On October 6th, Ireland, Norway, and Spain all said that they would recognize a Palestinian state. What does this mean for the future of the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination? And why is this a good or bad thing? And who would be the president of a state that Israel recognizes as a state? And what would that state look like after it was established? Today's episode is a mashup of President Obama's speech and my thoughts on why this is a bad idea and why we should all recognize a state of Palestine, and what that state would look like in the long-term, and who would run that state. I hope you enjoy this mashup, and tweet me if you do! with any thoughts or opinions on this or any other topic you d like to hear from President Obama on the topic. Timestamps: 2:00 - Ireland's decision 3:30 - Spain's recognition of Palestine 4:20 - Israel's recognition 5:15 - What would a Palestinian State look like 6:00 - Who would the government be? 7:40 - Why Israel should recognize a State of Palestine? 8:30 - What does a state have a government? 9:20 What would it look like? 10:40 11:50 - Who is the President of Palestine's President? 12:15 13: Who is Israel s answer to the Palestinians? 15: What is Israel's role in the Middle East? 16:00 | Israel s response to the Palestinian conflict? 17:30 | What would Israel s relationship with the Palestinian state? 18:20 | What does Israel want? 19:40 | Who do we get to do next? 21:10 | Who would Israel get to be a Palestinian president? 22:10 Is Israel s role in a Palestinian country? 23:30 // Is Israel better than Israel s place in the Arab world? 26:00 // What do we need to do now? 27: Is Israel a country that is better than the other way? 25:10 - Who are we fighting for Israel? 35:30 Is Israel going to become a better country than the Palestinians better? 36:10 // What are we going to do to help the Palestinians, or do we have a state in the future, or are we getting closer?
00:00:00.000The question on the European continent for 150 years has been whether to appease evil, to give evil what it wants in the hope that evil will then suddenly become good or at least non-offensive, or whether to fight evil and allow others to fight evil.
00:00:14.000That battle did not end with World War II.
00:00:18.000So on Wednesday, Ireland, Norway, and Spain all said that they would recognize a Palestinian state.
00:00:28.000Last month I stood on these same steps with Prime Minister Sanchez of Spain, and we said that the point of recognizing the state of Palestine was coming closer.
00:01:27.000Now, let's put aside all of this nonsense about how the modern world is all about self-determination because none of these people are stumping for an independent Kurdistan, for example.
00:01:34.000I noticed that Spain, which is standing right there, they're not talking about an independent Catalonia.
00:01:39.000They're not talking about Basque independence.
00:01:42.000So self-determination is not the key issue here.
00:01:46.000The truth is that normally when a state is established, a state is established through force of arms, typically speaking.
00:01:52.000That's been true throughout human history.
00:01:55.000And then once that state can hold its own, Then people either recognize it or don't recognize it, but the real question as to whether other countries should recognize a state or stump for a state has to do with what that state will look like afterward.
00:02:08.000We know exactly what a Palestinian state would look like afterward, because we can see it in action right now.
00:02:14.000Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, and the Palestinians proceeded to elect Hamas, and then Hamas proceeded to kill many of its opponents.
00:02:22.000And the Palestinians, by and large, support Hamas.
00:02:25.000And they turned Hamas, Hamas did, they turned the Gaza Strip into the world's most nefarious terror state, filled with literally hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels and rockets and sophisticated drones and ammunition.
00:02:53.000I guess they missed their opportunity to just openly side with them the first time, so now they're gonna side with today's Nazis in Hamas and the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad and all the rest.
00:03:00.000But this is all symbolic because, of course, there are like 140 countries that currently, quote-unquote, recognize a state of Palestine, but there is no state of Palestine because, again, in order to have a state, you actually have to have, typically, a government, borders, and citizenship.
00:03:12.000And there is no Palestinian state that has any of these things.
00:03:17.000Okay, let's start with the prospect of a government.
00:03:19.000Typically, if you're going to recognize a state, the state has to have a government.
00:03:21.000Who governs the quote-unquote state of Palestine?
00:03:24.000A state of Palestine that, by the way, the ICC not only recognizes but is now acting on behalf of when it seeks to prosecute a non-member, the Prime Minister of Israel.
00:03:37.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:04:54.000But today, Hamas would actually defeat Fatah in the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria.
