The Ben Shapiro Show - How Hamas Fooled The World

00:00:00.000 Let's talk about how all this happened.

00:00:02.000 It happened because we in the West don't understand our enemies and they know that and they exploit that.

00:00:07.000 In 2004, President George W. Bush gave an address at the United Nations in which he said one of the most naive things any president has ever said.

00:00:15.000 He said, this is a direct quote, when it comes to the desire for liberty and justice, there is no clash of civilizations.

00:00:21.000 People everywhere are capable of freedom and worthy of freedom.

00:00:24.000 The desire for freedom resides in every human heart.

00:00:26.000 It's a direct quote from George W. Bush, 2004. 1.00

00:00:29.000 That was idiocy then, and it's idiocy now. 1.00

00:00:31.000 It is simply not true. 1.00

00:00:33.000 People have many different priorities.

00:00:35.000 For a lot of people, their priority is not freedom, Western notions of freedom.

00:00:39.000 It's adherence to fundamentalist interpretation of Quranic law.

00:00:42.000 For many, their priority isn't economic development.

00:00:46.000 It's belief in the murder of Jews across the world. 1.00

00:00:48.000 But this peculiar Western belief system that everyone wants freedom has led the West down two separate and equally stupid paths. 0.99

00:00:56.000 Path number one, which we saw over the course of the last 25 years, was nation building. 0.98

00:01:00.000 That's what happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.

00:01:02.000 The West fooled itself into believing that tribal peoples with different priorities really, really wanted iPhones and sexual liberation, and that if we offered those things, they would welcome us with open arms.

00:01:12.000 Instead of pursuing a realistic foreign policy designed to protect America's interests, we launched off into a utopian world of our own making, and we failed.

00:01:21.000 Yet we continue to pursue that path today.

00:01:23.000 We continue to act as though, for example, it is Israel's job to build up the infrastructure in Gaza or provide them water and power, even while Hamas murders babies in their cribs and put its own civilians in harm's way. 0.78

00:01:33.000 That's ridiculous, and it's going to fail. 0.87

00:01:36.000 Path number two was the path of willful ignorance. 0.97

00:01:38.000 You see, if we all have the same priorities, we can negotiate with anyone and everyone.

00:01:42.000 In fact, everyone is reasonable.

00:01:44.000 Everyone wants the same thing.

00:01:46.000 Even if things get a little out of hand from time to time, even if a couple of weeks a year rockets fly from Gaza into Tel Aviv, that's just the frustration of reasonable people with reasonable priorities, and it's just all a cycle of violence.

00:01:57.000 This path leads to failure and mass death.

00:02:00.000 It lulls the West, including Israel, into a false sense of security.

00:02:04.000 People who have different priorities, monsters like Hamas, take advantage. 0.92

00:02:08.000 Today I want to show you a tape.

00:02:09.000 It's been released on RT, which is the Russian propaganda channel.

00:02:12.000 It's an interview with senior Hamas official Ali Baraka.

00:02:16.000 Just happened over the course of the last 48 hours.

00:02:18.000 He explains everything that just happened.

00:02:20.000 He explains what happened in this mass terror attack, the worst terror attack since 9-11 in the West.

00:02:25.000 An intelligence failure that is way worse than 9-11, by the way.

00:02:28.000 He explains everything.

00:02:29.000 We need to go through it in detail so you can see just what a lie we all fell for, so many Americans fell for, that everybody has the same priorities, and why that big lie is gonna get more innocent children, women, and men murdered, raped, and burned.

00:02:42.000 So, here is the tape.

00:02:43.000 Again, this is a senior Hamas official on RT, speaking in Arabic, talking about exactly how Hamas perpetrated this massacre.

00:02:52.000 We're gonna stop and start it because we need to explain exactly what he is saying in detail.

00:02:55.000 He's just saying all the quiet parts out loud.

00:03:00.000 In the past couple of years, he says, Hamas has adopted a rational approach. 0.94

00:03:05.000 It did not go into any war, and did not join the Islamic Jihad in its recent battle.

00:03:10.000 But all of this was Hamas' strategy in preparing for this attack. 0.56

00:03:14.000 Of course, we made them think that Hamas was busy governing in Gaza, that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, and has abandoned the resistance altogether.

00:03:22.000 All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack.

00:03:26.000 Pause it there for a second.

00:03:27.000 Okay, so, let me point out, right from the outset, he is saying, right from the outset, it was a lie.

00:03:32.000 We never cared about the 2.5 million Palestinians who we're now hearing about living in Gaza.

00:03:37.000 Because this is the game.

00:03:39.000 They play on you believing that they care.

00:03:42.000 So when Israel strikes at Hamas targets and hits the civilians that Hamas is deliberately putting in the way, then it's Israel's fault. 0.77

00:03:49.000 Because after all, what kind of human beings wouldn't care if their own babies are getting killed?

00:03:52.000 And the answer is Hamas. 0.95

00:03:54.000 As far as the notion that Hamas was ever a reasonable actor, Israel lulled itself into a sense of complacency about this.

00:03:59.000 Well, sure, they'll launch a few rockets every so often, you know, mostly just to prove to their own people that they're still a terrorist group.

00:04:05.000 But in reality, they want to be like a normal governing power.

00:04:09.000 They actually want to be a normal governing power.

00:04:11.000 That is a lie.

00:04:12.000 It is a lie. 0.96

00:04:13.000 Every bit of money that flowed into Gaza over the course of the last 20 years was used by Hamas for purposes of murdering Jews. 0.94

00:04:21.000 All that money was being used by Hamas for purposes of murdering Jews. 0.64

00:04:26.000 Let's continue with the tape.

00:04:30.000 He says, where would Netanyahu take the Israelis who are attacked?

00:04:32.000 To Tel Aviv?

00:04:32.000 We bombed Tel Aviv on the first day of the attack.

00:04:34.000 Does he want to take them to the Galilee?

00:04:36.000 The northern front with Lebanon has opened today.

00:04:38.000 The Galilee is no longer safe for the Zionist enemy.

00:04:41.000 We can bomb the Galilee from inside occupied Palestine. 0.99

00:04:45.000 In order to keep the attack secret and successful, he says, the different factions and our allies did not know the zero hour.

00:04:52.000 But after half an hour, all the Palestinian resistance factions were contacted, as were our allies in Hezbollah and Iran.

00:04:58.000 Okay, pause it there for a second.

00:05:00.000 They have state sponsorship.

00:05:01.000 The Turks, he says, were also notified.

00:05:03.000 They had state sponsorship and state sign-off from Iran, from Hezbollah, as soon as it was going.

00:05:08.000 They let all these people know.

00:05:09.000 The Turks, Iran, Hezbollah, those are all parties that have the same exact world priority as Hamas. 0.93

00:05:17.000 Who don't care about their own citizens.

00:05:18.000 I mean, just look at what's going on in Iran literally every day of the week.

00:05:21.000 Look at how Lebanon, which was once considered a rose in the Middle East, has devolved into complete chaos and tyranny. 0.98

00:05:27.000 He continues.

00:05:31.000 A meeting was held with them three hours later at 9 a.m.

00:05:34.000 We updated anyone who contacted us.

00:05:38.000 Even the Russians sent a message and inquired, he says.

00:05:42.000 And they were updated about the situation and about the goals of the war.

00:05:45.000 Soon the Russians were brought into the loop. 1.00

00:05:47.000 It was all planned, in other words.

00:05:48.000 The most important part of what the senior Hamas official is saying is the very first part.

00:05:54.000 They don't give a good damn about the people in Gaza.

00:05:58.000 They don't care. 0.51

00:05:59.000 It was all a lie.

00:06:01.000 They don't care. 0.99

00:06:03.000 In fact, they say they don't give any sh** about their own people. 0.99

00:06:06.000 They don't. 0.98

00:06:07.000 They don't care.

00:06:08.000 In fact, the highest desperation is death.

00:06:11.000 I'm not saying that.

00:06:12.000 They say that.

00:06:13.000 They say it, and they say it out loud, and they assume that you are so sophisticated that you know better than they do what they are thinking and saying.

00:06:20.000 They say it right to your face.

00:06:21.000 They say it directly to your face.

00:06:23.000 And then you're like, no, no, it can't be.

00:06:25.000 It just can't be.

00:06:25.000 It must be the Israelis' fault somehow.

00:06:27.000 Here is, again, senior Hamas official Ali Baraka, yesterday on RT, saying exactly the priorities, exactly what the priorities are.

00:06:39.000 The Israelis are known to love life, he says.

00:06:42.000 We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves.

00:06:44.000 We consider our dead to be martyrs.

00:06:47.000 The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah, defending his land.

00:06:54.000 We've been preparing for this for two years.

00:06:55.000 Okay, that's enough.

00:06:56.000 That's the thing.

00:06:57.000 Okay, right there, he just says it.

00:06:59.000 And this has been the line.

00:07:00.000 By the way, this is the line in all of the radical Islamic fundamentalist world.

00:07:03.000 It's the line for PA, it's the line for Islamic Jihad, it's the line for Hamas, it's the line for Hezbollah, it's the line for Iran. 0.95

00:07:09.000 They love life, we love death is their line.

00:07:12.000 That is their line.

00:07:14.000 So when you say, why don't they care about their kids?

00:07:16.000 Maybe the way they care about their kids is that when their kids die, they think that they're martyrs.

00:07:20.000 They think they've done something good, apparently.

00:07:23.000 We don't care about our people is a way of saying we care about their souls, you see.

00:07:28.000 You see, it's a different kind of logic, as Robert Malley might say.

00:07:30.000 It's a different kind of thought.

00:07:31.000 Okay, but in traditional Western thought, the way you care about your kids is not by killing them. 0.98

00:07:36.000 And the way that you care about your citizens is not by putting them directly in the line of an airstrike so that you can sit underground waiting to kill Jews. 0.73

00:07:44.000 But they don't think like we do. 0.94

00:07:45.000 That's the whole point.

00:07:47.000 And they know that you won't believe them.

00:07:49.000 They know you won't believe them.

00:07:50.000 They can say it directly to their own people.

