The Charlie Kirk Show - How Should America React to Israel?

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00:01:27.000 About two weeks ago, I gave a speech and I said, we are a fatigued nation.

00:01:31.000 I certainly feel that way.

00:01:33.000 Every day I come up with energy and passion.

00:01:35.000 You must intentionally work on your happiness.

00:01:38.000 It takes a lot for me to get into a place where I feel a sense of heaviness.

00:01:43.000 Dennis Prager taught me that.

00:01:44.000 It's also a biblical idea that happiness doesn't happen to you, that you must be intentionally joyful, joyful in the Lord, joyful in our relationship with Christ.

00:01:52.000 I'll be very honest, these last couple of days, I've felt that sense of heaviness.

00:01:56.000 It's very hard to escape.

00:01:58.000 From 15 days to slow the spread to Floyd to Palooza, to the burning of our country, to vaccine mandates, to people losing their jobs, to the 2020 election, to January 6th, to the police state that followed, Donald Trump facing 700 years in federal prison.

00:02:15.000 Two weeks ago, you'd say, what else?

00:02:17.000 Can we get a break?

00:02:18.000 And the answer is no.

00:02:20.000 You're not living in a time for a break.

00:02:22.000 It's not the time, as we say commonly on this program, for the sun shine patriot, the summer soldier.

00:02:28.000 Somebody recently at an event said, Charlie, I am worn out.

00:02:31.000 Yep.

00:02:32.000 Get over it.

00:02:33.000 Get over it.

00:02:34.000 We got a fight here with our Marxists.

00:02:36.000 That is a civilizational type fight and breaking in just the last couple of minutes.

00:02:42.000 It seems, and it appears, I'm doing my best not to fall into the fog of war stuff.

00:02:46.000 Okay?

00:02:46.000 It seems as if there is another front war with Israel.

00:02:50.000 They've been attacked by Hezbollah to the north, and Israel is soon probably going to be involved in a two-front war.

00:02:59.000 Gaza and Hezbollah.

00:03:01.000 We have first-hand reports of people we know in bomb shelters.

00:03:05.000 I have two text messages from IDF soldiers that are high up in the IDF.

00:03:08.000 They said the war is on in the north.

00:03:10.000 Now, maybe that is just them being excited, but it sure seems that way.

00:03:14.000 And reports are confirming that.

00:03:16.000 We are a fatigued nation.

00:03:18.000 Some of it is intentional.

00:03:20.000 We didn't ask for this whole thing in Israel, but now it is.

00:03:23.000 It's the number one story on the planet.

00:03:25.000 Not just because what has happened with Israel, but obviously the ramifications.

00:03:30.000 And this program is going to be your home of calm, as Steve Bannon said this morning.

00:03:34.000 We're going to talk about facts.

00:03:35.000 We're not going to panic.

00:03:36.000 We're not going to do hyperbole.

00:03:37.000 We're not going to do exaggeration because our dog in the fight is America, this country, our interests.

00:03:44.000 We're going to call up people on both sides when they get way too excited and they overwhelm the narrative with a motive type psycho babble.

00:03:55.000 If a Republican says it or a Democrat says it.

00:03:58.000 And I do want to hear from you this, because we haven't done this this week.

00:04:03.000 How are you thinking about the Israel conflict?

00:04:05.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:04:07.000 What do you believe?

00:04:08.000 What should America's role be?

00:04:10.000 Do you care about this?

00:04:11.000 Are you passionate about it?

00:04:12.000 Are you looking at this carefully and closely?

00:04:15.000 However you feel, we have a great relationship together.

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00:04:21.000 I think it's instructive to play one piece of tape.

00:04:25.000 Mark Milley, boy, he really exited at a convenient time.

00:04:30.000 He just gets out about a week ago.

00:04:31.000 We didn't cover Milley at all.

00:04:32.000 Milley is not a good person.

00:04:34.000 He should never have been in charge of effectively the U.S. military with Lloyd Austin.

00:04:39.000 And there's a shocking piece of tape that I think needs to frame the American response in the Middle East.

00:04:48.000 Mark Milley was reflecting on our time in Afghanistan, and he was asked bluntly, was it worth it?