00:05:00.000In the Gaza Strip, Hamas is wildly popular.
00:05:04.00059% of all Palestinians think Hamas should rule Gaza.
00:05:08.00070% were satisfied with the role that Hamas has played during the war.
00:05:14.000Even among people who believed before October 7th that Fatah should win, they believed 56% that the person who should lead a Palestinian government is a man named Marwan Barghouti who is serving multiple life sentences for his role in the murder of Jews during the Second Intifada.
00:05:30.000So let's be clear, it would be a terror government.
00:05:33.000But the reality is that no one treats the actual terror government of Hamas as a government because typically governments are responsible for the safety and well-being of their citizens, correct?
00:05:45.000Nobody treats Hamas as the government of Gaza, including the Europeans.
00:05:49.000If they did, all blame for humanitarian problems in Gaza would fall on Hamas.
00:05:54.000But the entire European infrastructure, including the ICC, is placing blame for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip on Israel.
00:06:01.000They're expecting Israel to ship in humanitarian aid.
00:06:05.000Now, nobody has made the argument, among all the myriad human rights arguments that are made about Russia, And it's human rights violations in Ukraine.
00:06:12.000Nobody has made the argument that Russia is not shipping humanitarian aid into Ukraine.
00:06:16.000They won't even make that argument about Russia.
00:06:18.000But they're making that argument about Israel, despite the fact that they now apparently recognize a sovereign state of Palestine in some bizarre way.
00:06:27.000In fact, the government of Palestine, were there to be one, routinely steals aid from its own people.
00:06:33.000How much aid do they steal from their own people?
00:06:35.000Well, you get to pay for it, which is really exciting.
00:06:38.000One of the wonderful things about American Middle Eastern foreign policy is that you generally are funding both sides of every war in the Middle East.
00:06:44.000We, the American taxpayers, are funding Iran, and we're funding Israel.
00:06:47.000We're funding Hamas, and we're funding Israel.
00:06:50.000We're funding Hezbollah via the proxy of Iran, and we're funding Israel.
00:06:53.000That's the way that it works in the Middle East, because we are idiots.
00:06:59.000So, the Biden administration, in all of its extraordinary wisdom, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build a pier in the Mediterranean, off the coast of the Gaza Strip, with the supposed attempt to get humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
00:07:17.000There's only one problem, and there's been the problem throughout.
00:07:19.000The minute that the aid enters an area that Hamas has control over, Hamas steals the aid.
00:07:26.000The problem has never been Israeli willingness to get humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, food for the civilians in Gaza.
00:07:33.000That has never remotely been the problem.
00:07:36.000In fact, over the course of this conflict, Israel has shipped in thousands of calories per day per Palestinian civilian into the Gaza Strip.
00:07:47.000There actually is no mass starvation in the Gaza Strip by any available metric.
00:07:54.000The United States decided we're going to build this pier, and we're going to pretend that the real obstacle to getting the aid in was somehow the Israeli government, which is the only force in the region attempting to get aid in.
00:08:02.000In fact, the Kerem Shalom crossing, which Israel now controls near Rafah, the Kerem Shalom crossing and the Rafah crossing are both being attacked by Hamas in order to maintain the blockade against humanitarian aid getting in.
00:08:15.000In fact, the Pentagon even admitted this.
00:08:18.000The Pentagon actually came out and admitted this.
00:08:20.000Here's Pentagon Major General Patrick Ryder.
00:08:23.000Openly acknowledging that despite the fact that 569 metric tons of aid had passed through the U.S.-built pier, zero had reached actual Palestinian civilians.
00:09:29.000No aid has been delivered up until today.
00:09:31.000And the Pentagon acknowledges some of that initial aid that was brought in as it was being taken along the transportation route was intercepted by some people who took that aid off those vehicles.
00:09:57.000Larry Seligman said, Ryder says, I do not believe any of the aid that's been delivered through the pier has actually gotten to the people of Gaza.
00:10:07.000Everyone has known this for legitimately months.
00:10:09.000Because once again, the terrorist entity that runs the Gaza Strip is not anything like a government that you would want to recognize as a government.
00:10:18.000So when you say you recognize a state of Palestine, who's the government?
