Over the weekend, MMA legend Conor McGregor got himself into serious trouble with the Irish authorities. So what precisely did McGregor do? And he didn t just tweet something unsayable. He tweeted something that cuts at the very root of society, and undermines the rule of law. Incitement to murder during a time of war is illegal in Ireland. So we can tell a lot about a society by the kinds of speech it actually seeks to ban. In Ireland, that speech amounts to criticism of open immigration. On Thursday, three kids and a woman were stabbed in a knife attack outside a school in Ireland, allegedly by an Algerian immigrant in his 50s with mental illness. Bystanders tackled the man, but many Irish citizens were fighting mad about the incident, which they saw as indicative of the government s looseness about migrants entering the country. From April 2022 to April 2023, Ireland saw a 16-year high of 141,600 immigrants, including 40,000 Ukrainians. Increasing economic insecurity combined with that high level of immigration put Ireland on the path to conflagration. It was the largest riot in Ireland in decades. And the police responded to the riots in the aftermath, with 34 people were arrested, and one police officer was seriously injured. This is not who we want to be. We need action. And we need to ensure the change in Ireland is made fast, and fast. And that we do not even be the first place in the fight for change in the country, not the second place. - Ben K Samson, Daily Wire. Today is your last chance to get 50% off Daily Wire plus annual memberships. Get it now at Dailywire. - Subscribe to the Dailywire newsletter! Get it NOW at DailyWire.com slash subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting platform. You re not gonna want to miss it! - The Daily Wire? - What do you want to hear from me? Subscribe to Dailywire? -- Thank you greatly, Ben Konson, Ben, Ben, and you re not even getting a chance to eat at my establishment forever? Ben and Ben, too much of the best deal of the year, Ben and you ve got it, right in the rest of the world, right at so much of it, and he s not even a chance, right to it? ? Thank you, Ben & I do it so much, and I ve been so much at it?
00:00:33.000Now, there are certain things that have been deemed unsayable by every society.
00:00:36.000Usually those things cut at the very root of that society.
00:00:39.000Incitement of murder, for example, undermines the rule of law.
00:00:42.000Expressing support for enemies during time of war, for example, undermines the ability of the government to win victories.
00:00:48.000So we can tell a lot about a society by the kinds of speech it actually seeks to ban.
00:00:52.000In Ireland, that speech amounts to criticism of open immigration.
00:00:56.000On Thursday, three kids and a woman were stabbed in a knife attack outside a school in Ireland, allegedly by an Algerian immigrant in his 50s with mental illness.
00:01:06.000But many Irish citizens were fighting mad about the incident, which they saw as indicative of the government's looseness about migrants entering the country.
00:01:13.000From April 2022 to April 2023, Ireland saw a 16-year high of 141,600 immigrants, including
00:01:20.00040,000 Ukrainians. Increasing economic insecurity combined with that high level of immigration
00:01:25.000put Ireland on the path to conflagration.
00:01:36.000One police officer was seriously injured.
00:01:38.000The Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, condemned the riots and quote, waves of ignorance and criminality and said, quote, those involved have brought shame on Dublin, brought shame on Ireland and brought shame on their families and themselves.
00:02:20.000Before the stabbing attacks, McGregor tweeted, quote, Ireland, we are at war.
00:02:24.000After the attacks, in response to the Irish Garda Commissioner claiming that a, quote, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology is behind the riots, McGregor tweeted, quote, innocent children ruthlessly stabbed by a mentally deranged non-national in Dublin, Ireland today.
00:02:37.000Our chief of police had this to say on the riots in the aftermath.
00:02:42.000There is grave danger among us in Ireland that should never be here in the first place, and there has been zero action done to support the public in any way, shape, or form with this frightening fact.
00:03:07.000My stomach is churning with no action being taken at all during these ever more frequent events, like literally zero action taken whatsoever.
00:03:18.000McGregor did add a compliment for the Brazilian immigrant who had stopped the knife attacks, stating, quote, the working man is the real hero.
00:03:23.000Bravo to our Brazilian brother in Ireland, working hard, earning a living, contributing to Irish society.
00:03:32.000Kaio Benicio, you're forever free to eat at my establishment.