00:04:54.000 Was it worth it, our involvement in Afghanistan?

00:04:59.000 And his answer should factor into how we as Americans think about what is happening in the Middle East.

00:05:07.000 Play Cut 101.

00:05:08.000 To those who served in Afghanistan for two decades and lost family members and friends and wonder, was it worth it?

00:05:17.000 Well, that's always the question, right?

00:05:19.000 So 2,461 killed in action by the enemy in Afghanistan over 20 years.

00:05:24.000 Was it worth it?

00:05:25.000 Look, I can't answer that for other people.

00:05:29.000 Wow.

00:05:30.000 That's the guy in charge of all of the military.

00:05:34.000 And he says, I can't answer that.

00:05:36.000 Yeah, a lot of people died, but I can't answer that.

00:05:38.000 20 years, 20 plus years, trillions of dollars spent, thousands of lives lost, hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan displaced.

00:05:50.000 An entire region put into bedlam.

00:05:53.000 And by the way, remember, he was the traitor that went behind Trump's back to the Chinese.

00:05:58.000 And he can't clearly answer whether or not it was worth it.

00:06:02.000 So that right there should just be a little bit, not a little bit, a massive reminder as we are looking at what's happening in Israel.

00:06:08.000 And we should factor in how America is going to respond.

00:06:13.000 Because I'm going to be very honest with you.

00:06:15.000 The way that this is trending, the way that this is going, the pressure is going to go from Israel onto America very, very soon. 0.94

00:06:26.000 Two-front war, and it's going to be beyond munitions and arms and special forces.

00:06:31.000 And America is going to have to decide.

00:06:34.000 America is going to have to decide what it does.

00:06:38.000 Air support, ground troops.

00:06:39.000 I say no U.S. troops.

00:06:41.000 There's got to be a red line.

00:06:42.000 And I say after this, you got Mark Milley going on TV and saying, I don't know if it's worth it.

00:06:47.000 Have we learned nothing?

00:06:49.000 Israel is more than capable of defending itself and handling.

00:06:53.000 More than capable.

00:06:56.000 And I draw ire from both camps for this position, by the way.

00:07:00.000 Some people say, Charlie, you're too pro-Israel.

00:07:02.000 First of all, I'm pro-America and I'm a proud Christian.

00:07:06.000 Israel changed my life. 1.00

00:07:08.000 Visiting Israel changed my life.

00:07:11.000 If you've never been to Israel, I don't expect you to understand what I'm saying.

00:07:14.000 But when I saw where our Lord rose from the dead, where our Lord walked on water, where I saw the Garden of Gethsemane, where he prayed before he was betrayed and arrested, when I saw Hebron, where Abram, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were buried, it changed my life.

00:07:28.000 It made the Bible more real and made me a far more serious Christian.

00:07:32.000 On the other extreme, I think that some people are completely out of control on cable television, like Lindsey Graham.

00:07:38.000 He is completely out of control.

00:07:40.000 So this is going to be the place where you get nuance.

00:07:43.000 You get both sides and you say, is there a way?

00:07:47.000 There should be to support our allies and support the country while not getting us into an endless quagmire, another no-win situation.

00:07:56.000 I love Israel.

00:07:58.000 Not as much as I love America, obviously.

00:08:01.000 But a lot of the establishment, they love war.

00:08:04.000 They love war more than anything else.

00:08:06.000 It's as if conflict gives them strength and energy, power.

00:08:12.000 What happened in Israel this last weekend?

00:08:14.000 The more we learn about it, the harder it is to grasp if you are unfamiliar with the uncivilized world.

00:08:24.000 Part of the problem of our universities is you have a bunch of sheltered brats that believe the rest of the world lives in air conditioning with common law, defense of children.

00:08:38.000 They live such a sheltered worldview, they can't even possibly grasp the idea that people would break into another country and seek out the women and children and mow them down at a concert. 0.95

00:08:50.000 Seek out infants. 1.00

00:08:53.000 It's hard for people to even grasp.

00:08:54.000 In fact, some people think, oh, it's war propaganda.