00:10:43.000This Palestinian state, the supposedly recognized Palestinian state, which by the way, again, there are lots of countries that already quote-unquote recognize a Palestinian state.
00:10:52.000There still is no Palestinian state because typically a state has to have, you know, government, borders, and citizenship.
00:10:59.000The reason there is no Palestinian state, as everyone who has ever studied this conflict knows and is honest about, is because no Palestinian entity ever has accepted any sort of partition plan with regard to the land of Israel.
00:11:18.000Let's go through the maps, just to remind everybody.
00:11:20.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
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00:12:37.000The Peel Commission originally, before the Peel Commission, during the Balfour Declaration, if you go all the way back in British history to like 1919, Balfour Declaration suggested that a Jewish state or a Jewish national homeland would be established in Israel and what is today Jordan.
00:12:51.000And then the British government sliced off Jordan, it was then called Transjordan, And they said this would be the Arab state.
00:12:58.000And then, under Arab pressure, because there were massive attacks on Jews and British soldiers by Arabs in the intervening period, by 1937 the Peel Commission proposed a partition plan.
00:13:09.000That partition plan would have left under British rule a corridor from Jaffa to Jerusalem That would have been under British rule, and then virtually the entirety of the land of Israel, the modern state of Israel, would have been an Arab state, ranging all the way in the north from nearly Lake Tiberias all the way down to the Gulf of Aqaba.
00:13:31.000You would have a split Jewish state that contained like Rehovot in the south, and went up to like Tzfat in the north.
00:13:58.000The proposed Jewish state would have sliced off not only the Gaza Strip, but a large segment of the south of Israel.
00:14:04.000Israel would have been left with basically the Negev Desert, a corridor from Tel Aviv to Haifa.
00:14:10.000Jerusalem would have been an international zone The entirety of the West Bank, larger than the West Bank actually currently, would have been an Arab state plus parts of northern Israel.
00:14:21.000That was the plan presented in 1947 by the United Nations.
00:14:26.000The Arabs rejected the plan and proceeded to launch an attack in 1948.
00:14:29.000That attack in 1948 ended with Israel controlling slightly more territory than it would have if the Arabs had actually just acknowledged the UN partition plan of 1947.
00:14:42.000Here is a map of what happened in 1948.
00:14:45.000Attacks from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
00:14:52.000All those armies simultaneously attacked the nascent state of Israel, The nation-state of Israel fought back.
00:14:58.000They ended up with control of what looks like what is now called the Green Line borders, right?
00:15:07.000Now, during the intervening period, 1948 to 1967, Arabs controlled what would now be the quote-unquote Palestinian state, including Jordan controlling the so-called West Bank.
00:15:18.000Jordan restricted religious activities in Jerusalem.
00:15:23.000Jordan Made Judenrein the entire area of the West Bank.
00:15:28.000The Gaza Strip, of course, had no Jews.
00:15:31.000There's no clamor for an independent Palestinian state.
00:15:33.000In fact, the Palestine Liberation Organization, to liberate Palestine, was directed against the State of Israel and founded in 1964, when all of the current, quote-unquote, borders of the State of Palestine were under Arab control.
00:15:45.000Again, a State of Palestine was always a Trojan horse to destroy the State of Israel.
00:15:49.000That's what it always was, and it is what it remains.
00:15:53.000That is why the Arabs never accepted any sort of partition plan, ever.
00:15:58.000So after 1948, again, is when the Arabs are now in control of what is currently called the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
00:16:04.000There is no independent Palestinian state, not even one that is proposed by Jordan or by Egypt.
00:16:10.000So then 1967 war, the Arabs under a pan Arab movement led by Nasser decide to mobilize.
00:16:49.000That is the constant pattern throughout this history.
00:16:53.000If ever once a peace plan had been accepted, and then simply lived through and developed, and any Arab state, Palestinian state, Jordan or Egypt had just decided, you know what, we're going to develop the land that we currently hold and create working economies and functional societies as opposed to directing all of this as a Trojan horse to destroy the Jewish state.
00:17:13.000Everything would have been hunky-dory.
00:17:14.000They didn't until the conflict remains ongoing.
00:17:19.000In 1973, the Arabs, this time led by Anwar Sadat in Egypt, they decide that they're going to launch a surprise attack on Israel.
