The Ben Shapiro Show - October 18, 2023


How To Bomb Your Own Hospital And Blame The Jews

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When it comes to Israel's current war against Hamas, there is a clear gap between the sides on a moral level. One side, Hamas and its allies, seeks to murder civilians. The other side, Israel seeks to save civilians. That s why Hamas locates its military assets in civilian neighborhoods. And that s why Israel is a democracy with high levels of transparency, a free press, and a robust democracy with highly aggressive opposition parties. That doesn t mean that Israel doesn t get things wrong. It does mean that the media does not make lying its central principle in military matters. And as it turns out, as it does with everything else, the media are only interested in one thing: moral parity between parties to a conflict. They only seek that one moral parity when they seek to seek parity of parity of one of the two parties. And when we're talking about one party, what we're actually talking about is one that seeks to seek that moral parity. How we're watching a genocidal monster, and how we're suddenly, shockingly credulous about what we have to say What we're really watching is a group that just slaughtered babies. We don't know how many people died, but we know that we don't need to know the real number, because it's not even close to the number that the terrorists claim to have been killed. We know that it's probably much higher than the number of people that actually died in the attack on the hospital in Gaza on the other side of the border. - and yet we're still don't even know the true number of dead people that was actually there? We can't even begin to get a grip on the truth about that's been reported by the truth, because we're not even half of the truth? We have no idea what's being reported by Hamas's version of what's actually happened. We don t even know what's really happened, and we don t know the truth. What's more, we're just waiting for us to come to the truth and we're supposed to believe it we have no longer care do we really care about the truth or not are we really do care about that much about the facts, do we care enough to care enough about it? or are we or do we want to know what s being told the truth to be honest about it or care about it ? and we just want to believe that it really matters?

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00:00:00.000 When it comes to Israel's current war against Hamas, there is a clear gap between the sides on a moral level.
00:00:05.000 One side, Hamas and its allies, seeks to murder civilians.
00:00:08.000 That's why they slaughtered 1,400 innocent Jews in Israel and have planted their military sites directly in civilian areas while attempting to stop their own civilians from escaping those areas.
00:00:17.000 Hamas openly acknowledges, they say, that they use civilians as human shields.
00:00:22.000 The other side, Israel, seeks to save civilians.
00:00:24.000 That's precisely why Hamas locates its military assets in civilian neighborhoods.
00:00:28.000 If Israel were truly a human rights monster that didn't care about civilians, Hamas would have no incentive to shield its weapons with innocent Gazans. 0.81
00:00:36.000 On the one side, Hamas has a health ministry that routinely lies.
00:00:39.000 In 2014, for example, Hamas's interior ministry website issued instructions to online activists, including the following statement.
00:00:45.000 These are direct quotes.
00:00:46.000 Quote, anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank.
00:00:54.000 Don't forget to always add innocent civilian or innocent citizen in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
00:01:01.000 They also say, quote, avoid publishing pictures of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza City censors.
00:01:06.000 This would provide a pretext for attacking residential areas in the Gaza Strip, unquote.
00:01:10.000 Because Hamas runs a tyrannical terror state, media members are routinely told what to report, which is why that same year in 2014, The Washington Post admitted.
00:01:18.000 The other side.
00:01:18.000 it comes to body counts, the Hamas health minister was quote the only game in town.
00:01:22.000 They threatened reporters. That same minister acknowledged that he maximized the count of
00:01:26.000 civilian casualties. The New York Times in 2014 recognized that Hamas inflates such statistics
00:01:31.000 as well. The other side, Israel is a democracy with high levels of transparency, a free press,
00:01:37.000 a robust democracy with highly aggressive opposition parties.
00:01:39.000 The current Prime Minister of Israel has been dragged by that media and opposition through scandal after scandal.
00:01:44.000 That doesn't mean that Israel doesn't get things wrong. 1.00
00:01:46.000 It does mean that Israel does not make lying its central principle in military matters.
00:01:51.000 One side, Hamas and its esteemed colleagues in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, has a very long history of firing rockets that end up hitting their own people.
00:01:59.000 In 2022, for example, Israel estimated that some one-fifth of all 1,000 Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets fell within Gaza.
00:02:06.000 During the current war, over 7000 rockets have been fired at Israel.
00:02:09.000 At least 400 of them fell short and hit Gaza.
00:02:11.000 Here are just some video examples from the recent past.
00:02:15.000 On October 17th, Islamic Jihad destroyed a hospital in Gaza when a rocket aimed toward Israel misfired and landed in Gaza.
00:02:27.000 This isn't the first time, while thousands of rockets are fired toward Israel, rockets fail.
00:02:36.000 These failed rocket launches caused mass destruction and the death of countless innocent individuals inside Gaza.
00:02:42.000 Now, here's a map of all the failed launches during this war alone.
00:03:04.000 You can see this map blankets the entire Gaza Strip from south to north.
00:03:09.000 One side, Israel, has a precision military that seeks to hit as many military targets in as efficient a way as possible.
00:03:14.000 That military routinely passes up shots on military targets if too many civilians will be harmed.
00:03:19.000 So, with all of this said, naturally, when a hospital allegedly blew up in the Gaza Strip yesterday afternoon, and Hamas immediately claimed that the explosion was an Israeli airstrike and that 500 people had been killed, the media used their heads. 0.82
00:03:31.000 They decided to wait for all the information to emerge because, you know, Hamas are liars. 0.80
00:03:35.000 Nah, just kidding. 0.79
00:03:36.000 They went with Hamas's report because this is what they do. 0.98
00:03:39.000 As it turned out, Hamas was, as usual, lying.
00:03:41.000 Lying from beginning to end.
00:03:43.000 A failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket hit the hospital.
00:03:46.000 Actually, to be more accurate, it hit the parking lot next to the hospital, doing no apparent structural damage to the building.
00:03:51.000 We still don't know how many people actually died.
00:03:53.000 We don't know the real number of casualties.
00:03:55.000 It took Israel weeks to determine how many people had died in the assault on its southern border.
00:04:00.000 Hamas threw out the number 500 within 15 minutes of the rocket falling.
00:04:03.000 There's only one reason the media jumped to listen to Hamas.
00:04:06.000 The media have an insanely strong stake in creating moral equivalence between Israel and its terrorist opponents.
00:04:12.000 They operate under a soft-headed mindset that seeks moral parity between parties to a conflict.
00:04:17.000 But, as it turns out, they only seek that moral parity when one of the parties is Jews. 0.53
00:04:22.000 If we're talking about, say, Russia-Ukraine, the American media treat every Russian claim with a grain of salt and believe pretty much everything put out by the Ukrainian government.
00:04:29.000 If we're talking about a full-on terrorist group that just slaughtered babies, however, our media are suddenly, shockingly credulous.
00:04:35.000 They suddenly believe what the terrorists have to say.
00:04:38.000 How interesting.
00:04:39.000 How revealing.
00:04:40.000 What we're actually watching in real time, as a genocidal Jew-hating terror group laundered a lie about a Jewish massacre of innocents at a Baptist hospital, is what we call a blood libel.
00:04:49.000 That term dates back to the year 1144, when Jew-haters charged the Jews of Norwich, England, with ritually murdering a young boy named William for religious purposes.
00:04:57.000 Frequently, such blood libels claim that Jews used Christian blood to bake Passover matzah.
00:05:01.000 Similar blood libels were used for centuries, all the way through the time of the Nazis.
00:05:05.000 They are still repeated very frequently in Arabic language media in the Middle East.
00:05:09.000 The goal is obvious, to turn the Jews into monsters and thus to justify their murder. 0.99
00:05:13.000 Blood libels historically have led to pogroms, to expulsions, to genocide targeted against Jews. 0.97
00:05:18.000 Blood libels end in actual blood.
00:05:20.000 Now the same is true right here.
00:05:21.000 Hamas retailed a blood libel. 0.95
00:05:23.000 This is a blood libel.
00:05:24.000 And the media Credulously picked it up?
00:05:27.000 Their sudden credulity has consequences.