00:03:35.000Then he said, quote, We are not losing any more of our women and children to sick and twisted people who should not even be in Ireland in the first place.
00:04:01.000Now, all of this is passionate, but it is standard anti-mass migration rhetoric.
00:04:05.000Yet it drew rebuke from Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister, Michael Martin, who called McGregor's statements, quote, absolutely disgraceful and explained, quote, isolated voices like that and voices that are essentially inciting hate and to a degree, to some extent, incitement are unacceptable.
00:04:30.000Well, it means that for the left in the West, the unsayable thing also happens to be obviously true.
00:04:36.000Mass migration often presents a real threat to the cultural cohesion of a nation and combined with generous welfare payments can endanger the socioeconomic status of an entire country.
00:05:08.000And class differences are reflections of economic exploitation that can only be cured by Marxist redistributionist materialism.
00:05:15.000Diversity is our strength, says the old saw.
00:05:18.000Never mind that according to Harvard left-wing sociologist Robert Putnam, quote, the only two things that go up as the diversity of your census tract goes up are protest marches and television watching.
00:05:29.000Diversity is our strength because the more migrants who arrive in your country, a rich welfare state, the more pressure there will be for class-based change.
00:05:37.000This is why we see the left-wing nostrum that when a culture war takes place, That culture war is actually fake.
00:05:53.000It should be no surprise, therefore, that Prime Minister Varadkar spent the weekend calling for more hate speech laws, and at the same time also saying that the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas had been, quote, lost.
00:06:15.000Lost, you know, like you'd lose a puppy.
00:06:17.000Because, for Varadkar, to label Hamas what it is would be to acknowledge precisely the sorts of cultural difference the left cannot be allowed to acknowledge.
00:06:28.000Everybody knows those cultural differences exist, and they are a problem.
00:06:32.000Westerners are beginning to openly acknowledge precisely those cultural differences, and they should.
00:06:37.000As Ayaan Hirsi Ali has pointed out, from 2009 to 2021, some 3 million immigrants have come to Europe, mostly from the Middle East and Africa.
00:07:21.000Remember, noticing is what threatens community cohesion.
00:07:24.000In the Netherlands, which Ayaan Hirsi Ali had to leave thanks to threats
00:07:27.000from radical Muslims of exactly the same ilk who murdered her filmmaking
00:07:30.000partner, Theo Van Gogh in 2004, Muslims represent at least 5% of the population.
00:07:35.000According to Leon Zwinter of De Telegraaf, as of 2017, non-Western immigrants in the Netherlands and their children are, quote, half of welfare recipients, but only 11% of the total population.
00:07:45.000Among recent Somali refugees granted asylum, 80% are on welfare.
00:07:49.000No wonder, then, that over the weekend, Gert Wilders of the Party for Freedom finished first in last week's parliamentary elections in the Netherlands.
00:07:57.000Wilders has been a longtime icon of the right in the Netherlands.
00:08:00.000He spent decades warning about the Islamicization of the Netherlands.
00:08:03.000Wilders was caught on tape this weekend.
00:08:07.000As a speaker, to wrap up, I have a message for all the Muslims in the Netherlands who do not respect our freedom, our democracy, and our core values, who find the rules of the Koran more important than our secular laws.
00:08:53.000From Giorgio Moloni in Italy, to Viktor Orban in Hungary, to the Finns party in Finland, to the Sweden Democrats, Europe is bucking against multiculturalism.
00:09:02.000Multiculturalism without assimilation to Western values is a dramatic failure.
00:09:07.000Oddly, though, the media seem to continue to press the idea that opposing mass migration from cultures that actually kind of hate the West, well, that just means generalized xenophobia.
00:09:16.000It's all about racism or Islamophobia or whatever.
00:09:19.000Many of the same parties pushing against mass Muslim migration are incredibly pro-Jewish, for example, and back Israel in its current conflict with Hamas.
00:09:26.000That's certainly true of Wilders, who's an Israel supporter.
00:09:36.000And it turns out, being pro-multiculturalism, while promoting mass migration of radical Muslims, very often links up with anti-Semitism.
00:09:43.000While opposing mass migration, very often amounts to fighting anti-Semitism when the mass migration is coming from countries where people generally hate Jews.