00:08:57.000 It wasn't that hard for me to grasp because people that still live in the 1300s, as a vast majority of Muslims do, they don't hold Western values. 1.00

00:09:08.000 Now, this is civilization, aka Western values versus barbarism, also known as medieval worldview.

00:09:18.000 If you're fatigued, I get it.

00:09:21.000 I understand.

00:09:24.000 You've lived through a lot these last couple years.

00:09:26.000 You didn't ask for it.

00:09:26.000 You didn't invite it.

00:09:28.000 And if it's too much for you, go watch Lifetime.

00:09:31.000 Sure, there's some shallow movie of somebody who falls in love and makes you feel good.

00:09:36.000 This is not Happy Talk Hour.

00:09:38.000 This is the entire civilization, the planet.

00:09:42.000 Dare I say, even the species.

00:09:44.000 It's heavy stuff.

00:09:46.000 It's time to buckle up, find solutions, understand our priorities, and learn lessons of the last couple decades.

00:09:54.000 Call out the extremism and the paranoia and the panic on both sides and pray for some clarity.

00:09:59.000 And most importantly, stay calm.

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00:10:40.000 So let's make sure we call out the over-the-top. 1.00

00:10:44.000 Lindsey Graham is totally wrong here. 1.00

00:10:49.000 Lindsey Graham is almost cheerleading for another regional war.

00:10:52.000 It's like as if he wants us to go to war with Iran.

00:10:55.000 Let me be very clear.

00:10:56.000 War with Iran is a terrible idea.

00:10:59.000 A terrible idea.

00:11:02.000 Sanctions, cutting off flows of money, fine.

00:11:07.000 What Lindsey Graham is talking about here would be catastrophic.

00:11:10.000 Let's just remember, we don't have a border.

00:11:14.000 There are 10 million people that just waltz into our country. 1.00

00:11:19.000 Even if we needed to go to war with Iran, I don't trust our military. 0.97

00:11:22.000 I don't trust our preparedness.

00:11:24.000 We don't have munitions.

00:11:25.000 We don't have troops with morale.

00:11:28.000 We're a divided country.

00:11:30.000 Even if we were at our strongest, it's a bad idea.

00:11:34.000 And we are not at our strongest.

00:11:36.000 We don't have the resources.

00:11:38.000 It's a bad geopolitical decision, not to mention we have $33 trillion in debt.

00:11:44.000 China is ascendant. 0.61

00:11:46.000 And Lindsey Graham is going on and on and on.

00:11:51.000 He needs to be called out here.

00:11:53.000 He needs to be called out and saying, Lindsey Graham, this is a recklessly irresponsible thing to say on television.

00:11:59.000 Play cut 92.

00:12:00.000 Well, for every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery. 1.00

00:12:10.000 The only way you're going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable. 0.97

00:12:14.000 I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians. 1.00

00:12:18.000 Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals. 1.00

00:12:23.000 So if I was Israel, I would go in on the ground. 0.99

00:12:26.000 There is no truce to be had here.

00:12:28.000 I would dismantle Hamas. 0.73

00:12:30.000 This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas. 0.96

00:12:34.000 Take it to the Iranians. 1.00

00:12:36.000 It is now time to take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard. 0.99

00:12:40.000 Okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:12:42.000 Now it's time.

00:12:42.000 So first, hold on, time out, time out, time out.

00:12:45.000 Take the war to the Ayatollah's backyard. 0.96

00:12:47.000 That would be a declaration of war against Iran, just so we're clear. 0.53

00:12:51.000 That would be a declaration of war against a serious country.

00:12:56.000 Iran, first of all, the Iraq war depleted our resources, lowered national morale.

00:13:01.000 Iran is a far more powerful country than Iraq, like significantly more powerful.

00:13:08.000 It's 87 million people strong.

00:13:11.000 The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, that's a serious military.

00:13:15.000 Could we handle them?

00:13:16.000 Yeah, if you want to lose like 100,000 people in war, Iran is four times the size of Iraq when we invaded.

00:13:23.000 It's all mountains.

00:13:24.000 It's not a flat desert.

00:13:26.000 You want to talk about strengthening Iran?