00:17:30.000Israel ends up, again, gaining slightly more territory than it would have had before the Yom Kippur War, which was an attempted war to destroy the State of Israel yet again.
00:17:40.000Okay, so, in the early 1990s, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, idiotic plan by Israel to now try to negotiate another peace deal.
00:17:52.000So, the entire Sinai, by the way, is now in Egyptian hands.
00:17:54.000It was sliced off under the Camp David Accords in the late 1970s, 1978.
00:18:00.000Under Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, and Anwar Sadat, and Menachem Begin.
00:18:05.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:19:37.000And effectively speaking, the Oslo Accords agree to a certain number of areas.
00:19:44.000There's going to be a gradual definition of the borders of a Palestinian state predicated on a series of steps being followed, including the establishment of some sort of durable peace.
00:19:57.000And of course, Israel is idiotic to sign this because the person on the other side of the table was arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, a mass-murdering piece of shit.
00:20:05.000Israel foolishly signs the Oslo Accords, which has been a bloody nightmare for them ever since.
00:20:12.000This established what were called Areas A, B, and C in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
00:20:20.000Area A was under sole Palestinian control, Area B was under mixed Israeli and Palestinian security control, and Area C was not under Palestinian control at all.
00:20:32.000That was the way that the Accords worked.
00:20:34.000That's the way the Oslo Accords worked.
00:20:37.000There had been no final definition of borders.
00:20:38.000In 2000, Ehud Barak, a far-left Israeli Prime Minister, I mean extremely far-left Israeli Prime Minister, he made a proposal.
00:20:47.000This proposal would have allowed for annexation of largely Jewish areas in the West Bank in return for land swaps That would come from the state of Israel to a Palestinian state.
00:21:00.000There'd be a corridor between the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
00:21:04.000Essentially a highway between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
00:21:09.000The state of Palestine would then be very close to looking like what the borders look like between 1948 and 1967.
00:21:17.000Except in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, those would now be controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
00:21:24.000That was turned down by Yasser Arafat.
00:21:27.000That was turned down by Yasser Arafat.
00:21:30.000And then he walked away and he started the so-called Second Intifada, a violent uprising that ended up killing thousands of Israelis.
00:21:36.000And the reason he walked away from that deal, despite the richness of the deal, as Bill Clinton has suggested, the president of the time and no great friend of Israel, The reason you walked away from the deal is because, again, there is no desire for an actual partition plan on the part of Palestinians.
00:21:54.000There is a reason October 7th is popular.
00:21:56.000That is why when European countries say, we recognize a state of Palestine without borders, what they are really recognizing is an attempt to destroy the state of Israel and kill all the Jews living in it.
00:22:05.000Because that is the actual desire of the governing entities in the Palestinian Authority and in the Gaza Strip in Hamas.
00:22:11.000So that was the 2000 Camp David proposal.
00:22:13.000Then, in 2008, Ehud Olmert, heretofore a sort of centrist figure, made a desperate plan in an attempt to get a peace deal.
00:22:23.000So he made a 2008 proposal that would have split sovereignty over Jerusalem.
00:22:28.000Areas of East Jerusalem would have been transferred to the nascent state of Palestine.
00:22:33.000There would have been a handover of the entirety of the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians.
00:22:38.000There would have been a handover of pretty much the entirety of the West Bank to the Palestinians with land swaps to account for the fact that there are Jews who live in historically Judea and Samaria.
00:22:50.000And the reason I say the so-called West Bank is because the term West Bank is about 70 years old.
00:22:54.000The terms Judea and Samaria are literally thousands of years old and you can find them in the Bible.
00:22:59.000And so you're talking about cities of hundreds of thousands of people.
00:23:02.000There's about 700, 800,000 Jews who live in the West Bank because those are historically Jewish areas.
00:23:08.000Okay, the Palestinians don't, under Mahmoud Abbas, do not even issue a counter-offer.
00:23:13.000Mahmoud Abbas just walks away from the table.
00:23:16.000So when I say that recognizing a state of Palestine means it's a state without borders, it's not that Israel has not tried to establish borders, it's that the Palestinians don't want to define borders.
00:23:24.000Because the moment they define a border, then they can no longer act as a Trojan horse against Israel.
