Ben Shapiro talks about the Rockettes' decision to perform at the Trump Inauguration, the left's new found freedom of association, and why the U.N. Resolution on Israel and the Middle East is a disaster. Plus, a new security system that keeps an eye on your front door and keeps you in the loop on who's coming and going without you even though you're not home. Ben Shapiro is the host of the conservative podcast "The Weekly Standard" and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" on Fox News Radio. He's also a regular contributor to the New York Times, CNN, CBS, NPR, and other media outlets. He's a frequent contributor to The Daily Wire and the Weekly Standard, and is one of the most influential people in the conservative movement. Ben also writes for The Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller, and hosts the radio show "The View From The Top" on SiriusXM Radio's "The Situation Room" with Alex Blumberg. You can catch him on the air wherever you get your favorite podcast spots are available, and wherever else he's available. Subscribe to his new show on the internet, wherever you re listening to podcasts. This is the final Ben Shapiro show of the year, and it's the final episode of 2019 so far. Enjoy! Subscribe, Like, Share and Retweet! and Shout out to: on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe and Share this on your socials and other podcasting platforms! Shoutout to Ben Shapiro on The Ben Shapiro Podcasts on and other places on the Internet! on the Podcasts in the Podcasts Podcasts Directory on TikTok on The Hill on Tiktok on . and on Podcharts on Social Media on , and TikTok on TikTok, and , and on Instapods on Tik Tok & TikTok is On TikTok! And TIKTok is a new podcast on the Airpods on the Podcast Network on the Third Coast on the Fourth of November 30th, 2020, 2020. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Daily Scoop on this week's episode of The Weekly Scoop on Thanksgiving Day on Thanksgiving, 2019 on Thanksgiving and Black Friday on Thanksgiving on the 27th, 2019, and the first day of the week!
00:00:00.000On Thursday, Madison Square Garden company boss James Dolan announced that the Radio City Rockettes had agreed to perform at the Trump inauguration.
00:00:07.000And a bunch of the Rockettes sort of went off their rockers.
00:00:10.000One Rockette wrote, quote, I usually don't use social media to make a political stand, but I feel overwhelmed with emotion.
00:00:16.000Finding out that it has been decided for us that Rockettes will be performing at the presidential inauguration makes me feel embarrassed and disappointed.
00:00:23.000The women I work with are intelligent, are full of love, and the decision of performing for a man that stands for everything we're against is appalling.
00:00:30.000I am speaking for just myself, but please know, after we found out this news, we have been performing with tears in our eyes and heavy hearts, which makes this show really crappy.
00:00:40.000George Takei, who's an ardent Trump opponent, and Sulu, of course, from the old Star Trek, he tweeted in their support,
00:00:46.000And here's what he tweeted, the members of the Rockettes and the Mormon Tabernacle are like all of us, forced to go along with something horrible they didn't choose.
00:00:53.000I mean like half the country did actually choose Trump and actually pretty much everybody chose to live here and it's a peaceful transition of power that happens every four years, but you know.
00:01:03.000Meanwhile, Anthony Bourdain has announced he won't eat at any restaurant hosted at Trump Tower.
00:01:07.000Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has said he won't dress Melania Trump anymore.
00:01:12.000Artists whose products hang in Ivanka Trump's apartment have asked her to remove their art.
00:01:16.000They have not asked for her to give back the money.
00:01:19.000Suddenly, it seems, the left has discovered freedom of association.
00:01:23.000After years of telling religious people they had a moral and legal obligation to throw out their religion and service same-sex weddings and provide contraception and fund abortion, now the left realizes the ability to pick and choose those to whom you give your services is actually kind of important.
00:01:43.000But you won't see the left acknowledge that.
00:01:45.000The only freedom to turn down clients is the freedom for leftists to turn down conservative and religious clients, not the other way around.
00:01:58.000All right, tons to get to here today on the very last Ben Shapiro Show broadcast of the year.
00:02:02.000And then we're on a long break, actually, because we're out next week for Christmas, because you Christians, and then we're out the following week because of me, because I'm going on vacation with my wife.
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00:04:10.000resolution is now about to be voted on at the U.N.
00:04:13.000Security Council, and Barack Obama is the guy who decided to bring it to fruition because he signaled to everybody that the United States would abstain.
00:04:21.000Now, the United States has always had Israel's back at the U.N.
00:04:23.000Security Council, even during some of the
00:04:27.000Even during some of the early Obama years.
00:04:29.000But they no longer do, and it's been clear for a while that Obama despises Israel and sees Israel as a moral and as a foreign policy threat, a regional threat to peace in the Middle East.
00:04:40.000He's constantly been putting pressure on Israel.
00:04:42.000So this UN resolution draft, and I want to go through it because I think that it's important to actually know what people are talking about.
00:04:49.000This draft that's being circulated, Obama has basically said they're going to abstain
00:04:53.000And it's very clear that they are interested in slapping Israel as they leave.