00:13:28.000 You would strengthen Iran's resolve by bombing their oil refineries. 0.98

00:13:33.000 Sanctions, all that stuff is fine.

00:13:35.000 Sure.

00:13:36.000 And understand, this is all not by accident.

00:13:40.000 Iran does not want peace. 0.95

00:13:42.000 Hamas does not want peace.

00:13:43.000 As this was boiling up, Mohammed bin Salman, who's in charge of Saudi Arabia, because his dad basically has dementia, the crown prince, and Israel were close to signing a peace deal.

00:13:55.000 Iran does not want that.

00:13:56.000 Saudi Arabia hates Iran, okay?

00:13:58.000 Shia, Sunni, irreconcilable, completely different forms of Islam. 0.97

00:14:03.000 They're at each other's throats.

00:14:04.000 85% of all Muslims in the world are Sunni, 15% are Shia, and like 90% of all Shia Muslims are in Iran.

00:14:11.000 Like the whole country is Shia Islam. 1.00

00:14:13.000 Sunni is the predominant strain of Islam.

00:14:16.000 And Saudi Arabia was close to signing a historic peace deal with Israel.

00:14:21.000 Iran wants to do whatever they possibly can, and it's working. 0.99

00:14:27.000 So the Iranian calculation was this: okay, we can't allow Israel and Saudi Arabia to grow closer because that will hurt us or damage us or isolate us. 0.62

00:14:37.000 So what Iran did is they started to plan this clandestine subterranean type military operation where the Iranian play, just so you know, the Iranian play is to try to get the entire Arab-Muslim world united against Israel. 0.69

00:14:54.000 So the Iranian calculation is just use Hamas and the Palestinian Authority as human shields.

00:15:02.000 Doesn't matter how many Muslims or Arabs die. 0.89

00:15:04.000 Israel will probably overreact. 0.95

00:15:07.000 Okay, Israel will probably overreact, and then you'll be able to rise up the regional Arabs. 0.87

00:15:13.000 And honestly, part of Iran's plan is working. 0.78

00:15:16.000 Part of it is not working.

00:15:19.000 Egypt, to their credit, hope it remains the same, is staying neutral.

00:15:22.000 That's a big deal.

00:15:24.000 Okay?

00:15:25.000 If America wants to be a leader in peace, if you want to talk about how can America help solve this, keep Egypt neutral. 0.99

00:15:30.000 Okay?

00:15:31.000 That would be a big deal.

00:15:32.000 Create a humanitarian corridor out of Gaza. 0.99

00:15:35.000 Get Egypt to take some of those wonderful folks from Gaza. 1.00

00:15:38.000 Like, this is problem-solving type stuff.

00:15:41.000 Get King Abdullah in Jordan, who claims to Abdullah from Jordan, who claims to be a 17th generation lineage from the prophet Muhammad, as they call it.

00:15:52.000 Right.

00:15:53.000 Start to use regional actors here, but we need to be very clear.

00:15:56.000 Israel could potentially overreact and spark a regional and a world war. 0.86

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00:17:48.000 Received another text message from somebody on the front lines.

00:17:52.000 They are in Haifa, which is one of the wealthier parts of Israel.

00:17:52.000 Let me read this to you.

00:17:56.000 Very beautiful.

00:17:57.000 I've been there.

00:17:58.000 There are entrances of drones to Israel from the north and rockets.

00:18:01.000 We hear them now.

00:18:02.000 We are in a bomb shelter.

00:18:03.000 All of Israel is now a war zone.

00:18:06.000 They're trying to invade from the north.

00:18:08.000 Can we get a map, please, of Israel?

00:18:09.000 I know we have one.

00:18:11.000 So just so you understand, we anticipated this to some extent.

00:18:18.000 There are 300,000 Israeli forces on the southern tip of Israel.

00:18:23.000 Not the southern tip, but the southwestern part near Gaza.

00:18:26.000 Gaza is just a mosquito in the bonnet of Israel, which has turned into a beast. 0.99

00:18:32.000 It's just an annoyance, constantly problems.

00:18:34.000 And now it's not just an annoyance, it's an existential threat.