00:05:29.000 Very deep consequences.
00:05:30.000 People are going to die because the media bit Hamas' hook here.
00:05:33.000 But again, that's really nothing new.
00:05:35.000 Legacy media hatred for the state of Israel is decades old, really dating back to the post-67 era, and has cost thousands of lives on all sides.
00:05:42.000 If the West had taken seriously Hamas' own words, or for that matter, the words of the Palestinian Authority and Islamic Jihad, Israel never would have been forced into dangerous concessions to terrorist groups that have ended with thousands of deaths.
00:05:53.000 But the media continue to pretend that moral equivalence is the story in the Middle East.
00:05:56.000 It's a comforting, easy story.
00:05:58.000 They lie.
00:05:59.000 Or, at the very least, they pretend that Israel's enemies have serious credibility.
00:06:03.000 Those lies cost blood.
00:06:05.000 Okay, so, here is the actual story of what happened yesterday.
00:06:08.000 So, late in the afternoon, in the early evening, Israel time.
00:06:13.000 A story emerged that a Palestinian hospital in the Gaza Strip, a Baptist hospital, had been hit by an Israeli airstrike.
00:06:20.000 That was the story that was originally promulgated.
00:06:23.000 And the headlines for the media just parroted whatever Hamas told them.
00:06:26.000 500 dead, it was an Israeli airstrike, it targeted a hospital, it was designed to kill as many civilians as possible.
00:06:30.000 And obviously that story was also designed to drop at the same time that President Biden was arriving in Israel.
00:06:35.000 So here were the original headlines from all of these outlets.
00:06:38.000 CNN, quote, hundreds killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, Palestinian officials say.
00:06:42.000 Now, first of all, you should note how these headlines are written.
00:06:45.000 They're all written the same way.
00:06:47.000 The way they are written is the claim.
00:06:49.000 And then at the very end of the claim, Palestinian officials say.
00:06:52.000 Now, if you let it off with Palestinian officials say hundreds killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital, everybody would know to take it with a bit of a grain of salt because, you know, Hamas lies.
00:07:00.000 They literally lie for a living.
00:07:01.000 It's what they do.
00:07:02.000 Instead, all of these headlines lead off with the claim and then, comma, Palestinian officials say.
00:07:07.000 Reuters.
00:07:07.000 Hundreds killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza hospital.
00:07:10.000 Health authorities.
00:07:11.000 Who are the health authorities?
00:07:12.000 They don't mention it.
00:07:12.000 That would be Hamas.
00:07:13.000 The Wall Street Journal.
00:07:14.000 Israeli airstrike on Gaza hospital kills more than 500, Palestinian officials say.
00:07:18.000 Al Jazeera English.
00:07:19.000 Israeli air attacks have killed hundreds of Palestinians in Al Akhli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, where thousands are seeking medical treatment and shelter from heavy bombardment.
00:07:27.000 BBC News.
00:07:28.000 Hundreds of people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.
00:07:33.000 Like, every major newspaper in the world let- It was the front page.
00:07:36.000 It was literally the front page.
00:07:37.000 It was the top headline.
00:07:38.000 Every single newspaper in the world bought into Hamas's story.
00:07:42.000 So, what actually happened?
00:07:43.000 What actually happened is that Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has thousands of rockets in the Gaza Strip, they were firing rockets on Israel because, you know, that's- It was a night ending in Y. And so it's time to try to kill some Jews in Ashkelon or something. 0.91
00:07:55.000 And so they started firing. 0.99
00:07:57.000 Rockets into Israel, and shock of shock, it turns out that one of their rockets fell short.
00:08:02.000 How do we know that?
00:08:03.000 Well, as we'll see, because all the evidence says so.
00:08:07.000 Visual evidence, audio evidence, geolocating evidence, all of it says so.
00:08:11.000 So the media didn't just get it wrong, they bought a terrorist lie, broadcast it to the world, And then, they're slowly having to backtrack that lie.
00:08:20.000 It's too late, though.
00:08:21.000 Because once the lie is out there, this will now be the story.
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00:09:28.000 The IDF waited until they could actually gather the evidence, and then they revealed that actually, no, it was not an Israeli airstrike on a hospital.
00:09:38.000 In fact, Israel goes out of its way not to hit hospitals.
00:09:41.000 How do we know this?
00:09:41.000 Well, because as I've said multiple times on this show and others, Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip Is located directly above Hamas headquarters.
00:09:48.000 This has been well known for decades at this point.
00:09:51.000 For literally decades.
00:09:52.000 So you ask, why hasn't Israel just taken down the hospital?
00:09:54.000 Because it's a hospital.
00:09:55.000 That's the reason Israel didn't take down the hospital. 0.91
00:09:57.000 For literally everyone knows.
00:09:59.000 It is not a giant secret.
00:10:00.000 It is reported on Wikipedia that Al Shifa Hospital is located on top of a Hamas headquarters.
00:10:04.000 But Israel doesn't blow it up.
00:10:05.000 Why?
00:10:05.000 Because Israel understands that the human damage and the public relations damage that would be done by doing such a thing would be catastrophic.
00:10:14.000 So, yesterday the IDF spokesperson revealed that actually Islamic Jihad fired the rockets that fell short.
00:10:20.000 Here he was announcing that yesterday.
00:10:22.000 I want to give you an announcement of the event that occurred in the hospital in Gaza.
00:10:28.000 I can confirm that an analysis of the IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the al-Hali al-Maadi hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit.
00:10:45.000 Intelligence from few sources that we have in our hands indicates that the Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.
00:10:57.000 I repeat, this is the responsibility of Islamic Jihad that killed innocents in the hospital in Gaza. 0.98
00:11:07.000 So you say, but I don't know who to believe.
00:11:08.000 Should I believe the official military of a democratic ally of the United States, or should I believe the terrorist group?
00:11:13.000 Well, good news, Israel actually then provided evidence that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket.
00:11:17.000 So first of all, there is surveillance footage from one of the Moshavim, that is one of the villages that is located around the Gaza Strip.
00:11:22.000 It was one of the places that was assaulted during the Hamas attack on Southern Israel.
00:11:27.000 This is surveillance footage from Nativ HaAsara, and it shows the barrage of rocket fire from Gaza.
00:11:33.000 You will see in this footage that one of those rockets doesn't make it all the way out.
00:11:37.000 And where does it go?
00:11:38.000 Where does it go?
00:11:39.000 There you see the Gaza border, right?
00:11:40.000 You see the Gaza wall.
00:11:42.000 Look at the rockets go up.
00:11:44.000 Hey, here they go.
00:11:45.000 All the rockets are going up into the sky aimed at Israel.
00:11:49.000 And a mere moment later, you will see an obvious projectile from the exact same direction falling directly into The hospital area.
00:12:01.000 And so there are the rockets going up.
00:12:02.000 And boom. 0.96
00:12:03.000 Something came down.
00:12:04.000 The timing is almost... Why?
00:12:06.000 Why?
00:12:06.000 Why?
00:12:07.000 Look at that.
00:12:07.000 It looks exactly as though a rocket failed.
00:12:10.000 Because that's precisely what happened.
00:12:11.000 A rocket failed.
00:12:12.000 Yeah, but don't worry.
00:12:12.000 You don't have to rely on, you know, visual footage.
00:12:16.000 Also, Al Jazeera showed it in real time.
00:12:19.000 This is footage from Al Jazeera.
00:12:20.000 Timestamped at the same time that the supposed Israeli bombing occurred.
00:12:24.000 Here's what it looked like on Al Jazeera.
00:12:29.000 There is the project.
00:12:30.000 Oh, look at that.
00:12:31.000 The camera stays on the rocket and uh-oh, there goes the rocket and bam, down right into the middle of the Gaza Strip.
00:12:38.000 So there was that.
00:12:39.000 Again, that was on Al Jazeera.
00:12:42.000 So that, yes.
00:12:45.000 Wonderful, yes.
00:12:46.000 Just amazing, amazing work there from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:12:50.000 Don't worry, that's not all the evidence.
