The Ben Shapiro Show - November 03, 2023


The Islamophobia Lie

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Less than a month ago, we saw the worst attack on Jews since the holocaust. Since then, we ve also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism has gone up since October 7th by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year. But there s something peculiar about all the media reports about the extravagant spike in antisemitism: every single story also carries notes about a supposedly concomitant rise in Islamophobia. What is Islamophobia and what does it have to do with antisemitic attacks on Jews? And why is it so important that the media focus on supposed Islamophobia as a form of Islamophobia, when in fact there is no such thing as Islamophobia at all? And what is the point of CAIR s support for Hamas and support for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas? Is CAIR anti-Semitic? And is it also anti-Judea and anti-Zionist? And why does CAIR support Hamas and oppose American aid to Israel and the Abrahamaccords? And who are the real enemies of the Jewish people by supporting Hamas and supporting the terrorist group? Israel? Is it really anti-Israel? or is it pro-Hamas and pro-Judaism? Or is it anti-Americanism? And does it all a matter of who Israel is to blame? and who is pro-Israel or anti-Jew ? And what does the media have to say about the growing threat to Israel ? and what Israel is really fighting against it? Join us in this episode of the Anti-Israelism and its response to the latest attack on the worst anti- Israel attack on Jewish people in recent history? on the latest episode of and why it s better than any other than Israel s response to that attack on Israel s worst attack in the past century? of course, right here on Anti-Jew on this podcast on the anti-of-the-Holocaust? by . by David Frum by Norma Elazar, ? by Chassidus, by Zushaar, , by . by , , by , and by ? by . . and , , and by . , is by Maan, and so much more! by Dr. in this podcast than .

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00:00:00.000 Less than a month ago, we saw the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
00:00:03.000 Since then, we've also seen the worst global spike in anti-Semitism since the Holocaust.
00:00:08.000 According to Reuters, quote, in countries where figures are available from police or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and South Africa, the pattern is clear.
00:00:16.000 The number of anti-Semitic incidents has gone up since October 7th by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year.
00:00:23.000 Such incidents range from verbal abuse to threats to property attacks to actual assaults.
00:00:27.000 Some are happening on our nation's campuses.
00:00:29.000 This one happened at Harvard, where the editor of the Harvard Law Review, Ibrahim Baramal, joined in.
00:00:33.000 You can see the crowd mobilizing around a Jewish student, pushing the Jewish student around. 0.76
00:00:45.000 Again, one of these people is the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
00:00:49.000 Anti-Semitism also extends into the administrative halls of our universities.
00:00:53.000 Georgetown just hired the radical anti-Semite Anissa Johnson as new assistant director of academic affairs. 1.00
00:00:58.000 Here are some of her posts.
00:00:59.000 This is July 7th.
00:01:00.000 Quote, ever since going to NU, I have a deep-seated hatred for ziobleeps. 1.00
00:01:05.000 They bring out the worst in me.
00:01:06.000 You know why I call them ziobleeps? 1.00
00:01:08.000 Because they're dogs.
00:01:10.000 This is the kind of person who apparently gets hired at Georgetown.
00:01:13.000 Meanwhile, Ilya Shapiro, a law professor, was thrown out of his job for the crime of suggesting that Joe Biden was picking judicial nominees based on race, which he said himself.
00:01:24.000 Meanwhile, some Jewish businesses are being boycotted for the crime of being Jewish businesses. 0.99
00:01:29.000 According to the Washington Post, more than 30 Jewish eateries and markets in Philadelphia are now being hit with a boycott organized by a pro-Hamas group because they are, quote, owned by Zionists.
00:01:38.000 Even some shops that aren't even owned by Jews are being boycotted because they serve Israeli food, because according to the Philly-Palestine coalition, such a food is, quote, a means of erasing Palestinian existence, unquote.
00:01:47.000 But there's something peculiar about all the media reports about the extravagant spike in anti-Semitism.
00:01:52.000 Every single story also carries notes about a supposedly concomitant rise in Islamophobia.
00:01:58.000 This is odd, to say the least.
00:02:00.000 What the hell does Islamophobia have to do with antisemitism?
00:02:03.000 The answer is, precisely nothing.
00:02:05.000 Precisely nothing, that is, unless you wish to suggest that response to antisemitism is linked with Islamophobia.
00:02:11.000 That if you wish to oppose radical Muslim antisemitism, that, in fact, is an aspect of Islamophobia.
00:02:16.000 Which, of course, is precisely what antisemites are suggesting these days.
00:02:20.000 Take, for example, Corey Saylor of the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:02:24.000 CARE is the most frequently cited group in America on, quote, rising Islamophobia.
00:02:28.000 CARE is also a group that, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Hamas front charity, the Holy Land Foundation.
00:02:34.000 Saylor himself refuses to condemn boycotts on Jewish businesses.
00:02:37.000 He told the Washington Post, quote, it is 100% on the table to criticize supporters of Israeli apartheid.
00:02:42.000 Care itself accuses Israel of, quote, textbook ethnic cleansing and war crime for defending itself, trots out anti-Semite extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, and promotes the Hamas lie that Israel bombed a hospital.
00:02:52.000 Of course, it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 0.55
00:02:53.000 On October 7th, the date of the Hamas massacre, Care National tweeted, quote, we join the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people's right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.
00:03:08.000 On October 7th, before any Israeli response at all, CAIR also called for an end to American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords.
00:03:15.000 The group has not offered a single word condemning Hamas.
00:03:18.000 In other words, CAIR is anti-Semitic.
00:03:20.000 Good thing the Biden administration infamously invited CAIR to participate in its national anti-Semitism strategy back in May.
00:03:26.000 CAIR is, by any stretch of the imagination, a giant fomenter of anti-Semitism.
00:03:31.000 But that, of course, is the point of focusing on supposed Islamophobia.
00:03:34.000 The goal is to treat response to antisemitism as a form of Islamophobia.
00:03:39.000 So, for example, Saylor claims it is Islamophobia to publicize the names of students who signed petitions siding with Hamas, while simultaneously claiming it's not antisemitism to boycott Jewish businesses because they're Jewish.
00:03:50.000 Fascinating.
00:03:51.000 Columbia University is playing the same game.
00:03:53.000 The president of Columbia University sent out a letter yesterday praising the quote persistence and perseverance of students who have signed letters supporting Hamas after their names and faces have been shown publicly.
00:04:02.000 Opposing Hamas means Islamophobia apparently.
00:04:05.000 The legacy media feel the same way too.
00:04:07.000 That's precisely why since October 7th the media have rushed to link anti-semitism and Islamophobia as though the two phenomena are part of a cycle of hatred.
00:04:16.000 That's a disgusting wrong take that excuses antisemitism through false charges of Islamophobia.
00:04:21.000 But it's an extraordinarily common take on the left these days.
00:04:23.000 One variation on the theme comes from Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who has now emerged as one of the nation's leading antisemites. 0.69
00:04:29.000 She now accuses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being an extremist group attempting to undermine American democracy and targeting members of color. 0.92
00:04:37.000 Yes, those wily Jews and their dirty shekels are clearly the problem as antisemitism around the nation spikes. 1.00
00:04:43.000 They must be stopped, according to AOC. 0.98
00:04:45.000 The Biden administration itself is falling into the trap of linking anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, a link that has the purposeful goal of demonizing opposition to Hamas.
00:04:53.000 Fearful of their own base, the Biden administration announced yesterday a White House national strategy to combat Islamophobia, again, in the middle of the worst spike in anti-Semitism of my lifetime or my parents' lifetime.
00:05:03.000 Karine Jean-Pierre explained, quote, But Islamophobia is the real issue. 0.76
00:05:05.000 in America and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate
00:05:09.000 number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents. In actuality, Sikhs are targeted far
00:05:14.000 more often than Muslims, according to the FBI, despite representing just a few hundred thousand
00:05:18.000 people in the United States. Jews represent around 60 percent of all victims of federally
00:05:23.000 monitored hate crime, despite representing about two percent of the American population.