00:18:38.000 And so, of course, just understand, Gaza is the size of Queens, New York. 0.82

00:18:43.000 You have 2.5 million people clustered.

00:18:45.000 And what's so amazing is when you go up to the Gaza Strip, it's desert and it's desert and it's desert and it's desert.

00:18:51.000 And all of a sudden, boom, it's as soon as you hit the walls, it's people.

00:18:54.000 So they've clustered them all into this strip.

00:18:58.000 And just so you know, that Gaza, when, and we'll get to that map in a second, when Israel is controlling Gaza, it was vineyards and it was rolling fields and it was palatial estates and it was fertile land.

00:19:12.000 Arabs take it over. 1.00

00:19:13.000 It's an open-air prison.

00:19:15.000 Okay, if it's an open-air prison, why does your population keep increasing?

00:19:18.000 And how do you keep on building buildings if it's an open-air prison? 1.00

00:19:22.000 It's a stupid thing to say. 0.99

00:19:24.000 Hamas rules its own people with an iron fist. 0.99

00:19:27.000 And just so we're clear that Arab Muslims are able to get work permits to go work in Israel.

00:19:35.000 I will never forget this story.

00:19:37.000 This is a side note, Natania.

00:19:38.000 I just want you to understand the moral implications here.

00:19:41.000 Hebron is a big deal.

00:19:44.000 If you don't know, Hebron was the first real estate transaction that we know in human history.

00:19:49.000 Abraham goes to Hebron, buys a piece of land, and eventually he, his son Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob, are all buried there: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah.

00:20:01.000 So, Hebron, in order to get to Hebron, Hebron, you have to go south from Jerusalem.

00:20:05.000 Hebron has basically become a captured Arab city, except like one street where the Jews live. 0.54

00:20:10.000 Jews get killed there all the time.

00:20:12.000 And so, my friend Matan, who I've been texting, who served in the IDF, who runs a great organization in Israel called Imtritsu.

00:20:24.000 We were driving down this highway down to Hebron and try to find us.

00:20:28.000 See Ryan or Blake if you can find this on Google images, please.

00:20:33.000 And I don't know Hebrew.

00:20:35.000 And there's this green arrow.

00:20:38.000 I'm doing the best I can to remember this.

00:20:39.000 And two red arrows going to the side.

00:20:42.000 So green arrow, two red arrows.

00:20:44.000 And I asked Matan, I said, What is that?

00:20:47.000 And he says, Oh, he said, If you and I go right with the red arrow, we die.

00:20:53.000 If we go straight, we'll live.

00:20:56.000 I said, What do you mean?

00:20:58.000 He said, Oh, if we go this way, they kill us. 0.99

00:21:03.000 They'll beat us on the car and they'll cut our head off. 0.98

00:21:06.000 I said, What are you talking about?

00:21:10.000 I mean, I'm like, I've driven through Compton before.

00:21:12.000 I understand some, you know.

00:21:13.000 He said, No, no, no.

00:21:14.000 He said, A guarantee.

00:21:17.000 They don't tell you to turn around.

00:21:19.000 Okay?

00:21:20.000 Palestinian Authority territory area ahead, no entry for Israelis, entry illegal by Israeli law. 0.61

00:21:26.000 To be clear, they'll take you out of the car and cut your head off and parade you through the streets.

00:21:31.000 Yeah, really nice people we got dealing with here. 0.97

00:21:33.000 And I'll never forget, as soon as they see an Israeli license plate, they're savage animals. 1.00

00:21:38.000 They'll come after you.

00:21:39.000 I'll never forget the way Matan said it was so casual, it was so matter of fact.

00:21:48.000 It was as if we were driving through civilization with self-service, lattes, Wi-Fi, and honestly, really good food.

00:21:59.000 And a couple hundred yards away was the third world. 0.76

00:22:04.000 Civilization with our lattes, air conditioning, Wi-Fi, couple hundred yards away.

00:22:10.000 Yes, that's a better one, Ryan.

00:22:12.000 Thank you.

00:22:12.000 Yes.

00:22:13.000 Yeah, they've anglicized it.