00:09:51.000But again, reporting the truth on these issues means undercutting the left-wing lie that culture isn't the problem, class is.
00:09:57.000And that is the unsayable, forbidden thing.
00:10:00.000But silencing is not going to work for long, as McGregor is showing.
00:10:03.000The Europeans are not going quietly into the multicultural light, and attempts to ram Europeans who want to protect their culture back into the diversity is our strength box are doomed to fail.
00:10:13.000Okay, meanwhile, over in Britain, there were more pro-Hamas protests over the weekend.
00:10:19.000As always, there was a giant pro-Israel protest over the weekend.
00:11:58.000Now, one of the things that is amazing about this is that Britain right now is caving to these protesters.
00:12:04.000As we saw just over the last couple of weeks, Rishi Sunak laid off Svela Braverman, who's the Home Secretary, for mentioning the same sort of stuff that many other members of the populist right are mentioning from France, to Germany, to Sweden, to Finland, to Italy, to Hungary.
00:12:20.000Because, of course, the populace cannot be allowed to say the unsayable thing.
00:12:24.000Gerard Baker points this out over at the Wall Street Journal.
00:12:27.000He says, the culture war in the UK between the people and the establishment, in which the people for a heady moment seized control over matters like immigration, national sovereignty, criminal justice, and the right not to be ashamed of their race or cultural heritage, has ended.
00:12:38.000The establishment appears to have won.
00:12:39.000Last week, the formal surrender papers were signed.
00:12:41.000First, Rishi Sunak, who became prime minister a year ago after a pantomime performance by his ruling conservative party had ousted two predecessors in quick succession, brought back into government David Cameron, the man who inadvertently fired the first shot in the populist revolt by calling the referendum on Brexit seven years ago.
00:12:56.000If you wanted a caricature of the English establishment, there is none better than Mr. Cameron.
00:13:01.000Mr. Cameron isn't just the man who insisted the British people endorse membership in the EU on the pain of economic punishment.
00:13:06.000He also boasted of having inaugurated a golden age of relations between the UK and the People's Republic of China.
00:13:12.000Now he's Foreign Secretary, charged with leading Britain's international relations.
00:13:16.000This, of course, coincided with Sunak getting rid of Braverman.
00:13:20.000Braverman is a much less polished figure than is Mr. Cameron.
00:13:24.000After the political chaos of last year, she emerged as the most outspoken advocate of a tougher approach to immigration, crime, and the woke mind virus in the public sector.
00:13:31.000Staunchly pro-Israel, she's also been extremely critical of the British police force's tolerance of the often violent pro-Hamas demonstrators on the street.
00:13:38.000In Britain, you can be arrested for silently saying a prayer within a few hundred yards of an abortion clinic, but you can call for the destruction of Israel and praise Adolf Hitler, and the boys in blue will ensure that you're allowed to scream your bile unimpeded.
00:13:49.000Well, she was fired, and instead, Cameron was elevated.
00:14:02.000Because as it turns out, polling data tends to show that the rise of populism that is happening all over the world actually has less to do with the rhetoric and much more to do with the actual policies.
00:14:13.000That's particularly true when it comes to immigration.
00:14:16.000The vast majority of people in Western countries are not particularly interested in importing vast numbers of people who do not like their country.
00:14:23.000It is one thing to say, as many people say, that if people want to come to the United States, for example, for the economic opportunity, assimilate to American values, love the flag, love the Constitution, great, we're glad to have you.
00:14:36.000In fact, I'd trade you for a bunch of people on the other side of the political aisle in a heartbeat, but When it comes to people who are coming here and despise the country, who openly hate the country, or who are just here for the welfare benefits, why exactly should those people be allowed in?
00:14:51.000If the West ignores that, they're going to get more of what they are seeing electorally.
00:14:55.000The Conservative Party in Britain is going to face the same fate.
00:14:59.000That many of the right-wing parties, or center-right parties, in the rest of Europe have faced, which is co-option by elements that are more right-wing than they are, particularly on the immigration issue.
00:15:13.000There's an entire European mindset that suggests, of course, that cultural differences, as we have suggested, are a figment of the imagination.