00:07:51.000 They can say it clearly on TV over and over.

00:07:54.000 And you still won't believe them. 1.00

00:07:55.000 That's how stupid they think you are. 1.00

00:07:57.000 And, by the way, that's how stupid the West is. 1.00

00:07:59.000 The West is so stupid that we believe. 1.00

00:08:02.000 That in the end, this can be negotiated with. 1.00

00:08:04.000 That in the end, whatever human rights atrocities happen in Gaza as a direct result of Hamas doing what it is doing right now. 0.82

00:08:11.000 And it is a human rights atrocity to put your headquarters under a hospital.

00:08:15.000 It is a human rights atrocity to plant your weapons underneath mosques. 0.98

00:08:18.000 It is a human rights atrocity to put weaponry in schools and kindergartens, which is something Hamas does. 1.00

00:08:25.000 But they know that you won't believe they're doing it.

00:08:26.000 You won't believe it because it'll boggle your mind. 0.97

00:08:29.000 But you will believe that the Jews are the bad guys. 0.98

00:08:31.000 That's what they're counting on. 1.00

00:08:32.000 That you will believe that the Jews are the bad guys. 0.98

00:08:33.000 Even after the Jews get slaughtered in their beds, you will believe that if only the Jews had just given a little more, only a little more. 0.96

00:08:39.000 Now, this does betray something else about the West. 0.85

00:08:43.000 And latent Jew hatred that exists across the West, because let's be real about this.

00:08:48.000 None of this conversation was happening after 9-11.

00:08:50.000 Went a lot of conversation in the United States about, well, you know, when we go in and we bomb from 30,000 feet and we kill a load of civilians, the real question is the human rights.

00:09:00.000 Are we being careful enough?

00:09:01.000 Should it be a short term, short duration? 0.97

00:09:04.000 After you kill 3,000 Americans, you know what happens? 0.99

00:09:06.000 We flatten you. 1.00

00:09:07.000 That's what happens. 0.99

00:09:09.000 But when Israel has its borders permeated by terrorists who murder 1,200, 1,300 Jews, murder 1,300 Jews in a widespread assault lasting hours on end, when that happens, then it's like, wow, those Jews, man. 0.98

00:09:24.000 You know, they really got to be a little more careful, those Jews. 1.00

00:09:26.000 Why can't they just be more careful?

00:09:27.000 If only they had given a little bit harder.

00:09:30.000 There's something going on that is simply beyond Western ignorance, and it gets into something much deeper and darker.

00:09:37.000 And by the way, everyone bought it.

00:09:40.000 Everyone on the left at least bought it.

00:09:41.000 And people who said that it wasn't true, those people were marginalized.

00:09:45.000 People who said, wait, no, no, no, Hamas, it's true, the Palestinian Authority too, they care significantly more about killing Jews than they care about the well-being of their own citizens.

00:09:52.000 Everybody in the West went, no, that can't be true.

00:09:54.000 That can't be true.

00:09:55.000 Here, for example, is Robert Malley.

00:09:56.000 So Robert Malley, Was, until the last five minutes, the Biden negotiator with Iran.

00:10:01.000 Robert Malley is so radical that in 2008, Barack Obama selected him as a foreign policy advisor to his campaign.

00:10:08.000 And he had to be thrown off of the campaign in 2008 because he was holding secret conversations with Hamas.

00:10:13.000 This is back in 2008.

00:10:13.000 So the Biden administration brought Robert Malley back in to hold conversations with Iran.

00:10:19.000 And then, as it turns out, Robert Malley very well may have been effectively a spy for the Iranians.

00:10:26.000 Here is Robert Malley, so co-opted by the perspective that everyone is reasonable, everyone is rational, they're all on the same side.

00:10:33.000 Here is Robert Malley describing Hamas and Hezbollah just a few years ago.

00:10:39.000 It's a mistake to only think of them in terms of their terrorist violence dimension.

00:10:44.000 Their social political movements, probably the most rooted movements in their respective societies.

00:10:50.000 Hamas, not majority among Palestinians by any means, but very deeply rooted.

00:10:55.000 It's been, you know, it was born in the first Palestinian Tefada in the 1980s.

00:11:02.000 It has deep loyalty.

00:11:04.000 It has a charity organization, a social branch.

00:11:07.000 It's not something you can defeat militarily either, and people need to understand that.

00:11:11.000 There's so much misinformation about them.

00:11:14.000 I mean, I speak to them, and my colleagues speak to them.

00:11:18.000 Now, we may disagree with them, but they have their own rationality.

00:11:20.000 That's one thing to understand.

00:11:21.000 These are not... None of them are crazies.

00:11:23.000 They may do things that we consider to belong to a different realm of rationality, but within their own system, it's often very logical.

00:11:33.000 It's often very logical, and you see, they do social work, says Hamas.

00:11:37.000 They're legitimate people that we can have conversations with.

00:11:39.000 This has been the governing philosophy of the West, in many parts of the right, as well as the left.

00:11:44.000 For the last several decades when it comes to the Middle East.

00:11:46.000 And it was all a lie.

00:11:47.000 It was clearly a lie.

00:11:48.000 And it's a self-flattering lie because it gives you the off-ramp.

00:11:51.000 Everybody wants a solution to every problem.

00:11:53.000 I get it.

00:11:53.000 I also want solutions to every problem.

00:11:55.000 Not every problem has a good and easy solution, particularly not a good and easy solution that involves you sitting down at a table and writing some words and signing a piece of paper.

00:12:03.000 It is not a shock, therefore, that Robert Malley, who was placed on leave earlier this year for allegedly mishandling classified material, it turns out that he was probably in bed with the Iranians. 0.95

00:12:14.000 According to the New York Post, the Biden administration's former special envoy to Iran should face extensive scrutiny for his permissive stance toward the Tehran regime after it aided Hamas and Hezbollah in carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel, critics said on Monday.

00:12:25.000 Representative Daryl Issa of California told the New York Post, Robert Malley deserves extensive scrutiny yesterday, today, and tomorrow, after the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran was implicitly involved.

00:12:35.000 And by the way, Hamas again saying that Iran was involved in all of this.

00:12:39.000 ISIS said Mali and others created an incredibly permissive environment for Hamas, for Iran to do all these things. 0.52

00:12:44.000 That is Gabriel Naranjo, former special advisor on Iran at the State Department.

00:12:49.000 Naranjo served under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo under Trump, said Mali and his negotiating team, quote, purposefully funneled billions of dollars to Iran through lack of sanctions enforcement and provision of sanctions relief that has given them somewhere between 50 and 80 billion dollars over the last two and a half years alone.

00:13:05.000 A senior House Republican aide told the New York Post the cash influx followed an even more generous payout of $1.7 billion that the Obama administration made to Iran in 2016.

00:13:15.000 And this is all driven, again, by that myth.

00:13:17.000 By that myth.

00:13:18.000 That they all think like we do.

00:13:20.000 We don't understand our enemies.

00:13:22.000 And so we assume that they actually care about their own people, but they don't care about their own people.

00:13:26.000 And again, this has pervaded the entire left.

00:13:29.000 Judith Butler, feminist theorist, who for sure would be dead if she lived in Hamasistan. 0.97

00:13:33.000 If she lived in the Gaza Strip, Judith Butler would have been tossed off a building decades ago. 1.00

00:13:37.000 Here is Judith Butler defending Hamas. 0.67

00:13:39.000 I think, yes, understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left is extremely important.

00:13:50.000 That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.

00:13:56.000 It doesn't stop those of us who are interested in non-violent politics from raising the question of of whether there are other options besides violence.

00:14:07.000 So again, a critical important engagement.

00:14:10.000 I mean, I certainly think it should be entered into the conversation on the left.

00:14:14.000 There it is, Judith Butler standing for Hamas and Hezbollah who would certainly murder her 1.00

00:14:21.000 if she were living in their territory.

00:14:23.000 Now the reason this is all relevant is because all of the narrative in the current Middle East situation is going to shift very quickly.

00:14:29.000 And it's going to shift very quickly because people go back to their political priors.

00:14:32.000 Their political priors, very often, are just oriented toward the hands-off, don't care, cycle of violence, who am I to take sides, I don't know anything, that book.

00:14:43.000 And people have the blinders stripped from their eyes for just a moment, and then they'll go right back to priors.

00:14:47.000 Because this is what people do.

00:14:48.000 Since biblical times, when God literally spoke to the Israelites and then five seconds later they were building a golden calf, this is how people are.

00:14:55.000 For just a moment in time, clarity strikes them and then the clarity goes away and they go right back to what they were doing five seconds ago.

00:15:01.000 And so the way that that is going to take place is you're going to see a bunch of people who express tremendous sympathy for the now 1,300 dead Jews in Israel.

00:15:08.000 They're going to express sympathy for the parents of the burned babies.

00:15:12.000 They're going to express sympathy for the husbands of the raped wives and the kidnapped.

00:15:16.000 They're going to express sympathy for that.

00:15:18.000 And then the entire narrative is going to shift because Israel is going to do what it has to do in order to stop Hamas from ever being a threat to its citizenry again as any normal nation would. 0.66

00:15:26.000 You're already starting to see it on social media.

00:15:29.000 All of the narrative has now shifted toward what's happening in Gaza.

00:15:32.000 It's so terrible what's happening in Gaza.

00:15:34.000 Now the only way to make that shift is if you assume that what's happening in Gaza is now Israel's fault.

00:15:39.000 As opposed to, it's Hamas' fault. 0.76

00:15:42.000 Now, here is how to think about this morally. 0.98

00:15:44.000 If I burn down your house and murder your children, and then I go back to my house and I hide behind my child, and the police show up to arrest me or to shoot me, and I hide behind my child, it is my responsibility that I'm hiding behind my child. 0.99

00:16:00.000 That would be my fault. 0.99

00:16:02.000 Right? 0.99

00:16:02.000 I would be the evil actor in this scenario and you would not call off the attempt to arrest or shoot me if I had burned down your house and murdered your child. 0.99

00:16:09.000 You would not. 0.99

00:16:10.000 No person would.

00:16:11.000 It's insane to suggest otherwise.