00:22:16.000 They now put it in English because Americans are not exactly known to be the most obedient tourists. 1.00

00:22:24.000 American tourists have a reputation for doing stupid things. 1.00

00:22:28.000 This road leads to Palestinian village. 1.00

00:22:30.000 The entrance for Israeli citizens is dangerous. 1.00

00:22:34.000 What happens if a Arab comes to Israel? 1.00

00:22:37.000 Do Jews start cutting their heads off? 1.00

00:22:40.000 No, they can get work. 0.99

00:22:42.000 They can even serve in the Knesset.

00:22:44.000 20% of the Israeli Knesset is Arab.

00:22:47.000 20%.

00:22:48.000 They can become citizens potentially.

00:22:51.000 That's an even better one, Ryan.

00:22:52.000 Thank you.

00:22:53.000 By the way, this is not some sort of, and by the way, they have a whole Arab quarter in Jerusalem.

00:23:00.000 Part of the old city is Muslim. 0.95

00:23:02.000 By the way, you want to talk about one of the dumbest things I've ever done in my life? 0.99

00:23:06.000 When you get married, you start thinking differently. 0.95

00:23:08.000 When you're not married, this is before I met Erica.

00:23:14.000 So we moved the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:23:16.000 I was there for the embassy moving in Jerusalem.

00:23:17.000 It's just the last second trip.

00:23:20.000 So there were high tensions, right?

00:23:24.000 So I'm with Candace Owens, okay?

00:23:28.000 On the eve of Ramadan, after the embassy was moved, so they were very upset.

00:23:37.000 And I did this again with Erica later, but it was safer.

00:23:40.000 So we just walked to the Arab quarter at night.

00:23:42.000 Not smart to do.

00:23:43.000 Don't do that.

00:23:46.000 That was not smart.

00:23:48.000 Just kind of like walking through.

00:23:49.000 This is so American, right?

00:23:51.000 Oh, yeah, this is nice.

00:23:52.000 And all of a sudden, the people looking at you.

00:23:55.000 You want to feel darkness.

00:23:57.000 That is some dark stuff.

00:23:58.000 And then Erica and I, we didn't go through the quarter.

00:24:00.000 We walked around the whole old city.

00:24:03.000 And then we read on our phones like three, four days later, like tourists, head cut off right at the Arab gate.

00:24:10.000 Oh, these are really sweet people.

00:24:12.000 Really nice.

00:24:13.000 Yeah, put that sign up one more time, Ryan.

00:24:16.000 This road leads to Area A under the Palestinian authority.

00:24:20.000 The entrance for Israeli citizens is forbidden, dangerous to your lives. 1.00

00:24:24.000 They've grown used to it.

00:24:26.000 They're in an active war posture.

00:24:28.000 It's barbarism versus civilization.

00:24:31.000 It is a binary choice.

00:24:33.000 I've never seen it so dramatic in all of my travel.

00:24:36.000 I've visited over 20 countries, plan to visit to many more.

00:24:39.000 I've never seen a binary where you have civilization that has advanced to a place of decency and the absolute brutal third world, a couple hundred yards away.

00:24:51.000 And that's a reality on a daily basis for them, a daily basis.

00:24:56.000 They want us dead.

00:24:57.000 I hate to be that simple. 0.93

00:24:58.000 They want us gone. 0.91

00:24:59.000 They want us dead.

00:25:01.000 You know, some of you say, Charlie, how does this impact Americans?

00:25:04.000 Well, you know that there are American hostages right now.

00:25:07.000 You know, someone just emailed us.

00:25:08.000 It's hilarious. 0.50

00:25:10.000 Charlie, you're a globalist cheerleader and atrocity propagandist.

00:25:13.000 Well, you don't care about Americans then, Brett.

00:25:15.000 There's Americans that are right now held hostages. 1.00

00:25:18.000 So don't give me that crap. 0.99

00:25:20.000 22 Americans died. 1.00

00:25:21.000 They killed Americans. 0.99

00:25:23.000 And they very well might activate sleeper cells here in America if we do not talk clearly about this.

00:25:28.000 And I hope I'm wrong.