00:05:26.000 But Islamophobia is the real issue. Here was Vice President Kamala Harris announcing the
00:05:31.000 new initiative yesterday. As a result of the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel and the humanitarian
00:05:38.000 crisis in Gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Semitic
00:05:44.000 and Islamophobic incidents across America, including the brutal attack of a Palestinian
00:05:51.000 American woman who was Muslim and the killing of her six-year-old son.
00:05:57.000 A senseless act of violence that the Department of Justice is investigating as a hate crime.
00:06:04.000 For so many people in our nation, the past few days and weeks have brought about all too familiar fears.
00:06:12.000 Fears that they will be targeted, profiled, or attacked simply because of who they are, how they worship, or how they look. 0.79
00:06:22.000 Again, linking these two things is ridiculous.
00:06:25.000 The case that she cites, by the way, which is a horrifying crime against a Palestinian-American mom and her child. 0.93
00:06:31.000 Horrifying, horrifying crime.
00:06:32.000 Condemned by literally everyone.
00:06:34.000 You can't find a Jew in America who won't condemn it. 1.00
00:06:36.000 However, you can find Care National that will not condemn Hamas.
00:06:40.000 So why is the White House playing this game?
00:06:42.000 Because they're attempting to buy back the support of radical Muslims across the United States who are enraged that the White House has sided with Israel instead of Hamas.
00:06:49.000 The latest polls show that nearly 6 in 10 American Muslims agree that Hamas was justified in attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state.
00:06:56.000 The White House is trying to buy off the Hamas fans by jabbering about the supposed victimhood to which those Hamas fans are subjected.
00:07:03.000 It's perverse.
00:07:03.000 It continues to drive a false narrative that opposition to Hamas and opposition to Hamas fans is opposition to Muslims more broadly, a proposition that Muslims themselves should reject.
00:07:13.000 Although we're still waiting for a lot of people to do so.
00:07:16.000 The moderate Muslims have been conspicuously silent.
00:07:19.000 If the Biden administration feels the necessity to keep radical Muslims in their electoral coalition by pandering, that says something pretty nasty about their moral stature in fighting anti-Semitism, as they claim they actually want to do.
00:07:29.000 In just one second, we'll get to the situation in Britain.
00:07:32.000 Which is going to become a lot worse over the course of the next few weeks.
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00:08:40.000 Over in Britain, a lot of this is going to come to a head because apparently there is a planned pro-Hamas rally, a million strong march in favor of Hamas and of course against those horrible Jews who are defending themselves in Israel. 0.84
00:08:53.000 They're going to do it on Remembrance Day.
00:08:56.000 According to the UK Express, an MP has now called for the military to be drafted in to keep the peace in London after it emerged that these protesters are organizing their march on Remembrance Day.
00:09:06.000 The planned day of the protest, November 11th, will clash directly with this year's Remembrance Day.
00:09:10.000 It comes a day before the annual Cenotaph Memorial for Remembrance Sunday.
00:09:14.000 Despite the head of the Met, Sir Mark Rowley, telling the London Assembly the protesters, quote, will not be allowed near the official events or to disrupt them, there are serious concerns about how such a large protest can take place while maintaining law and order.
00:09:26.000 A Tory MP has told the Express that the Metropolitan Police and Sadiq Khan, who is the mayor of London, must ask for military assistance.
00:09:32.000 Crowley MP Henry Smith said, quote, And that, of course, is exactly right. 0.99
00:09:34.000 of demonstrations where the cenotaph and other national monuments have been grossly disrespected.
00:09:38.000 It's completely inappropriate for further protests to be held over Remembrance Weekend.
00:09:42.000 He said, I don't have confidence in the mayor of London or the police under him to properly handle the situation
00:09:46.000 given their past poor record.
00:09:48.000 And that of course is exactly right. 0.99
00:09:51.000 I mean, the fact is that the West imported a huge number of radical Muslims who hate Jews and hate the West 0.94
00:09:58.000 and who have been taking advantage of the great material beneficence of the West to live there. 0.95
00:10:03.000 That's not every Muslim. 1.00
00:10:04.000 There are many Muslims who are happy to live in a place like Britain or like the United States and who are happy to engage with Western countries and imbibe from the well of Western values.
00:10:13.000 There are many of those people.
00:10:14.000 They're just not the people who are marching in favor of Hamas.
00:10:17.000 And those people, there are a lot of those people.
00:10:19.000 And trying to pretend that that's not happening in the face of images that are extraordinary from places like London or from America's college campuses, that is absolutely foolhardy.
00:10:29.000 Now, what's amazing about all of this is that because the media have basically taken the side of Hamas in this conflict, which was the most predictable thing, they swiveled directly from, we can't believe this atrocity that Hamas created to, Israel is committing atrocities every single day. 0.62
00:10:40.000 It's absolutely terrible.
00:10:41.000 It's the Occupation II state solution. 0.75
00:10:43.000 Like, just parroting every Hamas talking point.
00:10:45.000 Because of that, you're starting to see wavering inside the Biden administration.
00:10:49.000 And it's only coming from a radical few, by the way.
00:10:52.000 It does show the power of the legacy media.
00:10:54.000 Now, for all the talk about how the legacy media has been challenged or overthrown, and it's true, they haven't been completely overthrown.
00:10:59.000 They still have an enormous amount of weight with members, for example, of the Biden administration.
00:11:04.000 All it takes is a radical few people to apparently move the Democratic coalition toward placating Hamas in some way.
00:11:11.000 So yesterday, Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now. 1.00
00:11:18.000 a female rabbi.
00:11:20.000 This person, again, has about as much to do with Judaism as a buttered lobster. 0.82
00:11:24.000 Here is, quote-unquote, Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg calling for a ceasefire.
00:11:30.000 Mr. President, if you care about Jewish people as a rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now. 1.00
00:11:37.000 Get out! Get out! 1.00
00:11:47.000 A pause means give time to get the prisoners out.
00:11:49.000 I'm the guy that convinced Bibi to call for a ceasefire to let the prisoners out.
00:11:52.000 I'm the guy that talked to Sisi to convince him to open the door.
00:11:57.000 The heckler was escorted out by security while singing ceasefire now.
00:12:03.000 So, this, by the way, is a picture of quote-unquote Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg.
00:12:07.000 So yeah, just like a normal rabbi. 0.95
00:12:10.000 You can see, this person probably has a rabbinic degree from Yeshiva University, from Ritz.
00:12:15.000 This person obviously is knowledgeable in all aspects of halakha.
00:12:19.000 I mean, except for every single aspect of halakha.
00:12:22.000 But sure, a posake, a gadol hador over here.
00:12:26.000 I know it's a lot of Hebrew for people who are not inside the Orthodox community, but everybody who's in Orthodox town right now is laughing because that's an absurdity piled on top of an absurdity. 0.90
00:12:33.000 What's amazing though...
00:12:35.000 is that the Democratic Party seems increasingly interested in ignoring its own voters.
00:12:41.000 I mean, the reality is that young voters in America, Democratic young voters, are against Israel.
00:12:45.000 But everybody else in the United States is very much in favor of Israel wiping away Hamas.
00:12:50.000 In fact, pulling data from Echelon Insights, quote, who do you think is mostly responsible
00:12:54.000 for civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip? Total number.
00:12:59.000 64% Hamas. 0.72
00:13:01.000 This is in the battleground states.
00:13:03.000 64% Hamas. 0.72
00:13:03.000 14% Israel. 0.72
00:13:03.000 22% unsure. 0.72
00:13:08.000 I mean, that is strong support.
00:13:10.000 That is very, very strong support for Israel in the battleground states.
00:13:14.000 This is a popular position.
00:13:15.000 In fact, even among demographic groups that the Biden administration is gonna disproportionately rely upon.
00:13:20.000 Say, for example, black voters.
00:13:23.000 Black voters support Israel over Hamas in who's responsible for the civilian casualties. 0.81
00:13:29.000 They say Hamas, 44% to 20%.
00:13:33.000 In fact, even among young voters who are supposedly Biden's core demographic.
00:13:39.000 30% of people aged 18 to 29 say Hamas, 24% say Israel, 46% say unsure.