00:16:13.000 But the world is immediately going to shift into that mode.

00:16:15.000 Now here's the problem.

00:16:16.000 Khamas, as the senior Khamas official says, they've spent the last two and a half years building up for precisely this scenario.

00:16:23.000 Big question.

00:16:24.000 Easy question.

00:16:25.000 If Hamas had not been building for this scenario, how are rockets still today, five days after these attacks, being fired into Israel?

00:16:31.000 What does that mean?

00:16:31.000 It means they have an extensive terror network underground.

00:16:34.000 They built this extraordinary tunnel network using every bit of cement they could find over the last 20 years that was supposed to be used for building infrastructure. 0.99

00:16:41.000 But again, they don't give a shit about the people living in Gaza. 0.89

00:16:43.000 And so they took all of that and they built a bunch of tunnel systems that are living down there with their air conditioning and their generators. 0.98

00:16:48.000 And meanwhile, on the surface, they're telling people not to leave the populated areas that Israel is going to have to clear and bomb so as to prevent this thing from turning into urban warfare.

00:16:59.000 That is their goal.

00:17:00.000 So Israel is doing what it has to do. 0.65

00:17:01.000 What Israel is doing, militarily speaking, is they are clearing the ground.

00:17:04.000 They are blowing up all these buildings, and they are essentially turning it into flat ground, and then they're going to have to go into the ground invasion, and they're going to have to smoke out Hamas terrorists who are hiding underground in these tunnels. 0.84

00:17:16.000 That's what's going on right now.

00:17:17.000 And the world is going to instead decide that because Hamas is literally telling civilians not to leave the area so that they get killed, that Israel is supposed to call off its attack and leave Hamas in place.

00:17:28.000 Leave Hamas in power.

00:17:29.000 Which, by the way, is an impossibility.

00:17:30.000 It is an impossibility on every score.

00:17:33.000 The reason it's an impossibility is twofold.

00:17:34.000 One, you simply, for reasons of justice and decency, cannot let the people who just murdered your children live.

00:17:39.000 You can't do that.

00:17:41.000 And two, the way that policy works in the Middle East is that every demonstration of military weakness is an encouragement of further violence.

00:17:48.000 If Hamas is still ruling the Gaza Strip at the end of all of this, the chances that Hezbollah is going to launch an invasion from the north at some point are extremely high.

00:17:56.000 Like the first available opportunity.

00:17:58.000 Because there will be a sense that Israel is vulnerable.

00:18:00.000 Israel's invulnerability was its greatest asset. 1.00

00:18:03.000 And that invulnerability was punctured by a bunch of terrorists rushing through the border and killing babies.

00:18:08.000 That's what has just happened.

00:18:09.000 And so Israel has to restore that sense of invulnerability, impregnability, and military stability. 0.78

00:18:15.000 That's what Israel has to restore here. 0.99

00:18:17.000 So, on the ground they actually have to restore the situation, and then to a broader world of radical Muslims who wish to murder every Jew in their bed, they have to restore the idea that if you cross us, we will kill you. 0.99

00:18:27.000 Right? 0.99

00:18:28.000 That's what Israel has to do here. 0.97

00:18:30.000 And the world is immediately shifting back into cycle of violence mode.

00:18:32.000 You can see it happening in real time.

00:18:34.000 And they are doing so despite the fact that, again, Everything that is happening in the Gaza Strip is the fault of Hamas. 0.92

00:18:39.000 Everything.

00:18:39.000 Let me take a quick example.

00:18:41.000 So right now, Israel has turned off the water and the power.

00:18:43.000 And they've announced the water and power in the Gaza Strip are going to remain off until Hamas releases the hundred or so hostages that they are currently holding.

00:18:52.000 And already you're starting to hear rumblings from the world.

00:18:54.000 Oh, well, isn't that collective punishment?

00:18:56.000 And the answer is, well, when Hamas has honeycombed itself into these areas, how exactly would you expect Israel to accomplish its goals?

00:19:03.000 I wasn't aware that after you murder everybody's children, they have an obligation to provide you water and power.

00:19:10.000 I was under the weird impression that Israel has a moral obligation greater than the governing body of the Gaza Strip to the Gazan citizens to protect them.

00:19:20.000 Israel's using that responsibility, by the way, by actively warning people out of these areas, trying to push people out of the areas.

00:19:25.000 One of the reasons for turning off the water and power is because the only people right now in these areas who have water and power are the people underground.

00:19:30.000 Everyone else doesn't have water and power.

00:19:32.000 You turn off the water and power, presumably people will leave because they don't have water and they don't have power.

00:19:36.000 And so they won't leave those areas.

00:19:37.000 And everybody who's underground in the tunnels, who does have water and power, because again, they misdirected every piece of money, every piece of material into building these terror tunnels.

00:19:46.000 Those people will remain.

00:19:47.000 That's the entire strategy.

00:19:48.000 But the world is, of course, going to shift into decrying Israel mode.

00:19:52.000 Oh, their military tactics are too brutal.

00:19:53.000 Oh, it's too terrible.

00:19:54.000 And it's a moral equivalent.

00:19:56.000 It's the same thing if Israel attempts to bomb a Hamas headquarters and Hamas hides behind a child as if Hamas breaks into Israel.

00:20:03.000 And then, once again, burns entire families in their homes.

00:20:07.000 Exactly the same thing.

00:20:08.000 And that's what Hamas is counting on. 0.81

00:20:09.000 Because again, they're counting on the idea that they are like you.

00:20:12.000 And that you will look at what they're doing and say, no one would do that.

00:20:14.000 No one would tell their own civilians to stay in harm's way.

00:20:17.000 Israel has spent the last 20 years building bomb shelters so that every time a rocket flies into Israel, It's either shot down by Iron Dome or people go into the bomb shelters.

00:20:26.000 Hamas used that as a tactic.

00:20:29.000 That was part of their tactic here, is that Israel cares enough about its own citizens that when the rockets start flying, Israel does not leave its own citizens out there.

00:20:35.000 Israel sounds the alarms. 0.90

00:20:36.000 Everybody goes into the bomb shelter.

00:20:37.000 And that's when Hamas broke through the walls. 0.83

00:20:39.000 That was the entire tactic.

00:20:41.000 So what exactly happened?

00:20:42.000 There's an unasked question that I think needs to be asked here.

00:20:44.000 People are talking, Israel is cutting off the water.

00:20:46.000 I have a question.

00:20:46.000 Why doesn't Gaza have water?

00:20:48.000 Real question, why doesn't Gaza have water?

00:20:50.000 You may have noticed if you live in the United States or any other decent country, that if you live in a far-flung village on a hill somewhere, you have water and you have power.

00:20:58.000 Isn't that weird?

00:21:00.000 How does that happen?

00:21:02.000 And the answer is, typically speaking, it is not wildly expensive to provide water and power.

00:21:07.000 It actually isn't, certainly not for the amount of money that's been flowing into the Gaza Strip over the course of the last 20 years.

00:21:12.000 So here's what actually happened with the water and power in Gaza.

00:21:16.000 Hamas stole all of the money. 0.92

00:21:17.000 And they let people have undrinkable water.

00:21:21.000 Not only did they let people have undrinkable water, they literally banned their own citizens in 2015 from digging wells to get water. 0.99

00:21:27.000 Because they don't give a sh** about Palestinian civilians. 1.00

00:21:30.000 They don't care. 1.00

00:21:31.000 They don't care.

00:21:34.000 Again, there's an underground aquifer in the Gaza Strip.

00:21:39.000 But Hamas did not manage the private wells.

00:21:41.000 So the aquifer was then polluted by over pumping and wastewater contamination.

00:21:46.000 And again, Hamas was shipped water pipes to rebuild its water infrastructure and its sewage infrastructure.

00:21:52.000 What exactly did they do?

00:21:53.000 According to the UK Telegraph, they literally took the pipes that were meant to move potable water in and out of populated areas and sewage out.

00:22:01.000 And they use them to build rockets.

00:22:03.000 This is according, this is a film from the Hamas military wing. 0.98

00:22:08.000 And it actually shows them taking pipe that was shipped in, in foreign aid, cutting it up and using it, relathing it, to make rockets to fire at Jews and kill them. 0.96

00:22:18.000 That's what Hamas does. 0.98

00:22:20.000 That's evil on two scores.

00:22:21.000 One, the attempt to kill Jews, obviously, but two, you care so little about your own population that you won't give them water to drink? 0.62

00:22:27.000 You won't give them water to drink? 0.92

00:22:29.000 And then it's Israel's responsibility? 0.96

00:22:31.000 So you spend the last 20 years having money shipped to you to build water and power infrastructure, you take all that money, use it on guns, terror tunnels, rockets, and then you have the gall to suggest that Israel, the people you just murdered, have a responsibility to provide to you the water and the power?

00:22:51.000 I'm gonna need an explainer on that one.

00:22:53.000 Here's the video, by the way, from Hamas, of what they do with the water pipes that are shipped into them as aid.

00:22:59.000 According to the U.K.

00:22:59.000 Telegraph, the EU helped build more than 30 miles of water pipelines for Palestinians.

00:23:04.000 And then, Hamas boasted of their ability to forge an arsenal of homemade rockets from water pipes.

00:23:08.000 They literally put out a video of them carving up the water pipes, wearing Hamas headgear. 0.96

00:23:13.000 And then they... And... According to the U.K.

00:23:16.000 Telegraph, Brussels has poured almost 100 million euros into pipeline projects in territories controlled by Hamas over the last decade.

00:23:24.000 And these are videos that Hamas itself put out of relathing the water pipes into rockets to fire at Jews.

00:23:30.000 That is not Jewish propaganda.

00:23:32.000 That is Hamas propaganda. 0.71

00:23:35.000 Meanwhile, the EU is still thinking of sending more aid to these people.

00:23:38.000 It's like unbelievable.

00:23:40.000 It's unbelievable.

00:23:43.000 Again, like, it's not as though any of this was a secret.

00:23:49.000 According to Al-Monitor, which is a left-wing organization, They say that Hamas banned water wells.

00:23:55.000 This is back in 2021.