00:15:20.000That underneath, everybody is exactly the same.
00:15:24.000They all think like Western liberals, to be more exact.
00:15:27.000And that really, If they evince signs of anti-semitism, or hatred of women, or hatred of rights, really that's because of their economic disposition.
00:15:38.000In the infamous words of Barack Obama at one point, talking about terrorism, what people really need is jobs.
00:15:43.000If we were just able to get them some sort of economic growth, this would magically cure the cultural differentiation.
00:15:49.000Better welfare benefits would make everything all better.
00:16:28.000And what's actually happening is as the media continue to promote that line, as they continue to claim a moral equivalence between everybody on earth in order to degrade the West, more and more people are seeing directly through it.
00:16:38.000More and more people recognize exactly what is the game that they are playing.
00:16:43.000They're becoming more and more discredited.
00:16:45.000And then they whine about how they're being discredited.
00:16:47.000So, to take the latest example, over the weekend, there's been this series of massive hostage exchanges between Hamas and Israel.
00:16:54.000So this weekend, saw Hamas release some of the 240 hostages that the terror group took during its mass killing spree on October 7th.
00:17:01.000They released 13 Israeli hostages the first day.
00:17:07.00017 hostages on Sunday, bringing the current total to 43 hostages.
00:17:11.000Under the current break-in operations, Hamas was set to release 50 total hostages.
00:17:15.000The deal could be extended by one day for every 10 more hostages released.
00:17:19.000So why did the deal happen in the first place?
00:17:21.000Well, on Israel's side, the reason is pretty obvious.
00:17:23.000Israel values the life of its citizens in a way that Hamas simply does not.
00:17:27.000In fact, Israel is willing to put its own soldiers at additional risk in order to achieve the return of civilians.
00:17:32.000And by the way, even in order to protect Palestinian civilians, many of whom participated in the October 7th attacks, Because again, reminder, Israel has complete air superiority over Gaza that could bomb the place into total submission if Israel wanted to do so.
00:17:46.000So for Israel, the deal was painful but clear.
00:17:48.000Try to get out as many hostages as possible, even if Hamas would be temporarily strengthened.
00:18:32.000It's just colonization and all the rest.
00:18:34.000Now, that is a pretty hard sell after you hang glide into Israel and murder nearly 300 people at a music festival.
00:18:41.000Go house to house to burn babies in their cribs and rape their moms and slaughter civilians at will.
00:18:46.000Because here's the thing, Hamas didn't even just engage in murder of civilians, they engaged in some of the worst atrocities in modern history.
00:18:52.000According to one Israeli reserve combat paramedic that's reported by the Washington Post, he found the corpses of two teenage girls in their bedrooms.
00:19:14.000According to a volunteer at the Shura military morgue, which was analyzing the bodies of the slain, quote, we saw many women with bloody underwear, broken bones, broken legs, broken pelvises.
00:19:25.000Another witness described a gang rape at the Nova Rave, followed by the murder of the victim, quote, he didn't pick up his pants.
00:19:50.000Here, for example, was the BBC's international editor, claiming that the BBC has been doing a stellar job despite provoking international riots on behalf of Hamas, thanks to lies and false reporting about supposed Israeli human rights violations.
00:20:02.000Here's the BBC's international editor saying we've done an amazing job.
00:20:07.000I've got to ask you about the hospital on the 17th of October.
00:20:14.000The BBC was criticised heavily for its reporting of that event.
00:20:19.000Tell us what happened that night, and, you know, bluntly, where were you getting your information, and do you regret anything that you said that night?
00:20:29.000So it broke in, I suppose, mid-evening.
00:20:32.000And to answer your question, no, I don't regret one thing in my reporting, because I think I was measured throughout.
00:20:42.000But you said that building had been flattened.
00:20:44.000Oh yeah, well I got that wrong because I was looking at the pictures.
00:20:48.000And what I could see was a square that appeared to be flaming on all sides.
00:20:56.000And there was a, you know, sort of a void in the middle.
00:21:01.000And it was, I think it was a picture taken from a drone.
00:21:05.000And so, you know, we have to piece together what we see.