00:23:30.000Because the reality is this, the Palestinian leadership, I'm not talking about some members of the Palestinian population, although again by polling data they support their leadership and they support the genocidal goal of the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:23:41.000The Palestinian leadership does not want a state.
00:23:46.000The reason they do not want a state along partition lines is because at that point the Trojan horse game is over.
00:23:53.000Because what they've always said they want are two things.
00:23:57.000They have said that they supposedly want a partition plan, which they've never defined, never accepted, and never specified.
00:24:05.000And then they have suggested they want a quote-unquote right of return.
00:24:09.000A right of return means that any Arab who left or was expelled during the 1947-48 war of independence in the state of Israel, they would all, along with their descendants, be allowed to move back into a state they wish to destroy.
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00:25:26.000Now, 850,000 Jews were expelled or left various Arab countries in the region between 1948 and 1967 and moved to Israel.
00:25:37.000These were refugees that Israel took in.
00:25:39.000Not only have the Arab states not taken in Palestinian refugees, they still call them refugee camps.
00:25:46.000None of these current states like Ireland, Spain, Norway, Hungary, Poland, none of them have suggested that because they recognize the state of
00:25:56.000Palestine. You know what? You know what isn't a refugee camp? A city in a state that is yours, that
00:26:03.000But every one of these entities still terms all of these people refugees.
00:26:08.000How can you be a refugee in your own state?
00:26:12.000So if you acknowledge the state, how can you simultaneously say its citizens are refugees?
00:26:16.000They are no longer refugees, especially when you're talking about, in many cases, the great-grandkids of people who left because they didn't want to be in the way of a conflict as the Arab army stormed into Israel in 1947-48.
00:26:28.000Population movement has been a constant throughout human history.
00:26:32.000You never hear about a quote-unquote right of return for populations that move during wartime or are expelled during wartime.
00:26:39.000That is generally not a thing, but that has been kept alive specifically in order to destroy the state of Israel.
00:26:44.000And this is why you don't see any of the countries that acknowledge a state of Palestine say, well, okay, now that you have a state of Palestine, which we've acknowledged, you don't get to go and like demand citizenship in the state that you wish to destroy next door.
00:26:59.000of so-called refugee camps in the area.
00:27:03.000The UNRWA is basically a front group for Hamas.
00:27:06.000It is an agency of the United Nations that is devoted specifically and only, it's the Relief and Works Agency, it is devoted specifically and only to Palestinian refugees.
00:27:39.000Either you acknowledge a state of Palestine, which means you have to define a government.
00:27:42.000The people of Palestine are now citizens of a state of Palestine that you say you recognize, which means they cannot demand citizenship in another state that they have no connection with.
00:27:53.000In order to destroy it, but again, all of this is malarkey.
00:27:57.000The reality is that many of the states that are currently acknowledging a state of Palestine, the reason they are doing this is because they believe that Israel is a cancer in the region and they wish to see it extirpated, but they don't want to say that out loud.
00:28:10.000And they're perfectly willing to facilitate terrorism because that's what it is.
00:28:16.000Again, none of the countries that just said that they acknowledge a state of Palestine, zero of them, zero of them acknowledged a state of Palestine on October 6th after Hamas commits an atrocity.
00:28:27.000That's when they say, okay, now you get a state.
00:28:43.000They have to say that they are because obviously their population hates Israel.
00:28:47.000But the Saudi leadership has zero interest in a state of Palestine that becomes an Iranian proxy state directed against it near its own borders.
00:28:56.000Of course, they're not interested in that.
00:28:58.000Which is why the Saudis openly said recently that they're desperately attempting to yell at the Biden administration.
00:29:04.000Please stop pressuring for a Palestinian state.
00:29:08.000We will normalize if you just shut the hell up.
00:29:10.000But Joe Biden won't, because again, he is part of this broader idiotic notion that when a Palestinian state is magically established, all conflict in the Middle East goes away, which is absolutely asinine.
00:29:20.000The vast majority of conflict in the Middle East, if you're counting dead, wounded, every war has nothing to do with Israel or the Palestinians.
00:29:28.000Check out the Iran-Iraq war, or the conflict in Syria, or ISIS, or the takeover of Lebanon by Iran, if you don't believe me.
00:29:35.000War is a pretty constant feature of the region, actually, as it turns out.