00:23:56.000 Quote, Palestinians living in the border areas of the Gaza Strip rely on wells to secure drinking water and to irrigate their crops as Hamas-run local municipalities fail to assume their responsibility to supply water to these areas.

00:24:11.000 In an August 25th statement, the Hamas-affiliated Water and Environmental Quality Authority announced a ban against the digging of water wells in all Gaza governance under the direct pretext of fighting a severe decline in groundwater levels and quality due to over-exploitation of the aquifer into which the wells are drilled.

00:24:26.000 The authority said its decision is based on the Palestinian Water Law No.

00:24:29.000 3 of 2002, which prohibits unlicensed drilling.

00:24:33.000 Okay, but there's a problem.

00:24:34.000 The authority called on all citizens who already drilled water wells to rectify their legal status in the next three months, obtaining a license, but Gazans believe the ban is designed only to obtain money in exchange for issuing license for drilling wells in the first place.

00:24:47.000 Nabil Sultan, a resident of Al-Gal border area in the Northern Gaza Strip, told Al-Manar, I've been living in the area for seven years.

00:24:53.000 The houses are not connected to the water supply or sewage network, so we mainly rely on drilling wells to obtain water.

00:24:58.000 He said the decision would mean that people die of dehydration.

00:25:02.000 These are the, by the way, according to the deputy head of the Palestinian Water Authority, this is 2021.

00:25:08.000 His name is Mazen Albana.

00:25:10.000 He told Almonitor that there are 10,000 water wells in the Gaza Strip, including 300 wells for the municipalities, 2,700 wells for the agricultural sector, and 7,000 private wells the citizens drilled without obtaining a proper permit.

00:25:22.000 What are the water sources in Gaza?

00:25:23.000 Quote, there are three sources for water in Gaza.

00:25:26.000 92% of the water is secured from the aquifer.

00:25:29.000 6% is purchased from Israel.

00:25:30.000 2% through seawater desalination.

00:25:34.000 So in other words, they You know who knows that?

00:25:39.000 Israel.

00:25:39.000 aquifer process.

00:25:41.000 And they stole all the material.

00:25:42.000 And they used it for mill.

00:25:43.000 And now, when there's a human rights problem, because there's not enough water there,

00:25:48.000 who's fault is it?

00:25:49.000 The Israelis. 0.50

00:25:50.000 Of course, of course.

00:25:50.000 Meanwhile, by the way, you've noticed a lot of talk about Palestinian civilians and the danger that they are in.

00:25:55.000 You know who knows that?

00:25:56.000 Israel, which is why, again, they've been issuing day after day after day, texts and radio,

00:26:01.000 radio messages and internet messages, And people are like, well, where are they going to go?

00:26:06.000 Well, you may notice if you have eyeballs in a map.

00:26:10.000 That actually the Gaza Strip has two borders.

00:26:13.000 It has a border in the north and the east, which is with Israel, and then it has a southern border.

00:26:18.000 That southern border is with another Arab-Muslim country.

00:26:21.000 Why, what a nice coincidence.

00:26:23.000 Another Arab-Muslim country who must take in its brothers if they wish to preserve their lives. 1.00

00:26:27.000 These are innocent civilians, after all.

00:26:29.000 That country is called Egypt.

00:26:31.000 That country is called Egypt.

00:26:33.000 And I noticed that Egypt was asked to provide a corridor for civilians.

00:26:41.000 And you know what Egypt said?

00:26:43.000 They said, no, we're not providing a corridor.

00:26:46.000 That's what they said.

00:26:47.000 Quote, is the Jerusalem Post.

00:26:48.000 Egypt has discussed plans with the United States and others to provide humanitarian aid through its border with Gaza Strip, but rejects any move to set up safe corridors for refugees fleeing the enclave.

00:26:58.000 You wanna know why?

00:26:59.000 Because they are afraid that those civilians are honeycombed with Hamas terrorists, who will then endanger the stability of the Egyptian regime.

00:27:04.000 You know why they might think that?

00:27:06.000 Because, let's see, Palestinian refugees put in danger the stability of the Jordanian regime, which resulted in Black September in the 1970s and the expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from there.

00:27:17.000 They then completely wrecked the regime in Lebanon, turning, again, a stable Christian-ruled country into a disaster trash heap They've completely taken over the Gaza Strip and wrecked it. 1.00

00:27:29.000 This would be the PLO followed by Hamas. 0.94

00:27:32.000 And Egypt is like, no, we're not interested. 0.99

00:27:35.000 So according to the international community, increasingly, the way this works is that the people who are responsible For every aspect of Arab-Muslim security in the Gaza Strip are the Jews who just got murdered by Hamas.

00:27:50.000 That's the logic here.

00:27:52.000 And why wouldn't they be?

00:27:53.000 Because after all, aren't we all the same types of people?

00:27:55.000 Aren't we all the same types of people?

00:27:57.000 I would just like to point out at this point once more, no, we are not.

00:28:00.000 And you know who says we are not?

00:28:01.000 The commanders of Hamas.

00:28:02.000 Here's Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Zahar, this is 2002, explaining the goals of Hamas.

00:28:06.000 When we speak about the army of Jerusalem and the battle of the promise of the hereafter,

00:28:21.000 we are not talking about liberating our land alone, he says.

00:28:27.000 We believe in what our Prophet Muhammad said.

00:28:28.000 said, Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake, and I have seen its

00:28:37.000 eastern and western ends.

00:28:38.000 In a minute, my nation would reach those ends that have been drawn near me.

00:28:43.000 The entire 510 million square kilometers of planet Earth will come under a system where there is no injustice, no oppression, no treachery, no Zionism, no treacherous Christianity, and no killings and crimes like those being committed against the Palestinians and against the Arabs in all Arab countries.

00:29:05.000 In Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and other countries.

00:29:09.000 Are they being unclear?

00:29:10.000 I'm just confused.

00:29:11.000 But they're like you.

00:29:11.000 Robert Reilly says that they have their own system of logic, but they're just like you.

00:29:14.000 Meanwhile, they're screaming in your face that they're not like you. 0.99

00:29:16.000 They don't give a crap about their own children. 0.99

00:29:19.000 They keep saying Gaza is half kids. 0.99

00:29:20.000 That's true.

00:29:21.000 So you know what you do if your population is half kids?

00:29:23.000 You don't stack your kids on top of the terror tunnels.

00:29:25.000 You don't hide your rockets inside hospitals.

00:29:28.000 That's exactly what they're doing.

00:29:29.000 You don't deprive those people of water and power on your own.

00:29:32.000 You were the municipal authority.

00:29:34.000 This was your actual job for 20 years.

00:29:37.000 And then start a terror war that results in retaliation in which the water and power are not available to anyone except the fighters living underground.

00:29:45.000 The terrorists living underground.

00:29:46.000 By the way, just to show you how much Hamas cares about the civilians, what exactly are they worried about?

00:29:55.000 Khalid Mashal, the leader and founding member of Hamas, gave a speech yesterday, and he asked Muslims around the world for help.

00:30:01.000 What did he ask for?

00:30:02.000 Did he ask for a humanitarian corridor, for example, to allow civilians out of Gaza?

00:30:08.000 No.

00:30:08.000 Did he ask for any sort of real financial help for, for example, the refugees in Gaza?

00:30:15.000 Of course not.

00:30:16.000 He called for four things.

00:30:17.000 Quote, To show anger, especially next Friday, so that'd be this Friday, in Muslim countries and also among Muslim diaspora around the world. 0.85

00:30:24.000 He called it the Friday of Al-Aqsa Flood.

00:30:26.000 And he said this will send a message of rage to Zionists in America, which is why every synagogue in the region, in America, across the world, is taking up new security measures on Friday. 0.51

00:30:36.000 As well they should.

00:30:38.000 By the way, the ridiculous propagandizing of Al-Aqsa is absurd. 0.95

00:30:42.000 The only people of freedom of worship on the Temple Mount are Muslims. 0.95

00:30:45.000 Period.

00:30:46.000 End of story.

00:30:47.000 I've been on the Temple Mount multiple times.

00:30:49.000 I am not allowed to pray there openly.

00:30:51.000 Jordan Peterson's wife, when we went up there, was forced to hide her cross.

00:30:55.000 But don't worry guys, it's really, it's an invasion.

00:30:58.000 In any case, he says he asked for financial help from all Muslims around the world to help with their money.

00:31:03.000 He called it financial jihad.

00:31:05.000 He asked Muslims to give, to whom?

00:31:07.000 Who did he ask Muslims?

00:31:09.000 To the refugees?

00:31:10.000 To the fathers and mothers of the babies being killed in these airstrikes?

00:31:14.000 Nope!

00:31:14.000 To the fighters of Gaza in order to compensate them for the destruction.

00:31:18.000 To the terrorists.

00:31:20.000 He asked political pressure from Muslim leaders and Muslim nations to stop Israel's military invasion of Gaza.

00:31:25.000 Again, no ask from them for, you know, some sort of resources for the millions of refugees who are going to be created by their terror war. 1.00

00:31:33.000 And the most important thing, quote, he asked all Muslims around the world to carry jihad by their souls, to fight and be martyrs for al-Aqsa. 0.81

00:31:40.000 He wants Muslims to fight against the Jews, starting with Muslims who live in the countries surrounding Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, to go to the borders and try to enter each by their own means.

00:31:49.000 So he wants more border incursions, which will get civilians killed. 0.85

00:31:52.000 People will walk to the border.

00:31:53.000 Israel cannot let people cross those borders and people will die. 0.56

00:31:56.000 And he wants that. 0.99

00:31:57.000 For the press, because he knows that the gullible, stupid Western press will then pretend that this is a massacre on the part of the Israelis as opposed to an attempted invasion by Hamas. 0.97

00:32:05.000 He said this is the time for jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory. 0.98

00:32:09.000 He asked the Mujahideen to go in long caravans to spill their blood on the land of Palestine.

00:32:15.000 You said funds are important, but today we are asking for your blood and souls.

00:32:18.000 So the question as to what comes next is still very much an open one.

00:32:23.000 Iran obviously knew that Hamas was planning the attacks.