00:12:52.000 The IDF also has radar footage.
00:12:54.000 They have radar footage.
00:12:55.000 So here is a picture, this is a graphic, of where the rockets were aimed.
00:12:59.000 There's the rocket launch site, as you can see.
00:13:00.000 If you're watching the show, you can see it in the lower left-hand side of your screen.
00:13:03.000 And then you can see a series of lines that are the direction of the rockets.
00:13:08.000 As you can see, the hospital is located directly along the path of one of those lines.
00:13:12.000 This is all taken by Israeli radar footage.
00:13:16.000 But don't worry, there's more!
00:13:18.000 The IDF also has drone footage of the actual site of the hit.
00:13:22.000 And what they show is damage done to the parking lot.
00:13:25.000 So this is before and after.
00:13:26.000 Okay, you can see from the top where exactly this rocket landed.
00:13:31.000 Now, you'll recall that the original report is that it hit a hospital square.
00:13:35.000 Right, it hit the hospital square, killed 500 people.
00:13:39.000 In actuality, where did it hit?
00:13:40.000 It hit a parking lot.
00:13:40.000 It hit a parking lot!
00:13:43.000 Right outside the hospital.
00:13:44.000 And Hamas immediately claimed 500 dead and the entire media ran with it.
00:13:47.000 Without any body count, without any sort of weighting, with nothing.
00:13:50.000 Okay, as you'll see from the footage here, you can see, there's the parking lot, there's the hospital compound.
00:14:00.000 And again, you can see the site of the fire.
00:14:03.000 There was no bomb crater, no heavy ordnance crater.
00:14:07.000 At all.
00:14:08.000 There's shrapnel on the roof.
00:14:10.000 The tile roof on the building next door wasn't even damaged.
00:14:14.000 They gave examples of craters caused by IDF ordnance, or IAF, because the Israeli Air Force, diameter of seven meters.
00:14:21.000 There are no visible signs of craters or significant damage to buildings.
00:14:24.000 There's no crater.
00:14:26.000 How do we know there's no crater?
00:14:27.000 Because there's actual pictures from the site where there's no crater.
00:14:30.000 It's perfectly obvious from all available evidence that this was a rocket that failed.
00:14:34.000 And in fact, we have footage directly from TASS, which is an Arabic station, showing the actual site.
00:14:41.000 And here's what it shows.
00:14:42.000 Now, does that look like the middle of a hospital to you, or does that look like a parking lot that got burned?
00:14:45.000 Okay, you can see.
00:14:48.000 Again, this is footage not from Israel.
00:14:50.000 This is from Tass.
00:14:51.000 Okay, there's people walking around the burned outskirts of a parking lot that got hit.
00:14:57.000 Got some burned cars.
00:14:58.000 So unless those cars were filled with hundreds of people, there are not 500 dead in that particular bombing.
00:15:05.000 And the exterior to these buildings is largely undamaged.
00:15:09.000 They have footage from inside the chapel.
00:15:12.000 You can see some of the windows got blown out.
00:15:16.000 And the interior of the chapel is intact.
00:15:19.000 Is intact.
00:15:21.000 Right?
00:15:21.000 You're not seeing giant bloodstains on the floor.
00:15:24.000 You're not seeing bodies strewn everywhere.
00:15:27.000 Now again, did some people die in this failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch?
00:15:33.000 Sure.
00:15:33.000 I mean, I would assume, yes.
00:15:35.000 Was it 500 people?
00:15:37.000 Where's the evidence?
00:15:38.000 Also, even if it wasn't 500, even if it was 500 people, it was a rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:15:43.000 Oh, but wait, there's more.
00:15:44.000 I mean, you think that, but, but, but wait, there's more.
00:15:48.000 OK, I'll get to the more in just one second, because again, just in case you were thinking, well, you know, that's all circumstantial.
00:15:54.000 What if I had for you evidence of Hamas members talking to one another about the failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch?
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00:17:09.000 Okay, so.
00:17:10.000 What if I told you that I have audio footage?
00:17:12.000 Well, um, we do.
00:17:13.000 So here's audio.
00:17:13.000 This is from Hamas members talking to one another going, uh oh, it looks like we, it looks like one of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets hit, you know, near one of our hospitals.
00:17:22.000 Oops.
00:17:24.000 This is a recording of Hamas operative number one.
00:17:27.000 I'm telling you, this is the first time that we see a missile like this falling.
00:17:30.000 And so that's why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:17:36.000 They are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:17:40.000 It's from us?
00:17:41.000 It looks like it.
00:17:43.000 Who says this?
00:17:44.000 They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel.
00:17:50.000 What are you saying?
00:17:51.000 And then the names get, then silence.
00:17:56.000 But God bless, it couldn't have found another place to explode?
00:17:59.000 Never mind, yes.
00:18:00.000 Blank, they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital.
00:18:05.000 What?
00:18:06.000 They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma'madani Hospital in a misfire and fell on them.
00:18:11.000 There's a cemetery behind it?
00:18:13.000 Yes, Al Mamadani is exactly in the compound.
00:18:16.000 Silence.
00:18:18.000 Where is it when you enter the compound?
00:18:20.000 You first enter the compound and don't go toward the city.
00:18:22.000 It's on the right side of the Al Mamadani Hospital.
00:18:25.000 Yes, I know it.
00:18:29.000 Oh, so, oh.
00:18:31.000 But I thought it was an Israeli airstrike.
00:18:32.000 I mean, according to literally every major media news outlet on the planet.
00:18:35.000 They just ran with Hamas's lies about it.
00:18:37.000 So Hamas knew right away, and then they decided to lie about it.
00:18:39.000 By the way, in that even audio recording, multiplicity of war crimes admitted in that recording, right?
00:18:44.000 You're not allowed to fire a rocket from right next to a hospital.
00:18:47.000 So what are they admitting to?
00:18:48.000 That they fired the rocket from right next to the hospital.
00:18:51.000 Two, they're admitting that it fell in the parking lot near the hospital.
00:18:54.000 Three, they're admitting to lying to the entire international media about all this. 0.98
00:18:58.000 Now, you could make the case for the media that they're just credulous and stupid, except that they've known for decades that the Palestinian authorities routinely lie about this stuff. 0.99
00:19:08.000 Routinely lie. 0.99
00:19:09.000 It is not as though this is somehow not their MO.
00:19:12.000 This is exactly their MO.
00:19:14.000 They've been doing it for as long as they've been.
00:19:16.000 This is why.
00:19:17.000 You wonder why it is?
00:19:18.000 That so many news outlets are located within Hamas-controlled buildings in the Gaza Strip?
00:19:22.000 The answer is because you will be shot or you will be hurt if you do not do what Hamas tells you to do. 0.64
00:19:28.000 Everyone in the Gaza Strip knows this.
00:19:30.000 It's not like Israel where you can walk around free with a camera. 0.83
00:19:33.000 Hamas is a tyrannical terror state.
00:19:36.000 They tell you to report a thing and you report it. 0.98
00:19:37.000 And if you don't report it, they kick you out or they kill you.
00:19:40.000 Everyone knows this.
00:19:41.000 And yet the entire media ran with their lie yesterday because the blood libel is more important.
00:19:44.000 It is purposeful.
00:19:46.000 That's not foolishness.
00:19:47.000 At a certain point, it becomes purposeful.
00:19:48.000 I don't know how many times you can promote the moral equivalence blood libel lie of equating actual terrorist murderers with Israelis attempting to defend themselves before you become complicit in the lie and part of the lie.
00:20:01.000 Hamas literally laundered a blood libel into full public view. 0.93
00:20:04.000 And by the way, blew up the Middle East. 0.98
00:20:07.000 I mean, we'll talk about that in a second.
00:20:08.000 These lies have tremendous effect internationally.
00:20:11.000 And you guys went all along with it, didn't you, in the legacy media?
00:20:14.000 You did, and I wonder why.
00:20:15.000 Could it be because it hits all of your political erogenous zones, where you get to claim moral equivalence between Israel and its enemies?