00:13:46.000 Now, as per our usual arrangement, the older you get in the United States, apparently age does confer wisdom.
00:13:50.000 If you get to the 65 plus crowd, 83% say Hamas is responsible for civilian casualties, only 4% say Israel. 1.00
00:13:56.000 Again, demonstrating that young people in the United States are unbelievably ignorant and stupid. 1.00
00:14:01.000 But we knew that anyway, by the way. 1.00
00:14:02.000 There's a hilarious video going around that I'll play for you in a moment, demonstrating just how little people know about anything when they say that they support Hamas or support, quote unquote, free Palestine from the river to the sea and all this nonsense.
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00:16:28.000 And when young people say that they are in favor of Hamas, it's because they literally don't know what they're talking about.
00:16:33.000 If you go to any of these rallies, and you find a person who is not a radical Muslim, you just find a left-wing fellow traveler, and you ask them, which river and which sea are you talking about?
00:16:40.000 When you say, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free? 1.00
00:16:42.000 They can't name them.
00:16:43.000 If you ask them on a map of Israel, where exactly do you want Palestine to be?
00:16:48.000 If you give them a map of the world, they won't even know where exactly, quote-unquote, Palestine is supposed to be on the map. 0.77
00:16:54.000 This was exposed by a pretty funny video yesterday.
00:16:57.000 This is a person going up to young people and asking them to sign a petition to help Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:17:05.000 And then he reads them the details.
00:17:07.000 Doing a quick petition to help Hamas-free Palestine. 0.87
00:17:12.000 You're all in?
00:17:13.000 Alright.
00:17:13.000 Oh yeah, you're in?
00:17:15.000 I just have to read terms and conditions just so you know what you're signing.
00:17:18.000 By supporting Hamas-free Palestine, you agree to the following. 0.99
00:17:21.000 You agree that every Jew, Christian, and non-Muslim in the world must be slaughtered. 0.99
00:17:25.000 I don't know about that one. 1.00
00:17:25.000 You endorse making homosexuality punishable by jail or death? 1.00
00:17:26.000 What? 0.60
00:17:28.000 What?
00:17:30.000 Oh no, I don't agree.
00:17:32.000 You don't agree with that? 0.77
00:17:34.000 You believe Iran should use Palestinians as puppets to spread radical jihad and destroy the West? 0.93
00:17:36.000 No? 0.97
00:17:39.000 No?
00:17:39.000 No.
00:17:40.000 I'm glad I read the Terms and Agreements.
00:17:41.000 I'm sorry.
00:17:42.000 Not interested?
00:17:42.000 Sharia law which bans women from showing their knees, hair, playing sports in public, not
00:17:47.000 being able to travel without a man's permission. 0.95
00:17:49.000 I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
00:17:50.000 Not interested?
00:17:51.000 Oh, okay. 0.99
00:17:52.000 You want a terrorist group that beheads babies and rapes girls to replace only democracy 0.99
00:17:54.000 in the Middle East? 0.94
00:17:55.000 I'm not sure that's something to support.
00:17:56.000 I'm not sure that's something to support.
00:17:56.000 something to support.
00:17:58.000 So if I sign, I agree with this?
00:18:00.000 Yes.
00:18:01.000 Maybe no.
00:18:02.000 No?
00:18:02.000 Okay.
00:18:03.000 Oh no, thank you.
00:18:05.000 I don't support any of these two things that you described to me, so I won't be able to sign this now.
00:18:10.000 That's fair.
00:18:11.000 Thanks for not signing.
00:18:14.000 Okay, so that is Mikey Greenblatt, and he's just going up to people.
00:18:16.000 People express support for the quote-unquote oppressed without thinking about whether the oppressed are actually oppressed or actually good.
00:18:23.000 And that's one of the reasons why you see young people constantly resonating to the wrong side of conflicts.
00:18:28.000 They constantly do this.
00:18:29.000 They look at any conflict, and because they've been taught to think in a deconstructionist way, because they think of all relationships as relationships of power, and this is what they've been taught in their schools, what they've been taught in their universities, because when they do...
00:18:40.000 The first thing they do is they say who's powerful and who has less power.
00:18:43.000 And whoever is powerful must be bad, and whoever is powerless must be exploited, oppressed, and therefore good.
00:18:49.000 And of course, that's a lie.
00:18:50.000 But they don't think about any of that stuff, and so they sign on to these movements until it's too late, obviously.
00:18:55.000 Now, the thing about this is that the Democrats should know better, but apparently they don't.
00:19:00.000 So now you're hearing rumblings that the Biden administration is going to try to put pressure on Israel for some sort of humanitarian ceasefire or to ship fuel in to the Gaza Strip.
00:19:08.000 Let me explain something about this fuel situation.
00:19:10.000 Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel.
00:19:15.000 They're using it to maintain their presence in these tunnels, because when the fuel goes out, all of their generators go out.
00:19:20.000 When the generators go out, you can't live underground. 0.82
00:19:22.000 They would have to come up and actually fight the Israelis, like men, instead of like rats. 0.98
00:19:25.000 But instead, what they are doing is they're staying down in the tunnels, and they are hiding their civilians on top, so that if Israel has to strike the tunnels, civilians get killed, and then they can go to the compliant press, the complacent press, the pro-Hamas press, and then get those people to mimic their line, that Israel is attempting to kill civilians.
00:19:42.000 When Israel is the only party in this conflict attempting to minimize the killing of civilians.
00:19:45.000 I should point out at this point...
00:19:47.000 That Hamas is the governing power in the Gaza Strip.
00:19:49.000 Any governing power's first responsibility is to protect its citizens.
00:19:52.000 That's the first responsibility.
00:19:54.000 You know how I know this?
00:19:55.000 Because Israel, for example, right now, Hezbollah is threatening on the northern border.
00:19:59.000 Israel took 30,000 of its own citizens and moved them inland from the northern border.
00:20:03.000 No one talks about that, of course, because that's a population movement of Jews.
00:20:05.000 No one cares about that.
00:20:06.000 By the way, speaking of other population movements, Pakistan is now expelling 1.7 million Afghans from Pakistan back into Afghanistan.
00:20:13.000 No one cares because it's Muslim on Muslim. 1.00
00:20:16.000 Doesn't matter. 1.00
00:20:16.000 Because when Muslims do horrible things to Muslims, no one cares at all. 1.00
00:20:20.000 In fact, as it turns out, when Muslims do horrible things to Jews, a lot of people don't seem to care very much. 0.99
00:20:24.000 It's only when Jews defend themselves that people really seem to start caring a lot. 1.00
00:20:29.000 In any case, Gaza is filled with fuel.
00:20:32.000 It's just all controlled by Hamas.
00:20:33.000 When you ship in more fuel, it is not going to power the hospitals.
00:20:36.000 It is going to power Hamas. 0.97
00:20:38.000 In fact, there is a reason why Hamas apparently has stationed virtually all of its fuel sources under al-Shifa Hospital.
00:20:43.000 It's not to power the hospital.
00:20:44.000 They've been claiming that al-Shifa Hospital is running out of fuel.
00:20:47.000 And literally, like, a few yards underground is the fuel.
00:20:51.000 Why?
00:20:51.000 Because that fuel is not going to the hospital.
00:20:54.000 That's the whole point.
00:20:55.000 So when you have people like Joe Biden telling Israel to ship fuel in that is immediately going to be stolen by Hamas to power their tunnels, all you are doing is prolonging this conflict. 0.67
00:21:03.000 All you are doing is making the situation worse.
00:21:06.000 Meanwhile, You have Tony Blinken trying to tell Israel that maybe, maybe, maybe there should be some ceasefires.
00:21:13.000 They don't like the strategy.
00:21:14.000 Let me make this clear.
00:21:15.000 Israel, on a timeline, has been engaged in the ground conflict part of this war for less than a week.
00:21:21.000 For less than a week.
00:21:23.000 And already the West is starting to lose its nerve.
00:21:26.000 Again, no shock from some of the usual suspects and, of course, prompted by the pro-Hamas media.
00:21:31.000 So already, you're starting to see the wavering members of the Democratic coalition.