00:32:25.000 The United States is claiming that Iran didn't really know the scale or the size of the attack, but obviously they're providing all of the resources. 0.76

00:32:31.000 They're the single biggest funder of Hamas.

00:32:34.000 Joe Biden, again, the Biden administration has had ongoing negotiations with the government of Iran for years at this point.

00:32:41.000 They've handed them billions of dollars in assets.

00:32:42.000 It's one reason for them to downplay exactly what happened here.

00:32:45.000 Meanwhile, Hezbollah is the single biggest recipient of Iranian foreign aid.

00:32:49.000 They receive $700 million a year from Iran.

00:32:51.000 Its missile stockpile runs to 100,000 or more, and those rockets are significantly more accurate and deadly than the Hamas rockets. 0.93

00:33:02.000 You know, all of this bodes very ill for the possibility of avoiding a regional war unless, unless the West makes clear this thing has to stay contained.

00:33:10.000 On the Israeli side, Benjamin Netanyahu has now formed a unity government with Benny Gantz, so all the talk about all the divisions in Israeli society that we've been covering for the last year and a half...

00:33:18.000 All of that stuff went away immediately.

00:33:20.000 I think one thing that's really important to note here, and again, I have tons of friends and family on the ground in Israel, my wife's family particularly, tons of them on the ground in Israel.

00:33:29.000 The unity in Israel among the citizens has literally never been greater.

00:33:32.000 The response of Israelis to this is absolutely astonishing.

00:33:36.000 People are flying back in there, packing all flights back in if they're abroad, in order to rejoin the Israeli military reservists who have been called up.

00:33:43.000 Many reservists who have not been called up, they have 150% reporting rate.

00:33:48.000 Literally, more people are reporting that have been called up for duty.

00:33:51.000 Civilians are showing up at military bases with food, with clothing, with sleeping bags, with whatever is necessary.

00:33:59.000 If the reservists don't have proper equipment, people are right now in pretty much every community, every Jewish community across the world, organizing shipments of that into Israel.

00:34:08.000 The social solidarity in Israel and the morale in terms of unity has never been higher.

00:34:13.000 Everybody is, of course, deeply disturbed by what happened.

00:34:17.000 Everybody is in a state of mourning, but everybody also understands what has to be done over there.

00:34:20.000 And the videos that have emerged from Israel of the unity are truly amazing.

00:34:25.000 People who five seconds ago were at each other's throats over things like judicial reform, all of that's gone by the wayside.

00:34:31.000 One of my favorite videos, a video of a Tel Aviv restaurant.

00:34:32.000 Tel Aviv is a very left-wing area of Israel.

00:34:35.000 Tel Aviv restaurants, which are very secular and they're not real big on the Orthodox, they have koshered their kitchens because they want to make sure that the Orthodox can actually eat food from their restaurants.

00:34:44.000 That's what's happening.

00:34:45.000 Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu, he has now suggested that the goal is to entirely wipe Hamas off the map, which of course it must be for both strategic and geopolitical reasons.

00:34:54.000 You have to wipe Hamas off the map because you have to make sure that they can't do anything remotely like this again.

00:34:58.000 And also Israel has to restore deterrence because if the deterrence is not restored, then this is only the beginning for the state of Israel.

00:35:05.000 Meanwhile, as you can see, all of the worst actors in the world are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

00:35:09.000 Of course, Beijing called for an immediate ceasefire, which is absurd.

00:35:12.000 That is not going to happen.

00:35:14.000 Israel has not even begun at this point.

00:35:16.000 Israel also today had to bomb the airport in Damascus and Aleppo.

00:35:20.000 They had to do that because there was a massive Iranian shipment of arms that was coming in.

00:35:25.000 The strikes targeted runways at the airport to prevent this Iranian flight from landing in Aleppo to ship more weapons over to Hezbollah.

00:35:31.000 An Iranian Mahan Air flight that was about to land in Syria turned back to Tehran.

00:35:35.000 According to the Jerusalem Post, Mahan Air is usually used to transport weapons operatives and funds for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah into the region.

00:35:46.000 The political response from the United States has been split.

00:35:50.000 It's virtually large swaths of it in both parties are pro-Israel.

00:35:55.000 To this point, the rhetoric from the Biden administration has been absolutely correct.

00:35:59.000 And it should be, considering that 22 Americans were murdered in this terrorist attack.

00:36:04.000 And there are currently many hostages who are Americans being held in the Gaza Strip.

00:36:08.000 John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, he reported on this yesterday.

00:36:14.000 I think we all need to steel ourselves for the very distinct possibility that these numbers will keep increasing and that we may in fact find out that more Americans are part of the hostage pool.

00:36:28.000 Well, the Americans obviously have a rather large interest.

00:36:32.000 We, as Americans, have a rather large interest in getting our hostages back.

00:36:36.000 And certainly on a geopolitical level, we have an interest in, one, avoiding a regional war that will undoubtedly break up.

00:36:41.000 It's gonna happen, okay?

00:36:42.000 There will be a regional war.

00:36:43.000 If Israel does not destroy Hamas, there will be a regional war. 0.73

00:36:45.000 It is that simple.

00:36:46.000 Because if they can't destroy Hamas, Hamas will declare victory, Hezbollah will get in. 0.99

00:36:49.000 If Hezbollah gets in, Israel will have to destroy Hezbollah. 0.67

00:36:52.000 Israel has to destroy Hezbollah, Syria, and the rest of Lebanon will get in. 1.00

00:36:55.000 And if they get in, very large possibility Iran gets in. 0.95

00:36:57.000 The domino effect has to be stopped right now.

00:37:00.000 And the only way to stop that is by containing this war and allowing Israel to wipe Hamas off the map. 0.89

00:37:04.000 That is the only way this happens.

00:37:05.000 Right now, the Biden administration is making the right sounds.

00:37:08.000 Here was Secretary Lloyd Austin yesterday talking about Israel's duty to defend itself.

00:37:12.000 Additional U.S.

00:37:13.000 military aid to Israel started flowing in yesterday, including key munitions.

00:37:19.000 And we'll be providing more Iron Dome interceptors so that Israel can protect its citizens and cities.

00:37:27.000 And we'll continue to ensure that Israel has what it needs to keep itself and its citizens safe.

00:37:35.000 And like any other country, Israel has the right to defend itself.

00:37:40.000 As the president says, Israel has a duty to defend itself.

00:37:46.000 And make no mistake, the United States will remain able to project power and to direct resources to tackle crises in multiple theaters.

00:37:58.000 This is why, presumably, the United States has now moved two aircraft carriers into the Mediterranean.

00:38:03.000 And Joe Biden is warning people, do not get involved.

00:38:05.000 Here is Joe Biden talking to Iran yesterday.

00:38:07.000 He said, you better be careful.

00:38:09.000 You know, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu for I don't know how many times, but again this morning, and already we're We're surging additional military assistance to the Israeli Defense Force, including ammunition, interceptors to replenish the Iron Dome.

00:38:26.000 And we moved the U.S.

00:38:27.000 carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean, and we're sending more fighter jets there in that region.

00:38:33.000 And made it clear, made it clear to the Iranians, be careful. 0.99

00:38:42.000 Yeah, well, I mean, they'd best be careful because, again, if this does broaden out, the consequences are going to be disastrous for everyone involved, but mostly for the Iranian regime.

00:38:52.000 Meanwhile, of course, the response from people on the right has largely been correct.

00:38:57.000 Ron DeSantis, of all the candidates, he and Nikki Haley have, of course, had the strongest responses.

00:39:01.000 Ron DeSantis' response yesterday was excellent.

00:39:02.000 Here is Ron DeSantis talking about what Israel needs to do in the Gaza Strip.

00:39:06.000 I wondered, as a veteran, what do you think that should look like?

00:39:13.000 So I think the reason why we've gotten to this point is because for decades, Israel would respond to acts of terror, but they would be very careful to do it in ways that were considered, quote, a proportionate, and that would not get them international condemnation.

00:39:29.000 Because the minute they start doing anything, they're always under the microscope.

00:39:33.000 I think in this situation, we in America, we just got to stand with them.

00:39:36.000 The goal should not be a, quote, proportionate response.

00:39:39.000 It should be the elimination of Hamas and the terrorist infrastructure that has grown up in Gaza. 0.86

00:39:46.000 And so that will be something that will be more significant than what Israel's been willing to do in the past.

00:39:51.000 I think they're more than capable of doing it.

00:39:55.000 That, of course, is exactly exactly right.

00:39:58.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, who, again, was an excellent president for Israel, the best president in Israel's history for Israel.

00:40:06.000 The narcissism of him obscures his actual political accomplishments.

00:40:12.000 This is a guy who did the Abraham Accords. 0.51

00:40:14.000 This is a guy who gave Israel the aid that it needed in the middle of rocket wars with Hamas.

00:40:19.000 And yesterday he chose to bizarrely attempt to humiliate the current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:40:26.000 Because he was given bizarre information that after his loss in the 2020 election, that Netanyahu rushed to congratulate Biden, which of course is not true.

00:40:33.000 He's one of the last world leaders, actually, to congratulate Biden.

00:40:35.000 In any case, here was Donald Trump going after Netanyahu personally in the middle of a war and talking about how Hezbollah is smart for attacking from the north, which is weird, since there is literally no other place that Hezbollah could attack from.

00:40:45.000 They're located in the north of Israel.

00:40:48.000 That's like suggesting that Mexico would be smart if they attacked America from the south. 0.99

00:40:52.000 Like, where else would they attack from?

00:40:53.000 They're south of us.

00:40:54.000 Like, what?

00:40:55.000 Here we go.

00:40:57.000 But I'll never forget... I'll never forget...

00:41:02.000 That Bibi Netanyahu let us down.

00:41:04.000 That was a very terrible thing.

00:41:06.000 I will say that.

00:41:07.000 And so when I see sometimes the intelligence, you talk about the intelligence or you talk about some of the things that went wrong over the last week.

00:41:16.000 They've got to straighten it out because they're fighting potentially a very big force.

00:41:20.000 They're fighting potentially Iran.