00:20:21.000 Could it be that?
00:20:24.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second, because again, the fallout from this is dramatic.
00:20:28.000 And the media, there are still members of the media yesterday who are insisting, no, no, no, we still don't know.
00:20:32.000 How could we know?
00:20:33.000 It's a real head-scratcher.
00:20:35.000 All the evidence I just provided to you, audio, visual, radar, none of it matters to them.
00:20:40.000 Many of them are still parroting it.
00:20:41.000 Some of them are softly backing off.
00:20:42.000 Well, now we don't know.
00:20:43.000 Now it's in controversy.
00:20:44.000 I mean, on the one hand, we do have all of the state. 0.99
00:20:47.000 On the other hand, lying, terrorist, genocidal, Jew-hating murderers say it was the Jews. 0.99
00:20:51.000 I mean, who's to say? 0.99
00:20:52.000 It's a mystery of cataclysmic proportions.
00:20:56.000 That's sort of moral equivalence again.
00:20:57.000 Moral equivalence in which you take an aggrieved party and you equate them to Nazis who are actual Nazis. 0.54
00:21:03.000 I mean, Hamas is Nazis.
00:21:05.000 Donald Trump's supporters are not Nazis. 0.97
00:21:06.000 Hamas are actual Nazis. 0.96
00:21:08.000 When you equate those with the Jews, what you're actually doing is both rehabbing the Nazis and degrading the Jews. 0.97
00:21:14.000 That is the entire purpose of this exercise.
00:21:16.000 And it has effects.
00:21:16.000 We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:22:12.000 Okay, so as I say, the media bought this.
00:22:15.000 The New York Times headline crew, they were in overdrive last night.
00:22:18.000 So they changed their top headline like five times.
00:22:23.000 They left the picture.
00:22:23.000 The picture was always the same, which is some suffering Palestinian mom and her kid.
00:22:27.000 And the original headline was, Israeli strike kills hundreds in hospital, Palestinians say.
00:22:33.000 Then they updated that to at least 500 dead in strike on Gaza hospital, Palestinians say.
00:22:37.000 And then they changed that to at least 500 dead in blast at Gaza hospital, Palestinians say.
00:22:43.000 So it changed from Israeli strike kills hundreds to it killed 500.
00:22:46.000 Then it changed from strike to blast.
00:22:48.000 And now if you go to the New York Times, the headline is basically, strike in dispute.
00:22:52.000 It's like Homer Simpson backing into the bushes.
00:22:55.000 Media graphic edition.
00:22:56.000 It's insane.
00:22:57.000 But don't worry, you still have your friends over at MSNBC to continue to lie to you that it was probably the Israelis.
00:23:01.000 So here was MSNBC's Raf Sanchez says, well, maybe the Israelis are lying.
00:23:05.000 Yeah, you're right, you're right.
00:23:06.000 Probably it's the Israelis. 1.00
00:23:08.000 Probably they faked the radar data, they faked the video, probably it's all that. 1.00
00:23:12.000 Or Hamas are terrorists who murder babies and burn them and lie. 0.99
00:23:16.000 I know it's hard for you to believe that maybe evil people are evil. 0.98
00:23:20.000 But I have breaking news.
00:23:22.000 They're evil.
00:23:23.000 And when you cover for them, you become complicit in their evil.
00:23:25.000 And our legacy media have been dedicated for decades to the proposition that evil must never be looked in the eye, it must be coddled.
00:23:31.000 It must be treated as though, actually they're not evil. 0.91
00:23:34.000 They're not maybe, sure they're lying and we know they're lying, but we'll pretend they're not lying and maybe we can, you know, maybe we can massage their shoulders and force Israel to make concessions to the lying genocidal murderers. 0.99
00:23:45.000 It's insane. 0.85
00:23:46.000 Here was MSNBC's Ralph Sanchez doing his best to try on both sides of this thing.
00:23:50.000 This kind of death toll is not what you normally associate with Palestinian rockets.
00:23:57.000 These rockets are dangerous.
00:23:59.000 They are deadly.
00:24:00.000 They do not tend to kill hundreds of people in a single strike in the way- Maybe they didn't.
00:24:06.000 That Israeli high explosives, especially these bunker buster bombs that are used to target these Hamas tunnels under Gaza City, do have the potential to kill hundreds of people.
00:24:15.000 And we should say, finally, that there are instances in the past where the Israeli military has said things in the immediate aftermath of an incident that have turned out not to be true in the long run.
00:24:25.000 And the one example I'll give you is that when the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akhle was killed in the occupied West Bank, The Israeli military initially said that she was killed by Palestinian gunmen and it was only months and months later that they admitted that it was likely an Israeli soldier who fired the fatal shot.
00:24:46.000 Okay, and that was a massive scandal inside Israel.
00:24:49.000 And you know who revealed that it was the Israeli soldiers who fired the shot?
00:24:52.000 Even with Shirin Abu Akhla. 0.97
00:24:54.000 The Israeli military.
00:24:55.000 Eventually, they did all the research and they found that they thought that it was an Israeli military officer.
00:24:59.000 Okay, so that was Israel that admitted that.
00:25:01.000 But I love this.
00:25:02.000 You really have to doubt the word of the Israelis over Hamas. 0.81
00:25:06.000 Like, clearly Hamas are the believable party here. 1.00
00:25:09.000 You know, the last three weeks have been just a masterclass in Jew-hatred.
00:25:12.000 It's amazing to watch.
00:25:13.000 It's like all of Jew-hating history condensed into a three-week period.
00:25:16.000 First, you have a Holocaust-level pogrom-slash-genocide. 0.92
00:25:19.000 Genocidal massacre of innocents around the Gaza Strip.
00:25:22.000 And half the world goes, meh, well, maybe they deserve, meh, we do have sympathy for the Palestinians, meh.
00:25:28.000 So you saw that.
00:25:30.000 Then we see the Israel can't defend itself. 0.63
00:25:32.000 It's causing civilian casualties.
00:25:33.000 The Jews must take it. 1.00
00:25:34.000 The Jews must take it right on the chin. 1.00
00:25:35.000 They must enjoy it. 0.95
00:25:36.000 The Jews must simply stand there. 1.00
00:25:38.000 After all, we wouldn't want this thing to escalate.
00:25:40.000 We have to make sure we just want peace.
00:25:42.000 Cease fire now before Israel can do anything to defend itself or get back its 200 hostages. 0.83
00:25:47.000 That's the best thing.
00:25:48.000 Then we have a full-on blood libel, which is what this is.
00:25:51.000 Parroted by the legacy media.
00:25:53.000 I mean, well, I'm just, I'm wondering what's coming next. 0.91
00:25:55.000 As a student of Jewish history, I'm really looking forward to seeing what new anti-Semitic trope from history can be dropped directly into the middle of this conflagration of garbage.
00:26:07.000 Great stuff here, media. 0.60
00:26:08.000 CNN had on a senior managing editor of the Military Times named Kimberly Dozier.
00:26:12.000 She says, this could shift political opinion against Israel.
00:26:16.000 Yes, that's the entire point.
00:26:17.000 Why do you think Hamas did it?
00:26:19.000 Why do you think they lied?
00:26:20.000 And then why do you think you guys are touting the lie?
00:26:23.000 Again, it's unforgivable for... You understand what Hamas is. 0.99
00:26:26.000 Hamas is a scorpion riding a frog. 0.98
00:26:27.000 Of course they're going to sting the frog.
00:26:29.000 The media are not the frog, though, because here's the thing.
00:26:31.000 The media know full well what the scorpion is.
00:26:34.000 They're not bamboozled or shocked by this.
00:26:36.000 They know what Hamas is, and they report it credulously because it backs their broader narrative, which is that there is a cycle of violence in the Middle East, not one side seeking the genocidal extermination of the other side, and the other side simply wanting to be left alone. 0.67
00:26:49.000 I repeat, for the one millionth time, Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, leaving the entire thing to the control of the Palestinians and Hamas. 0.92
00:26:56.000 And they promptly built it into a mini-terrorist state that launched the worst terror attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:27:01.000 And the media immediately turned around and go back to moral equivalence land.