00:21:12.000The media aren't backing down from their pro-Hamas propaganda, not one iota.
00:21:16.000So even as this hostage deal went through, for example, one LBC reporter, again, British reporter, asked an Israeli spokesperson whether the unevenness of the exchange, remember, here is the exchange.
00:21:26.000Israel is supposed to get back 50 of its own hostages, and they're releasing 150 terrorists.
00:21:31.000So that's a three to one ratio of Israel releasing three terrorists for every innocent Israeli.
00:21:36.000This reporter literally asked the Israeli spokesperson Whether that exchange rate represented Israel's disregard for Palestinian life because it was a three-for-one rate.
00:21:46.000I was speaking to a hostage negotiator this morning.
00:21:49.000He made the comparison between the 50 hostages that Hamas has promised to release as opposed to the 150 prisoners that are Palestinians that Israel has said that it will release.
00:22:03.000And he made the comparison between the numbers and the fact that does Israel not think that Palestinian lives are valued as highly as Israeli lives?
00:22:17.000If we could release one prisoner for every one hostage, we would obviously do that.
00:22:22.000We are operating in horrific circumstances.
00:22:24.000We're not choosing to release these prisoners who have blood on their hands.
00:22:28.000We are talking about people who have been convicted of stabbing and shooting attacks.
00:22:33.000Notice the question of proportionality doesn't interest Palestinian supporters when they are able to get more of their prisoners out.
00:22:38.000But really, it is outrageous to suggest that the fact that we are willing to release prisoners who are convicted of terrorism offences, more of them than we are getting our own innocent children back, somehow suggests that we don't care about Palestinian lives.
00:22:51.000Really, that's a disgusting accusation.
00:24:46.000Now, those terrorists who are being released are immediately being greeted with raucous cheering by Hamas supporters, not in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.
00:24:54.000This was taped from Ramallah this weekend.
00:25:01.000They're literally firing fireworks in celebration at terrorists being released back into their community.
00:25:06.000Because these are heroes in the Palestinian community.
00:26:51.000And sick, to make any sort of equation here, but of course that's the entire game that the media are playing.
00:26:57.000By the way, some of these hostages, for example, one of these hostages, she was told upon her release that her father is still being held by Hamas.
00:27:54.000They're telling them to keep waving and smiling for the cameras.
00:27:58.000Okay, so believe it or not, Hamas propagandists spent the weekend trying to argue that this footage right here of the little girl being released was actually evidence that Hamas had treated these prisoners so decently that they were really, really happy with their captors.
00:28:12.000Well, I mean, Except for them being held at gunpoint for 50 days and essentially quasi-starved and essentially... I mean, one of them is basically dead.
00:28:53.000But here was a Sky News reporter making just that claim.
00:28:56.000And you would agree that today was, given the circumstances, a success.
00:29:01.000We saw the ceasefire kick in at seven o'clock, and then we saw the hostages released later in the afternoon, and of course you have now released 39 Palestinian women and children, so... Oh, can I argue, please?
00:29:22.000Here we have a two-year-old, A four-year-old, a five-year-old, and a nine-year-old.
00:29:28.000How can you compare that with a minor who is 16 or 17 years old, who is involved in a stabbing attack, or throwing a petrol bomb, or the other acts of violence?
00:29:39.000You can say women and minors, but to compare that to the Israeli two-year-old, I think is a bridge too far.
00:29:47.000It's not just a bridge too far, it's sick.
00:29:49.000But unfortunately, this is what the media do.
00:29:50.000A New York Times headline, for example, obscured that a woman in this particular picture is actually a terrorist.
00:29:57.000Okay, so, the headline is, a disfigured woman whose case has become well-known is among the Palestinians released.
00:30:33.000Here's a CNN journalist similarly claiming moral parity between small children released by Hamas thanks to Israel's military pressure and Palestinians released by Israel in order to free those children.
00:30:43.000Israeli authorities blocked off roads, corralled the media into one location, brought the Palestinians in through the back door when they received them, and then only allowed family members to come in very limited single file in individual cars.
00:31:02.000Because unlike the images of celebration, which you might have seen from Ramallah and the West Bank, here in East Jerusalem, Israeli authorities were better able to enforce the diktat of their far-right national security minister, who has deemed the prisoners released today as terrorists.