00:29:41.000Because the Wall Street Journal literally reported that the state would be willing to accept a verbal agreement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he'd be willing to renew talks for Palestinian statehood.
00:29:54.000And the Biden administration wasn't willing to let it go at that.
00:29:56.000So they're trying to pressure Israel to make concessions to a terror entity in the middle of a war against the terror entity.
00:30:02.000Meanwhile, would it facilitate peace for there to be a Palestinian state, say, in control of its own borders?
00:30:07.000Absolutely not, considering those borders have been used to facilitate terrorism.
00:30:11.000The reason why Egypt has been so angry about Israel going into Rafah, which borders Egypt, is because they are afraid, and they are correct to be afraid, that Israel is going to discover massive, gigantic tunnels going from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
00:30:25.000Tunnels for funneling out Hamas fighters and for funneling in weaponry.
00:30:28.000Recently it was revealed that the country of Turkey is hosting 1,000 wounded Hamas fighters.
00:30:33.000So you ask yourself, how did they get out?
00:30:34.000The answer is they got out through that border.
00:30:38.000The reason the Egyptians are ticked off is because the Egyptians have a serious terror threat in the Sinai Desert.
00:30:43.000They've basically been allowing that to fester, grow, and direct itself against Israel.
00:30:47.000If Israel shuts down that border in a serious way by closing off the tunnels, right now it's basically a one-way border.
00:30:53.000Supplies are going into Hamasistan in the Gaza Strip, but you're not getting mass population moving out into Egypt because Egypt doesn't want any of those people.
00:31:01.000In fact, Egypt has a gigantic wall on that side of the border.
00:31:03.000We should take some lessons from them on our own southern border.
00:31:07.000But Egypt, like many of these other countries, feels held hostage by a wing of radicals who are inside the country, and so they are happy to facilitate terrorism.
00:31:14.000Do you think it gets better or worse with a Palestinian state?
00:31:17.000We all know the answer to this, which is why Hamas issued a thank you.
00:31:21.000Hamas issued a really nice thank you to these countries.
00:31:25.000Hamas put out the following statement.
00:31:26.000The recognition of a Palestinian state by Norway, Spain, and Ireland is the fruit of the struggle and the resistance.
00:31:49.000In the aftermath of a massive terror attack in Spain, the Spanish government decided it would no longer support the war in Iraq.
00:31:54.000Not on principle, but out of fear of the terrorists.
00:31:57.000So it could just be appeasement or it could be something significantly worse, which is a belief that really it would be better for the world if the Palestinians, including Hamas, achieve their goal.
00:32:07.000Now in the United States, the reaction has been somewhat fascinating because the Republican Party obviously thinks this is idiotic.
00:32:16.000The Democratic Party wants to agree with Ireland, Norway, Spain, they want to agree with them, but there's still a wing of the Democratic Party that acknowledges that a state of Palestine has no government other than terrorists, no borders that even the Palestinians will define, and no citizenry that they will define as citizens of the state sufficient that they don't try to swamp the state of Israel with a bunch of people who want to destroy it.
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00:36:59.000So the American Democratic Party reaction to everything that's going on in the Middle East has of course been wildly split between sort of the old school liberals in the Democratic Party who recognize that actually Israel is a democratic liberal state that shares Western values.
00:37:13.000And people on the left who believe that Israel is an oppressor, apartheid state, just like America is an oppressor state that stole land and all the rest of this.
00:37:21.000And you can see the split emerging in the Democratic Party.
00:37:24.000So on the one side, you have Democratic Senator Chris Coons.
00:37:26.000Of course, Coons is in no great shape when it comes to support for Israel, but at least he recognizes that Hamas is being rewarded by Ireland and by Norway and by Spain.
00:37:38.000Let's be clear, Hamas is a hateful terrorist organization dedicated to killing Jews and destroying Israel.
00:37:45.000So that they put out a statement today cheering on these announcements by Spain and Norway and Ireland should suggest that this is not a constructive step at this time and we should continue pressing for a two-state solution through negotiations.
00:38:02.000Again, good luck with that, with the pressing for the two-state solution through negotiations.
00:38:05.000It turns out only one of those sides actually would like a peace deal, and that's the Israelis.