00:41:23.000 And when they have people saying the wrong things, everything they say is being digested by these people because they're vicious and they're smart.

00:41:32.000 And boy, are they vicious, because nobody's ever seen the kind of sight that we've seen.

00:41:36.000 Nobody's ever seen it.

00:41:38.000 But they cannot play games.

00:41:40.000 So we were disappointed by that.

00:41:41.000 Very disappointed.

00:41:42.000 But we did the job ourselves, and it was absolute precision.

00:41:45.000 Magnificent, beautiful job.

00:41:48.000 And then, uh, Bibi tried to take credit for it. 0.98

00:41:52.000 That wasn't good.

00:41:53.000 That didn't make me feel too good, but that's all right.

00:41:56.000 So they got to strengthen themselves up.

00:41:59.000 What is it?

00:42:01.000 All right.

00:42:02.000 I mean, okay.

00:42:04.000 President Trump, again, nothing but gratitude for President Trump.

00:42:07.000 As a Jew and as an American, nothing but gratitude for President Trump.

00:42:10.000 I wish you were president right now.

00:42:12.000 But the fact of the matter is that that is bizarre, bizarre stuff.

00:42:16.000 And attacking the Prime Minister in a current time of war, with a unity government in Israel, by the way, with a bunch of people who disagree, but they do agree on the survival of the Jewish state, is a very bizarre move.

00:42:26.000 Meanwhile, the left is doing what the left does.

00:42:28.000 They are moving predictably into anti-Israel territory. 0.92

00:42:31.000 Bernie Sanders, who, as I have said before, is about as Jewish as a ham sandwich. 0.97

00:42:35.000 He continues to be one of the world's worst moral exemplars. 0.59

00:42:40.000 He put out a statement saying, right now the international community

00:42:42.000 must focus on reducing humanitarian suffering and protecting innocent people

00:42:45.000 on both sides of this conflict.

00:42:47.000 The targeting of civilians is a war crime, no matter who does it. 0.55

00:42:49.000 Israel's blanket denial of food, water, and other necessities to Gaza

00:42:52.000 is a serious violation of international law and will do nothing but harm innocent civilians.

00:42:56.000 So again, just to point out here, this is Bernie Sanders standing for Hamas 0.83

00:43:00.000 and suggesting that Israel should not be able to pursue any of its own military ends

00:43:04.000 because Hamas has put its own civilians in harm's way.

00:43:06.000 Thank you.

00:43:08.000 Bernie Sanders says, The United States has rightly offered solidarity and support to Israel in responding to Hamas' attack, but we must insist on restraint from Israeli forces attacking Gaza and work to secure UN humanitarian access.

00:43:19.000 Let us not forget that half of the two million people in Gaza are children.

00:43:22.000 Children and innocent people do not deserve to be punished for the acts of Hamas. 0.98

00:43:24.000 That's true.

00:43:25.000 You know it'd be amazing if Hamas didn't put them directly in the line of fire.

00:43:29.000 Again, who is responsible for the human rights atrocity?

00:43:31.000 The person who puts the child in the line of fire because they're a terrorist?

00:43:33.000 Or the person who tries to kill the terrorist and accidentally hits the child, too?

00:43:37.000 Who's responsible for that, precisely?

00:43:38.000 According to Bernie, obviously, the problem is Israel.

00:43:42.000 Meanwhile, Democrats still having trouble condemning the Squad for their consistently pro-Hamas stance.

00:43:48.000 Representative Dan Goldman, he refused to throw Rashida Tlaib under the bus the other day because, of course, why would he?

00:43:54.000 Why would he?

00:43:54.000 I mean, she is a Democrat.

00:43:57.000 Alison, she has a Palestinian flag.

00:43:59.000 She's Palestinian.

00:44:01.000 But what you just said seems like it's a pretty easy answer about the difference between Palestinians and Hamas.

00:44:09.000 And yet, some members in your caucus are choosing not to say that.

00:44:15.000 Well, look, everyone comes to Congress with their own lived experiences, and Rashida Tlaib is Palestinian-American.

00:44:22.000 So she has family in the Palestinian territories and has a particular view.

00:44:28.000 But she is one person.

00:44:29.000 She does not represent the Democratic Party.

00:44:32.000 And what you are hearing from the leaders of the Democratic Party, no one more emphatic than President Biden yesterday, who gave one of the most stirring and pro-Israel speeches that any president has ever given.

00:44:45.000 Okay, I also noticed that you're not willing to throw Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, open terror supporters, out of your caucus.

00:44:56.000 I noticed that as well.

00:44:57.000 Gretchen Whitmer doing the same sort of nonsense. 1.00

00:44:59.000 Gretchen Whitmer, of course, is the governor of Michigan, and she put out a statement calling for peace and said literally nothing about what had actually happened to the Jews.

00:45:10.000 So apparently she did not name Israel in her statement.

00:45:12.000 She also did not condemn Hamas or its terrorism in her statement.

00:45:15.000 Instead, she said, we need peace in the region.

00:45:18.000 And then she followed up with a second post that said that her support for Israel is steadfast.

00:45:21.000 She also failed to mention Hamas in that post.

00:45:25.000 And of course, none of that is particularly surprising from some of the radical Democrats and people who are operating at the behest of radical Islamic fundamentalists, including people like Ilhan Omar.

00:45:36.000 Meanwhile, Glory to the martyrs!

00:45:38.000 protesters across the nation are it is amazing. I mean, like they're just saying it all out

00:45:42.000 in the open and we're all supposed to pretend that it's not happening. One of the one of

00:45:46.000 the rallies took place yesterday was UW students. This University of Wisconsin students who

00:45:51.000 were apparently chanting glory to the martyrs yesterday.

00:45:55.000 That's the martyrs, by the way, would be the people who murdered Jews in their beds. 0.96

00:46:00.000 Do you know what you're saying? We say we will liberate the land.

00:46:13.000 There you go.

00:46:14.000 We will liberate the land by any means necessary.

00:46:16.000 We will liberate the land!

00:46:17.000 By any means necessary.

00:46:21.000 By any means necessary.

00:46:22.000 By any means necessary, including the complete extirpation of every Jew from the region. 1.00

00:46:27.000 Meanwhile, Zarina Grewal, an American studies professor at Yale, defended tactics used by Hamas, quote, settlers are not civilians.

00:46:34.000 This is not hard.

00:46:36.000 That was in response to a Sky News journalist saying, Now, let me point you out here, at this point, that even if you believed that were true, which is an utter, complete lie, that Jews living in, say, Efrat deserve to be murdered because they're living in Efrat. 0.96

00:46:51.000 Even if you believed that lie, because you're a sicko, the Jews who were murdered here were not living in the settlements. 0.79

00:46:57.000 The Jews who were murdered here were living in the Negev, in the areas surrounding the Gaza border, which has been Israeli territory since 1947-48. 0.97

00:47:07.000 That's... So, you're evil. 0.96

00:47:09.000 You just want Jews to die. 1.00

00:47:10.000 You just want Jews to die. 1.00

00:47:11.000 That's all. 1.00

00:47:13.000 That was in the middle of the attack.

00:47:13.000 on Saturday morning, quote, my heart is in my throat, prayers for Palestine.

00:47:16.000 Israel is a murderous, genocidal settler state. 0.99

00:47:19.000 Palestinians have the right to resist through armed struggle, solidarity, hashtag free Palestine. 0.96

00:47:23.000 That was in the middle of the attack.

00:47:26.000 That was in the middle of the attack.

00:47:27.000 This, again, particular professor, she's a historical anthropologist

00:47:34.000 and a documentary filmmaker.

00:47:35.000 She has received research funding from both the Fulbright and the Luce Foundations.

00:47:40.000 About 20,000 people have now signed a petition for Yale to remove that professor.

00:47:44.000 That is not cancel culture.

00:47:45.000 It's not cancel, like, supporting Al-Qaeda seems like that, supporting Hamas.

00:47:50.000 Supporting actual genocidal terror groups?

00:47:52.000 Seems like that might be, you know, worthwhile for those people to not have jobs.

00:47:57.000 I don't feel like anybody has the obligation to hire somebody who supports an open terror group.

00:48:02.000 I don't know.

00:48:02.000 Call me weird.

00:48:03.000 I just don't think that's their obligation.

00:48:05.000 Meanwhile, the media already shifting into the anti-Israel position as they congenitally were predisposed to do.

00:48:11.000 The BBC has now said that they are going to refuse to call Hamas terrorists terrorists.

00:48:16.000 John Simpson, who is the World Affairs Editor, who has routinely used the word terrorist to describe people in his own Twitter account, he says BBC will not be using the word terrorist to describe Hamas terrorists.

00:48:25.000 Quote, terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally.

00:48:30.000 It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn, who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.

00:48:37.000 Oh, is that?

00:48:37.000 Oh, really?

00:48:39.000 Really? 0.90

00:48:39.000 Like, I assume the word terrorist has a definition, but I'm noticing that you don't apply that definition to actual terrorists when those terrorists are murdering Jews. 0.90

00:48:46.000 I just noticed this, of course, follows hard on the widespread media questions about exactly what happened.

00:48:52.000 There are all these people online who are, and this is now kind of the new normal, is in the aftermath of every tragedy.

00:48:58.000 Because of institutional distrust.

00:49:00.000 There are people who are like, do we really know that Jewish babies were murdered?

00:49:02.000 Yeah, we know that Jewish babies were murdered.

00:49:04.000 But if you demand pictorial proof, here it is.

00:49:05.000 Get ready, folks.

00:49:06.000 There's your warning.

00:49:07.000 You're about to see a picture of a dead baby.

00:49:08.000 This is a baby who was murdered by Hamas.

00:49:10.000 That is it.

00:49:11.000 That is a dead child.

00:49:12.000 So, to be sure, not beheaded, but still dead.

00:49:16.000 I noticed.

00:49:17.000 So, Obviously, obviously Hamas, they're okay now because this baby has, the head is still attached to the body. 1.00

00:49:25.000 But I did notice that this baby is dead.

00:49:27.000 That's what I noticed.