00:31:25.000He said any Palestinian who celebrates will themselves be charged as terrorists.
00:31:31.000I mean, just to break that down a little bit, there is no grounds to call them terrorists, because by Israel's own reckoning, those 39 prisoners were 15 minors, 10 of whom were only charged, and 24 women, 23 were detained, not charged, and 10 of the minors were detained, not charged.
00:32:02.000Of course, the Asenai and Gigi Hadid did the same thing, using as her model of victimhood when Ahmed al-Mansara, accusing Israel of taking children as POWs, engaging in abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, murder of Palestinians.
00:32:13.000She tweeted out, Israel is the only country in the world that keeps children as prisoners of war.
00:32:18.000Right, that children as prisoners of war.
00:32:19.000Abduction, rape, humiliation, torture, murder of Palestinians.
00:32:25.000Ahmed El Mansour, abducted by the Israeli occupation at the age of 12, has endured solitary confinement.
00:32:29.000Hundreds of Palestinian children remain detained, suffering in Israeli jails.
00:32:33.000Here is some actual video of what Ahmed did.
00:32:39.000So that would be Ahmed chasing Jews toward a gas station, running into the gas station with the knife, looking for somebody to stab, And then settling eventually on, they eventually settled, he and the other person he's with, settled on the murder of a 13-year-old boy.
00:33:06.000You pretend moral parity between Israel and its enemies.
00:33:09.000You ignore all evidence in order to accomplish this.
00:33:12.000This allows for the continuation of that egregiously false narrative that Israel's elimination is a legitimate goal or that Israel ought to be forced to make concessions to terrorist groups, which are, by the way, the only governing powers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
00:33:24.000Fatah, for example, is the military wing of the Palestinian Authority.
00:33:29.000That's supposed to be Israel's peace partner.
00:33:30.000That's the person Joe Biden wants to see running at Gaza after Hamas.
00:33:34.000Well, over the weekend, the Secretary General of Fatah's Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, stated that October 7th was, quote, an act in the context of the defensive war our people are waging, and that, quote, Hamas is part of our political and social fabric and of our struggle.
00:33:49.000Rajoub also said that Hamas's onslaught, quote, thwarted the goal of the Israeli right to integrate Israel into the region without resolving the Palestinian issue based on the principle of peace in exchange for peace.
00:35:02.000Thus, according to Steve Hendricks and Hazem Belusha of the Washington Post, By the way, that's an outlet that has disgraced itself beyond measure as a Hamas propaganda outlet during this conflict.
00:35:11.000They say the real fault here is, wait for it, Benjamin Netanyahu's, the Israeli prime minister.
00:35:16.000According to the Washington Post, Netanyahu and Hamas, quote, found each other useful for their own purposes.
00:35:21.000Netanyahu pursued a strategy that didn't disrupt the status quo of a divided Palestinian population, leaving Hamas to ruling Gaza and the rival Palestinian authority in the West Bank.
00:35:30.000Leave aside the fact that had Israel moved to depose Hamas over the past 20 years, the world would have condemned them for it.
00:35:35.000In fact, every time Israel went in to clean out Hamas actors, the world condemned them.
00:35:39.000Leave aside the fact that the Palestinian Authority currently allies with Hamas and is also a terrorist group.
00:35:45.000The insane bigotry of suggesting that the Jews are responsible for radical Muslim atrocities because they didn't defend those radical Muslims, while you are currently arguing, by the way, that Israel ought not defend Hamas, is totally mind-boggling.
00:35:56.000So just to get this logic straight, Bibi is bad because he didn't depose Hamas.
00:36:01.000Bibi, therefore, must not depose Hamas.
00:36:06.000Well, if that argument doesn't work, you can argue, as the press has been doing for weeks, that Israel's retaliation against Hamas is just as evil as Hamas' original attacks.
00:36:13.000Thus, we've seen story after story condemning Israel for not having magic weapons that only hit terrorists, even when those terrorists hide among civilians.
00:36:19.000Pushing this idiotic argument is Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
00:36:22.000Here he was over the weekend on State of the Union.