00:38:09.000And as everyone knows, who's watched this conflict for any amount of time, if Israel put down all of its guns tomorrow, every Jew in the region would be dead.
00:38:17.000If the Palestinians put all their guns and their suicide bombs and their educational materials educating small children into a suicide cult down tomorrow, there would be peace in the region.
00:38:26.000in this particular conflict at the very least. But the Democratic Party is indeed split.
00:38:30.000And so you have a split between the moderate liberals, who still mouth platitudes of support
00:38:36.000for the state of Israel, and the wild left. And they don't know what to do inside the Democratic
00:38:40.000Party. So Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, he has been pushing this gap in the Democratic
00:38:47.000Party, making it clear to Americans that there is this wide gap in the Democratic Party.
00:38:51.000And Democrats are now very angry about it.
00:38:54.000So you'll recall that in the middle of this conflict, Chuck Schumer decided that this was an amazing time to try to oust the sitting Prime Minister of the State of Israel.
00:39:00.000Again, not a move that he's ever made about, say, Vladimir Zelensky.
00:39:03.000In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of a single time in the recent past that the United States has attempted to oust a democratically elected leader of an ally in a time of war.
00:39:12.000It's kind of an astonishing thing when you think about it.
00:39:14.000In the past, the United States has been party to a number of coups, including coups in allies, but never a democratically elected leader in an allied state.
00:39:24.000They've couped out democratically elected communists in non-allied states.
00:39:28.000We've couped out dictators in non-allied states or even in allied states, like South Korea, for example.
00:39:36.000But I really can't think of a single example where an allied state of the United States The U.S.
00:39:41.000government tries to force out an elected leader in a time of war.
00:39:44.000Kind of an astonishing thing, actually.
00:39:47.000Well now, Mike Johnson is saying that Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel who is duly elected, that he should come and speak in front of Congress.
00:39:54.000And Democrats are fighting mad about it.
00:40:00.000But this is creating a serious conflict inside the Democratic Party.
00:40:05.000So White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Wednesday the Prime Minister didn't speak to the White House about any speech.
00:40:12.000Apparently Chuck Schumer is divided on it.
00:40:15.000Representative Dean Phillips said he thinks the invitation is a quote-unquote political gesture.
00:40:20.000Phillips said, I imagine the personal and political conflict facing leader Schumer.
00:40:25.000Now again, how many times can we have Vladimir Zelensky here to talk to the media and talk to the president and talk to Congress, but not have the elected leader of, you know, the other allied state that has been significantly more of an ally historically to the United States than Ukraine has.
00:40:38.000I mean, Ukraine's a fairly new standing ally to the West.
00:40:44.000What do you make of Netanyahu coming to address Congress?
00:41:52.000Using Hamas statistics and declaring that the war is somehow Israel's right to prosecute but not to actually fight a war in which they have the best Terrorist to civilian dead ratio in the history of urban warfare.
00:42:05.000But again, that's the split inside the Democratic Party.
00:42:07.000So Joe Biden is trying to bridge that split because he's afraid of losing votes from liberal Jewish Americans who don't like his stance on Israel particularly much.
00:42:16.000He's doing this by, of course, slandering Donald Trump.
00:42:18.000So he's now trying to claim that he is the force for light and goodness with regard to Jews in the United States.
00:42:23.000Weird, since all of your allies seem to be arrayed in favor of campus protesters who love Hamas.
00:43:20.000And right now, again, the United States is engaged in negotiation tactics that are designed to prevent Israel from finishing off Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which would leave American hostages, including many of the people who you saw in those videos, in their hands.
00:43:33.000In fact, Project Veritas came out with a video yesterday Showing Sterling Waters, a U.S.
00:43:41.000National Security Council advisor, explaining that Biden is only pretending to be somewhat pro-Israel for now.
00:43:49.000In term two, he'll just make the full turn.
00:43:53.000You're not going to continue to lie and get bombed and kill all these people without facing serious consequences.
00:44:01.000But that is a second term decision to make, not a first term.
00:44:06.000So we can't say now he'll probably do support.
00:44:10.000Enough support that we can't get Twitter except beyond Twitter.
00:44:19.000This is the split inside the Democratic Party.
00:44:22.000Again, the predictable, there may be, let's just assume good and noble intentions on the part of everyone for a second.