00:04:59.000That's the goal here is to slap Israel as hard as they can before they leave because Trump by all indicators is going to be very pro-Israel
00:05:30.000The Security Council reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace, reiterates their demand that Israel immediately completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and that it fully respects all of its legal obligations in this regard.
00:06:00.000Underlines it will not recognize any changes to the June 4th, 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiation.
00:06:09.000So, in other words, what they are saying here, I mean this is really quite disgusting, what they're saying here is that Israel has no claim in East Jerusalem.
00:07:25.000That's why they were calling for the liberation of Israel before Israel had any control over East Jerusalem whatsoever.
00:07:31.000These are not Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories.
00:07:34.000This is Israeli building in territories that are disputed.
00:07:38.000And those disputed territories, by the way, Jordan doesn't claim ownership of those territories.
00:07:42.000Israel took those territories, annexed them.
00:07:45.000Jordan renounced all claim to those territories in 1988.
00:07:48.000And the Palestinians had no claim to those territories before 1967, so the language here doesn't even make any sense.
00:07:54.000Plus, it is always a great irony of history that the Arabs over and over and over rejected Israeli peace deals, rejected UN partition plans, and then claimed that those lines should be the final partition plan lines, even after they rejected them, launch war against Israel and lose.
00:08:09.000That's not the way international relations works.
00:08:12.000Beyond that, the idea that Jews building an extra bathroom in East Jerusalem is a threat to peace ignores the fact that the goal of the Palestinian government, which is a unity government between the terrorist group Hamas, the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, and the terrorist group the Palestinian Authority, that tripartite unity terrorist government, their goal forever has been the outright genocide of Jews in the state of Israel.
00:08:33.000It's amazing to me that everybody always talks about how nasty the Jews are to the Israeli Arabs.
00:08:37.000By the way, polls show Israeli Arabs don't want to leave.
00:08:39.000There's a reason they're not moving to Palestinian territories.
00:08:42.000But what's amazing is the focus on how Jews treat Arabs in Israel.
00:08:47.000How many Jews live in the Palestinian territories, like the ones that the Palestinians actually administer and control?
00:08:55.000Right, the fact is that the Palestinians would murder Jews who lived there.
00:08:58.000In fact, after the Jews pulled out of the Gaza Strip and they left all their nice greenhouses and their nice homes, the Palestinians immediately came in and burned them.
00:09:05.000So what actually the UN is calling for here is to make all of these areas where Jews live, and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of Jews, making them Judenrein, ethnically cleansing the Jews there, pushing them out, killing them if they stay.
00:09:16.000That's what the UN is talking about here.
00:09:18.000And Barack Obama's going right along with this, because Barack Obama sees Israel as the great threat.
00:09:39.000...was openly acknowledged inside the Obama White House as a show for President Obama.
00:09:43.000In 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg actually wrote, before Obama was elected, that any Jew who had concerns about Obama being anti-Jewish and anti-Israel was a racist.
00:09:53.000That guy is a respected voice on the international left and in America as well.
00:09:58.000By the way, quick side note here, Chuck Schumer has come out and he's condemned this resolution.
00:10:22.000For those who don't believe that Obama has anti-Israel animus, and there are people on the left who actually believe this because they are willfully blinding themselves.
00:10:30.000BuzzFeed's Ben Smith came out today and he says, Israel is really taking an openly anti-Obama line.
00:10:36.000Where the hell have you been for the last eight years, dude?
00:10:48.000administration secretly cooked up with the Palestinians an extreme anti-Israel resolution behind Israel's back, which would be a tailwind for terror and boycotts, and effectively make the Western Wall occupied Palestinian territory.
00:11:06.000The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism.
00:11:08.000The part that the Islamic Waqf prevents Jews from standing on, that's the part that's the holiest site.
00:11:13.000The Western Wall is just the outer border of that.
00:11:16.000But in any case, the fact is that you have Senator Schumer urging this to be rejected,
00:11:22.000And he issued a strong statement saying whatever anyone's views are on settlement, anyone who cares about the future of Israel and peace in the region knows the UN with its one-sidedness is exactly the wrong form to bring about peace.
00:11:54.000The Obama administration rejoins the anti-Semitic, anti-Jew UN Human Rights Council, while, by the way, fully acknowledging its anti-Semitism.
00:12:02.000They say, sure, the UN Human Rights Council is anti-Semitic, but, you know, no biggie.
00:12:06.000May 2009, Obama tells Netanyahu, Prime Minister Netanyahu, settlements have to be stopped in order for us to move forward with a peace deal.
00:12:13.000Netanyahu immediately announces a freeze on settlements.
00:12:18.000Obama goes to Cairo, says that Israel was only founded because of the Holocaust, and then says that Palestinian treatment at the hands of Jews is sort of like the Holocaust.
00:12:32.000Obama says America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements, as though the United States really has a role to play here.
00:12:40.000VP Joe Biden visits Israel, rips Netanyahu again, not just for settlements, but for what we call natural growth in the settlements, which means that you want to build an extra bedroom because you had an additional kid.
00:12:52.000Vice President Joe Biden didn't want Israel to be able to do that.