00:21:35.000 You knew who they were going to be.
00:21:37.000 It's all the most left-wing members of the Democratic coalition.
00:21:40.000 It's Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois.
00:21:42.000 Senator Dick Durbin is the same guy who once compared American soldiers in Iraq to Pol Pot.
00:21:47.000 And now this moral genius, he's suggesting that he wants a ceasefire.
00:21:50.000 By the way, a ceasefire helps only one party in this conflict, Hamas.
00:21:54.000 The reason that they are begging, screaming, pleading for a ceasefire right now is because Israel, tactically speaking, is now surrounding Gaza City.
00:22:00.000 A huge percentage of Hamas' leadership is in Gaza City.
00:22:04.000 The reason they want a ceasefire right now is to restock, to resupply, to maybe smuggle people out.
00:22:09.000 That's the whole reason for the ceasefire.
00:22:11.000 By the way, there was a ceasefire in place between Israel and Hamas until October 6th.
00:22:15.000 Then on October 7th, that ceasefire was violated by the worst anti-Semitic killings since the Holocaust.
00:22:20.000 All these moral dementia patients, like Dick Durbin, calling for a ceasefire on behalf of Hamas.
00:22:26.000 Truly, truly vile.
00:22:28.000 Here we go.
00:22:29.000 Is a ceasefire needed now?
00:22:32.000 I think it is.
00:22:33.000 At least in the context of both sides agreeing.
00:22:38.000 For example, the release of those who have been kidnapped should be part of this.
00:22:42.000 Immediate release.
00:22:44.000 That should be the beginning of it.
00:22:46.000 An effort should be made to engage in conversation between The Israelis and the Palestinians.
00:22:52.000 Let's face it, this has gone on for decades.
00:22:55.000 Whenever the rationale from the beginning has now reached an intolerable level, we need to have a resolution in the Middle East that gives some promise for the future. 0.80
00:23:06.000 It's reached an intolerable level?
00:23:07.000 Which part was the intolerable part?
00:23:08.000 The part where they slaughtered 1,500 Jews and took another 200 prisoners?
00:23:12.000 Killed a bunch of foreign people as well?
00:23:14.000 Is it like what, our holding American citizens killed a bunch of American citizens? 0.74
00:23:17.000 Which part of that, which is, how, what was the level at which it reached intolerable for Dick Durbin?
00:23:21.000 Was it when there were some ugly pictures on TV because war is ugly and horrific, especially when your enemy is propping up women and children in front of bombs to try to protect their terrorists?
00:23:31.000 Again, the insane logic of people who are now suggesting that it is up to Israel to stop killing terrorists because those terrorists have chosen to hide themselves among civilians.
00:23:41.000 That's so insane.
00:23:42.000 That is literally saying to terrorists, the best thing you can do to protect yourself is hide with civilians.
00:23:46.000 That's what you are saying.
00:23:48.000 You're saying the smartest thing you can do is murder civilians on the other side and then run and hide behind civilians on your own side.
00:23:53.000 In other words, the more laws of war you violate, the more we can call on the other side to not kill you, which is totally the reverse of the incentive structure you want to set up.
00:24:03.000 If the whole point of the rules of war is to get people into uniform on a battlefield away from civilians, then you can't reward them for hiding behind civilians, which is exactly what Dick Durbin wants to do.
00:24:13.000 Same thing with Chris Murphy. 0.86
00:24:15.000 Chris Murphy, of course, is the ridiculous senator from Connecticut. 0.98
00:24:19.000 He's always been really soft when it comes to Israel. 0.84
00:24:23.000 He says, as I've said consistently, Israel has a right and an obligation to defend its people from terror attacks like the horrific events of October 7th.
00:24:28.000 The Hamas terrorists who planned and executed those attacks must be held accountable, and the ability of Hamas to carry out similar attacks in the future must be eliminated.
00:24:35.000 It's time for Israel's friends to recognize the current operational approach is causing an unacceptable level of civilian harm and does not appear likely to achieve the goal of permanently ending the threat from Hamas.
00:24:43.000 From Chris Murphy?
00:24:44.000 Okay, like, military advice from Chris Murphy?
00:24:48.000 I'm just wondering, who knows more about military battle in the Middle East?
00:24:52.000 Chris Murphy, or the entire IDF?
00:24:57.000 I mean, let's be fair, he did get his JD from University of Connecticut Law School.
00:25:01.000 I mean, that's pretty impressive in terms of his military credentials to talk about what is going to be successful militarily and what is not.
00:25:08.000 When he says this is not dedicated toward eliminating Hamas or is unlikely to eliminate, then why is Hamas standing for the ceasefire?
00:25:15.000 Why does Hamas want the ceasefire?
00:25:17.000 Why is Hamas on Chris Murphy's side? 0.98
00:25:18.000 Presumably, if it were in the best interest of Israel to Pursue a ceasefire, it would be Hamas not wanting a ceasefire and Israel wanting a ceasefire. 1.00
00:25:25.000 Trying to pretend that he's a friend of Israel while undercutting Israel's military policy is ridiculously stupid. 0.99
00:25:31.000 Or corrupt, or both. 0.99
00:25:33.000 He says, as we have learned from America's own counterterrorism campaigns, disproportionately large number of civilian casualties come with a moral cost, but also a strategic cost, as terrorist groups feed off of grievances caused by civilian harm.
00:25:44.000 Israel is doing its best to distinguish between civilian and terrorist in the Gaza Strip.
00:25:49.000 Hamas is attempting to obscure that, and he is now declaring that Hamas should effectively have him immunity.
00:25:54.000 He says, I share Israel's desire to destroy the threat from Hamas. 0.92
00:25:57.000 No, you don't.
00:25:57.000 He says, I know Israel cares about the impact of this war on innocent Palestinians, even as they track Hamas' hideouts inside and below mosques, apartment buildings, and schools.
00:26:04.000 But the way in which the current campaign is being waged suggests they've not struck the right balance between military necessity and proportionality.
00:26:13.000 He says he urges Israel to shift to a more deliberate and proportionate counter-terrorism campaign, surgically targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and terrorist infrastructure, while more highly prioritizing the safety of civilians.
00:26:23.000 So, I'm just wondering, what exactly does that look like?
00:26:26.000 I assume what he means is he wants more Jewish soldiers to die in Gaza, going house to house. 0.50
00:26:30.000 I presume that's what he means. 0.75
00:26:31.000 He should just say that out loud.
00:26:33.000 That he thinks that the Jewish army has an obligation to get many, many, many of its soldiers murdered on the streets of Gaza by terrorists and some quasi-civilian supporters.
00:26:43.000 I mean, by the way, the distinction between civilian and non-civilian is very real, but it's very difficult when people blur the line.
00:26:52.000 There are many civilians, people who are not formal members of Hamas, who took part in the actual attacks of October 7th.
00:26:56.000 There's film of them doing so.
00:26:58.000 But of course, Chris Murphy, it's not about principle here.
00:27:01.000 Trying to argue with people like Chris Murphy, it's very difficult because, frankly, Chris Murphy doesn't care about the truth and he doesn't care about the reality.
00:27:08.000 He cares about the outcome.
00:27:09.000 And the outcome for him is that he wants pressure on Israel. 0.60
00:27:12.000 The media want that too.
00:27:13.000 Which presumably is why they're constantly blasting out, like truly blasting out, Hamas propagandists.
00:27:20.000 So just a couple days ago, I played on this show a video report from the Washington Post that featured some social media influencers from Gaza.
00:27:28.000 One of them was a woman named Plestia Alakad.
00:27:31.000 Well, it turns out that a lot of these quote unquote social media influencers from Gaza It turns out a huge number of those people are, you know, actual propaganda fronts for Hamas.
00:27:42.000 Shocker.
00:27:43.000 According to the Jerusalem Post, Plestia Al-Akkad has more than a million followers and calls herself an independent journalist, but spread the lie on Instagram and in an interview with British TV that Israel bombed the Al-Akhli hospital and killed more than a thousand people.
00:27:57.000 She told Britain's GB News, quote, it's a genocide, literally a genocide and not a massacre.