00:25:30.000 I hope I'm wrong.

00:25:31.000 I don't want to do a show where I told you so, where they go bomb a shopping mall.

00:25:36.000 There are hostages right now.

00:25:38.000 Play cut eight.

00:25:40.000 Is there any indication that Americans were either killed or kidnapped by terrorists?

00:25:47.000 Yes, we have reports that several Americans were killed.

00:25:52.000 We're working overtime to verify that.

00:25:54.000 At the same time, there are reports of missing Americans.

00:25:57.000 And there again, we're working to verify those reports.

00:26:01.000 Yeah, there's Americans being held hostage right now, right now.

00:26:05.000 And they very well could activate sleeper cells here in the interior of the United States.

00:26:08.000 In the last two years, CBP has encountered 72,823 special interest aliens attempting to enter the United States illegally, most of them from the Middle East.

00:26:18.000 The proper takeaway from all this, as this is happening, and this goes to show why I got so upset, we need to shut down the government with the cut-continuing resolution if we don't get border security.

00:26:31.000 If we do not know who is in our country, you want to know a proper takeaway of what's happening in Israel?

00:26:38.000 Get the border figured out immediately.

00:26:42.000 We don't have a speaker.

00:26:43.000 The whole thing is a little bit disorganized right now. 0.99

00:26:46.000 You got Nancy Mace walking around with a scarlet letter. 1.00

00:26:48.000 It's a circus show.

00:26:50.000 I got to be perfect. 1.00

00:26:50.000 You got Nancy Mace with like a big A that stands for adultery walking through the halls. 1.00

00:26:56.000 You got George Santos that's indicted on like another 20 accounts. 0.86

00:26:59.000 Don't have a speaker of the house.

00:27:02.000 It's like a Chinese fire drill. 0.78

00:27:04.000 You want to know a response immediately?

00:27:08.000 Secure the border and deport the foreigners that are here illegally. 1.00

00:27:12.000 And let me just say this: Texas, if you refuse to secure your border, you're going to be just as complicit as Joe Biden.

00:27:18.000 You hear that Republican, Greg Abbott?

00:27:20.000 You're going to be just as complicit.

00:27:23.000 This needs to be a wake-up call.

00:27:25.000 They are here.

00:27:26.000 They mean harm to the American homeland.

00:27:28.000 And I pray they are not activated.

00:27:30.000 Make sure you have a gun on you.

00:27:32.000 Make sure you have a gun on you.

00:27:36.000 Do you get the idea that our government is really doing everything they can to save Americans?

00:27:41.000 One of the guarantees of having a U.S. passport is that your government will do whatever they possibly can to help you if you are in a foreign country.

00:27:49.000 I want to know the plan to try to get these Americans that are being held hostage.

00:27:54.000 For those of you that say it doesn't matter, you know what's going to start happening?

00:27:56.000 People are going to start getting kidnapped all across the world if we mishandle this.

00:28:00.000 You're going to see a string of kidnappings.

00:28:02.000 You want to talk about international?

00:28:04.000 Americans don't travel internationally nearly as much as Europeans, but we travel internationally a lot, and there's a lot of Muslims out there.

00:28:12.000 If we mishandle this, if we do not with precision and a strategy, John Kirby, you know, Joe Biden's lackey, oh, there's plenty of ways to get out of Israel.

00:28:23.000 That's not true.

00:28:25.000 There's plenty.

00:28:25.000 I'm texting with Americans.

00:28:27.000 They're like, there's no flights.

00:28:28.000 We don't know.

00:28:29.000 You know where they sent some of these Americans? 1.00

00:28:31.000 The Haifa.

00:28:33.000 They said it should be safe up there.

00:28:34.000 Well, now Haifa is under bombing attack.

00:28:36.000 How many American passport holders do you think are in Israel right now?

00:28:39.000 That's a good question, Blake.

00:28:40.000 What do you think?

00:28:40.000 100,000?

00:28:41.000 200,000?

00:28:42.000 How many American passport holders, citizens of the United States, are currently in Israel?

00:28:47.000 I'm just curious.

00:28:48.000 I mean, probably, I'd say probably 100,000 is probably a good estimate.