00:36:27.000I do believe that the level of civilian harm inside Gaza has been unacceptable and is unsustainable.
00:36:34.000I think there's both a moral cost to this many civilians, innocent civilians, children often losing their life, but I think there's a strategic cost.
00:36:42.000Ultimately, Hamas will get stronger, not weaker, in the long run if all of this civilian death allows them to recruit more effectively and ably inside Gaza.
00:36:57.000Well, I mean, obviously, obviously he is an expert on this sort of stuff.
00:37:01.000And if Israel doesn't use its magic weapon, well, then Israel's really, really bad.
00:37:06.000Naturally, Murphy then connects this idiotic argument with the argument that Israel ought to make concessions to the Palestinians after all, which is what they did in Gaza and are now being blamed by The Washington Post for doing.
00:37:17.000Here is Murphy saying, oh, the only way out of this is for Israel to, you know, give more after they had all their citizens slaughtered.
00:37:23.000The only future that guarantees the survival of a Jewish state in the Middle East and that is a Palestinian state.
00:37:30.000Benjamin Netanyahu believed that you could ignore the Palestinians, that you could try to squash their desires for a state.
00:37:40.000And ultimately, that would bring peace to the region and to Israel.
00:38:44.000What's more, Israel is at the beginning, not the end of this battle.
00:38:47.000Netanyahu said over the weekend, quote, we have three goals for this war, eliminating Hamas, returning our hostages, ensuring Gaza does not become a threat to the state of Israel again.
00:38:54.000The conflict in Gaza is not over, but it's not just in Gaza.
00:38:59.000Israel is going to have to, over the coming years, take on and destroy Hezbollah on its northern border.
00:39:04.000There are currently 30,000 Israelis who have left their homes in northern Israel because they're under the umbrella of a terrorist threat created by Hezbollah, that is the Iranian Bacteria Group, that has, right now, 200,000 rockets, minimum, pointed at Israel, perhaps 50,000 of which have actual sophisticated targeting systems.
00:39:21.000Hezbollah cannot be left to stew for that long, especially given the Iranian development of a nuclear weapon.
00:39:25.000If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, they simply hand it over to Hezbollah, and then Hezbollah has the ability to do pretty much what they want.
00:39:30.000And then there's the so-called West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority, remember Israel's supposed peace partner?
00:39:38.000Israel is going to have to engage in continuing counterinsurgency tactics in both Gaza and the West Bank indefinitely in order to ensure safety and security.
00:39:48.000Will the West allow Israel to do what it has to do to protect its own security?
00:39:51.000That is the big question moving forward.
00:39:53.000And that question is, again, connected to the broader question that many people are asking now in the West.
00:39:59.000Will the West do what it has to do to protect itself and its own security from the threat of radical Islam, particularly in the form of mass migration?
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00:40:50.000Meanwhile, the question as to whether West is going to stand up for itself, again, that remains an open one, not just internally, but with regard to foreign policy.
00:40:58.000So, for example, When it comes to foreign policy, the assumption of weakness by the West is what drives America's enemies to become stronger and more militant.
00:41:06.000This is why, presumably, over the weekend, China's military said it had driven a U.S.
00:41:10.000warship from waters it claims in the South China Sea and accused the United States of being the biggest destroyer of peace and stability in the region.
00:41:17.000So that means that that meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden went absolutely swimmingly in San Francisco.
00:41:22.000It wasn't seen as weakness by the Chinese, like at all, to put out a somnambulant President of the United States, a barely sentient person, a tablecloth, to actually talk to the Chinese dictator.
00:41:34.000China's state-run People's Daily quoted senior colonel Tian Junli, the spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army Southern Theater Command, as saying the guided missile destroyer USS Hopper had entered China's territorial waters illegally on Saturday.
00:41:46.000It said the incident occurred near the Paracel Islands, which China calls the Xisha Islands.
00:41:51.000Tian sharply criticized the United States, claiming the U.S.
00:42:00.000Meanwhile, American sailors did do something amazing over the weekend.
00:42:05.000So the tanker that was seized by Yemeni rebels last week, it's not an Israeli tanker, but it does have investment from an Israeli billionaire.
00:42:13.000That tanker was seized by the Houthis last week.