00:49:28.000 And that was a baby who was killed for the crime of living in a Jewish community and being Jewish. 0.86

00:49:34.000 Was that picture of the dead baby enough for you?

00:49:36.000 If it wasn't enough for you, I have another picture of a dead baby, this one charred beyond all recognition, burned.

00:49:42.000 So, yes, for all of you who need pictorial representation of dead Jewish babies in order for you to understand the evil of Hamas, this is for you. 0.82

00:49:52.000 Meanwhile, the press immediately shifting into context mode.

00:49:55.000 The sophisticates. 0.99

00:49:56.000 Ah, Thomas Friedman, who is one of the world's most amoral, pathetic human beings. 1.00

00:50:01.000 Thomas Friedman is just gross. 1.00

00:50:03.000 And first of all, he's a moron. 1.00

00:50:04.000 And his entire career consists of going to random countries and listening to taxi drivers. 1.00

00:50:08.000 If ever automated Uber became a thing in foreign countries, Thomas Friedman would automatically be out of a job.

00:50:13.000 Because all he does is just go and talks like, here's a man who runs a PETA stand.

00:50:17.000 What does he have to say about foreign policy?

00:50:18.000 And now I know because I'm Thomas Br- So he has an entire piece titled, Israel has never needed to be smarter than in this moment.

00:50:25.000 And the entire piece is an apology for what just happened.

00:50:29.000 He says, I've covered this conflict for almost 50 years.

00:50:31.000 I've seen Israelis and Palestinians do a lot of awful things to one another. 1.00

00:50:34.000 Palestinian suicide bombers blowing up Israeli discos and buses.

00:50:37.000 Israeli fighter jets hitting neighborhoods in Gaza that house Hamas fighters, but also causing massive civilian casualties.

00:50:42.000 So let me just notice right off the bat that the guy's a moral tool.

00:50:45.000 Those are not the same thing.

00:50:46.000 Those are not the same thing.

00:50:48.000 If you hit a Hamas target and they put kids in the Hamas target, that is not the same thing. 0.59

00:50:53.000 But it's, you know, just people doing, somebody did something, as Ilhan Omar might say.

00:50:57.000 But don't worry, the entire article is about how, really, this is about Netanyahu, this is about Bibi, it's about the Israelis, of course.

00:51:04.000 Well, this operation was surely planned by Hamas leaders months ago.

00:51:06.000 I think its emotional origin, says Thomas Friedman, can be explained in part by a photograph that appeared in the Israeli press on October 3rd.

00:51:12.000 Well, I mean, that doesn't make any sense.

00:51:14.000 So they say they've been planning this for two years.

00:51:16.000 And you say that a photo that came out October 3rd is what drove it.

00:51:18.000 What was the photo?

00:51:20.000 A few Israeli government ministers had gone to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for their first official visit ever.

00:51:24.000 And there was a photo.

00:51:25.000 The photo was taken by the team of Israel's communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, who was attending a UN postal conference in Riyadh, and they were conducting a prayer service.

00:51:33.000 One of them took a picture of a colleague wearing a traditional Jewish prayer shawl and a yarmulke while holding up a Torah scroll with the Riyadh skyline in the window beyond.

00:51:42.000 That photo ignites a powerful and emotional rage in many Palestinians, says Thomas Friedman.

00:51:46.000 So, Israel should not pursue peace with the Saudis because it might piss off terrorists, is Thomas Friedman's take.

00:51:52.000 For them, that picture is the full expression of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's supreme goal to prove to all naysayers, indeed to rub their noses in the fact, that he can make peace with the Arab states, even Saudi Arabia, and not have to give the Palestinians a single inch.

00:52:03.000 See, here's the thing.

00:52:04.000 Thomas Friedman is in the crowd of people who would rather not see peace in the Middle East and see conflict continue, so long as he can be proved right in his bizarre notion of the centrality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

00:52:15.000 He wants to be proven right more than he wants people to live.

00:52:17.000 That is seriously Thomas Friedman's position in all of this.

00:52:20.000 And that is the position of so many of these sophisticates.

00:52:22.000 And if it takes a few dead Jews and a bunch of dead people in Gaza to prove that, well, he's okay with that. 0.93

00:52:26.000 He's okay.

00:52:27.000 After all, it's Bibi's fault, probably. 0.99

00:52:29.000 It's just, it's absolutely pathetic. 1.00

00:52:32.000 On its face, it's pathetic. 0.99

00:52:34.000 Best response of the day, credit to Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, known as Bougie Herzog. 0.85

00:52:41.000 He's a non-political figure in Israel.

00:52:42.000 The President of Israel is more of a ceremonial figure, sort of like the Queen of England or something.

00:52:46.000 He has the ability to greenlight the formation of a coalition government.

00:52:49.000 That's pretty much all he does.

00:52:50.000 And he was giving a press conference about what happened.

00:52:52.000 And CNN, went full CNN, started talking about how Israel is engaging in collective punishment.

00:52:57.000 It's collective punishment because, of course, when terrorists honeycomb themselves in a civilian population, it is now the job of the people who were murdered to give up and surrender, probably.

00:53:08.000 So you let the inhumanity of your opponent make you surrender, and apparently lie prostrate at their feet.

00:53:15.000 So President Herzog was having none of that.

00:53:18.000 Here he was yesterday going after CNN in colorful and much-deserved fashion.

00:53:24.000 But listening to your answers in the last few minutes, I'm a little confused.

00:53:29.000 Because on one hand you say that Israel abides by the rules of war and is very careful to avoid the loss of civilian life in the Gaza Strip.

00:53:40.000 But at the same time you seem to hold the people of Gaza responsible not trying to remove Hamas. Let me finish. Do you hold a

00:53:48.000 missile in your kitchen, in your living room? Can I ask my question? A missile that is

00:53:53.000 sent on our head here and if there will be a siren it's a missile from that kitchen. 0.91

00:53:58.000 My question is this, if I may.

00:54:00.000 You seem to hold the people of Gaza, the civilians of Gaza responsible for not removing Hamas 0.98

00:54:06.000 and therefore by implication that makes them legitimate targets. No, I didn't say that.

00:54:11.000 I did not say that. I want to make it clear. I was asked something about separating civilians

00:54:18.000 from Hamas. But with all due respect, with all due respect, if you have a missile in

00:54:24.000 your kitchen and you want to shoot it at me, am I allowed to defend myself?

00:54:30.000 Yes.

00:54:30.000 That's the situation.

00:54:32.000 These missiles are there.

00:54:34.000 These missiles are launched.

00:54:35.000 The button is pressed.

00:54:37.000 The missile comes out from the kitchen onto my children.

00:54:41.000 Well, President Herzog is, of course, exactly right about it.

00:54:44.000 By the way, a member of the Labor Party.

00:54:46.000 I know Isaac Herzog.

00:54:48.000 Really, really good guy.

00:54:49.000 He and I disagree about a lot politically.

00:54:51.000 He is on the left in Israeli politics.

00:54:53.000 He was a Labor candidate, okay?

00:54:55.000 Understand that there is no gap in Israel right now.

00:54:58.000 The gap disappeared.

00:54:59.000 All of those fractures, they came together immediately when 1,300 Jews are murdered.

00:55:05.000 As well they should. 1.00

00:55:06.000 And the entire world, you're all hypocrites. 1.00

00:55:08.000 Let me just say that. 0.96

00:55:10.000 If this happened in your country, if it happened in the United States, if it happened in Britain, if it happened in France, if it happened in Germany, if it happened in any of these other countries, do you think they would be sitting there saying, oh, well, you know, we really have to be careful about turning off the water and the power for a few days.

00:55:26.000 We really have to, you know, this is, we have to, such restraint we have to show.

00:55:30.000 We have to show.

00:55:31.000 Let me explain something.

00:55:32.000 In the United States, after 9-11, we took down two countries.

00:55:36.000 Two of them.

00:55:37.000 We occupied Afghanistan for 20 years. 0.94

00:55:40.000 We occupied Iraq for 15 years. 0.93

00:55:44.000 That was in response to 3,000 dead.

00:55:46.000 All Israel wants here is the ability to wipe out the terrorists and then to leave.

00:55:52.000 Do you think they want to be building in Gaza City?

00:55:55.000 They tried to hand the Gaza Strip over to the Egyptians. 0.59

00:55:58.000 Just as they tried to hand over Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria to the Jordanians.

00:56:03.000 And you know what those countries said? 0.99

00:56:04.000 They said, fuck no, we don't want that. 0.99

00:56:08.000 So this bizarre notion that Israel has to be held to a standard that no honorable nation would hold itself to is purely anti-Semitic. 0.99

00:56:15.000 That's the only rationale for this.

00:56:17.000 It's the only rationale.

00:56:18.000 No one else on earth would be talking like this.

00:56:20.000 It's absolutely absurd.

00:56:22.000 It's absurd.

00:56:22.000 The amount of attention and sort of harsh pressure that is put On Israel, not to take the action necessary to secure its own future?

00:56:35.000 You think that kind of pressure is being put on Ukraine in terms of the human rights?

00:56:38.000 Do you think that kind of pressure is put on, hell, China in terms of what China does?

00:56:45.000 It's absolute madness.

00:56:47.000 And the fact that it only happens one place on earth and everybody knows it.

00:56:51.000 Everybody knows it.

00:56:53.000 There is not a Western nation that would be held to the standard.

00:56:56.000 Everyone knows it.

00:56:58.000 And what's even more appalling is that Israel knows it and Israel abides by it. 0.88

00:57:01.000 That's the part that's absolutely appalling.

00:57:03.000 I'm talking to Israelis on the ground every single day.

00:57:06.000 And they're getting ready to go in on the ground by foot in an attempt to minimize civilian casualties.

00:57:11.000 Israel does this all the time. 1.00

00:57:12.000 I've seen footage from the IAF showing them holding off on hitting particular targets because there are too many civilians around.

00:57:18.000 They've been doing that for years.

00:57:19.000 You know what they can't do right now?