00:28:02.000 In her post, she has not provided any explanation for the commencement of the airstrikes on Gaza, namely the October 7th massacre.
00:28:07.000 Another influential figure is Bisan Ouda, who presents herself as a filmmaker hailing from Gaza, Palestine, with a substantial following numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
00:28:15.000 Her posts have received endorsements from well-known figures associated with anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories.
00:28:20.000 Following the October 7th massacre, she posted a note in Arabic on social media.
00:28:23.000 For every action, there's a reaction.
00:28:24.000 This means, what was expected after 75 years of occupation and 17 years of siege?
00:28:28.000 What was expected of us?
00:28:30.000 She has been quoted as a quote, ambassador of goodwill on ABC News and legitimized on the BBC.
00:28:37.000 And this is very common in the media.
00:28:38.000 Again, they're still using the Council on American Islamic Relations, which was once labeled an unindicted co-conspirator in a conspiracy to funnel money from a false charity called the Holy Land Foundation to Hamas.
00:28:51.000 And they're being quoted by the media as a source on Islamophobia.
00:28:55.000 I searched the entire Karen National feed yesterday.
00:28:58.000 They have not once condemned Hamas. 0.86
00:29:00.000 Not once.
00:29:01.000 Ever.
00:29:02.000 Literally ever.
00:29:03.000 And yet they are seen as some sort of moderate force?
00:29:06.000 The media are perfectly willing to overlook the actual extreme anti-Semitic radicalism of many of the sources they are using in order to rip Israel.
00:29:13.000 That is their favorite thing to do.
00:29:16.000 And again, this is the game.
00:29:18.000 The media ignore context.
00:29:20.000 They ignore realities of war.
00:29:22.000 They ignore who exactly is hiding civilians in front of their bombs.
00:29:24.000 Caitlin Collins on CNN is doing a horrific job on this. 1.00
00:29:27.000 Here she was yesterday asking an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu how many Palestinians were killed in a strike on a refugee camp.
00:29:33.000 And he says, well, we don't know the answer to that.
00:29:37.000 By the way, Hamas doesn't know either. 0.63
00:29:38.000 They're just lying to the American media.
00:29:39.000 But here is Caitlin Collins asking like six times.
00:29:43.000 Why did Israel strike again here?
00:29:45.000 And do you know how many civilians have been killed in this area as a result of these strikes yesterday and today?
00:29:51.000 So we know we've taken out a senior Hamas commander who was directly involved in the massacre of October 7th.
00:29:59.000 As you will recall, there were rapes, there were beheadings, there were people burnt alive.
00:30:06.000 Birds so badly, until today we've got 130 bodies that we can't recognize who they are. 0.98
00:30:12.000 They're just ashes.
00:30:15.000 And anyone who was involved, especially a commander of the operation, we have a duty to find them and to bring them to justice.
00:30:24.000 Okay, but you're not acknowledging how many... I assume Israel does have an estimate of how many civilians were killed.
00:30:30.000 I assume you have an estimate of how many civilians are there when you make a calculus on when to strike.
00:30:34.000 Tell me if that's wrong.
00:30:35.000 But when you decide on striking targets that you say are military targets but are also where civilians are, I mean, how many civilian deaths does Israel believe are acceptable in an airstrike if it is a military target?
00:30:49.000 So obviously we try to keep any collateral damage to a minimum, as minimum as possible.
00:30:54.000 And the advantage of this particular location is that it has been largely, not totally, but largely evacuated because we were telling people there two weeks ago longer that they should evacuate.
00:31:06.000 Okay, so again, CNN putting the pressure on, and this is the goal of the media, put the pressure on Israel.
00:31:10.000 Why isn't Israel taking care of the civilians better?
00:31:12.000 Why isn't Israel doing a better job with civilians?
00:31:15.000 There are reports that during that Jabalia strike, that there were women and children who literally marched out by Hamas, literally marched out by Hamas in order to get them killed.
00:31:23.000 This is not a surprise. 0.99
00:31:24.000 They say this crap openly. 0.99
00:31:26.000 Again, it would be one thing if I were alleging it. 1.00
00:31:27.000 It's another thing for Hamas to just say it.
00:31:29.000 And they constantly say it.
00:31:30.000 And then everybody just ignores it.
00:31:31.000 It's unreal.
00:31:32.000 It's unreal.
00:31:33.000 This is why you can hear it.
00:31:34.000 There's frustration in my voice.
00:31:35.000 There's been frustration in my voice for a month.
00:31:36.000 Why?
00:31:37.000 Because usually I'm in the business of trying to provide what I think are reasonable arguments to generally people I think are reasonable and are able to hear reasonable arguments.
00:31:45.000 And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
00:31:46.000 But we can make reasonable arguments and we can disagree on these things.
00:31:49.000 When Hamas says a thing, and then I repeat that they have said the thing, and then people say, I don't care whether Hamas said the thing, doesn't matter, it's Israel's fault. 0.89
00:31:57.000 Or, sure, Hamas said the thing, but they don't really mean it deep down.
00:32:01.000 Or, sure, Hamas said it, and they really mean it, but the real reason is that it's the Jews, after all. 0.88
00:32:06.000 You're no longer engaged in anything remotely resembling a rational conversation, you're engaged in a propagandistic effort to prop up a genocidal Jew-hating group that openly declares its desire to exterminate Jews.
00:32:17.000 And then you expect people to have arguments with that.
00:32:19.000 There's no way to have an argument with that position because that's not a rational position.
00:32:24.000 And it's not a position that's capable of being breached by rational thought.
00:32:27.000 That's the part that's extremely hard.
00:32:29.000 But you're seeing it all over the media from supposedly rational people.
00:32:33.000 You've got Ezra Klein who's declaring what's going on in Gaza.
00:32:35.000 It's like 400 9-11s.
00:32:36.000 Well, I'm sure that statistically that's true.
00:32:39.000 You know who could stop that?
00:32:40.000 Hamas. 0.73
00:32:41.000 Tomorrow.
00:32:41.000 Why don't any of you people just call for Hamas to surrender?
00:32:44.000 It's amazing.
00:32:44.000 You can't get a single one of the people who are decrying the horrors happening in Gaza to say that Hamas should just surrender.
00:32:50.000 It will end literally tomorrow if Hamas surrenders.
00:32:53.000 They're holding 242 hostages right now, including dozens of small children, babies, nine-month-olds, and they murdered 1,500 people in their beds.
00:33:03.000 In peaceful civilian villages.
00:33:05.000 And your idea is it's Israel's fault?
00:33:08.000 And so all we're supposed to look at are the casualty numbers that are created by Hamas specifically so you will do this. 0.84
00:33:14.000 It's just Hamas agitprop out of the mouth of mainstream media reporters.
00:33:19.000 Palestinian health officials say that more than 8,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since October 7th.
00:33:25.000 And I want to note here that there is a fog of war.
00:33:27.000 It is possible these numbers are wrong.
00:33:29.000 It is also, of course, possible that practically by the end of this, these numbers will be much higher.
00:33:34.000 But if you take something like the 8,000 numbers right, well, then one way the horror of October 7th was driven home, one way its scale was driven home to Americans, was to put it in terms of 9-11s.
00:33:44.000 Adjusting for population, Joe Biden said it was like 15 9-11s.
00:33:49.000 If you take that same math, then Gaza's experienced so far around 400 9-11s.
00:33:57.000 Again, just strip it of context and just give casualty numbers without noting who's responsible for the thing.
00:34:01.000 Again, as I've said, I said this at Oxford.
00:34:03.000 I said this at Cambridge.
00:34:04.000 You know, if all you look at is disproportion in casualty numbers...
00:34:08.000 Then every American war, every Western war of pretty much all time, the West was wrong.
00:34:14.000 Because it turns out that during World War II, you know who died the most?
00:34:17.000 Germans.
00:34:18.000 If you look at the British and the Americans versus the Germans, lots more Germans died than British and Americans.
00:34:24.000 Because that's sort of the point of the war is to win the war.
00:34:27.000 You don't tend to win the war by losing more people.