00:27:03.000 It's astonishing.
00:27:04.000 Here we go.
00:27:06.000 And Jake, what those images add up to is a mass casualty event that could change the international opinion of what Israel is doing right now.
00:27:17.000 It could shift international opinion against them.
00:27:20.000 It's already shifted that opinion in the Arab world against Israel.
00:27:27.000 Israeli news channels are still covering hostage families.
00:27:31.000 Arab news channels are covering the destruction inside Gaza.
00:27:36.000 So I noticed that you guys are all very credulous about that.
00:27:39.000 Again, if you're that credulous about the claims of terrorist groups, it makes me think you have some latent feelings about this conflict.
00:27:46.000 Not so latent feelings, maybe we should say.
00:27:47.000 Speaking of people who don't have latent feelings about this conflict, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the terrorist caucus in the U.S.
00:27:52.000 Congress, they decided immediately to parrot Hamas' claims and blast them out at full volume.
00:27:57.000 Rashida Tlaib, terror sympathizer, she tweeted out, Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital, killing 500 Palestinians, doctors, children, patients, just like that.
00:28:04.000 President, this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and help de-escalate.
00:28:08.000 Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many Palestinian Americans and Muslim Americans like me.
00:28:13.000 We will remember where you stood.
00:28:15.000 So there she is just parroting Hamas propaganda because of course she loves Hamas. 0.52
00:28:18.000 This is the Hamas caucus.
00:28:19.000 Ilhan Omar, same sort of deal.
00:28:21.000 From ISIS to Hamas, has Ilhan Omar ever met a terrorist group that she isn't fond of?
00:28:24.000 Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes, says Ilhan Omar.
00:28:28.000 Well, maybe you might want to tell Palestinian Islamic Jihad that.
00:28:30.000 You know why? 0.99
00:28:30.000 Because Hamas is getting its ass kicked, as well it should. 0.99
00:28:32.000 So, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, again, pushing out terrorist propaganda because this is what they do for an actual living. 0.99
00:28:35.000 It is amazing.
00:28:35.000 to push for an immediate ceasefire to end the slaughter.
00:28:37.000 You notice that all the Hamas caucus are pushing for a ceasefire.
00:28:40.000 You know why? 0.99
00:28:41.000 Because Hamas is getting its ass kicked as well it should. 0.99
00:28:43.000 So Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, again, pushing out terrorist propaganda 0.99
00:28:47.000 because this is what they do for an actual living.
00:28:49.000 It is amazing.
00:28:50.000 These are elected officials in the United States.
00:28:53.000 Really, really solid stuff right there.
00:28:56.000 Seriously, good stuff.
00:28:58.000 By the way, the Hamas caucus adjunct scholar, AOC, she is continuing to parrot the words of her fellow Hamas caucus members.
00:29:06.000 She spent three minutes the other day trying to explain her calls for a ceasefire after so many Jews were murdered.
00:29:11.000 This is on CNN.
00:29:14.000 You and several other of your colleagues released a statement calling for a ceasefire in the region.
00:29:21.000 But I wonder, what is Israel supposed to do about Hamas after they murdered, brutalized, abducted over a thousand of their citizens?
00:29:30.000 Are they supposed to just do nothing?
00:29:32.000 Well, you know, I think what's important to note about a ceasefire is that it's not one-sided.
00:29:37.000 Hamas has been sending thousands of rockets into Israel as well, and what is important is for us to identify our goal in terms of what safety means, in terms of what defense means.
00:29:46.000 But if I may, Congresswoman, I think the position from Israel's perspective is that there was already an attack.
00:29:52.000 And Hamas already committed an attack.
00:29:55.000 After that happened, do you really believe that they should not respond to that?
00:30:02.000 I think what is important in terms of response is Israel does have a right to self-defense.
00:30:10.000 I think what we need to take a look at in this situation is if collective punishment qualifies as defense. 0.98
00:30:17.000 She's such a clown. 1.00
00:30:20.000 Our Congress is filled with clowns and she's the driver of the clown car, AOC. 1.00
00:30:24.000 The fact that the media prop her up as somebody who knows things, this idiot bartender from Brooklyn, we're supposed to pretend that she knows things? 1.00
00:30:31.000 Either she's absolutely ignorant or she's just an adjunct to the Hamas caucus or both. 1.00
00:30:36.000 At this point, I'm going to go with both. 0.97
00:30:38.000 So, Joe Biden arrived in Israel today and met with the Israeli government.
00:30:43.000 In the immediate aftermath of this, he put out a statement about how outraged he was about the hit on the hospital.
00:30:47.000 Again, it might have behooved him to wait for five minutes to see if the facts actually come out.
00:30:50.000 Meanwhile, John Kirby, who's the national security spokesperson, He said that he would be asking, that Biden would be asking Netanyahu tough questions as a friend, which is always, yeah, after your people get slaughtered, you know, definitely want to answer questions from the American president.
00:31:06.000 How many tough questions has Joe Biden asked Zelensky as a friend?
00:31:09.000 Question, serious question.
00:31:11.000 Has Joe Biden asked a lot of tough questions of Vladimir Zelensky in Ukraine as a friend?
00:31:14.000 I don't hear that sort of language applied anywhere, except with regard to the Israelis, of course.
00:31:18.000 Here was John Kirby trying to, again, start making the room for both sides in it.
00:31:21.000 Then Biden got on the ground, and as we'll see, he backtracked this thing pretty strongly.
00:31:26.000 When he talks to Prime Minister Netanyahu and to the War Cabinet, he's going to be doing a few things.
00:31:32.000 One, he's going to get a sense from the Israelis about the situation on the ground, and more critically, their objectives, their plans, their intentions in the days and weeks ahead.
00:31:42.000 And he'll be asking some tough questions.
00:31:44.000 He'll be asking them as a friend, as a true friend of Israel, but he'll be asking some questions of them.
00:31:49.000 He's also going to make it clear that we continue to want to see this conflict not widen, not expand, not deepen.
00:31:59.000 And tough questions.
00:32:00.000 Anyway, Biden immediately said he was outraged by all this then.
00:32:03.000 Today, he said in Israel, oh, yeah, by the way, I noticed that the other side did it, meaning it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
00:32:09.000 Here is President Biden saying that.
00:32:10.000 I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.
00:32:18.000 And based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.
00:32:25.000 But there's a lot of people out there who are not sure.
00:32:27.000 So we've got to overcome a lot of things.
00:32:33.000 So he was asked, by the way, why he believed that.
00:32:35.000 And he says, what I was shown by my defense department, not by the Israelis, by the American Defense Department, the British Foreign Secretary actually tweeted out this morning that everyone got it wrong, admitting that it was all a lie that was made up and that everyone got it wrong, including in the international community.
00:32:52.000 He put out a tweet.
00:32:55.000 This is James Cleverly.
00:33:00.000 Oh, sad that the entire media don't give any damns about that at all.
00:33:06.000 Okay, so there are natural consequences to this.
00:33:09.000 Those natural consequences are going to cost extraordinary numbers of lives and prolong this conflict and possibly widen it.
00:33:14.000 The media are complicit in all of that.
00:33:15.000 The media have blood on their hands.
00:33:17.000 We'll get to that momentarily first.
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00:35:24.000 Well, when the media launder terrorist lies into full public view, that has some pretty predictable consequences.
00:35:38.000 Already, there are forces in the Middle East that wish to see this conflagration spread. 0.98
00:35:41.000 Now, it is in the interest of America to keep this thing contained.
00:35:44.000 They don't want Hezbollah getting into the war.
00:35:46.000 If they do, Israel is going to go whole hog against Hezbollah. 0.77
00:35:48.000 If Israel does that, Syria may come in, Iran may come in, and suddenly you have a regional war that may expand outward to include Sunni states and may go nuclear. 0.77
00:35:55.000 This is something the United States wishes to minimize.
00:35:58.000 In order for that to happen, however, it would really help if the media would stop promulgating blood libels against the Israelis.