00:28:52.000 Play Cut 46.

00:28:54.000 There are still many viable options for Americans who may want to leave Israel.

00:28:59.000 Airport is still open.

00:29:00.000 Not all commercial carriers are flying out of Ben-Gurion, but many are, particularly international air carriers.

00:29:06.000 And there's still some viable ground routes.

00:29:08.000 So if people wanted to leave Israel via road, that's still possible as well.

00:29:13.000 Via road?

00:29:14.000 Like what?

00:29:14.000 You've got to drive to Jordan?

00:29:16.000 No, seriously.

00:29:17.000 Some American, I know one guy, he had to take a bus through PA occupied territory as an American and flying out of Amman.

00:29:26.000 They're canceling flights left and right.

00:29:28.000 I think only military aircraft and then maybe some flights are allowed into Israel.

00:29:34.000 The Biden regime, if they cared about Americans, they need to send 100 C-130s.

00:29:41.000 Is it C-1 or CJ-30s? 0.86

00:29:43.000 I think never, whatever.

00:29:44.000 Big planes and say, if you're an American, you want to evacuate, we will get you out. 1.00

00:29:49.000 This is an act of war zone.

00:29:51.000 Fox News breaking right now.

00:29:52.000 Full on ground invasion of Gaza in a minute.

00:29:55.000 Yeah, Fox News says full on ground invasion of Gaza is imminent.

00:30:00.000 Yeah, buckle up, everybody.

00:30:02.000 Let's go to cut 10, please.

00:30:04.000 The other thing we need to make very clear is that we're not paying a billion dollars for hostage like we did last week.

00:30:09.000 I mean, there's a direct correlation between taking Americans hostage and these big ransom payments.

00:30:14.000 It has to end.

00:30:15.000 So I think we need to get American servicemen who are especially trained to rescue hostages.

00:30:20.000 We need to get them on the ground in Israel right away.

00:30:23.000 The American government needs to do whatever they possibly can to get Americans out. 1.00

00:30:27.000 So why did they take hostages?

00:30:30.000 Because we're paying cash.

00:30:31.000 Joe Biden is to blame for this.

00:30:34.000 Joe Biden set the standard that if you kidnap Westerners, you get paid.

00:30:40.000 The fact that they took hostages shows that this was planned. 0.98

00:30:42.000 This is not a bunch of boys on a joyride going to kill Jews.

00:30:46.000 And there are reports, there are reports that certain people in leadership of Hamas are doing a call to all Muslims for an intifada. 0.94

00:30:56.000 If you don't know what intifada is, in Islam, or in Arabic more specifically, it means shaking off, get rid of. 0.95

00:31:05.000 It means an uprising.

00:31:06.000 It happened in 1987, happens all the time.

00:31:08.000 So how many Muslims are currently in the United States, Blake?

00:31:11.000 5 million, 10 million, 15 million?

00:31:14.000 Not saying all of them are going to quote unquote rise up, but let's say a couple hundred thousand Muslims in America.

00:31:20.000 Are there 4 million Muslims in America?

00:31:22.000 Okay.

00:31:22.000 Let's say 100,000, okay?

00:31:24.000 What if 100,000 Muslims go BLM on the American cities this weekend? 1.00

00:31:29.000 They could. 0.99

00:31:30.000 They could do a lot of harm to this country.

00:31:33.000 This is all connected.

00:31:35.000 All connected.

00:31:36.000 3.5 million.

00:31:37.000 Okay, yeah, so 4 million.

00:31:38.000 The leader of Hamas just called for Muslims around the world to embrace a day of global jihad this Friday, the 13th.

00:31:44.000 Somebody's emailed us.

00:31:45.000 Charlie, are you telling us we're on our own and buy a gun?

00:31:47.000 Yeah, your government does not protect you.

00:31:48.000 Your government is spying on you if you're a conservative.

00:31:50.000 You better take your life into your own hands, your family's life. 0.77

00:31:55.000 Own weapons, be vigilant.

00:31:57.000 Do not trust the government.

00:32:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:32:02.000 Email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 11, 2023

How Should America React to Israel?

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