilant that they're knocked out. 0.86

01:27:12.900 She's not because she's part of what I call the Qatar right. 0.88

01:27:17.940 I say again, I do not believe it is real or authentic to have anti-Semites on the American right.

01:27:25.860 It's just not the culture.

01:27:27.000 On the American left, yes.

01:27:29.120 On the foreign-funded anything, of course.

01:27:33.900 It makes no sense.

01:27:35.320 But then again, this is the wacky gal who said that America should not have even entered Second World War, even after Pearl Harbor.

01:27:43.020 She said she had to have a think about it.

01:27:46.340 Yeah, one of the things I'm happiest about is that no Americans were involved in this war.

01:27:52.760 And I think Donald Trump's tweets had a kind of admiration in them.

01:27:57.920 This, I mean, this attack on Iran was as successful as the attack on Hezbollah a few months ago, which also infuriated the Candace Owenses of the world because it was so precise. 0.93

01:28:15.160 They couldn't reach to their anti-Semitic tropes of, oh, the Jewish bloodlust.

01:28:20.720 Oh, Americans are involved.

01:28:22.560 No, neither.

01:28:23.840 It was so focused on the actual bad guys.

01:28:27.800 And Israel suffered next to no losses themselves.

01:28:32.180 That's what made Candace Owens wanted a conflagration so she could blame the Jews, so she could say, I was right, so she could be holier than thou about Donald Trump. 0.97

01:28:44.180 None of that happened.

01:28:45.220 The world is a safer place today than it was yesterday.

01:28:51.300 Saudi Arabia is safer.

01:28:53.240 United Arab Emirates are safer.

01:28:54.700 All the moderate Arab countries are safer today than they were yesterday. 0.95

01:28:59.060 And you know what's going to happen next?

01:29:00.960 There will be a second round of peace.

01:29:15.220 Hey, welcome back.

01:29:16.260 Your letters to me.

01:29:18.080 On Israel in my live stream, John Hubbard says, no, no, no, this is exactly the opposite of what we voted Trump into office for.

01:29:24.920 No, zero new wars.

01:29:26.900 Stop this madness.

01:29:28.000 Well, I don't think Trump was elected for no wars anywhere in the world.

01:29:33.400 He was saying no wars that America would be part in.

01:29:37.480 Americans didn't vote for the prime minister of Israel.

01:29:40.500 He actually won his election on a promise to defend Israel.

01:29:44.660 I think this was a harmonious result, so I'm going to disagree with you.

01:29:48.840 As far as I know, not a single American fighter pilot or soldier was involved.

01:29:54.140 It was Israel.

01:29:55.220 They bought U.S. weapons, but it was not an American war.

01:29:59.640 I think it was an Israeli war and a preemptive defensive war against a cult-like Islamic extremist country that had threatened Israel with nuclear annihilation.

01:30:10.680 I think the world is much safer today than it was yesterday.

01:30:13.860 This was, I mean, you could call it a war, but other than a few special operations men on the ground, it's not an invasion.

01:30:22.300 It's not a massive war like between Russia and Ukraine, a meat grinder of a thousand men a day. 0.94

01:30:27.460 This is more a high-tech war, and so far it has degraded Iran's capabilities tremendously. 0.51

01:30:35.340 Simu says,

01:30:36.140 As an Irishman, I agree with every word you said, Ezra.

01:30:38.920 Keep the truth coming.

01:30:40.440 Well, I appreciate that.

01:30:41.520 If you're referring to my visit to Cork last week, I always enjoy going to Ireland, and I learn so much.

01:30:47.020 I have a lot more to learn.

01:30:48.320 It's got a fascinating history, but mainly I learn about people willing to stand up for their country and their history and for the safety of their women.

01:30:57.000 And I think the number one argument that I hear in Ireland is their opposition to migrant men is safety of women, because the men who are being brought over, military-aged single men, have disproportionately, I hate to say it, become rapists in that and other countries.

01:31:13.820 Garrick says,

01:31:15.840 Rebel News most definitely deserves to be at the summit.

01:31:18.960 The people deserve the truth.

01:31:20.860 You're talking about the G7.

01:31:22.760 I'm not sure if we deserve to be anywhere, but we have the right to be anywhere that the other media does.

01:31:28.360 And if it's the government that decides, they need to have a compelling reason why we can't, not simply because Mark Carney or his staff don't like us.

01:31:37.140 If it's a government function paid for by the public, it ought to be accessible to anyone on the same terms.

01:31:45.060 And I will continue to fight this.

01:31:47.700 And I think the government now knows that when we threaten them with a lawsuit, we're serious.

01:31:51.880 We follow through with it.

01:31:53.100 And hopefully it'll make us have to fight less battles in the future.

01:31:57.540 That's the show for today.

01:31:58.920 I hope to see some of you in Red Deer tomorrow.

01:32:01.900 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.

01:32:06.260 Good night.

01:32:07.140 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 14, 2025

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Who wins and who loses in Israel’s decisive strike against Iran

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