00:36:03.000 That actually end ongoing negotiations.
00:36:05.000 So already, again, you have forces that are seeking to maximize the amount of conflict in the region.
00:36:08.000 That, of course, would include Hezbollah, another terrorist group, an evil genocidal terrorist group on Israel's northern border that also happens to run the Lebanese government by proxy at this point.
00:36:18.000 According to the Jerusalem Post, Hezbollah denounced what the group said was Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza hospital.
00:36:22.000 Again, it was a lie.
00:36:23.000 And called for a day of unprecedented anger on Wednesday.
00:36:26.000 I mean, it's hard to have a day of unprecedented anger in a region where pretty much every day is a day of precedented anger.
00:36:32.000 I mean, literally every Friday, it's like a day of rage over there.
00:36:35.000 But protests erupted outside the U.S.
00:36:36.000 Embassy in Beirut just hours after the incident.
00:36:40.000 Again, all of this promoted by the American media.
00:36:44.000 These massive protests spread pretty much everywhere.
00:36:47.000 So huge protests in Lebanon that ended with the evacuation, apparently, of the American Embassy in Beirut because people were trying to set it on fire.
00:36:53.000 There were also massive protests in Jordan.
00:36:55.000 We have footage from Jordan where massive protests broke out around the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.
00:37:00.000 Here's what that looked like.
00:37:03.000 You can see, look at the size of that protest.
00:37:04.000 Of course, 70% of the population of Jordan is Palestinian Arab, which makes perfect sense, because originally the entire area was, quote-unquote, Jordan, was Transjordan, and then Transjordan was sliced off. 0.95
00:37:15.000 The entire area was, quote-unquote, British Mandate Palestine.
00:37:17.000 Transjordan was sliced off, that became Jordan. 0.92
00:37:18.000 So, naturally, a huge percentage of the population is Palestinian Arab.
00:37:21.000 You can see the size of the crowd.
00:37:22.000 Then you had massive protests in Qatar, which is an Iranian proxy state and ally, worked very, very closely with the genocidal dictators in Iran.
00:37:31.000 So here they were protesting in Qatar.
00:37:33.000 It's a giant protest over in Qatar.
00:37:35.000 There are massive protests in Iran in favor of Hamas as well.
00:37:39.000 Again, look at the size of those protests.
00:37:41.000 Many of these devolved into violent riots or people at least attacking particular sites.
00:37:46.000 That included, for example, people who are actually shooting ordnance at the Israeli consulate in Turkey.
00:37:55.000 So fireworks are being shot at the Israeli consulate in Turkey.
00:37:57.000 Here's what that looked like as well.
00:38:00.000 It didn't stop there, by the way.
00:38:02.000 A crowd tried to break into an American military base in Turkey as well.
00:38:06.000 And all of this was ignited by the American media parodying Hamas talking points.
00:38:10.000 So again, slow clap for our geniuses in legacy media who only want peace, guys.
00:38:14.000 They're peace-loving, truth-seeking people who exacerbate every conflict they can find, apparently.
00:38:21.000 Meanwhile, a massive pro-Hamas crowd headed toward the U.S.
00:38:24.000 Embassy in Baghdad.
00:38:26.000 So that was another thing that happened last night.
00:38:27.000 All this happened overnight because, again, the misinformation gets around the world before the truth can put its pants on in the morning.
00:38:33.000 Here's a massive pro-Hamas crowd headed toward the U.S. 0.87
00:38:35.000 Embassy in Baghdad.
00:38:36.000 And you're seeing a lot of young males, obviously, as you would imagine in Iraq. 0.82
00:38:47.000 Oh, by the way, if you're wondering what these people are chanting, they are chanting, I quote, America is the greatest devil. 0.95
00:38:52.000 So just in case you thought that this was only about hating Jews, because if they weren't bad enough, they hate America also. 0.99
00:38:58.000 So things are going great. 0.67
00:38:59.000 Protesters in Beirut, as we say, the U.S.
00:39:01.000 Embassy had to be briefly evacuated, apparently, because protesters in Beirut were trying to get into the U.S.
00:39:06.000 Embassy.
00:39:08.000 They were flying Hamas flags and draping them over the fences.
00:39:11.000 Don't worry, they're not.
00:39:12.000 Guys, we have been told by the same legacy media that the population in these areas hates Hamas.
00:39:18.000 Hamas is basically acting on its own. 0.54
00:39:20.000 That the population of Gaza, they hate Hamas.
00:39:22.000 The Judean Samaria, the so-called West Bank, they hate Hamas.
00:39:25.000 And in all of these countries, everyone is peace-loving and peace-seeking.
00:39:27.000 They all want the same thing.
00:39:28.000 I'm not seeing a lot of evidence for that, but we have been told it by our legacy media, so probably we should believe it.
00:39:34.000 Meanwhile, it's also hitting the West.
00:39:35.000 Police in Berlin actually had to set up outside a Holocaust memorial in Berlin to prevent it from being defaced and vandalized.
00:39:42.000 Here's video of that last night in Berlin.
00:39:48.000 Look at the police presence around the Holocaust memorial to prevent it from being defaced.
00:39:51.000 Meanwhile, you saw massive protests in Canada as well in favor of Hamas.
00:39:55.000 Those continue.
00:39:56.000 The West did an amazing job, by the way, in importing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people who sympathize with terrorist groups.
00:40:02.000 It turns out that was an amazingly smart move.
00:40:04.000 So that's great.
00:40:06.000 Yep, that's a lot of people who... If you're on, let me put it this way, if you're on the West on an immigrant visa and you support Hamas, the West should deport you.
00:40:14.000 It should not be a particularly controversial statement.
00:40:16.000 It seems like supporting terrorist groups is a pretty baseline thing not to do if you wish to reside in the West.
00:40:21.000 Massive protests broke out in Greece as well.
00:40:23.000 Terrorist sympathizers were running wild in Spain.
00:40:25.000 Around the globe, around the globe, this is a thing.
00:40:26.000 This is the protest in Greece.
00:40:28.000 We want a vote! We want a vote!
00:40:36.000 So, um, things are going really, really well.
00:40:40.000 All credit to the media.
00:40:41.000 By the way, remember all those people we were told are not allied with the terrorists?
00:40:44.000 You know, all those people who really hate the terrorists, like Mahmoud Abbas.
00:40:47.000 He's the reasonable one in this particular region.
00:40:49.000 He's the head of the Palestinian Authority.
00:40:51.000 Well, I mean, it is unfortunate then that the Palestinian Authority gave Hamas' terrorist families close to $3 million for murdering Jews.
00:40:58.000 That is a thing that actually happened?
00:41:00.000 According to Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority, which again, those are the moderates, those are the supposed peace partner, they will pay families of dead Hamas terrorists a combined total of $2.8 million to a pay-for-slay system called the Martyrs Fund.
00:41:12.000 The terrorist family would be rewarded around $1,500 and a $353 allowance monthly for life.
00:41:20.000 The families terrorists married into receive an even higher amount.
00:41:24.000 That's apparently a low estimate.
00:41:26.000 Those are the friendlies, by the way.
00:41:27.000 Those are the people who we are told actually want peace.
00:41:30.000 Yeah, Israel should probably make concessions.
00:41:31.000 Probably a ceasefire would be necessary.
00:41:34.000 Meanwhile, this had dramatic diplomatic fallout.
00:41:36.000 So as I was talking about yesterday and throughout the week on the show, the reality is that everyone in the region, except for Hamas, has some interest in this thing coming to a close without it being blown into a broader war.
00:41:47.000 Iran doesn't want that because if this thing goes hot and Iran ends up in the war, The leadership of Iran will be dead.
00:41:52.000 Okay, that's just the reality.
00:41:54.000 Lebanon will be deposed. 0.95
00:41:55.000 The leadership of Iran will be dead. 0.92
00:41:56.000 There'll be a lot of dead bodies. 0.96
00:41:57.000 There'll be a lot of horrific suffering and carnage.