00:34:29.000 Like literally the only nation on earth that tends to lose more people and win wars is Russia because they just throw endless masses of bodies at every single war, historically speaking. 0.87
00:34:37.000 But generally speaking, when you win a war, that does involve a lot of death on the other side.
00:34:43.000 And that's even when the other side is not hiding in civilian areas.
00:34:47.000 How much worse is it when the other side is deliberately hiding in civilian areas? 0.80
00:34:50.000 And yet the media strip it all of context.
00:34:54.000 Meanwhile, I got the UN, the disgusting Mos Eisley of the UN, saying that all this might be a war crime.
00:35:00.000 Then when confronted with the actual realities of war, then they say, oh, well, no, no, no, actually, you know what?
00:35:05.000 I don't want to talk about that.
00:35:06.000 What's amazing about this, as I'll show you in a second, is that the legacy media just mirror, like the perspectives are indistinguishable from the perspectives of people who stand for Hamas.
00:35:15.000 From the perspective of people who create a moral equivalence between Hamas and Israel, and who lie for a living.
00:35:19.000 I'll get some more on this in just one second.
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00:37:11.000 One of the truly amazing things about our disgusting legacy media is that these supposed objective arbiters of truth and reality, they just mirror the perspectives of the most radical members of the decolonized coalition.
00:37:22.000 So I've talked on the show over the past couple of weeks about the philosophy that links, for example, Black Lives Matter with the From the River to the Sea people.
00:37:29.000 Like, what do those people have in common?
00:37:30.000 Why are there queers for Palestine? 1.00
00:37:31.000 Why are all these people marching in the same coalition?
00:37:33.000 And the answer is because they hate the West.
00:37:34.000 And they think the West is truly, truly a horrifyingly bad place.
00:37:38.000 The leader of that coalition in the United States for a long time was Ta-Nehisi Coates. 0.99
00:37:42.000 And he was treated with this sort of bizarre reverence and respect despite the fact that he's a garbage writer. 0.99
00:37:45.000 I'm sorry. 0.99
00:37:46.000 I'm just going to put it out there.
00:37:47.000 He's not a good writer.
00:37:48.000 He's incredibly purple. 0.79
00:37:49.000 He's been wildly overrated.
00:37:51.000 I wouldn't even say that he's a poor man's James Baldwin.
00:37:54.000 He's like a dead man's James Baldwin.
00:37:56.000 He doesn't have any of the skill.
00:37:57.000 He's not a good debater.
00:37:58.000 He is not a good thinker.
00:37:59.000 He's not a good writer.
00:38:00.000 There's literally nothing appealing about him other than he uses purple language.
00:38:04.000 Also, dude really, really stands for Hamas.
00:38:08.000 Why?
00:38:08.000 Because again, oppressor versus oppressed, colonizer versus colonized, and all the rest of this.
00:38:12.000 So yesterday, and as I've said before, the broader philosophy that is worth noting here, the broader philosophy is hatred of the West.
00:38:20.000 You'll notice that replete throughout what this Ta-Nehisi Coates person says.
00:38:24.000 Not a shock, again, he wrote in his own book, a book celebrated by our legacy media, who are on the same side.
00:38:29.000 He wrote in his own book that on 9-11 he sat at the top of his apartment building and watched the towers burn and smoked blunt and felt nothing.
00:38:36.000 He literally writes that in his own book because that's how much he hates the country.
00:38:39.000 And yet this person is seen as some sort of bizarre moral exemplar. 0.99
00:38:42.000 Because he writes garbage like between the world and me. 0.99
00:38:45.000 Oh, between the world and me. 0.99
00:38:46.000 Oh, you're a real intellectual.
00:38:48.000 In any case, here's pseudo-intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates.
00:38:50.000 And again, the stuff that he spouts is almost indistinguishable from our quote-unquote objective media.
00:38:56.000 We have to stand on principle.
00:38:58.000 And if I'm a latecomer to the Palestinian cause, I'm also a latecomer to the cause of nonviolence.
00:39:02.000 But I'm here now, you know, and knowing what that is meant to our history.
00:39:07.000 Sorry, can you pause it there for a second?
00:39:09.000 He's a latecomer to the cause of nonviolence?
00:39:11.000 He's literally standing for the most violent terror group on the planet in Hamas right now.
00:39:17.000 I mean, literally every governing body of the Palestinians is a violent terror group. 1.00
00:39:22.000 The Palestinian Authority, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, which is the military wing of the PA.
00:39:26.000 These are all violent. But don't worry, he's an advocate of nonviolence. It's beyond parody.
00:39:30.000 It would be beyond parody, except that people are so stupid. 1.00
00:39:33.000 People are so f***ing moronic that they have no clue that what he's saying is garbage. 1.00
00:39:37.000 You actually have to know a few things to know how dumb he is, but it doesn't matter. People don't 1.00
00:39:41.000 know things, so he gets away with it.
00:39:44.000 There is no way in the world that we can leverage the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:39:50.000 There's no way in the world we can leverage the weight, the ancestry of our movement in defense of a war, in defense of indiscriminate bombings or refugee camps. 0.99
00:40:02.000 Indiscriminate?
00:40:02.000 We can't do that.
00:40:04.000 We can't do that.
00:40:04.000 We would be a disgrace to our ancestors.
00:40:07.000 And I would look out and I would see roads that Palestinians could use. 0.99
00:40:13.000 And roads that only Israeli Jews could use. 1.00
00:40:16.000 I said, I know what this is.
00:40:17.000 Okay, pause it for a second.
00:40:19.000 Pause it for a second.
00:40:20.000 Okay, so he says that he went to, he went to Israel, which he calls Palestine.
00:40:24.000 He said, I saw only roads that Israelis could use and only roads that Palestinians could use.
00:40:28.000 Actually, that's not true.
00:40:29.000 There are roads that both Palestinians and Israelis can use.
00:40:32.000 Those are the ones owned by Israel. 0.81
00:40:33.000 You have to get through a checkpoint so Israel can make sure that you are not a terrorist.
00:40:37.000 And then you are free to use it as a Palestinian or an Israeli.
00:40:40.000 And then there are only roads that Palestinians can use. 1.00
00:40:42.000 So in fact, there is no road that only Israelis can use.
00:40:44.000 There are roads that Israelis and Palestinians can use if you're not a terrorist.
00:40:48.000 And then there are roads that only Palestinians can use. 0.97
00:40:50.000 Why?
00:40:51.000 Because there are no Jews living inside the Palestinian Authority.
00:40:53.000 None. 1.00
00:40:54.000 They will be murdered. 0.97
00:40:54.000 There are none living under Hamas because they would be murdered. 0.97
00:40:57.000 So he's lying right off the bat.
00:41:00.000 Because I saw different colored license plates for different classes of people.
00:41:04.000 I said, I know what this is.
00:41:05.000 Yes, but stop it there.
00:41:06.000 Different colored license plates because Palestinian Authority people, people living under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, live under a different government.
00:41:14.000 Of course!
00:41:15.000 That's like saying you saw Canadian license plates and United States license plates.
00:41:19.000 Duh! 1.00
00:41:20.000 Yes, that is correct!
00:41:22.000 Why would they have Israeli license plates?
00:41:24.000 They're not Israeli citizens! 1.00
00:41:27.000 As I saw communities that I can only describe as segregated, and what I felt was a tremendous weight.
00:41:37.000 I felt the obvious thing that I think all of us feel that our tax dollars are effectively subsidizing apartheid, subsidizing a segregationist order, a Jim Crow regime.
00:41:49.000 He went on to say that Israel is a democracy like America is the world's oldest democracy.
00:41:54.000 And that was the key point.
00:41:56.000 Because again, he hates America.
00:41:58.000 He hates the West. 0.98
00:41:59.000 He thinks that they are bad.
00:42:00.000 He benefits from them. 0.95
00:42:01.000 He plays on suckers in the West to pay him oodles of money to write his absolute dumpster fire books. 1.00
00:42:09.000 And they pay him tons of money to give stupid speeches? 1.00
00:42:13.000 And then he rips on the West. 1.00
00:42:14.000 Because the West has a suicide wish.