00:57:20.000 That. 1.00

00:57:20.000 They need to kill the bad guys. 1.00

00:57:23.000 And if the rest of the world can't take it, well, grow the f*** up. 1.00

00:57:27.000 Because the reality is, the Jews in Israel are not going to go quietly. 0.99

00:57:31.000 The Jews in Israel are not going to acquiesce in their own mass murder. 0.80

00:57:34.000 No one should have to. 0.94

00:57:36.000 It's a universal human message.

00:57:39.000 You should not have to, as a Western citizen, sit there and be told that your government does not have the duty and the right to protect you from mass murder in your own kitchen.

00:57:51.000 The fact that this is the culmination of Decades of absurd Western nonsense that has been applied, applied predominantly to Israel. 0.70

00:58:00.000 You see it applied to the United States.

00:58:01.000 So you see applied to the UK a little bit, but predominantly to Israel because Israel lives in the neighborhood.

00:58:05.000 And so that means it comes up a lot more often with Israel.

00:58:09.000 But this again, All the people in the media who are deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as Israel attempts to kill terrorists and simultaneously tell civilians to get out, all those same people who are chiding Israel today, all those same people, if somebody came into their home and murdered their children and raped their wives and dragged them off to some hellhole somewhere, how much do you think they would be concerned about, you know, the temporary stoppage of water and power?

00:58:41.000 Absolutely ridiculous. 0.84

00:58:43.000 Well folks, there are a lot of people asking how they can help Israeli citizens right now, help Jews on the ground, Christians, Muslims, all people who are unifying to fight Hamas or who have been victimized by Hamas or both. 0.68

00:58:53.000 Well, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is on the ground right now.

00:58:56.000 They're providing critical essentials like food, medicine, and other emergency supplies for vulnerable Jews who need immediate help.

00:59:02.000 The need is indeed massive and urgent.

00:59:03.000 It's a great organization.

00:59:04.000 They need your help right now.

00:59:05.000 So if you've been thinking about giving, this is a great way to help out.

00:59:08.000 To donate, please go to ifcj.org.

00:59:11.000 Give as generously as you can.

00:59:12.000 Write it down.

00:59:12.000 That's ifcj.org.

00:59:15.000 Okay, meanwhile, in news that is closer to the United States, Republicans are still squabbling over who should be the House speakers.

00:59:23.000 There was an internal election last night inside the Republican Party.

00:59:28.000 It pitted Representative Steve Scalise from Louisiana against Jim Jordan of Ohio.

00:59:33.000 Again, I like both these guys.

00:59:34.000 I know both these guys.

00:59:36.000 Jordan was endorsed by President Trump.

00:59:37.000 He narrowly lost 113 to 99.

00:59:40.000 Now the big problem is, it doesn't matter.

00:59:41.000 The reason it doesn't matter is because they still don't have 217 votes.

00:59:43.000 So they're still not bringing this to the floor.

00:59:46.000 That was just to decide who they bring to the floor as the possible speaker.

00:59:48.000 But in order for any of that to happen, All the Republicans behind the door have to actually get together and acquiesce that whoever they picked in that election, they are now going to vote for.

00:59:59.000 Even if you voted for Jordan, in other words, behind closed doors, now you're going to move out from behind the closed doors and you're going to vote for Scalise.

01:00:04.000 And apparently, they don't have that at the moment.

01:00:07.000 Again, it's a very, very narrow victory.

01:00:10.000 Scalise over Jordan. 0.52

01:00:12.000 There are a lot of holds out.

01:00:13.000 Jordan is doing his best to endorse Scalise.

01:00:18.000 He basically signaled yesterday that he was going to move forward.

01:00:24.000 Now, he has not clearly come out so far, according to the Wall Street Journal, and publicly thrown himself behind Scalise.

01:00:29.000 But even if he would, that is no guarantee, because again, there's a massive collective action problem inside the Republican Party.

01:00:36.000 All it takes is like four Republicans in order to throw the entire House into chaos some more. 1.00

01:00:40.000 This is why this is so stupid. 0.99

01:00:41.000 So they ousted McCarthy to put in Steve Scalise, who has a nearly identical voting record with McCarthy, and who would pursue many of the same exact policies as McCarthy. 1.00

01:00:51.000 That's what they just did.

01:00:53.000 So I fail to see how this advanced the ball at all, which is why I opposed it in the first place. 1.00

01:00:56.000 It's stupid. 0.99

01:00:57.000 If you're going to make a political Machiavellian manipulation to get rid of the Speaker of the House, you better damn well have a backup plan where you actually win some concessions. 1.00

01:01:05.000 Apparently, Thomas Massie is now estimating there are at least 20 House Republicans who will not vote for Scalise on the floor.

01:01:11.000 He says it will be even more difficult for Scalise to win a majority than it was for McCarthy in January.

01:01:16.000 Some lawmakers were frustrated Wednesday by an internal vote earlier in the day blocking a proposal that would have required the winning candidate to secure 217 votes rather than simply have the most votes of any candidate.

01:01:26.000 Allies of Scalise have been lobbying against the rules change.

01:01:28.000 So again, their idea was that the winning candidate would have to be able to get a majority, and they're like, nah, we'll have an internal vote for no reason, and then we'll try to figure it out afterward.

01:01:37.000 That's going great.

01:01:39.000 This is all going to go really, really well.

01:01:42.000 Matt Gaetz, for his own sake, who led this charge, he said he'll support either one of them.

01:01:48.000 Eli Crane, another one, has said that he would support either Jordan or Scalise.

01:01:52.000 But, don't worry, there are a few people who are saying that they will not vote for Scalise.

01:01:57.000 Among them, the attention-getting Nancy Mace. 1.00

01:01:59.000 I don't know why Nancy Mace thinks that she needs to be on camera all the time lately, but again, when you have a narrow majority, one of the things that you get to do is posture and preen for the camera. 0.92

01:02:09.000 So Nancy Mace inexplicably joined the chorus of people who provided for McCarthy's ouster.

01:02:13.000 She did so on the grounds that McCarthy was too conservative, so good luck getting her on board for Steve Scalise.

01:02:17.000 So the other day, she decided, don't worry guys, this is all just humble public servants being humble public servants.

01:02:22.000 So Nancy Mace decided to wear a white t-shirt with the, or a white, what would you call this shirt, Savvy? 1.00

01:02:32.000 It's not a blouse. It's effectively a tube top. It's not a tube top, right? It's really tight.

01:02:37.000 In any case, she's wearing like a white t-shirt, a fairly tight white t-shirt that says,

01:02:42.000 that has a giant red A on it. Don't worry guys, they're just humble public servants

01:02:46.000 seeking to do your bidding. The seriousness of what happens in the world, juxtaposed with the

01:02:52.000 idiocy of our political class, is really truly something to behold. 0.99

01:02:55.000 It truly is, unlike all sides. 0.96

01:02:57.000 You have serious things happening in the world.

01:02:59.000 Pending regional war in the Middle East, a continuing Ukraine war, global economic slowdown.

01:03:04.000 You have all these serious things happening.

01:03:06.000 And meanwhile, in the United States, we're running a three-ring circus with multiple clowns of all parties.

01:03:12.000 It's bewildering and insane and frustrating. 0.92

01:03:15.000 Now here is Nancy Mace clowning around. 1.00

01:03:17.000 She wore a Scarlet A because she's just like Hester Prynne, you see. 1.00

01:03:20.000 I'm not sure who she committed adultery with, but she's just like Hester Prynne, she explains. 0.98

01:03:26.000 I'm wearing the scarlet letter after the week that I just had last week, being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice.

01:03:35.000 I'm here to let the rest of the world know and the country know I'm on the side of the people.

01:03:38.000 I'm not on the side of the establishment.

01:03:40.000 And I'm going to do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences, because I don't answer to anybody in D.C.

01:03:47.000 I don't answer to anyone in Washington.

01:03:49.000 I only answer to the people.

01:03:51.000 Um, so I, um, uh, what?

01:03:54.000 So then why are you doing this?

01:03:55.000 So then she says, after the vote for Scalise, that she's gonna vote for Jim Jordan.

01:03:59.000 And she, this is, this is a lady who apparently just wants to be on CNN a lot. 1.00

01:04:03.000 So here she was on CNN.

01:04:06.000 You endorsed, uh, Jim Jordan, so I'm assuming you voted for Jim Jordan today.

01:04:11.000 If the vote for Speaker were today, would you vote for Steve Scalise?

01:04:15.000 I would not.

01:04:16.000 I plan on voting for Jim Jordan on the floor.

01:04:18.000 I've been very vocal about this over the last couple of days.

01:04:22.000 I personally cannot in good conscience vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke.

01:04:31.000 I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.

01:04:39.000 Okay, all of this is slanderous nonsense?

01:04:41.000 The notion that he compared himself to David Duke is second-hand talk from, like, the mid-1990s.

01:04:45.000 That was a charge that Young's Scalise described his platform as similar to Duke's during a personal conversation with fellow LSU alum Stephanie Grace.

01:04:53.000 Grace apparently neither recorded nor published the statement.

01:04:55.000 She trotted out many years later, quote-unquote, going from memory, according to Stephen Voss, who writes about this at the Missouri Independent.

01:05:01.000 As far as the notion that he spoke at a white supremacist conference, he was asked, in the middle of a political race, he was asked to speak for 15 minutes about taxes at a conference with a name, in the middle of a political race.

01:05:11.000 He stopped, he spoke, he left.

01:05:13.000 That is the extent of this. 0.99

01:05:15.000 It's all attention-getting crap. 0.98

01:05:16.000 And honestly, we have a super, super unserious political class. 0.99

01:05:21.000 A deeply unserious political class.

01:05:23.000 We have serious problems in the world.

01:05:26.000 We need a better class of politicians.

01:05:27.000 We need a better class of people.

01:05:28.000 And by the way, if you're a voter, we need a better class of voter.

01:05:32.000 Level up, everybody.

01:05:33.000 Level up.

01:05:33.000 Start electing people who actually have some semblance of brains.

01:05:37.000 The rest of the show continues right now.

01:05:39.000 We're talking with Ambassador Danny Danon.

01:05:40.000 He is the former UN Ambassador for Israel.

The Ben Shapiro Show - October 12, 2023

How Hamas Fooled The World

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