00:42:00.000 That's what everybody is seeking to avoid at this point.
00:42:02.000 But because of this false report parroted around by the media, and because of that, Jordan has now canceled a summit that was to be held with King Abdullah, the dictator of Egypt, al-Sisi, and Mahmoud Abbas after the blast.
00:42:17.000 They decided to cancel that And so that was going to be sort of the lead off for trying to figure out what happens with Gaza.
00:42:24.000 That's really what those meetings are about.
00:42:25.000 What happens with civilians in Gaza?
00:42:27.000 Do they get some sort of temporary stay in Egypt?
00:42:30.000 Do any of them want to move out?
00:42:31.000 It turns out a lot of people don't necessarily want to live in Gaza because it's actually a crappy place to live when you're governed by either the Palestinian Authority or Islamic Jihad or Hamas.
00:42:38.000 Many people want to leave.
00:42:38.000 Will they be allowed to?
00:42:39.000 Where would they go?
00:42:40.000 That's what those meetings were going to be about.
00:42:42.000 What comes after Hamas? 0.96
00:42:43.000 Instead, that got canceled because of this false story that was touted around the world by legacy media.
00:42:48.000 According to the Times of Israel, the White House confirmed that the Jordan portion of Joe Biden's trip to the Mideast has been canceled.
00:42:53.000 He was supposed to hold a summit in Amman with the leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority.
00:42:57.000 Jordan announced it was scrapping the meeting entirely, which again, goes to show you where their hearts are, does it not?
00:43:03.000 I mean, again, why would that scrap the meeting?
00:43:04.000 Wouldn't they want the meeting more desperately with the Americans, even if only to pressure the Americans to push the Israelis? 0.66
00:43:09.000 A White House official said in a statement, the decision to scrap the Amman summit was made after Biden consulted with King Abdullah in light of the days of mourning announced by Abbas following the hospital blast.
00:43:18.000 Again, they're all playing up the lie because they want to play up the lie, because they wish to exacerbate the feelings of the so-called Arab street. 0.72
00:43:25.000 They've been lying to their people for decades and indoctrinating their children in the hatred of Jews, so why stop now? 0.84
00:43:31.000 So, that is the international situation as it currently stands.
00:43:34.000 Now, how fast can this lie be debunked?
00:43:37.000 Anybody's guess.
00:43:37.000 I mean, it's already been debunked in real time, but it doesn't really matter.
00:43:41.000 Because in the end, in the end, there are too many people in legacy media who still have a stake in the pre-existing narrative.
00:43:47.000 They still have a stake in the pre-existing narrative.
00:43:50.000 And they're gonna continue to promote the lie, and the Arab street will continue to pick up the lie, and Arab leadership will continue to pick up the lie, Muslim leadership will continue to pick up the lie, and the conflict will remain intractable, which was entirely the point. 0.88
00:43:59.000 This has been entirely the point of the Palestinian conflict since the very beginning.
00:44:04.000 I repeat, that if you go back to 1947, 1948, Every war creates refugees. 1.00
00:44:08.000 This is what wars do.
00:44:09.000 This is why there are 3.5 million Syrian refugees currently living in Turkey.
00:44:13.000 The difference between Israel and its Arab neighbors is that Israel tried to encourage many people to stay, which is why 20% of Israel's population is currently Israeli Arab, meaning Palestinian Arab.
00:44:22.000 And also, Israel took in 800,000 Jews from the surrounding regions.
00:44:26.000 All of them it took in.
00:44:27.000 The Arab nations took in zero Palestinian Arabs to use them as a weapon against the Jews.
00:44:32.000 And that has been the story since the beginning.
00:44:33.000 It continues to be the story today.
00:44:35.000 In a second, we'll get to what comes next internationally and the continuing crisis on America's college campuses.
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00:45:40.000 So what comes next?
00:45:41.000 Well, the White House is already discussing the possibility of what they will do if Hezbollah gets in. 0.98
00:45:47.000 According to Axios.com, the White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war in Gaza.
00:45:53.000 And attacks Israel with its huge arsenal of rockets.
00:45:55.000 Well, that of course matters.
00:45:57.000 Even the discussion, the publicly available discussion, is meant to push Hezbollah away from doing just that.
00:46:01.000 And that is smart.
00:46:02.000 America does not want Hezbollah involved. 0.98
00:46:04.000 Israel does not want Hezbollah involved.
00:46:05.000 No one wants Hezbollah involved. 0.99
00:46:06.000 I'm not even sure Hezbollah wants Hezbollah involved.
00:46:08.000 Because if they get involved, they will not be on the map within a few weeks.
00:46:12.000 But they're being forced into it by Iran, by circumstances in Gaza, by world opinion, and all the rest.
00:46:20.000 So the West promoting a deterrence strategy here is a smart thing to do.
00:46:23.000 As I mentioned yesterday, that is something that the United States should be doing.
00:46:27.000 They should be pushing Hezbollah from doing this. 0.99
00:46:29.000 Because again, if Hezbollah fires those rockets, we're not talking about 1,500 dead Jews, you're talking about 20,000 to 30,000 dead Jews.
00:46:34.000 That's how many rockets they have, and they're much more sophisticated, and they can overwhelm Iron Dome.
00:46:38.000 That's the great fear.
00:46:40.000 Two U.S.
00:46:41.000 officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Arab leaders in the region that the U.S.
00:46:44.000 is not fooling around by sending so many military assets to the region in support of Israel.
00:46:49.000 They added that any decision to use force would be made according to the scope of the Hezbollah attack and Israel's ability to respond.
00:46:54.000 This is why, by the way, you've seen Hezbollah doing pinprick attacks in the north. 0.98
00:46:57.000 The basic idea here is to tie down Israeli troops and materiel in the north to redirect them away from the Gaza Strip, but not go so hard that either Israel strikes full force or that America strikes full force either.
00:47:09.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden is expected to ask Congress for a $100 billion package.
00:47:12.000 Again, Joe Biden is trying to package together aid for Israel and Ukraine.
00:47:15.000 These are two completely separate issues.
00:47:17.000 They're completely separate issues.
00:47:19.000 And the conflict in Ukraine, I've been an advocate of America funding Ukraine to defend itself and to prevent Russia from taking over the territory.
00:47:26.000 Also, the intractable battlefield conflict, which is resulting in nothing, is going to need to have an off-ramp. 0.99
00:47:32.000 And the United States is going to have to take a lead position in negotiating what that off-ramp is with the Russians, as much as I hate Vladimir Putin and think that he's a garbage human being and a dictator. 0.81
00:47:40.000 So funding for Ukraine is a much more controversial proposition than re-arming the Israelis in the face of an ongoing terrorist onslaught. 0.91
00:47:46.000 Again, arming Ukraine to defend its own territory, I'm totally fine with, and that should continue. 1.00
00:47:51.000 Because if not, then Russia wins and walks into Kiev. 0.79
00:47:54.000 That is something that should be prevented.
00:47:55.000 But linking the two issues, they are two completely separate issues, and Congress people should have the ability to decide to vote up on one and down on the other, or vice versa.
00:48:03.000 The fact that Biden is trying to link the two in order to cram them through is, I think, strategic bad faith.
00:48:09.000 The funding levels, which would cover an entire year, they would also cover border funding and disaster aids.
00:48:13.000 They're trying to lump everything together. 0.91
00:48:15.000 Israel, Ukraine, border funding, another crap sandwich from the Biden administration. 0.97
00:48:21.000 I don't know why this has to be tied together. 0.95
00:48:24.000 Many House Republicans are expressing skepticism over combining all of this together.
00:48:28.000 Some of the Senate higher-ups, the Democrats run the Senate, of course.
00:48:31.000 Mitch McConnell is backing the Biden proposal mainly because he wants to make sure that the aid to Israel gets done and the border security gets done.
00:48:38.000 And he's saying, we don't run the Senate or the presidency.
00:48:41.000 He says this is all interconnected, but Republicans are going to push for a strong border element.
00:48:45.000 In order for that to happen, obviously, Republicans at some point might want to, you know, nominate a Speaker.