00:44:28.000The result is absolutely predictable and Hamas knows it, which is the establishment of a terror state directed at the destruction of the state of Israel.
00:44:35.000That is the, in fact, goal of the Palestinians.
00:44:38.000writ large by polling data they do not wish to live in side by side with Israel and Pisa.
00:44:42.000I wish that that were the case. Israel certainly wishes that that were the case. Everybody wishes
00:44:46.000that that were the case except apparently the Palestinian population which continues to support
00:44:49.000Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, and October 7th. Hey Ben, I've got something
00:44:56.000pretty random for you. Okay, as per our usual.
00:44:59.000Yep, so I've been watching a ton of post-apocalyptic shows and I just need to pick your brain because there's been questions that have just been keeping me up all night long.
00:46:18.000Well, unsurprisingly, Joe Biden continues to ride really low in the polls, according to a new Swing States poll from Cook Political and GS Strategy Group, which is a Democratic Party group, and BSG, which is a Republican Party group.
00:46:30.000So it's sort of a bipartisan polling outfit.
00:46:33.000Donald Trump is now ahead quite heavily in many of the Swing States.
00:47:07.000You remember before the midterm elections, he went on bended knee to Saudi Arabia and tried to beg them to lower the oil prices.
00:47:13.000Well, now he's going to try to do the same thing.
00:47:14.000The Biden administration said on Tuesday they are releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from a Northeast reserve established after Superstorm Sandy in a bid to lower prices at the pump this summer.
00:47:24.000The sale from storage sites in New Jersey and Maine will be allocated in increments of 100,000 barrels at a time, which will create a competitive bidding process that ensures gasoline can flow into local retailers ahead of July 4th.
00:47:36.000So, as it turns out, that is just a political move.
00:47:40.000So we're going to get rid of that reserve in order to lower the prices ahead of the election for Joe Biden.
00:47:46.000He didn't do it until now because, again, we are now heading toward the election and it's time to try to bribe the American people.
00:47:50.000He's also attempting to bribe young people once again.
00:47:53.000He's quote-unquote cancelling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs.
00:47:59.000The Education Department announced the latest round of cancellation on Wednesday, saying it will raise $7.7 billion in federal student loans.
00:48:06.000With the latest action, the administration says it has now canceled $167 billion in student debt for nearly 5 million Americans through several programs.
00:48:13.000By the way, they didn't cancel the student debt.
00:48:25.000The latest relief goes to borrowers in three categories who hit certain milestones making them eligible for cancellation.
00:48:30.000It will go to 54,000 borrowers enrolled in Biden's new income-driven repayment program, along with 39,000 enrolled in earlier income-driven programs, and about 67,000 who are eligible through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
00:48:42.000So you just pay... The Supreme Court literally said you can't do this, so you're just doing it.
00:48:46.000Don't worry, it's Donald Trump who's the threat to the Republic.
00:48:48.000But it turns out that bribery is not going to get you there.
00:49:47.000Okay, so everybody decided on the left to now attack Nikki Haley because again, you're the hero of the moment so long as you don't support the candidate against Joe Biden.
00:49:55.000When she said she was going to support Trump, which of course was sort of inevitable given the fact he's the Republican nominee running against the worst president of my lifetime, bar none, in Joe Biden.
00:50:41.000Which means that the efforts to get Donald Trump arrested as some sort of last-ditch gambit to stop his election, those continue apace.
00:50:47.000AOC, the venerable intellect, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who wears smart people glasses sometimes, and then when she's really, really into it, she puts them up on the top of her head like this.
00:50:57.000She says, the quiet part out loud, that they basically are putting Trump in a legal version of an ankle bracelet to stop him from running.
00:51:06.000By the way, he's doing it in the South Bronx, not to make a point, but because he's got court.
00:51:11.000And the man practically has the legal version of an ankle bracelet around him, and he can't leave the five boroughs because he always has to be in court.
00:51:18.000And so, it is truly an embarrassment to him.
00:51:22.000Okay, well, I mean, I understand that you guys would love it if he couldn't campaign.
00:51:30.000The reality is all that's backfiring, by the way.
00:51:33.000It is not actually going to work because people already have their opinions of Donald Trump.
00:51:37.000If Donald Trump reminds them of his worst excesses, it'll be a hard election for him.