00:42:16.000Well, now apparently it was freed by U.S.
00:42:19.000That is good because if the international waterways are impinged upon by pirates and terrorists, All of your costs are going to go up pretty dramatically at home.
00:42:27.000Again, an unstable world is a dramatically worse world for American citizens, and America being the global hegemon is the only party that is capable of providing safety and stability all over the world for economic trade lanes, for example.
00:42:39.000But the thing that undercuts that is continuing Shilly-shallying over things like should Hamas survive.
00:42:46.000So Democrats continue, radical Democrats continue to push Joe Biden into pressuring Israel on Hamas.
00:42:53.000According to the Washington Post, earlier this month, a group of about 20 distressed White House staffers requested a meeting with President Biden's top advisors as Israel's war in Gaza entered its sixth week.
00:43:02.000The diverse group of staffers, diverse, hmm, had its three main issues they wanted to discuss with the White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, former advisor Anita Dunn, and Deputy National Security Advisor John Finer.
00:43:12.000They wanted to know the administration's strategy for curbing civilian deaths, the message it plans to send on the conflict, and its post-war vision for the region.
00:43:20.000Zients, Dunn, and Finer listened respectfully, but some participants felt they fell back on familiar talking points.
00:43:25.000Had a White House official familiar with the meeting?
00:43:28.000So again, what this is, is an attempt to drive Biden into the arms of Hamas.
00:43:47.000Well, because at one point he had been asked about the numbers coming out of Gaza with regard to civilian death.
00:43:53.000And he said, I don't believe the numbers coming from Hamas, which is the proper answer, given that Hamas routinely lies about said numbers.
00:43:59.000And apparently, Biden apologized for those comments.
00:44:08.000But again, this is a way for the radical left inside the Biden administration to push Joe Biden.
00:44:12.000That's going to have significant ramifications for the American people.
00:44:15.000Because a weak America on the world stage is a real problem for American security.
00:44:21.000This, by the way, would be just another reason why Joe Biden's polls keep getting worse and worse.
00:44:26.000According to Politico, President Biden's poll numbers keep getting worse.
00:44:31.000Among the latest surveys this month from 13 separate pollsters, Biden's position is worse than their previous polls in all but two of those polls.
00:44:38.000And while polls suggest most of the movement comes from voters abandoning Biden, Donald Trump has also started to gain steam.
00:44:44.000Trump's vote share in the national polling average is higher now than at any point in the last year.
00:44:48.000The state-level data are just as striking.
00:44:50.000In addition to New York Times' Siena polls within the last week and a half, other surveys have shown Trump ahead by 8 in Arizona and 5 in Michigan.
00:44:59.000Again, he is losing some young voters.
00:45:02.000Right now, Trump, according to the NBC News poll, is actually leading Biden among voters younger than 35, 46 to 42.
00:45:07.000That is within the margin of error for that group.
00:45:10.000But bottom line is that Joe Biden is losing approval.
00:45:13.000Because it feels like the world is on fire.
00:45:15.000It feels like the world's on fire because Joe Biden is weak.
00:45:18.000And when weakness is evidenced by the world, it turns out that people do really bad things.
00:45:23.000Meanwhile, you can see the writing on the wall a little bit here.
00:45:27.000Apparently there are a huge number, like 39 members of Congress who have already said they are planning to leave their seats.
00:45:33.00025 of those members of Congress are Democrats.
00:45:35.000So a lot of Democrats are seeing the writing on the wall in the next House election, especially if Joe Biden has reverse coattails, meaning if he's the guy at the top of the ballot and he underperforms, that is a massive, massive problem for Democrats.
00:45:45.000Meanwhile, Donald Trump went to South Carolina in an attempt to blunt the momentum that Nikki Haley has been attempting to build and he went to this college football game in South Carolina and he was widely cheered.
00:45:54.000It was funny to watch as people on Twitter tried to treat this as Donald Trump being booed.
00:45:59.000I'm not sure you're watching the same tape the rest of us are.
00:46:49.000So, pretty much everybody is treating Trump because they've seen him before, and they know what he is, and they know he says wild stuff, and they also know he's kind of a generic Republican politician in terms of his actual policy.