00:48:50.000 So this is the other ongoing issue.
00:48:51.000 Republicans still do not have a Speaker of the House.
00:48:53.000 So yesterday, they held a House vote.
00:48:56.000 20 House Republicans voted against Jim Jordan for Speaker of the House.
00:48:59.000 Steve Scalise, who was previously the person who won a behind-the-scenes election, among Republicans over Jim Jordan. He removed his name
00:49:06.000 because he said he wasn't going to get 217.
00:49:08.000 Jordan decided to push forward and try to do a pressure campaign against various sort of
00:49:12.000 Congress people who are waiting and it didn't work. 20 Republicans voted against him for Speaker of
00:49:18.000 the House. That included the House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger of Texas, Representative
00:49:21.000 Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Representative Ken Buck of Colorado, and a quartet of New York
00:49:25.000 Republicans in purple districts. Many of them are afraid, as I said yesterday, that Jim Jordan is a
00:49:28.000 very right-wing guy. They're afraid that he's going to do things like lead broad government
00:49:32.000 shutdowns that will lose them their seats and therefore the House its majority. 1.00
00:49:34.000 All this chaos and stupidity should just underscore how dumb it was to depose 1.00
00:49:41.000 Kevin McCarthy with no plan or actual ask. 1.00
00:49:45.000 is a fit of pique from some Congress people who like TV cameras.
00:49:49.000 That's all it was.
00:49:50.000 Because so far, I'm not seeing what the win is.
00:49:52.000 What's the win?
00:49:53.000 Really, what's the win?
00:49:55.000 Again, the underlying incentive structure is precisely the same.
00:49:57.000 Because if you only have 221 seats in the House, which is what Republicans have, and you need a majority of 217 in order to do anything, that means five Republican Congress people of any stripe can simply sink whatever the entire caucus wants.
00:50:08.000 That's what happened with McCarthy, but it can also happen from the left wing of the caucus, which is kind of what happened with Jordan yesterday.
00:50:14.000 Representative Doug LaMalfa, a longtime Representative Kevin McCarthy ally who voted for him on the first ballot in the Speaker's vote, told reporters that he'll vote for Jim Jordan on the second ballot.
00:50:23.000 Jimenez said he would never vote for Jordan, but would consider other candidates.
00:50:27.000 McCarthy is pushing for Jordan.
00:50:29.000 But, again, it's unclear exactly whether Republicans can ever get to 17 at this point.
00:50:35.000 Byron Donalds, who is obviously a very right-wing, pretty Trump-y congressperson from Florida, he says, yeah, it turns out that pressure campaign against the moderate members of Congress backfired.
00:50:45.000 Axios heading into all this was talking about the pressure campaign that had building to vote for Jim Jordan.
00:50:52.000 Some were anonymously telling sources that they were getting bullied into voting.
00:50:58.000 Was any of that a turnoff for some of these members?
00:51:01.000 I believe it was.
00:51:02.000 I've talked to a couple of members where they felt that that's just not what they needed.
00:51:07.000 I don't think that's what we should be doing right now.
00:51:09.000 And listen, for all of the voters in our country, I think it's important for members to hear your voice, and I totally respect that, but I think that there are members up here who they want to be able to make this decision on leadership and then move forward.
00:51:22.000 I think some of the Prussia campaigns have backfired.
00:51:25.000 They have not worked.
00:51:28.000 So what exactly are the Republicans gonna do?
00:51:30.000 The answer is, eh.
00:51:31.000 So right now, there are apparently ongoing conversations between the Democrats and some Republicans to empower Patrick McHenry, who's the interim House leader, to just kind of continue with his job.
00:51:41.000 So there just won't be a Speaker of the House.
00:51:42.000 We'll just move along with Patrick McHenry.
00:51:44.000 Clearly, this is a big win for Republicans. 1.00
00:51:46.000 Clearly, they don't look like they're a bunch of morons in a clown car shooting blanks at each other. 1.00
00:51:49.000 Obviously, this is well thought out. 1.00
00:51:52.000 It was a genius move.
00:51:53.000 Again, I'm all for a bit of A bit of boisterous activity in the House if it actually accomplishes conservative goals. 0.99
00:52:00.000 Please name the conservative goals that have been accomplished by this idiotic fit of pique. 0.98
00:52:05.000 Can anyone name one? 0.99
00:52:07.000 Jim Jordan is still not Speaker of the House.
00:52:09.000 Steve Scalise is not Speaker of the House.
00:52:10.000 In fact, nobody's Speaker of the House and hasn't been for several weeks at this point.
00:52:15.000 Hakeem Jeffries is now telling CNN that his caucus is open to reaching some form of agreement with quote-unquote traditional Republicans to reopen the House.
00:52:22.000 They're talking about empowering interim Speaker Patrick McHenry.
00:52:26.000 He said, I have respect for Patrick McHenry.
00:52:32.000 I think he's respected on our side of the aisle.
00:52:34.000 Apparently, conversations between senior Democrats and Republicans have accelerated in recent days.
00:52:38.000 So what is this going to end with?
00:52:39.000 In all likelihood, some concessions to Democrats just to get a speaker done.
00:52:42.000 So Democrats will vote for somebody.
00:52:44.000 Slow clap, slow clap for the strategic brilliance of this entire debacle.
00:52:49.000 Really, really high-level stuff.
00:52:51.000 And meanwhile, America's universities continue to be a moral wreckage, a place of moral wreckage.
00:52:57.000 University of Pennsylvania is now in crisis because they have not only looked the other way on radical antisemitism, but a lot of their donors are beginning to realize they shouldn't have been sending money there.
00:53:07.000 So first of all, Welcome to the party, pal. 0.97
00:53:09.000 I've been saying for literally 20 years, 20 years, I've been saying that donors, conservative donors, should not be giving money to left-wing colleges who promote garbage. 0.94
00:53:19.000 They shouldn't be doing it. 0.95
00:53:20.000 And so many people are like, yeah, but it's my alma mater.
00:53:22.000 Yeah, but they still do some good things.
00:53:23.000 Yeah, but yeah, but here's the thing.
00:53:26.000 You shouldn't.
00:53:27.000 You shouldn't.
00:53:27.000 Well, University of Pennsylvania now has a problem, according to CNN.
00:53:30.000 Former U.S.
00:53:31.000 Ambassador John Huntsman blasted the University of Pennsylvania's response in recent months to antisemitism and is promising to halt his family's donations to the university.
00:53:39.000 The strong criticism from Huntsman comes amid a growing backlash from donors and trustees.
00:53:44.000 The controversy began last month when a multi-day event took place on campus at UPenn.
00:53:47.000 It was called the Palestine Rights Literature Festival.
00:53:49.000 UPenn has acknowledged the event included speakers with a history of making antisemitic remarks.
00:53:54.000 UPenn leaders issued a statement ahead of the festival condemning antisemitism broadly, but not the festival specifically.
00:54:00.000 A lot of powerful donors have now argued that UPenn leaders have basically allowed this to go on.
00:54:04.000 UPenn leader, President Liz McGill, issued a statement Sunday admitting the school did not handle the situation as well as it could have.
00:54:11.000 Well, here's the thing, guys.
00:54:11.000 This is a systemic problem.
00:54:12.000 It's not going to be fixed by putting out a statement.
00:54:15.000 This is why, also, Leslie Wexner's nonprofit group, the Wexner Foundation, has withdrawn financial support from Harvard University after that giant student group-led letter blasting Israel for the recent terrorist attacks that murdered 1,400 Israelis.
00:54:30.000 More of this, please. 0.97
00:54:31.000 More people pulling money from these garbage universities that are overcharging their students for a degree in nonsense. 0.97
00:54:37.000 This is what needs to happen. 0.88
00:54:38.000 Hopefully, if something, anything decent can come out of this entire horrific situation, perhaps it would be the defunding of some of our worst colleges and universities.
00:54:48.000 Perhaps it would be that.
00:54:49.000 Alrighty, guys, the rest of the show continues right now.
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