00:42:16.000 That is the only reason why the West has ever tolerated people who spend all day just ripping on them.
00:42:23.000 And when I say tolerate, I mean people who they've imported. 1.00
00:42:25.000 Because obviously citizens in the United States have free speech.
00:42:28.000 I will say, however, that making those people rich is an insane thing.
00:42:33.000 Ta-Nehisi Coates is a respect- You know that DC Comics had a deal with Ta-Nehisi Coates?
00:42:36.000 That human was writing the super- He was actually, until like a year ago, writing a Superman movie for J.J.
00:42:42.000 Abrams.
00:42:44.000 That guy! 1.00
00:42:45.000 That's how deeply embedded in our culture this garbage is. 1.00
00:42:47.000 If you don't think it's a threat to America, you got it totally wrong. 0.99
00:42:50.000 The threat doesn't have to come directly from Hamas.
00:42:51.000 It can come from the entire decolonized coalition, which is perfectly fine with violence. 1.00
00:42:55.000 Don't be fooled by his garbage about nonviolence. 0.97
00:42:57.000 He's literally supporting people who do terrorist violence. 0.99
00:43:00.000 That's what he does.
00:43:01.000 And the media?
00:43:02.000 Their view is almost indistinguishable.
00:43:03.000 Okay, meanwhile, Israel's defense minister, Yoav Galant, he says that Hamas has one choice here. 0.94
00:43:09.000 You can either surrender or you can die. 0.90
00:43:11.000 Which, by the way, is the proper answer to when people slaughter in Mos, civilian citizens, because they're evil.
00:43:18.000 So here's Yoav Galant, he's the defense minister of Israel, saying this yesterday. 0.97
00:43:22.000 We're not going to stop until we eliminate all of them, all levels of command and lower.
00:43:30.000 The enemy has two options only, either to die or to give up, surrender without any conditions.
00:43:41.000 Okay, that is right.
00:43:42.000 Meanwhile, Hassan Nasrallah, who is the head of Hezbollah, he was supposed to make his first sort of live in-person appearance in Lebanon in years because he's been hiding in a bunker somewhere while he watches people get killed on the northern border of Israel for a very long time.
00:43:56.000 He didn't.
00:43:57.000 He gave his speech.
00:43:57.000 It was a recorded speech from a sewer somewhere.
00:43:59.000 And in his speech, He, of course, called the attacks on Israel heroic. 0.92
00:44:02.000 So just a reminder, Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed terror group armed with 150,000 rockets minimum pointed into the north of Israel, which is why there are currently 30,000 Israelis who are not living in their homes in northern Israel.
00:44:14.000 The big question of the day was going to be whether Hassan Nasrallah led off a new Hezbollah-led war.
00:44:19.000 My prediction had always been that that would not happen, because Hezbollah understands that especially with two American aircraft carriers stationed off the coast, if they start a war in Israel's north, they just will not exist.
00:44:28.000 It'll be bloody and horrible for Israel, and also Lebanon will be destroyed. 0.98
00:44:31.000 Because Israel will be stretched, and Israel will have to do whatever it has to do to maintain the safety of its own citizens.
00:44:37.000 So Nasrallah is basically mouthing off from what I can tell at this point.
00:44:40.000 He's going to continue to try to draw forces north away from the Gaza Strip, but it seems unlikely that he is going to push too hard to go directly into war.
00:44:54.000 So that is the situation in terms of Israel and the Palestinians and Hezbollah and all the rest. 0.66
00:44:59.000 We'll see how it develops over the weekend.
00:45:01.000 Meanwhile, In the House of the United States government, there has been a vast disagreement about how to fund Israel.
00:45:09.000 So, you have the Biden administration, which is trying to lump together a bunch of things.
00:45:12.000 They're trying to lump together Ukraine aid.
00:45:13.000 They want $60 billion more dollars in Ukraine aid, some $14 billion in aid to Israel, a few billion dollars for border security, and like $7 billion for Taiwan.
00:45:21.000 And they're trying to lump all that together in a $105 billion package.
00:45:24.000 Well, Mike Johnson, the new Speaker of the House, he pushed forward and then passed an Israel-only bill.
00:45:28.000 And the Israel only aid bill is just aid to Israel.
00:45:31.000 And he does it by taking money away from the IRS.
00:45:35.000 Now the Democrats are claiming, of course, that this is a poison pill.
00:45:38.000 This house proposal is going nowhere.
00:45:39.000 Basically what we have now is a game of chicken.
00:45:41.000 The game of chicken is that the Democrats are hoping to wrong foot the Republicans
00:45:46.000 by getting them not to fund Israel in favor of not funding Ukraine.
00:45:49.000 And the Republicans are trying to wrong foot Democrats by saying, guys,
00:45:53.000 why can't you just give aid directly to Israel?
00:45:55.000 Obviously, I'm on the right-wing side of that argument.
00:45:57.000 I don't understand why these issues are the same.
00:45:59.000 They are not.
00:45:59.000 The battle in Ukraine, I'm fully in favor, by the way, of continuing to provide Ukraine the aid to maintain its own security inside of the post-2014 borders.
00:46:09.000 I say post-2014 because right now Ukraine is trying to push into the Donbass and Crimea.
00:46:13.000 I'd be fully in favor of them doing that if there's an actual possibility of them winning.
00:46:17.000 They've shown over the course of the last year that that probably is not a possibility.
00:46:22.000 In fact, that's extraordinarily unlikely.
00:46:23.000 In fact, Ukrainian ministers are now saying that's extraordinarily unlikely, so the question becomes what the end of that war looks like.
00:46:27.000 That doesn't mean that you're in favor of undermining Ukrainian security.
00:46:30.000 Ukraine should be funded to the point where it can certainly prevent Russia from doing this again.
00:46:36.000 Plus, I'm very much in favor of degrading the Russian military capacity, since they're aggressive on every front they can find, including in the Middle East.
00:46:42.000 So drawing Russian resources into battle in Donbass or Crimea is fine with me. 0.99
00:46:47.000 I don't have a generalized problem with that, but $60 billion is a lot of money.
00:46:51.000 So that is a different issue, and it's a slightly more complex issue, than the issue of funding Israel and attempting to exterminate an actual terror group, Hamas.
00:46:59.000 Which it can do, and is achievable.
00:47:01.000 Very achievable.
00:47:02.000 Okay, so separating off the two causes makes a lot of sense, but both sides are now accusing each other of putting poison pills in their bills to wrong-foot the other.
00:47:09.000 The poison pill for the Republicans is apparently that they're trying to defund the IRS in order to do this.
00:47:13.000 The Democrats are mad about that.
00:47:14.000 Here was Chuck Schumer saying that.
00:47:17.000 The Democratic majority leader has already declared his verdict on the proposal.
00:47:22.000 The House GOP proposal is not going anywhere.
00:47:26.000 It's dead before it even is voted on.
00:47:32.000 Okay, so he says that's going nowhere, but the question is going to be whether the reverse is true.
00:47:36.000 Whether the Senate proposal, which is the giant $105 billion proposal, whether that gets rejected by the House.
00:47:42.000 And so basically we now have a game of chicken.
00:47:44.000 As I say, I think the next step for Mike Johnson is probably to disconnect the Israel aid from the IRS defunding.
00:47:51.000 I think that again would wrong for Democrats.
00:47:54.000 And it's like, okay, fine.
00:47:54.000 You don't want us to, you love your IRS so much?
00:47:56.000 Fine, we'll just take that out.
00:47:57.000 And here's the Israel aid, just pass it.
00:48:00.000 No poison pills, nothing, like a clean Israel aid bill.
00:48:02.000 That'd be very hard for Democrats to reject.
00:48:04.000 I assume that's the next step that Johnson is going to take if in fact the Senate and President Biden decide to veto.
00:48:09.000 Biden has threatened to veto this particular proposal.
00:48:12.000 It'll be interesting to see whether he does veto that particular proposal in favor of, we need to cram down aid for Ukraine in the middle of all this.