00:12:55.000Hillary apparently calls up Netanyahu, she's then Secretary of State, she calls up Netanyahu and screams at him for an hour on the phone.
00:13:01.000Later that month when Netanyahu visits the White House, Obama forces him to leave through a side entrance.
00:13:47.000February 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta kills a potential Israeli strike on Iran by talking about it openly with the Washington Post.
00:13:55.000March 2012, the Obama administration leaks plans for Israel to work with Azerbaijan to strike the Iranian nuclear facilities, killing the deal.
00:14:03.000June 2012, the Obama administration leaks that Israel was behind the Stuxnet virus, which was designed to kill Iran's nuclear program.
00:14:11.000December 2012, Hillary Clinton says Israel has a lack of empathy for Palestinians and calls them an oppressed people.
00:14:18.000March 2013, Obama, are you getting a message here?
00:14:23.000Maybe Obama isn't fond of the Jewish state?
00:14:26.000March 2013, Obama forces Benjamin Netanyahu to call the Islamist Turkish dictator Tayyip Recep Erdogan to apologize for stopping a terrorist flotilla from entering the Gaza Strip and helping out Hamas.
00:14:38.000June 2013, the Obama administration leaked specific information regarding Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile sites.
00:14:51.000Three Jewish teens are kidnapped, including an American, and they are murdered by Hamas.
00:14:56.000The Obama administration calls on Israel for restraint and says it will continue to fund the Palestinian terrorist unity government, including Hamas.
00:15:03.000August 2014, Obama personally steps in and attempts to block shipments from the Pentagon of weapons to Israel.
00:15:10.000October 2014, Jeffrey Goldberg releases an article quoting Obama officials calling Prime Minister Netanyahu a chicken bleep.
00:15:22.000Obama deploys his campaign team to defeat Netanyahu in Israel and finally, of course, Obama attempts to sign this Iranian nuclear deal which endangers Israel's very existence.
00:15:31.000So yes, this has been a long time coming.
00:15:34.000Of course Obama on his way out slaps Israel because he sees Israel as a Western imperialist outpost in historically Muslim lands.
00:16:03.000It's disgusting on every level, and I have to make a statement about the timing here.
00:16:07.000The good news, I have to say, God has a sense of humor, so Obama, of course, sponsors this thing and pushes this thing right on the verge of Hanukkah.
00:16:15.000Hanukkah, for those who don't know the story of Hanukkah, the story of Hanukkah is about Antiochus, who is a Greek king.
00:16:21.000And he had installed as the head of the temple one of his emissaries who proceeded to basically strip all of the vestments from the temple and ship them out, who proceeded to tax the Jews pretty harshly and also ban all religious practice.
00:16:35.000The Jews led a rebellion against Antiochus in order to take back the temple and in order to restore Judaism to Jerusalem.
00:16:43.000The day before we celebrate, we have modern day Antiochuses in the UN attempting to strip Jewish sovereignty from Jerusalem, strip it of its religious character, pretend that it has nothing to do with Judaism, and guess what?
00:16:55.000This time the Maccabees are in charge, folks.
00:16:58.000The Jews are not giving up Jerusalem, the Israelis are not giving up Jerusalem, and no matter what a bunch of pathetic, disgusting dictatorships... I mean, it's Senegal and Venezuela sponsoring this thing.
00:17:07.000Venezuela, they're literally shooting dogs in the streets to eat them because it is a socialist dictatorship.
00:17:12.000And Senegal, right now, is threatening openly to invade its neighbor.
00:17:56.000Well over 50 of them are Muslim dictatorships.
00:18:00.000That doesn't even include all of the various foreign dictatorships that ally with the Muslim dictatorships, border the Muslim dictatorships, or are anti-Semitic in their own right, like some of the countries of Europe.
00:18:25.000seriously demonstrates what a joke this is.
00:18:28.000The same leftists who are complaining about Trump
00:18:31.000Threatening NATO, which I agree is a bad thing, are completely silent about the United Nations, which threatens sovereignty of individual countries and interferes in peace deals in order to boost the worst people on planet Earth.
00:18:44.000Barack Obama, his administration is an anti-semitic administration.
00:18:47.000You cannot stand in favor of Arab terror against Israelis.
00:18:51.000And you can't be silent when American Jews get killed in Israel.
00:18:55.000And for me not to assume that there's an animus there.
00:19:34.000resolutions on that because Russia will veto anything that comes up.
00:19:37.000Russia is more strongly allied with Syria than the United States under Barack Obama is allied with Israel, which should tell you something.
00:19:44.000The atrocities that are currently occurring are unbelievable.
00:19:48.000And the fact that Barack Obama is providing fodder to the worst people on earth, it shouldn't come as a shock, but it is morally shocking.
00:20:00.000I want to wait to play this for just a second, but I'm going to show you in a second a video showing a fanatic Muslim lecturing his kids about the virtue of jihad.
00:20:11.000And apparently this is coming from Syria.
00:20:15.000So these are the people who the West is at war with, but Obama prefers to ignore that.
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