00:48:18.000 Okay, in other non-Middle East related news, apparently Sam Bankman Freed, you remember him, he was the FTX founder who basically bilked people of billions and billions of dollars, like robbed Peter to pay Paul's essentially giant pyramid scheme.
00:48:33.000 Well, a jury has now found Sam Bankman Freed guilty on all seven criminal counts against him.
00:48:38.000 The FTX founder faces a maximum sentence of 115 years in prison.
00:48:43.000 Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement, Sam Bankman Freed thought he was above the law.
00:48:46.000 Today's verdict proves that he was wrong.
00:48:49.000 So he was a person who believed that his political connections were going to allow him to get off scot-free.
00:48:56.000 He was the biggest single Democrat donor in the last election cycle.
00:49:00.000 Other members of FTX gave some money to Republicans as well.
00:49:03.000 The government flipped a bunch of people against him, including his ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, and the former head of Alameda and FTX co-founder, Gary Wang, whose Bankman Freed's childhood friend from math camp both pled guilty in December and then cooperated as witnesses for the prosecution to get off easier.
00:49:20.000 As CNBC says, the central question for jurors to consider was whether Bankman Freed acted with criminal intent in taking customer funds from FTX and using that money to pay for real estate venture investments, corporate sponsorships, political donations, and to cover losses at Alameda after crypto prices plunged last year.
00:49:34.000 There was $10 billion in customer money that went missing.
00:49:39.000 So Bankman Freed now awaits sentencing.
00:49:42.000 We'll see how long he ends up going to jail.
00:49:44.000 Now, one of the things that's so funny about the whole Sam Bankman Freed situation, as we talked about when the story first broke, is that Sam Bankman Freed had built his entire persona around, quote-unquote, effective altruism.
00:49:53.000 And the idea was, if you give me a lot of money, if you give me tons of money, and I'll spend a lot of that money on politics, I'll spend a lot of that money on the causes that you love most, I'll be really rich and then I'll spend... Now, The basic idea, which is that one of the great aspects of capitalism is that when people become rich, they give a lot more charity.
00:50:10.000 That's true.
00:50:11.000 I give a lot more charity now when I make a lot more money than I did 15 years ago when I made a lot less money.
00:50:16.000 However, the basic hiding behind altruism in order to justify his own business malpractice and his political payoffs and all the rest was one of Benkman Freed's favorite things.
00:50:27.000 And he was made a hero for this.
00:50:28.000 He was put on the cover of magazines and Jim Cramer praising him to the skies.
00:50:33.000 Again, he briefly held the title of the world's richest 30-year-old.
00:50:36.000 He had an estimated net worth of $20 billion.
00:50:38.000 And one of the ways he distinguished himself from his competitors was how altruistic and magical he was going to be.
00:50:44.000 He was going to just spend money on the things that mattered most.
00:50:49.000 And he took a bunch of people in.
00:50:51.000 According to a columnist at Coindesk, Despite the wreckage he caused and the accompanying failure to do good, there remain numerous voices sympathetic to SBF.
00:50:58.000 Chief among them is well-known author Michael Lewis.
00:51:00.000 Throughout his new book on SBF and FTX, Going Infinite, he paints a portrait of SBF as a misunderstood genius whose intentions were pure.
00:51:07.000 On his book tour, Lewis continues to say things like, quote, I think of him as a creature of modern finance.
00:51:12.000 At almost any period in history, he's like a high school physics teacher.
00:51:16.000 Well, if Lewis is right, says this columnist, he should be indicting modern finance wholesale.
00:51:20.000 After all, SBF, by skipping the effort of honestly earning the money he gave away, never actually performed a genuinely altruistic deed.
00:51:25.000 See, this is one of the things that people should also notice about altruism.
00:51:28.000 When it comes to the business world, we tend to think of business and altruism as in opposition to one another, or as though business is not a form of altruism.
00:51:36.000 If business is done right, it is in fact the best form of altruism.
00:51:39.000 So Maimonides, one of the great Jewish thinkers of all time, Maimonides suggested the highest form of charity was giving somebody a job.
00:51:46.000 That's the highest form of charity.
00:51:47.000 Not giving them money, giving them a job.
00:51:49.000 Why?
00:51:50.000 Because it turns out that the most good that you do for the world is a sustainable method for generating things that are good for other people.
00:51:56.000 You know what we usually call those markets?
00:51:58.000 Markets are usually where you generate a sustainable, repeatable method of doing a good thing for another person.
00:52:02.000 If I give charity, eventually, if I don't earn more money, the charity runs out.
00:52:07.000 If I give you a job, and that means that you can earn a living, and meanwhile, you're providing me with good or service that I can use to generate more goods and services, and then I can pay other people, and I can buy other things.
00:52:18.000 I've helped many, many more people that way than I would have if I just gave away the money.
00:52:22.000 Just giving away the money in some cases is obviously justified.
00:52:25.000 There are people who can't work.
00:52:26.000 There are people, children, orphans.
00:52:28.000 This is why the Bible focuses when it talks about the sort of class of people who require charity on widows and orphans.
00:52:33.000 Why?
00:52:33.000 Because the idea is that widows are going to have a hard time earning a living and orphans don't have anybody to take care of them.
00:52:38.000 What it doesn't focus on are people who are capable of working and somehow you should give them charity because they won't work.
00:52:46.000 Or the idea that charity is supposed to be specifically designed At causes that could be better done in a sustainable way.
00:52:54.000 You want to talk about sustainability?
00:52:55.000 Markets create sustainability.
00:52:56.000 Charity is generally non-sustainable.
00:52:59.000 This is interesting, for example, socialism and capitalism.
00:53:01.000 Socialism is how do I redistribute everybody else's money.
00:53:03.000 Capitalism is how do I create entirely new lines of business thus to support money earning by millions more people, which is why when capitalism is tried, it succeeds.
00:53:13.000 In socialism, the best you can talk about with socialism is redistributing the gains.
00:53:16.000 That's all you can talk about.
00:53:17.000 That's why the, quote-unquote, social democratic nations in Northern Europe are very capitalistic in the way they pursue business.
00:53:24.000 And then they just have very, very strong welfare structures on top of that.
00:53:27.000 But if the entire system, obviously, were nationalized systems, the entire thing would collapse.
00:53:31.000 It would look like the USSR. 0.88
00:53:32.000 Which is why it's always been a lie to suggest that countries in Northern Europe are predominantly characterized by their socialism.
00:53:38.000 They're not.
00:53:38.000 They're predominantly characterized by their capitalist business structures.
00:53:42.000 The heads of the government of Denmark have said as much.
00:53:45.000 When you call them socialists, they get annoyed.
00:53:46.000 They're like, what are you talking about?
00:53:47.000 There's no nationalization of resources here.
00:53:50.000 There's redistribution of some resources at the top level in the same way that they have a mixed economy. 0.61
00:53:55.000 In other words, the same as the United States.
00:53:57.000 It's just that their mixed economy happens to be significantly smaller.
00:54:00.000 Their population tends to be significantly more homogenous.
00:54:04.000 And their redistributive weight tends to be greater.
00:54:08.000 But the sort of point of Sam Beckman Freed is that when you place altruism in differentiation from business, you end up being a bad business person.
00:54:17.000 You end up treating business as though business is the dirty part and altruism is the good part when that's wrong.
00:54:21.000 I've said this before and I'll say it again.
00:54:22.000 Bill Gates did more for the world by creating Microsoft than he has in giving away his billions of dollars to charity.
00:54:28.000 Why?
00:54:28.000 Because he has led to the employment of probably hundreds of thousands of people, not just directly at Microsoft, but indirectly through his software.
00:54:36.000 That is a massive good to the world.
00:54:39.000 And we tend to think of the only time we judge people based on their intent and the intent.
00:54:44.000 If your intent is pure, that means that your action is more beneficent, and that's wrong.
00:54:48.000 That's just not true.
00:54:50.000 If I intend with this $1 donation to do something good, it's just out of my pocket, no benefit to me.
00:54:56.000 Here's $1.
00:54:57.000 I've done significantly less good than we do at this company, which is employed 300 people.
00:55:02.000 Alrighty folks, the rest of the show continues right now.
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